Lynch’s NCS diving title just one of many spring highlights
Though the spring sports’ season was far from complete by our deadline, Miramonte athletes have already recorded some impressive achievements. The boys’ lacrosse...
Ionescu will return home for gym-naming ceremony June 26
All that winning, all those championships. North Coast Section, Northern California, Pac-12 Conference and WNBA crowns. Oh, and the Olympic gold medal. Of...
Boys’ lacrosse bounces back to claim first-ever NCS title
When the Miramonte boys’ lacrosse team headed off to spring break, the Mats’ record was 3-7. Seven weeks later, they were North Coast...
With Randy Bennett gone, Saint Mary’s likely to take a step...
Saint Mary’s College President Roger J. Thompson said there is something quite “fitting” and even “meaningful” around the hiring of new men’s basketball...
The unsung hero of Miramonte sports is the man who’s always...
You’ve seen him. If you’re a Miramonte sports fan, you’ve seen Sean Hennessy. He’s always off to the side though, inconspicuous, watching carefully. ...
Milla Ohrbach is an under-the-radar Miramonte superstar
Athletic excellence has a long lineage at Miramonte High School. Yet even within that tradition, Milla Ohrbach occupies rare air. A multi-year...
Winter sports were full of sunshine for Mats’ athletes
It was a successful winter season for all the Miramonte teams, as all had moved on to the North Coast Section playoffs,...
Santa Maria CYO championship caps impressive three-year run
It’s been a great year for girls’ basketball in Orinda. Not only did Miramonte win the North Coast Section Division 3 title,...
Miramonte girls find their magic and roll to their eighth NCS...
It all paid off in the end. For most of the year, there were only seven players. Of those seven,...
Miramonte athletes are gearing up for a spring full of sports
It may not officially be spring until March 20, but don’t tell that to the hundreds of Miramonte athletes who’ve been practicing...
Miramonte’s soccer teams combine camaraderie and on-field success
The crowd stormed the field at Lamorinda Soccer Day. With tacos in hand and packed crowds lining the bleachers, Miramonte High School’s...
Wrestlers, basketball players look forward to a postseason push
The bounce of basketballs and the thumps of bodies hitting wrestling mats are the sound track for the winter indoor sports’ season...
Miramonte’s Unified Sports expands athletic access, creates connection
Unified Sports has become a meaningful and visible part of life at Miramonte High School, offering students in the Essential Skills Program...
Nationally ranked boys’ water polo headlines impressive fall season
It’s not often a season ends with the fourth-string quarterback playing in a championship game, but that was just part of the...
Game On – January 2026
An epic four-quarterback season is worth celebrating
Peering over the foam atop my pint of Guinness at the Fourth Bore play off watch...
From Miramonte to Saint Mary’s: Lathrop steps into division I role
(Mark Bell, Photographer)James Lathrop, longtime Miramonte boys’ water polo coach and newly hired men’s coach at Saint Mary’s College, steps into his next chapter...
Upgraded lighting at Wilder will actually cost the city less
Coming out of the Caldecott Tunnel and heading to Orinda, the bright lights on Wilder Fields illuminate both the young athletes working on...
11 Miramonte athletes plan to keep on playing in college
Eleven Miramonte seniors announced their athletic commitments last month, with destinations including Stanford, UCLA, North Carolina and the Naval Academy. Some of these...
Volleyball’s NorCal return is just one autumn highlight
Led by a rejuvenated girls’ volleyball team, Miramonte’s fall sports season had plenty of success – and at The Orinda News deadline, five...
Steve Hammond will be the Matadors’ new baseball coach
Despite playing professional baseball internationally (in China, Japan and Mexico) and all over the United States, the new Miramonte baseball coach has...
