Longtime head coach Masood Ahmadi has had a lot of success since taking over the boys soccer team in 2015. While the team only had a total of 12 wins during the prior three years, the 2025-2026 season had a major turnaround, ending the season with a 13-4-1 record, finishing with a 10-2 in league play and a second-place finish, earning an eighth seed in the NCS tournament. 

    Still, Masood did not feel that the prior two seasons were indicative of those teams’ overall performance. “Our record did not show the quality of the teams we had. In 2023-2024, we had a lot of close games and last year with a 5-5-7 record, in a lot of ties, we could have easily been on the winning side of those games.”

    The confluence of experienced seniors and juniors, along with sophomores that grew up in the system, led to the success on the field. “The performance of our sophomores and juniors spoke volumes about our JV coaches, Jose Luis Diaz and Alexi Anderson,” Masood said. “We’re aligned in terms of doing a program thing versus just a team thing. This year’s JV team was the winningest one in over 10 years and a number of them got quality playing time in our opening round playoff victory. Our players were on the winning and losing sides and this season they just made the most of their opportunities.” 
    “Making the second division, we knew it was going to be a lot tougher competition but we were excited to play with the best,” Ahmadi said. Miramonte defeated Lick Wilmerding in the first round but lost to the No. 1 seed, University High School (SF) 2-0.

    The Miramonte offense scored 21 more goals with 15 more assists and 20 more corner kicks than last season which pleased Ahmadi. “Those numbers do show a lot more offensive production and how the team has bought into how we wanted to be attack minded. We were able to produce a brand of football that I don't think is seen a lot throughout the high school atmosphere. There are a lot of schools out there that score more goals but that comes from just getting the ball down there as fast as possible and if you have the fastest or strongest players, you’re going to get those goals. Our way is to build up through the different thirds of the field and when the opportunity presents itself, we ask our players to get up the field and get our numbers up and when that occurred good things have happened for us.” 

    The offense was led by co-captain seniors James Rogers, Joaquin Fitzsimmons, and Marco Parramon-Arcos, juniors Gavin Hass and Ethan Ching, among others. “They all made jumps from last season,” Ahmadi said. “Rogers moved from center defender last season. Last year, Rogers was our center defender and tied for the team lead goals with Marco, with each scoring eight goals.”

    Junior co-captain Graham Jenkins was a key to the team’s offense. “Graham was able to facilitate and move the ball left, right, up, down and was able to score when teams did not push up on him throughout the year as well. Playing the midfield role for us and Akash Murthy on the opposite wing put a flare in his passes behind the back line, putting the ball into dangerous spaces for us.”

    The defense only gave up 19 goals in 18 games, led by senior defender Kyle Matthews and sophomore goalie Grayson Keenan, who had an 80% save percentage.

    “Grayson is a phenomenal kid whose work rate is off the roof. He and Kyle were the backbone of our defense. Though only a sophomore, Grayson plays more like a senior. He is very self-confident and really commands from the back line. He has great feet and is not afraid to make the big saves and one-on-one tackles.”