Orinda Country Club led the way at the 69th annual OMPA Championship Meet
The OMPA Championship meet took place from July 31 to Aug. 2 with the usual overwhelming numbers – 1,701 total swimmers and over 4,800 entries from the nine teams with a…
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Lamorinda football teams looking to repeat last year’s successes
MIRAMONTE Miramonte has carried on the success of last year's season with two victories over Oakland Tech, 32-12, and Granada High School, 17-7. Last season, things…
SMC Rugby player dies following medical emergency
Saint Mary’s College Rugby player Dominic Peterson, 19, a sophomore from Los Altos Hills, passed away Friday, Sept. 4 after experiencing a medical emergency during a training…
Flag football continues to grow in Lamorinda
ACALANES After a 17-3 record and making it to the NCS championship game last season, and with a large number of productive players returning, there is a lot of optimism at…
Campolindo Football Hall of Fame inductees celebrated
The Campolindo Football Hall of Fame celebrated four players – Tommy Stephens, Jack Cassidy, Max Flower, and John Torchio – whose success on the field was obvious and who also…
Miramonte Gym renamed the Sabrina Ionescu Gymnasium
It was last March when it was officially announced by a unanimous vote from the Acalanes Union High School District governing board that the Miramonte High School gymnasium would…
Campolindo girls swim team wins first state championship
What can be closer than a one-point victory? How about when the difference of that one point is only 0.14 of a second. And what can make that sporting competition be more…
Led by Campolindo, Lamorinda track teams represented at state track meet
CAMPOLINDO After a regular season that was highlighted with any number of personal and team records, the post-season for Campolindo proved to be just as successful. Starting with…
Beach Volleyball participation and talent in Lamorinda continues to increase
CAMPOLINDO In its fourth year of beach volleyball, Campolindo has its largest roster ever with 26 players, but it is a very young team with only three seniors and a large…
Miramonte Boys Lacrosse wins first NCS Championship
To paraphrase Charles Dickens, the Miramonte lacrosse season was the worst of times and the best of times. The Matadors began the season with a 3-7 record, scoring 7.6 goals per…
Lamorinda girls lacrosse teams show prowess on the pitch
MIRAMONTE First year Miramonte head coach Abby Bautista, a recent graduate of the University of Alabama where she played lacrosse, led the team to an 11 and 3 record. …
Boys volleyball teams advance to third round of NCS By Jon Kingdon
All three Lamorinda boys volleyball teams advanced to the third round of the NCS playoffs. CAMPOLINDO After an uncharacteristic under .500 season, head coach David Chen…
Lot of success in Lamorinda Softball
MIRAMONTE Coach O.C. Schott is not one to rest on his laurels. After winning their first NCS championship and advancing to the second round of the NorCal, Miramonte has won seven…
Lamorinda SC girls 14U team wins national championship
For the first time since 1976, a team from the Lamorinda Soccer Club (LMSC) won a national title when in early March, their Under 14 team won the Girls Academy Champions Cup…
Acalanes Girls Host Inspiring Middle School Basketball Clinic
Margaret Gartner, the Acalanes girls head basketball coach, her staff and varsity team held a clinic on Feb. 5 for young basketball players from all over the East Bay. “It was…
Lamorinda Baseball rounds into shape heading into spring break
CAMPOLINDOWith 25 years of coaching high school, college and American Legion baseball, head coach Sean Riley was familiar with the Campolindo baseball program having coached…
SMC bids farewell to Bennett; McConnell named new head basketball coach
The sports world at large and the Saint Mary’s community specifically learned with an announcement on the Saint Mary’s website on March 23 that Randy Bennett, the school’s…
Major turnaround for Miramonte boys soccer
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,…
Lamorinda wrestlers compete at NCS Divisionals
ACALANES The Dons had 11 boys and two girls compete at the NCS Divisionals Tournament with both girls Lilah Kring (125 lbs) and Gwyneth Lee (100 lbs) and one boy, Kirian Gracie…
Success at various levels for the Lamorinda Girls basketball teams
MIRAMONTE Head girls basketball coach Ace Wright had a simple vision for the team from the start: “I wanted us to be more of an aggressive defensive team, where we are…
Saint Mary’s wins 4th consecutive WCC crown with victory over Gonzaga
In what would prove to be a perfect ending to a longtime conference rivalry with Gonzaga and a nearly perfect regular season, Saint Mary’s defeated Gonzaga 70-59 on Feb. 28,…
Acalanes flag footballers Ines Coyne and Isabelle Agnost named to the S.F. Chronicle All-Metro team
With the exponential growth of girls football, there has also been a greater interest in the high school teams, highlighted by San Francisco choosing its first all-Metro flag…
McConnell, Rahon and Sheets named to Silver Waves Media 100 Most Impactful Mid-Major Assistant Coaches
Since 2020, Silver Waves Media has in their words “helped shine a light on the coaches, at all levels, across the country.” They just released their top 100 Most Impactful…
Adjustments on and off the mat for Lamorinda wrestling
MIRAMONTE AND CAMPOLINDO With the departure of Campolindo’s wrestling coach, Athletic Director Ray Meadows was unable to find a suitable replacement so he called upon…