Page 47 - Menlo Magazine Summer 2019

M E MN E L NO L MO A GM A A ZG I A N Z E I N E
Girls’ basketball won the fourth state title in program history
Sun-Mi Oh ’19, the lone senior on the team, and fellow captains Maeia Makoni ’20 and Lee paced a team which got contributions from Coco Layton ’21 and Georgia Paye ’21 and a deep bench.
BOYS’ GOLF
WBAL round-robin and tournament champion, CCS individual qualifier
Menlo captured the West Bay Athletic League round-robin championship in back-to-back seasons and then easily took the league tournament title, winning by 19 strokes. The Knights finished seventh at the CCS Regional and sent two players—Jeremy Yun ’21, who was tied for 17th, and WBAL
with Conor McCusker ’19—directed the Knights on both sides of the ball. Theo Kim ’21, a second-year starter, boosted the Knights in goal. Menlo wrapped up the season with a 66- 28 goal advantage in its last five games, the last a 12-7 loss to eventual champion St. Ignatius in the WCAL playoffs.
Ryan Young was a force, leading the Knights’ attack
Sophie Jones ’19, Menlo’s First Gatorade National Player of the Year
New Menlo School graduate
Sophie Jones is the Gatorade
National Soccer Player of
the Year. The honor was
announced in front of family,
friends, teachers, and coaches
at Menlo in mid-June. Jones,
who is headed to Duke, was
selected California Player of
the Year earlier in June, and
then a week later, she was
surprised with the national
honor. Jones walked through the doors of Spieker Ballroom, where she was greeted by a cheering crowd. NFL Hall of Famer and former 49ers quarterback Steve Young, a Menlo parent and lifelong friend of Jones, presented the trophy to her. In her first and only season for the CCS champion Knights, she recorded 18 goals
and 16 assists despite missing the final two games of
the season while training with the U.S. Soccer under-20 Women’s National Team. She is the 2018 United Soccer Coaches Youth Girls National Player of the Year for her performance with her San Jose Earthquakes Development Academy Team and played in the 2018 FIFA under-17 World Cup in Uruguay this past winter.
tournament championship
BOYS’ LACROSSE
Most Valuable Golfer Charlie Hsieh ’19—
to the CCS Championship. Yun and fellow first-team all- league selection Seth Pope ’19 paced the Knights, which
also featured Kripa Dharan ’20, Seiji Yang ’20, and Marcus Ying ’22.
League MVG Charlie Hsieh paced the Knights to the WBAL round-robin and
West Catholic Athletic League Tournament semifinalist
The Knights’ boys’ lacrosse team split games at the Northwest Invitational in Seattle and then returned home to earn three consecutive West Catholic Athletic League wins. Menlo took fourth place in the tough WCAL. All-league selections Cole Kastner ’20, Finn Leschly ’20, and Ryan Young ’20—along
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