<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:cf="http://www.microsoft.com/schemas/rss/core/2005" xmlns:pbx="http://www.portalbuilder.org/schemas/sharepointlists"><channel><title>Athletics News</title><description /><link>http://net.smes.org/master/Lists/Athletics News/AllItems.aspx</link><generator>www.portalbuilder.org</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><lastBuildDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:16:31 GMT</lastBuildDate><image>http://net.smes.org/_layouts/images/itgen.gif</image><item><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:16:31 GMT</pubDate><title>Kiraly: Olympic Hall of Famer</title><description><![CDATA[The greatest vollyball player in the game’s history has another accolade to put on his mantleplace: U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame member.

San Clemente’s Karch Kiraly, with three Olympic gold medals, more career victories, prize money and awards than any other beach volleyball player was voted into the Olympic Hall of Fame last month, the hall announced Tuesday.

Kiraly will be part of a stellar group inducted June 19 in Chicago. Kiraly was selected along with boxer Oscar De La Hoya, ice skater Brian Boitano, former Dream Team member and NBA superstar David Robinson, marathoner Joan Benoit Samuelson, swimmer Amy Van Dyken and the 1996 women’s gymnastics team.

Kiraly’s almost 30-year career ended last season.He currently coaches the St. Margaret’s school volleyball team in San Juan Capistrano and runs the Kiraly Academy. He also began the U.S. Open of Beach Volleyball last summer. 
“We at the AVP could not be prouder of Karch,” said Leonard Armato, commissioner and CEO of the AVP Crocs Tour. “Karch has been a great ambassador for the sport of beach volleyball and he deeply deserves this honor. He truly represents the spirit of the Olympic Movement.”
OCRegister

Thank you to all of you who voted for Karch - we appreciate all your support.
]]></description><link>http://net.smes.org/master/Lists/Athletics News/display.aspx?ID=90</link><author>#Maga, Susie</author><guid isPermaLink="false">B875BD29-04FC-4389-9859-B43297D77890</guid><pbx:order pbx:Type="Number">9000</pbx:order></item><item><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:18:06 GMT</pubDate><title>Steffien Earns Top Honor</title><description><![CDATA[O.C.'s top athletes honored at banquet

It was an amazing collection of athletes that gathered Tuesday night for the annual Register and OCVarsity.com awards banquet.

The event, held at the Marconi Automotive Museum in Tustin, brought together the stars who shined the brightest in the county in 2007-08 by winning the top honor in their sport. The top coaches were also honored.

The night's highlight was the announcement of the Register's Athletes of the Year: Orange Lutheran's Blake Ayles (top boys athlete), Woodbridge's Christine Babcock (top girls athlete) and St. Margaret's Hunter Steffien (top small schools athlete).

Lauren Ciccomascolo received Lacrosse Athlete of the Year and Coach Crabtree was honored as Lacosse Coach of the Year.  

Volleyball legend and St. Margaret's Boys Volleyball coach, Karch Kiraly, was the guest speaker and helped hand out the awards.


]]></description><link>http://net.smes.org/master/Lists/Athletics News/display.aspx?ID=89</link><author>#Maga, Susie</author><guid isPermaLink="false">56359FD5-8079-4344-9F30-3FF3778883F2</guid><pbx:order pbx:Type="Number">8900</pbx:order></item><item><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:27:17 GMT</pubDate><title>All-Star Leslie McDonald</title><description><![CDATA[Leslie McDonald was selected by a committee of media and coaches to participate in the 2008 31st Annual Orange County High School Volleyball All-Star Games. The player history of this event reads like a Who's Who of Volleyball including Olympic Gold Medalist Misty May, NCAA Player of the year Brent Hillard, Olympic Gold Medalists Dain Blanton and Steve Timmons. Only 14 seniors were chosen to play on each of the South County and North County teams. Leslie played Libero for the South County team representing St. Margaret’s well in the victory.  She led her team to a 25-21, 17-25, 15-10 win over the North County team which was played at Newport Harbor High School.  Leslie finished her volleyball career at St. Margaret’s as the Academy League MVP, a First Team All-CIF member and a CIF State Scholar Athlete.  Congratulations Leslie, on a great career.]]></description><link>http://net.smes.org/master/Lists/Athletics News/display.aspx?ID=88</link><author>#Maga, Susie</author><guid isPermaLink="false">A2858F48-9A28-455F-9C36-B9E100C09A6B</guid><pbx:order pbx:Type="Number">8800</pbx:order></item><item><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:23:23 GMT</pubDate><title>Tain Lee All-County Golfer</title><description><![CDATA[As a senior, Tain Lee has some distinct goals entering into the Boys Golf Season in February. First, he and Senior Co-Captains Andy Ellison and Grant Reindl wanted to run the table again in League. They wanted to be undefeated and lead St. Margaret’s to its seventh consecutive Boys Academy League Golf Title. 

