Our Varsity Lady Dons visited College Park on Tuesday night. Freshman Grace Imrie and Senior Lyla Cox scored early, thanks to assists from Senior Grace Gebhardt. The Dons then struggled on both ends of the field for a while until Coaches Bill Fraser and Mark Rurka called a timeout. They had the girls run their own time out to “figure…
The 2020 ‘Dons Show Up’ Booster Bash was scheduled on May 2nd, 2020 at Contra Costa Country Club, but as everyone in the world knows Covid 19 hit and this event was canceled. Tuesday night we had our first Sports Boosters Meeting since March 2020 and at the meeting, Associate Principal, Andrea Powers and our Athletic Director, Randy Takahashi pulled…
The Varsity Don’s Football Team had a Home Game vs. Miramonte on Saturday, which ended up being an away game due to an electrical malfunction at Acalanes High School. Well, there was no malfunction on the part of the Football team. Home or away, it did not matter. They drove up to Miramonte and got the job done! Final score…
The Acalanes Dons Freshman Football team took their undefeated record down to the Dons of Amador Valley on Saturday, unfortunately, they left that record there. Coming up short in a 22-20 loss. The Freshman Team came out fast on Saturday, which is what they have done all season! Quarterback Jake Boselli hit Wide Receiver Paul Kuhner for a 38 yard…
The world promptly changed from the way we do school, sports, work and living. 2020 and 2021 has taught us that we cannot always be in control and that we must be willing to adapt. One thing we can control is our attitude and how we choose to approach life. An optimistic attitude was critical and necessary for 2020 and…
Miramonte may have thought the Acalanes JV Dons only brought 14 players to their clash last Saturday afternoon at Miramonte, but what they didn’t know is that the Dons brought more soldiers to the field that day. Down eight starters because of a school district close contact ruling, the Dons banded together and beat the odds to prevail over a…
After an unexpected transformer failure at Acalanes this Friday, our track team hastily changed plans and headed over to Northgate high school in Walnut Creek. What followed was our team’s most dominant performance of the year. While there were many great individual efforts throughout the day, the story of the meet was our relay teams. On the Girls side,…
The Acalanes Women’s Volleyball Team will be hosting tryouts for the 2020-2021 season on Monday April 12th and Tuesday April 13th. Frosh tryouts will be from 5:00-6:30 pm in the small gym, and upperclassmen tryouts will be from 6:30-8:00 in the main gym. Players interested in trying out should fill out this google form: https://forms.gle/JPtb3tADNMzFGRgQA. Interested players will need to upload a completed…
Saturday, April 10 the Acalanes Dons welcome the Matadors to our field. JV will kick off at 4pm and Varsity at 7pm Games can be watched live at : Sportscope Live Our undefeated Freshman Dons will play the Amador Valley Dons away at 1pm
For many Lamorinda businesses in 2020, the Covid-19 restrictions inhibited staff from coming into workplaces of all sorts. A local Acalanes Alum owned Orange Farm relies on their harvesting team to pick and distribute their tasty Oranges but with these Covid regulations in place, it looked like they were going to have to forgo Orange picking season in 2020. Jacob…
