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Athletics
Awards
Private Schools Athletic League All-League Players
Soccer
First Team
Pierre Courval
Second Team
Mike Bower
Sung Kim Honorable Mention Patrick Sullivan Rutt Pongsurapipat Miles Osborn
Volleyball
Honorable Mention
Michelle Floyd Jenny Upjohn
Cross Country
Second Team
Steve Trudelle
League Champs!
WPS’s Eighth Grade Girls Volleyball Team
Historic Sports First
We don’t know if this Priory 1973 soccer team was first in the league or its players famous but we do know they were carrying on a tradition that may have started with the founding of Priory school. Soccer was unknown in the Bay Area as a high school sport but the monks introduced it and the Priory boys adopted it with gusto. In the 60’s, they frequently played local college and university teams – and sometimes beat them!
Some eighty percent of Priory students are playing team sports and everybody wants to be on the field. One solution tried in flag football: divide the boys into platoons that can rotate through the games.
The High School Boys Varsity Soccer team worked hard and the results showed. They have a record that exceeds the school’s two traditional rivals, and they are receiving calls for matches from both private and public schools, said Coach Joe Montero (Class of 1976)
It was a wet season for High School Girls Soccer — eight games cancelled as of Priorities press time.
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