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“It’s exciting to see our success in sports as the
campus has grown. All our teams, straight across the
board, have made a great improvement in direct corrolation to their size. We are really holding our own in some tough
leagues.”
Coach Bill August, Athletic Director
Athletics
Colleges Seek Out Scholar-Athletes
Sports are that extra edge on college applications for many of our students. Three good examples are Ramiro Arredondo, who won a full National Collegiate Athletics Association scholarship to UC Berkeley, Brianne Baker, also outstanding in soccer, who will attend Carnegie Mellon, and Micki Oyler, who made first team varsity basketball at the University of New England last year.
Colleges respect athletics. When they see on an application like Vicki Groom’s, who is going to Stanford, that she played varsity sports and won our Scholar/Athlete award two years running, it tells them she is well rounded. One advantage the Priory offers is that our athletes play a lot, they really get team experience and the coaches can personally recommend them. When we have an outstanding player, we phone the colleges and it is amazing that they get back to us almost immediately.
—Bill August
Season Highlights
Girls Jr. Varsity Basketball ended its season 14 and 3, with the losses all at the buzzer, for a cumulative total of just five points.
Boys Varsity Volleyball ended 11 and 5 and beat Menlo, Sacred Heart and Pinewood twice each, at home and away. Eighth Grade Girls Basketball made it to the playoffs in the Menlo Park Recreation League
Sixth Grade Boys Basketball were champs in the Mid-Peninsula Intermediate League and second place in the Menlo Park Recreation League.
Honors
Private Schools Athletic League All-League Teams Winter and Spring 1997
Girls Soccer
Second Team
Anne Mecham Brianne Baker
Honorable Mention
Vicki Groom Kalu Trunci
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Boys Basketball
Honorable Mention
Sam Stephens Terrell Virgil
Boys Volleyball
Honorable Mention
Mike Bower
Tennis
First Team
Carlos Gonzales
Honorable Mention
Chris Upjohn
Several colleges called Woodside Priory about Brianne Baker, including four in which she had an interest.