Palo Alto High School Athletics Communicator (Winter)

Words from the AD College Bound Student Athletes—CO 2017 On February 1st, the Paly Sports Boosters hosted their 2nd annual signing day ceremony to honor student-athletes who Alex Liang- (Stanford) are continuing their sports careers at the collegiate level. This year, we recognized 14 Paly Seniors who will compete next year at various colleges and universities throughout the nation Bennet Huang- Gymnastics (Iowa) in swimming, gymnastics, , crew, , soccer, and football. Go Vikings! Cassandra Fong- Volleyball (SF State)

All of our winter sports teams--Boys & Girls , Boys & Clay Watson- Crew (Columbia) Girls Soccer, and —had excellent seasons with each team earning a CCS playoff berth. Boys Basketball, Girls Grace Zhao- Swimming (Stanford) Basketball and Wrestling were League Champions and the Boys and Girls Basketball teams both teams brought home Jackson Wood- Crew (UPenn) Division 1 CCS Championships. In Girls Wrestling, Sarah Aguilar was crowned an individual CCS Champion for her Jessica Lee- Volleyball (Claremont McKenna) weight class. Kaitlin Chiu- Lacrosse (Smith College)

In order to participate in athletics, every athlete must have a Kimmi Chin- Crew (UCLA) valid sports physical. Physicals are good for one year. On June 3rd, Stanford Sports Medicine and the Paly athletic department will team up to provide sports physicals for our student Lauola Amanoni- Soccer (San Jose State) athletes. The cost for the physical will be $20 and all proceeds will be donated to Paly Athletics. More information about this Mara Zenger- Soccer (Westminister College) opportunity to get your physical will be sent via Athletic Clearance and will also be posted in the Paly link as the date Mason Wittman- Soccer (Univ. of North gets closer. Carolina) Our new state of the art gymnasium is steadily moving toward completion. Nearly all of the major construction tasks on the Neil Verwillow- Soccer (Trinity Univ) inside of the building are done. The floors are down, the bathroom’s fixtures are in, the carpet is in all the Peter Snodgrass- Football (Northwestern) staff/coaching offices and meeting rooms, and the bleachers are installed. Over the next two months, we will see the Troy Henderson- Football (Puget Sound) lockers go in, the completions of the floor striping, and the arrival of the equipment for the weight room and offices. The rain has pushed back some of the outside work, but with this Congrats to our senior student- dryer weather, the hardscape and pavers should be down before too long. We are still on target to open the facility early athletes who will be continuing on summer of 2017. their athletic career at the collegiate

-- Kathi Bowers level! You’ve made us here at Paly very proud!

- Paly Athletics Staff

Palo Alto High School Athletics Communicator (Winter)

VIKING WINTER SPORTS

Boys Basketball Girls Soccer The Varsity boys’ basketball ended their successful Girls Varsity Soccer earned the #4 seed in the season with a 23-4 record and won the CIF-CCS Open Division playoffs and only conceded 4 goals Division 1 Championship. This marks Coach the entire season. With a lot of underclassmen Diepenbrocks 4th CCS title. The finished the season contributors, look for these lady Vikes to be a as the NorCAL Division1 runner up in the State formidable opponent in the years to come. basketball tournament. Girls JV Soccer, welcomed new coach Ernesto Frosh-Soph Basketball too had a very successful Cruz and his girls played very hard this season season. They won the SCVAL league title and ending with a 13-3-2 record. With their strong finished with an 18-5, 11-1 record. Many players finished the team won the SCVAL JV have progressed throughout the season and should championship. be contributors to the program for the years to come.

Boys Soccer Boys varsity soccer had a good season and earned a playoff berth in the Division1 playoffs. Their season ended on a close match against M-A, but the season was very successful and many seniors will continue their playing career at the next level.

Girls Basketball The Frosh-Soph finished the season with a 10-3-2 This season coach Scott Peters celebrated his 200th record and won their league title. This year’s win at Paly and his Varsity Lady Vikes defended group was mixed with both Freshman & their CIF-CCS Division 1 championship along with Sophomore players who have great confidence in winning the SCVAL Championship. They too are their ability. participants in the state basketball tournament.

Wrestling JV girls’ basketball finished their season with a .500 The Wrestling season has been a success for coach league record, and with several players showing Jonathan Kessler. Not only has the program seen improvement in their skillset. an increase in participants they are winning at

both tournaments and league dual meets. Both the Boys & Girls teams finished strong at the CCS Championship and CIF State meets.

Palo Alto High School Athletics Communicator (Winter)

Department Corner Upcoming Dates: This February for second straight year Paly Sports Boosters hosted a signing day ceremony honoring student- Paly Sports Boosters Fund Raiser: April 13th- The Counter on athletes who are continuing their careers at the collegiate level. This Ave signing day celebrated 14 Paly Seniors who will compete at various Signing Day II: April 19th @ Lunch in MAC universities throughout the nation! Paly Sports Boosters Tournament: May 26th @ Golf Club, The winter season featured 3 Paly Moffit Field teams earning the CCS Team Scholastic Graduation: May 31st, 2017 Award. Here are the following teams along with GPA’s: 1st day of Fall Sports: August 4th , 2017 Girls Soccer—3.83 Girls Basketball—3.77 Athletics Staff Boys Soccer—3.36

Kathi Bowers: Athletic Director Paly Athletics Advisory Council (PAAC) is a student-athlete leadership [email protected] group that helps build school spirit Kathie Laurence: Athletic Admin around various athletic events throughout the school year. This group [email protected] aims to help maintain the prominent athletic culture here at Paly. Therren Wilburn: Asst. Athletic Director

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