Second, Tain wanted the team to have an extremely difficult pre-season, so early in December the Captains asked Coach Parker to set up some difficult matches on some very challenging courses against some of the best teams in Orange County. Coach Parker took up their challenge and scheduled matches against the defending State Champion Edison, perennial golf powerhouses Tesoro, Peninsula, Servite, Mission Viejo, and Huntington Beach. Each of these teams were ranked in the OC Register top ten golf schools in Orange County. 
Finally Tain wanted to return the MVP in Boys Golf to St. Margaret’s where it had resided for five of the first sixth years. Some lofty goals for the Boys Golf program and for Tain Lee personally. 

The boys ended with a record of 13-7 and 10-0 in league play with wins over Peninsula and Mission Viejo. They played extremely competitive against Huntington Beach but lost by two strokes. Tain finished with a stroke average of 35.3 for the season including 3 eagles and 23 birdies. His low round of the year was an amazing 31 at Dad Miller. Heading into the league championship Tain was in fine form shooting 66 at the League Preliminaries at San Clemente Municipal Golf Course and 76 at El Niguel in blustery condition to finished 2 under par for 36 holes. With these two scores, Tain Lee became the first player in League history to repeat as the league Champion 

At the Team Sectional the team was pumped to make a run at another CIF-SS Divisional Championship. But the cold and rainy conditions at Talega made it a most difficult day for scoring and the Tartans finished 9th with Tain shooting the second best round of the tournament at level par 72.  
Individually three Tartans advanced to the CIF-SS Sectional at the challenging Seacliffs Country Club in Huntington Beach.  But only Tain Lee survived the difficult pin placements and lighting fast greens to advance to the CIF-SS Individual Finals at Mission Lakes in Palm Desert California. At the Individual Finals Tain Lee finished fifth shooting a level par round of 71 in 40 knot winds and 112® temperatures. Consuming some 12 bottles of water during his round, Tain stayed focused and birdied three out of his last sixth holes. With his 5th place finish, Tain became only the third Boy Golfer in Tartan history to advance to the Southern California Golf Association Championship joining Tyler Smith and Matt Pierce.

Although Tain was disappointed with his showing at the SCGA- he wanted to be the first Tartan to reach the State Finals- he had an amazing golf career at St. Margaret’s earning 1st Team All League Honors four times, winning the League Individual Championship twice, and being named to the Register’s 1st Team All Orange County Boys Golf Team in 2008. 
 
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Tartan track Senior Tak Matsushita will look to make school history this Saturday at Mt. Sac College, as he’ll be competing in the boys CIF Division IV Long Jump Final.  Last Saturday, Matsushita jumped an amazing 21’1’’ at the Division IV Prelims in Carpintaria, which was the second longest jump in school.  Matsushita was just as surprised as excited.  “Throughout my whole track career I never expected that I would go to CIF Finals, but now that I am I want to give it my all and I’m going to pound it on Saturday.”  Matsushita is currently ranked 7th overall among Division IV jumpers heading into Saturday’s Final, and is only the second Tartan Boys long jumper to qualify for CIF Finals in school history.  The last to do so was Damian Raibon in 1995, who jumped a school record 22’7’’.  The Southern Section long jump finals will get underway at 11 am on Saturday morning.   


