Mount Madonna School’s girls varsity volleyball team has received the Central Coast Section (CCS) highest academic honor by the CIF: “2017-18 Fall Season Scholastic Championship Team Award.”
“With the varsity girls earning the CCS team scholastic award my assumptions have been confirmed,” commented Head Coach Erin Mitchell (’10). “These girls are not just incredible athletes, they are not just devoted students. They are truly a team made up of student-athletes, who hold those two positions on the same tier, not one above another.”
The third-seeded Hawks are poised to play eleven-seeded Escalon in the D-V state NorCal playoffs on Saturday, November 18 at 6pm in the new Hawks’ Nest Gymnasium.
While many previous Hawks teams have qualified for and participated in state matches – including the MMS varsity girls team winning the state championship in 2007 – this is the first time MMS has been able to host a state tournament. With the opening of the school’s new gym, the Hawks now have a facility that meets all requirements for hosting state-level playoffs.
The team scholastic awards were instituted by the CCS Board of Managers in 1985 as a way to recognize teams with the highest collective grade-point average in their respective sport during that season of competition.
The Mount Madonna team’s collective GPA is 3.83. Team members are: Savannah Cambell, 9th grade; An-Mei Dasbach-Prisk, Paola Jacobs, 10th grade; Eleanor Harrington, Imogen Cockrum, Kaili Sullens and Mara Peruzzi, 11th grade; Aimee Kerr, Gracie Howley, Indigo Kelly and Sienna Clifton, 12th grade.
This is the fourteenth time a Mount Madonna School volleyball team has earned the distinction; the girls varsity team also received the award in 1999-00, 2007-08, 2012-13 and 2013-14; and the boys varsity team received it in 2000-01, 2001-02, 2004-05, 2006-07, and 2007-08, 2010-11, 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2016-17.
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Nestled among the redwoods on 355 mountaintop acres, Mount Madonna is a safe and nurturing college-preparatory school that supports students in becoming caring, self-aware and articulate critical thinkers, who are prepared to meet challenges with perseverance, creativity and integrity. The CAIS and WASC accredited program emphasizes academic excellence, creative self-expression and positive character development. Located on Summit Road between Gilroy and Watsonville.
