Lower and middle school spring sports teams wrap up great seasons with many top finishes
VA (Grades 6-8) Gold Tennis: The varsity A gold tennis team, coached by John Fruttero and Mike Nguyen, finished in first place in the WBAL at 6-1 and second place in the MTP at 2-1. The team finished the MTP tournament in second place and had an overall season record of 9-3. Team awards went to Anthony Tong and Ryan Chang, both grade 8 (MVPs), Medini Halepete, grade 7, and Jeffrey Zhang, grade 6 (Eagle), and Jacob Huang, grade 8, and Audrey Feng, grade 6 (Coaches).
VA (Grades 6-8) Silver Tennis: The varsity A silver tennis team, coached by John Fruttero and Mike Nguyen, finished in seventh place in the WBAL with a record of 1-6. Team awards went to Yasmin Sudarsanam, grade 6, and Joe Li, grade 7 (MVPs), Brian Harder, grade 8, and Katilyn Su, grade 6 (Eagle), and Ramit Goyal, grade 7, and Misha Tkachenko, grade 6 (Coaches).
VA (Grades 7-8) Girls Volleyball: The varsity A team, coached by Theresa Smith and Stephanie Coleman, and assisted by high school volleyball players Katrina Liou, Srija Gadiraju, Lauren Beede, Emily Cheng and Anya Gert, finished in a two-way tie for second place in the WBAL with a record of 6-2 and went 6-3 overall. Team awards went to Vivian Bi, grade 8 (MVP), Rachel Ning and Allison Zhu, both grade 8 (Eagle), and Jessica Tang, grade 8 (Coaches).
VB (Grades 7-8) Girls Volleyball: The varsity B team, coached by Kurt Schwartz, finished in second place in the WBAL with a record of 6-2. Team awards went to Sonya He, grade 8, and Anjali Yella, grade 7 (MVPs), Kate Grannis, grade 7 (Eagle) and Ashley Ma, grade 8 (Coaches).
JVA (Grade 6) Girls Volleyball: The junior varsity A team, coached by Belle Carley, finished in second place in the WBAL with a record of 5-1. Team awards went to Stephanie Bossolina (MVP), Alison Yang (Eagle) and Angelina Burrows (Coaches).
JVB1 (Grade 5) Girls Volleyball: The junior varsity B1 team, coached by Ellie Pereira, finished in first place in the WBAL with a record of 6-0. Team awards went to Tanvi Sivakumar (MVP), Aline Grinspan (Eagle) and Delara Gholami (Coaches).
JVB2 (Grade 5) Girls Volleyball: The junior varsity B2 team, coached by Allie Pereira, finished in fourth place in the WBAL with a record of 2-4. Team awards went to Sophia Schafer-Wharton (MVP), Ava Bhowmik (Eagle) and Anika Rajaram (Coaches).
Intramural (Grade 4) Girls Volleyball: Team awards went to Riya Samuel (MVP), Divya Bhupathi (Eagle) and Finley Ho (Coaches). The team was coached by Emily Pereira and Kaitlyn Seawright.
VA (Grades 7-8) Baseball: The varsity A team, coached Jon Cvitanich, Richard Amarillas, Adam Albers and Marcus Anderson, finished in sixth place in the WBAL with a record of 2-5. Team awards went to Freddy Hoch, grade 8 (MVP), Nicholas Delfino, grade 8 (Eagle) and Daniel Lin, grade 7 (Coaches).
JVA (Grades 4-6) Baseball: The junior varsity A team, coached by Jon Cvitanich, Tim Hopkins, Brandon Carroll and Marcus Anderson, finished in fourth place in the WBAL with a record of 0-6. Team awards went to Zackary Delfino, grade 4 (MVP), Kylie Anderson, grade 6 (Eagle) and Nathan Wilcox, grade 6 (Coaches).
Intramural (Grades 4-5) Baseball: Team awards went to Spencer Mo and Ameera Ramzan, both grade 4, (Eagle) and Anirudh Subramanian, grade 4 (Coaches). The team was coached by Walid Fahmy and Tobias Wade.
VA (Grades 7-8) Boys Volleyball: The varsity A team, coached by Pete Anderson, finished in first place in the ADAL with a record of 8-0. The team went 10-0 overall. Team awards went to Tyler Beede, grade 8, and Adrian Liu, grade 7 (MVPs), Spencer Mak, grade 7 (Eagle) and Michael Sullivan, grade 8 (Coaches).
JVA (Grades 6-7) Boys Volleyball: The junior varsity A team, coached by Spring Wang and Sara Pawloski, finished in a tie for third place in the ADAL with a record of 5-3. Team awards went to Liam Jeffers, grade 6 (MVP), Rayan Arya, grade 6 (Eagle) and Varun Bhupathi, grade 6 (Coaches).
VA (Grades 6-8) Boys Water Polo: The middle school boy’s water polo team, coached by Ted Ujifusa and Allie Lamb, finished with a 2-4 in the WBAL. Team awards went to Indigo Lee, grade 8, and Lachlan Rossi, grade 7 (MVPs), Robert Fields, grade 6 (Eagle) and Drake Piscione, grade 8 (Coaches).
VA (Grades 6-8) Girls Water Polo: The middle school girl’s water polo team, coached by Ted Ujifusa and Allie Lamb, finished 3-2 in the WBAL. Team awards went to Jasleen Hansra, grade 8, and Sydney Adler, grade 8 (MVPs), Chiling Han, grade 6 (Eagle) and Ria Kohli, grade 6 (Coaches).
MS (Grades 6-8) Golf: The middle school golf team, coached by Ie-Chen Cheng, took second place in the WBAL spring tournament held at the Moffet Field Golf Course. The team shot a 156 on the front nine. The top eight golfers were Freddy Hoch, grade 8 (36), Athreya Daniel, grade 8 (38), Allison Yang, grade 6 (39), Nika Gholami, grade 8, and Jack Yang, grade 7 (43), Yu Bai, grade 7 (44) and Emi Fujimura, grade 7 (47) and David Jang, grade 7 (51).
LS (Grades 4-5) Boys and Girls Track: The lower school track team, coached by Brighid Wood, Karriem Stinson, Colleen Campbell, Brittney Moseley, Hannah Grannis and Dini Wong, took second overall at the WBAL track meet.
First place finishers were:
David Kelly, grade 4 (100m)
Brandon Labio, grade 4 (400m)
MS (Grades 6-8) Boys and Girls Track: The middle school track team, coached by Brighid Wood, Karriem Stinson, Colleen Campbell, Brittney Moseley, Hannah Grannis and Dini Wong, took second overall at the WBAL track meet.
First place finishers were:
Chiling Han, grade 6 (200m, 400m, 800m)
Anjali Yella, grade 7 (50m, 100m, 200m, long jump)
Andrew Fu, grade 8 (long jump)
Rigo Gonzales, grade 8 (200m, 400m, 800m)
Rigo Gonzales, Andrew Fu, Zain Vakath and Armaan Thakker, all grade 8 (4 x 100 relay)
Go Eagles!
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