]]></description><link>http://net.smes.org/master/Lists/Athletics News/display.aspx?ID=86</link><author>#Maga, Susie</author><guid isPermaLink="false">33372343-F372-4B1E-B886-9877D0F0867C</guid><pbx:order pbx:Type="Number">8600</pbx:order></item><item><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 16:05:38 GMT</pubDate><title>Volleyball in Quaterfinals</title><description><![CDATA[The varsity volleyball team won an exciting match on Tuesday, defeating St. Bernard’s in five games.  The win advances the Tartans to the CIF quarterfinals where they will go up against Viewpoint, the three-time defending CIF champion.  The team will travel to Viewpoint on Friday for a 7pm match.  It is sure to be a battle as the Tartans look to advance to the semifinals; a feat not accomplished since the 2002 season.  ]]></description><link>http://net.smes.org/master/Lists/Athletics News/display.aspx?ID=85</link><author>#Maga, Susie</author><guid isPermaLink="false">87A8EF91-45AF-4670-BBD5-F06D3DAD08BD</guid><pbx:order pbx:Type="Number">8500</pbx:order></item><item><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 18:39:46 GMT</pubDate><title>Jeff Tung Badminton Quarter-Finalist</title><description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Jeff Tung who represented St. Margarets in the C.I.F. Individual Badminton Championships as a freelance.  Jeff defeated Ivan Trang of El Monte in the first round 15-11, 4-15, and 15-10. He then defeated Alvin Chan of Rosemead 17-15, and 17-14 in the second round. Jeff lost a tough quarter-final match to Eric Kuo of Fountain Valley 15-7 and 15-0. Congratulations Jeff on an outstanding season and an outstanding representation in the C.I.F Individual Championships. 

]]></description><link>http://net.smes.org/master/Lists/Athletics News/display.aspx?ID=84</link><author>#Maga, Susie</author><guid isPermaLink="false">202B6C96-90CD-4A78-816A-CFA1272D9492</guid><pbx:order pbx:Type="Number">8400</pbx:order></item><item><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 01:18:18 GMT</pubDate><title>G LAX Wins Southern Section Championship</title><description><![CDATA[St. Margaret's first to wear Southern Section crown

Ciccomascolo scores six goals in girls lacrosse title game.

By DAMIAN CALHOUN
OCVarsity.com

St. Margaret’s senior Lauren Ciccomascolo put the finishing touches on her high school lacrosse career in Friday’s Southern Section championship at Trabuco Hills High. 

She scored six goals and assisted on another to lead the Tartans to a 16-8 victory over Palos Verdes for the first girls section title.

Ciccomascolo was selected MVP of the championships. 

“She was amazing,” St. Margaret’s coach Summer Crabtree said of Ciccomascolo. “She played the best that I’ve ever seen her play.”

Ciccomascolo, who will attend Denver University, set the tone early for the Tartans when she scored 11 seconds into the contest.

“We usually pass off of the first draw control,” Ciccomascolo said. “But it (an opening) was there and I took it.”

Ciccomascolo scored three of her goals in the first half as the Tartans took a 9-5 lead into halftime.

“I wanted to come out and make it a game to remember,” Ciccomascolo said. “Going to Denver next year, I wanted to remember this and take it with me.”   

The Sea Kings managed to get to within 10-7 with 21:44 remaining in the second half. However, the Tartans responded with five consecutive goals to seal the victory. 

“We didn’t actually know what to expect from this team (Palos Verdes),” Crabtree said. “Our goal was to play as hard as we could and try not to make any mistakes and capitalize on their mistakes.

“We got into a rhythm in the second half. When we start playing at our own pace, that’s when we score goals.”

Ciccomascolo scored twice, Jackie Marloe and Ashley Bean once each to give the Tartans a 15-7 lead with 9:53 remaining.


