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The Pleasanton RAGE Girls Soccer Club held its annual Honors Night Event on April 24 at the Pleasanton Marriott, celebrating the class of 2025 as well as the sophomore, junior, and senior scholar-athlete award recipients.
Also recognized were the recipients of the Pleasanton RAGE Scholarship Award for Excellence in Academics and Community Service: Faith Cunha Brasil (Foothill) and Vivialann Garcia (Gregori High).
The following are the high school seniors who have committed to playing college soccer:
Kiana Ayllon (Westmont College), Amaya Cabrales-Estrada (San Jose State University), Camryn Caliz (Las Positas College), Kelsey Castillo (Chapman University), Elizabeth Cruden (Brandeis University), Isabel Garcia (Las Positas College), Hillary Gonzalez (Wellesley College), Lia Ikuta (Las Positas College), Tess Manning (Colorado Mesa University), Maylen Montoya (University of Washington), Kate Pereur (College of Idaho) and Hailey Schlosser (Trinity University, Texas).
Amador boys’ volleyball
The Amador Valley High boys’ volleyball kept their postseason run alive with a pair of wins the first week of the North Coast Section Division I playoffs.
The Dons beat Deer Valley 3-0, then Dublin 3-1 to advance to the NCS semifinals.
In the win over Deer Valley, the Dons got outstanding offense from Max Riter and opposite hitter Nick Nyak on the way to the 25-20, 25-21, 25-16 win.
Riter had 15 kills, Nyak had seven kills and two aces. Also chipping in on the offense was Ryan Bury, with solid passing and nine kills.
In the 25-20, 21-25, 25-17, 25-13 win over Dublin, once again Riter and Nyak were featured on offense, with 17 kills and an ace apiece. Setter Everett Wogsland contributed directly to the offense with three kills of his own.
Amador swimming
The Dons turned in some great performances in the NCS Swimming and Diving Championships held May 8-10 at the Concord Community Pool.
Highlights on the girls’ side included Rylee Hutchinson winning the 200 freestyle and finishing third in the 500 free, both in CIF State Meet automatic qualifying times.
Lilyana Caples got second in the 500 free and got ninth (won the consolation finals) in the 200 free.
Elayna Ling swam to fifth in the 100 butterfly and seventh in the 100 breaststroke.
Francesca Lin got seventh in the 200 individual medley and fifth in the 500 free. Namya Sarup was ninth in the 100 breast.
Hutchinson, Caples, Ling and Lin teamed up to get sixth in the 200 medley relay and fifth in the 400 free relay. They made the CIFA standard in the 400 free relay.
For the boys, Cade Vieler was third in the 100 backstroke with a CIFA time and sixth in the 200 free. Kealan Tupper was fifth in the 200 IM and eighth in the 500 free, both in CIFA times.
Oryan Liu got 10th in the 200 IM and tied for 10th in the 100 fly. Toby Huang finished 15th in the 100 fly, and Ryan Wong was 16th in the 200 free.
Vieler, Liu, Tupper and Wong teamed up to earn fifth in the 400 free relay in a CIFA time. Vieler, Wong, Liu and Huang got 10th in the 200 medley relay in a CIFA time, with the top 10 teams all achieving the CIFA time standard.
The 200 free relay team of Simon Valentine, Ibrahim Kiziloglu, Will Campbell and Toby Huang, was seeded 18th, moved up to 15th after their preliminary swim and got 13th in the consolation finals.
Editor’s note: Dennis Miller is a contributing sports writer for Embarcadero Media Foundation’s East Bay Division. To contact him about his Pleasanton Preps column, email acesmag@aol.com.
