The Matadors Cross Country Team Prepares for Another Epic Season
As many will recall, last season our boys XC team placed 1st overall in the DAL Championships, breaking Campolindo’s win streak at the...
Orinda Pickleballers
Owen, the youngest participant in the Saturday morning Pickleballers group, which meets at the Orinda Community Center, returns a volley across a portable...
Game On – August 2024
How Do We Replace the Oakland A’s?
With the Oakland B’s.
The Oakland Ballers, nicknamed the B’s, are the newest sports team in a...
Game On – July 2024
Stripes are Earned
“Even your seeing eye dog hates you for that call, buddy!” “Yo, Oscar Meyer, you know that call was 100% bologna,...
Game On – June 2024
Miramonte Girls Lacrosse -
One for the History Books
Long before the existence of America, or baseball, or perhaps even apple pie, there was...
Kids Run 50-Yard Dash at Annual Field Day
The 50 Yard Dash. Third graders Garrett Gordon #708, Eysson Enamorado #29, Noah Fernandez #215, Jackson Clich #702 and Isben DeWaal #704 raced...
Game On – May 2024
Crosstown Rivals Take to the Field
The matchup has always been a benchmark of any season. Sixty-two years of competition between the Miramonte Matadors...
Miramonte Girls Soccer Wins NCS
The biggest hidden gem in the gold mine of great players that helped lead Miramonte to their North Coast Section double overtime victory...
Game On – April 2024
Miramonte Boys Golf and
the Orinda Country Club
There are not many 100-year-old country clubs that would trust their prized golf course to a...
Game On – March 2024
Welcome Nick Safir, Miramonte’s
New Varsity Football Coach
Former Head Coach Jack Schram will undoubtedly be a hard act to follow, having just walked...
Game On – February 2024
Remembering Chris Lang via Gamesmanship
The Chris Lang memorial plaque is appropriately placed inside the “Matadome” at Miramonte High. Just above the slightly ajar,...
Matadors’ First Section Title in a Decade
Miramonte senior #30 Nate Howe takes on Saint Bernard’s notorious #19 Wyatt Simoni during the Division 5, North Coast Section Championship game on...
Game On – January 2024
Amazing Players, Amazing Coach
“Attitude is a big part of the game,” Miramonte girls golf team captain, Antong Cao, tells me. The right mix...
Game On – December 2023
The Return of Kai and Quinn
Sitting in the Miramonte football bleachers on a late Friday afternoon at the end of November brings a...
Saint Mary’s David and Goliath Basketball Success Story Continues
Saint Mary’s College (SMC), the alma mater of myself and what the school’s alumni office estimates as 400 Orindans, tips off its men’s...
Game On – November 2023
Astroturf and Velcro
As the Autumn winds slip through the back gate to Miramonte’s football field, they bring a slight chill and a beautiful,...
Caitlin Chan Moves to Top Seat
When folks say, “May the force be with you,” they could now be referring to Sophomore Caitlin Chan, a mild mannered Miramonte tennis...
Game On – October 2023
You’ll Have To Get Up Pretty Early To Beat Miramonte
Capturing the first glimpses of morning sunlight hitting the unwrinkled surface of the Bill...
The Power of Three
Sadie Symonds #3, Nichole Tuszynski #22 and Tara Dao #18, Co-Captains of the 2023 Miramonte varsity volleyball team. This trio has been finding...
Game On – September 2023
If Cross Country was Easy, They’d Call it Football
As the meadow fog lifts from above the reservoir and the warmth of the day...
