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WINTER 2018
Fall Athletics Review 2017
selected CCS freshman of the year, took 17th. Miranda won seven races leading up to state and took fourth at the Div. I-III Mt. Sac. Invitational. e Menlo girls set their place
in program history a er taking second at CCS for Menlo’s rst section Div. IV trophy and then advanced to the state meet. Paced by sophomores Kyra Pretre and Charlotte Tomkinson, who led a deep team of all underclassmen, the girls nished 18th.
ATHLETICS
Highlights
Menlo enjoyed a historic, record-breaking fall sports campaign. For the rst time in program history, every
fall team advanced to the Central Coast Section playo s,
and ve of those teams automatically quali ed for CCS as league champions. Football and boys’ and girls’ water polo advanced to section title games, and volleyball returned to
the Open Division, spanning schools of all sizes, for section and NorCals. Mark Newton ’88, in his last season as Menlo football coach, won Coach of the Year (see sidebar), and ve players were selected as their league’s most valuable athlete: Robert Miranda ’18 (boys’ cross country), Taylor Gould ’19 (girls’ tennis), JH Tevis ’18 (football-defense), Dillon
Grady ’19 (football-special teams), and Sam Untrecht ’19 (boys’ water polo). Fi y players were named to all-league teams. Menlo athletes excelled in the classroom, too. Football won a CCS Scholastic Championship, and two other teams ranked in the top ve for highest collective GPAs in their respective sports: boys’ cross country (second) and girls’
golf (third).
CROSS COUNTRY
Boys: fth West Bay Athletic League (WBAL), CCS team quali er, two state quali ers; Girls: WBAL champions,
second-place team CCS, state quali er
Both teams advanced to the CCS Championships for the rst time since 2014. Robert Miranda ’18 ran away with the section title, setting a league record on the course, while Kamran Murray ’21, the fastest freshman of the day, took sixth. At the state meet, Miranda nished third while Murray,
Robert Miranda ’18 won seven races, including a record-setting run at the CCS Championships, and placed third at state
The girls’ cross country team took second at CCS to return to the state championships
FOOTBALL
8-5 overall, 4-1 PAL-Ocean champions, CCS nalists, CCS Scholastic champions
A er securing league and section championships, Menlo earned an automatic bid to the playo s and then nished its season in the CCS championship game, falling to undefeated Gilroy. Seniors/captains Baily Deeter, Aidan Israelski, Emilio Simbeck, and JH Tevis led a skilled and tough- minded corps which prevailed to win back-to-back PAL titles and its rst league championship since 2006. e seniors and a talented core of juniors and a sophomore made sure the nal coaching season for Mark Newton ’88 was a remarkable one (see sidebar).
Senior captains (from left) Emilio Simbeck, Baily Deeter, Aidan Israelski, and JH Tevis were presented with the CCS Scholastic Champions award before the CCS Championship game
David Schmaier ’18 was one of many Knights who starred on both sides of the ball
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