{all photos from SLOCA’s flickr site}
Today we have another update from our Athletics Director, David Hazlebeck. Last month he wrote about our first High School CIF events, and today he has an update for us on our Middle School Athletics teams:
SLOCA had a great fall season in our first year having a full-scale athletics program. This fall we had two middle school girls volleyball teams and a middle school boys cross country team. The girls volleyball team had a lot of coaching help from Trent Lunceford, Karen Goldstein, Danielle Roberts, Morgen Burkhart, and a little bit from Chad Theule as well.
Coach Danielle and Coach Morgen did an awesome job with our Team A girls. Team A was made up of Kate Maddaloni, Lily Ronda, Mia Ritter, Julianne Theule, Hayden Eades, Sierra Cox, and Abby Moore. Lily led Team A with serving by having 31 aces and only 8 missed serves on 71 attempts. Team A finished their season 4-6.
Zoe Peach-Riley, Coco Smith, Raegan Lunceford, Carly Goldstein, Kendra Twist and Dylan Van Rooyen are on Team B, under the leadership of Coach Trent and Coach Karen. Kendra led the team in hitting with 29 kills. Zoe led the team in passing with 46 digs. Team B ended with a record of 2-8, but the girls improved tremendously each game.
Our cross country team is being led by Coach Nick Stavros. He led our high school boys to a great first season as a part of CIF and now is making great progress with our middle school boys as well! The runners on our team include Sam Babb, William Dorman, Cole Dorman, Ross Edmonds, Sammy Rein, Joseph Phelan, Quinn Ferrarini, Anthony Ginn, Caedin Hilton, Nate Theule and Zeke Theule. Honorary members include Eli Newman, Haaken Theule, and Brady Theule. We have had nine top 10 finished in the first four races. We have had two medals – Cole placed third in the Rock and Roar Meet put on by LOMS at Morro Bay on the sand and Brady placed third in the first and second grade event at Paulding. They still have one meet left on Wednesday right after school at Cuesta (put on by OMS).
We are very proud of all our SLOCA girls and boys that have jumped on board with the sports program at our school. Upcoming teams to be on the lookout for include: middle school boys basketball (and girls if we get a few more people signed up), boys volleyball, and co-ed ultimate frisbee!
Thanks David! We enjoy hearing about our thriving athletics program, and look forward to more opportunities for our kids to grow through sports!
The mission of athletics at SLO Classical Academy is to complement our educational model by developing the habits, minds, bodies and character of students in a nurturing and challenging context for all that desire to commit to our programs.
