Published on September 1st, 2021
Teams seek to recover from short respite as football season restarts
After waiting 476 days for last season to ...By Jon Kingdon
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Published on September 1st, 2021
Gregory Cummins - From Miramonte athlete to Hollywood actor
Are there more long shot career goals than to try and be a professional athlete or an accomplished actor? For Gregory Cummins, who was a top athlete at Miramonte, his first choice was to be a professional athlete and eventually becoming an actor.
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Published on August 18th, 2021
Campo inducts three players at 13th annual Hall of Fame Dinner
After a year's hiatus due to the coronavirus, head coach Kevin Macy and the Campolindo football program celebrated it's Hall of Fame Dinner Aug. 7, inducting three players: WR/FS Griffin Piatt, class of 2012, QB Brett Stephens and OL/DL C.J. Toohey, both from the ...By Jon Kingdon
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Published on August 18th, 2021
OMPA Championship returns after 700-day hiatus
Two weeks ago, there was a widely anticipated event in Tokyo that was the focus of fans all over the world. However, in Orinda and Moraga, TV ratings must have been below the rest of the country as the local community seemed far more intent on the 64th Orinda Moraga ...By Jon Kingdon
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Published on August 4th, 2021
Dons Youth Football Camp
The Dons Youth Football Academy was held at the Acalanes Football Field in July, for all kids in the Lamorinda community from fourth to eighth grade. This year's academy was exceptional, with over 90 kids registering for the four-day program. The goal of the camp is to ...Submitted by Jim Malmquist
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Published on August 4th, 2021
12U Moraga Baseball team Champs
Congratulations to the Moraga Mavericks 12U baseball team for their victory in the 2021 NCS World Series in Reno, Nevada Over the course of four days (July 15-18), Moraga met teams from the Central Valley, Southern California, Idaho and Nevada. The Mavericks went 7-0 ...Submitted by Sean Goldstein
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Published on August 4th, 2021
Orinda Aquatics makes strong showing at USA Swimming Sectional Championships
Orinda Aquatics finished third at the recent USA Swimming Long Course Sectional Championships in Roseville, California. The meet was comprised of 50 teams from Northern California, Southern California, and Nevada and featured swimmers from the Sectional to Olympic ...Submitted by Don Heidary
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Published on August 4th, 2021
Lamorinda Water Polo Club celebrates its graduating seniors
Front row, from left: Griff Hallahan, University of Washington; Maddie Sumner, UC Davis*; Will Coons, UC Santa Barbara*; Devon Byrne, UC Berkeley; Sofia Vattuone, Indiana University; Sophia Leto, Indiana University; Iris Gallagher, Loyola Marymount*; Cooper Tunney, UC ...
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Published on August 4th, 2021
Mia Mastrov follows family footsteps to California
You would be hard pressed to find someone that was able to benefit in any way due to the onset of the coronavirus. Though she would have been willing to cancel the tradeoff, the University of California Women's basketball head coach Charmain Smith was able to get ...By Jon Kingdon
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Published on August 4th, 2021
CC United Wins National Junior Olympics
Led by head coach Matt DeTrane, and assistants Jack Brown and Garrett Dunn, the CC United 18U team won the 2021 USA Water Polo Junior Olympics National Championship held July 17-20 in Orange County, California. The CC United Water Polo Club is based in Orinda and draws ...Submitted by Sean McFarland
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Published on August 4th, 2021
A difficult season and coaching changes in Lamorinda Wrestling
Despite all the chaos this past spring, the changes with the wrestling head coaches in Miramonte, Acalanes and Campolindo have brought stability for all three schools. After four years at Miramonte, Jason Rosiak will be stepping away and Louis Suba, an Orinda resident, ...By Jon Kingdon
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Published on July 21st, 2021
Karate Olympic hopeful ... super karate girl
Karate & Fitness USA Team Member Amaliya Nalitkina, age 13, of Lafayette and soon to be a freshman at Campolindo High School returns home with the Bronze Medal in Kumite (sparring) at the AAU (Amatuer Athletic Union) National Karate Championships which was held in ...Submitted by Thomas Westernoff
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Published on July 21st, 2021
Steven Dyer and Emmanuel Callas named Coach and Player of the Year
After taking over a Campolindo basketball team that was 14-14 in 2015-16, coach Steven Dyer has led the Cougars to four consecutive winning seasons with at least 20 wins. It took the coronavirus to break that streak which limited the Cougars to 15 games and an ...By Jon Kingdon
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Published on July 21st, 2021
Davis Diaz on the way to Vanderbilt or the Major Leagues
A few years ago, there was a baseball movie starring Kevin Costner called "For the Love of the Game." It's a title that could also be applied to recent Acalanes graduate Davis Diaz and his relationship to baseball.
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Published on July 21st, 2021
Local water polo player takes the Olympic world stage
When Drew Holland made this year's United States Olympic Water Polo team as their goalie, he continued a much venerated tradition for Miramonte High School. Following in the footsteps of Drew McDonald, Rick McNair, Kirk Everest (Cal's Water Polo coach), John Stenson, ...By Jon Kingdon
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Lamorinda Weekly, Moraga CA