]]></description><link>http://net.smes.org/master/Lists/Athletics News/display.aspx?ID=83</link><author>#Maga, Susie</author><guid isPermaLink="false">3A1FEC7C-4597-45E9-92D7-AFDC7FC8E018</guid><pbx:order pbx:Type="Number">8300</pbx:order></item><item><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 18:48:41 GMT</pubDate><title>Girls Lacrosse Orange County Champions!</title><description><![CDATA[St. Margaret's played an incredible game against Los Alamitos in the finals of the Orange County Championships. Liz Simon had a stellar performance in cage making 9 saves. Junior Mary-Rachel Walsh earned MVP honors and the game-ball by playing a great defensive game and scoring 4 goals on attack. Senior Lauren Ciccomascolo was a force to reckon with on the field by scoring a 3 goals. Jackie Marloe contributed to the attack by scoring 2 goals with 1 assist, while sophomores Ashley Bean and Meggie Kearns each added one in the net. Freshman Emily Boone also scored one goal. And Junior Anna Maria Carabini added one assist. Overall the Tartans came out strong and played a smart possession game until the clock ran out. Congratulations Tartans!

The team will play Friday night against Palos Verdes at Trabuco Hills High School at 5:00 PM.  Palos Verdes beat Oak Park to win the North County Championships.  They will be playing for the Southern Section Championship Crown.

Please come support your Tartans.  $7.00 for Adults and $3.00 for students.]]></description><link>http://net.smes.org/master/Lists/Athletics News/display.aspx?ID=82</link><author>#Maga, Susie</author><guid isPermaLink="false">9EF3D452-5DEA-427F-960C-8A9CC3C6CA69</guid><pbx:order pbx:Type="Number">8200</pbx:order></item><item><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 16:11:31 GMT</pubDate><title>Girls LAX Wins!</title><description><![CDATA[St. Margaret's climbed back from a three goal deficit in the first half to outscore the #1 seeded Beckman in a 13-9 victory on Monday night. Senior Liz Simon had an outstanding performance in cage with 9 saves on the day. Lauren Collier also had an outstanding performance in cage with 3 saves. Meredith Meyerhofer played an excellent defensive game and kept the Beckman attack at bay. On our attacking end, Anna Maria Carabini and Emily Boone were the high scorers with 4 goals each. Lauren Ciccomascolo scored 2 goals, while Mary Rachel Walsh, Jackie Marloe, and Meggie Kearns each added one in the net. Nine of the thirteen Tartan goals were assisted. These assists were made by Olivia Wetterau (with 2), Lauren Ciccomascolo (with 2), Mary-Rachel Walsh (with 2), Jackie Marloe (with 1), Emily Boone (with 1), and Meredith Meyerhofer (with 1). 

The Tartans will face #3 (Los Alamitos) seed on Wednesday night at Trabuco Hills High School at 7pm. The cost to get in is $7.00 for an Adult and $3.00 for students.  Please come and support the team.]]></description><link>http://net.smes.org/master/Lists/Athletics News/display.aspx?ID=81</link><author>#Maga, Susie</author><guid isPermaLink="false">92EDE1DB-0739-49D3-8190-972A8E0834AC</guid><pbx:order pbx:Type="Number">8100</pbx:order></item><item><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 16:05:41 GMT</pubDate><title>Tartan Badminton</title><description><![CDATA[Jeff Tung will be representing St. Margarets in badminton as a freelance player in the CIF Playoffs. He will be competing against Ivan Trang from El Monte in the first round at the OC Badminton Club on May 10th at 1:00. Jeff represented St. Margarets during the season reaching the quarterfinals four times and the semifinals once in five matches.

Great job, Jeff.
]]></description><link>http://net.smes.org/master/Lists/Athletics News/display.aspx?ID=80</link><author>#Maga, Susie</author><guid isPermaLink="false">7DB206D0-9197-40C9-A273-A995AF2E9943</guid><pbx:order pbx:Type="Number">8000</pbx:order></item><item><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 16:36:36 GMT</pubDate><title>Girls LAX Playoff Monday!</title><description><![CDATA[The #4 seeded St. Margaret’s Girl’s Lacrosse team  met the #5 seeded Tesoro in the quarterfinals of the Sourthern Section Girl’s Lacrosse Playoffs on Friday at 5pm on the St. Margaret’s Turf Field. Tesoro came out strong scoring the first goal but the Tartans fought back to win the game 11-9. Six of the eleven goals were assisted mostly during fast break plays. Freshman, Emily Boone scored 3 goals and had 1 assist on the day. Junior Mary-Rachel Walsh scored 1 goal and had 3 assists on the day. Senior Lauren Ciccomascolo and sophomore, Meggie Kearns scored 2 goals and had 1 assist each. Junior Anna Maria Carabini scored 2 goals, and Junior Jackie Marloe scored 1 goal. Liz Simon recorded 7 saves in cage. Overall, the girls played a very competitive match against a tough team. 


The Tartans will face the #1 seed Beckman today at 4pm at Hicks Canyon Elementary in Irvine. ]]></description><link>http://net.smes.org/master/Lists/Athletics News/display.aspx?ID=78</link><author>#Maga, Susie</author><guid isPermaLink="false">F0074A32-F17A-4DA3-AC88-A64066714661</guid><pbx:order pbx:Type="Number">7800</pbx:order></item><item><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 17:35:37 GMT</pubDate><title>Swimmers to CIF Playoffs</title><description><![CDATA[The entire St Margaret’s swim team competed last week at the Academy League Championships.  Both teams finished the meet in 4th place. The Tartans were able to come away with two individual champions from the meet.  Sophomore Carina Prynn is the 2008 league champion in the 100 breaststroke by posting a 1:13.40.  Freshman Cameron Price was the 2008 league champion in the 500 freestyle which he won in 4:58.98.  At the meet, there were an additional 9 CIF times made by the Tartans and a total of 14 individual lifetime bests. 
Eight Tartan swimmers will now move on to the CIF-SS Divison IV championships in Long Beach next week.  Carina Prynn will be competing in the 200 IM and the 100 breaststroke.  Junior Cristina Poindexter will be competing in the 200 and 500 yd freestyle.  These two girls will be joined by sophomore Kasey Jong and junior Alex Moyzis in the 400yd freestyle relay. 

The boy’s team will be sending 4 swimmers to the meet.  Cameron Price will compete in the 200 IM and the 100 breaststroke.  Senior Jeff Carpenter will be competing in the 200 and 500 freestyle.  Joining these two in the 400 freestyle relay will be juniors Nick Tsutsui and Greg Wu.  

Prelims will be held Tuesday May 6th at 12:00 at Belmont Plaza in Long Beach, California. 
]]></description><link>http://net.smes.org/master/Lists/Athletics News/display.aspx?ID=76</link><author>#Maga, Susie</author><guid isPermaLink="false">63D57F9B-C5FC-482C-8CF1-EEA545904053</guid><pbx:order pbx:Type="Number">7600</pbx:order></item><item><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 14:44:23 GMT</pubDate><title>Girls LAX Chosen</title><description><![CDATA[Anna Maria Carabini and Mary-Rachel Walsh were selected to the Pacific All-Star team.  The girls will be travelling to Baltimore in May to compete against elite teams from all over the country. Meredith Meyerhofer is an alternate. Only 4 athletes from Orange County made the squad.


Congratulations to ALL who participated in 2008's Pacific Teams Tryouts!!
 
4/28/08: The 2 teams were decided last weekend at the Cate School, where the 40 advancing players from the 4/20 Chapter tryouts (North and South) completed a series of drills and activities and were rated anew by a new team of selectors. It was incredibly hot and the girls worked unbelievably hard though each and every task. The scored were then tabulated and the results were sent to the players via email, and the rosters were "announced" by way of their tryout number. This is how we will announce finalists at all of our trytous from now on...
 
Please congratulate each and every one of your nominees who participated in the tryout process. There were (and are EVERY year) many beautiful, talented players that don't make it past the 1st cut at the Chapter tryouts. It is important to remind them that a) they were nominated in the first place and are therefore legitimate b) anyone can have a brilliant tryout, and anyone can have an off-day c) it has 100% nothing to do with a player's track record or resume. No details are known about any of the players, since it is all anonymous by design.
 

Some numbers to consider:
 
Over  32 schools/programs nominated players for the Northern CA Chapter tryouts at Menlo School
Over 112 players were nominated (no more than 6 from any one). 
 
Over 25 schools/programs nominated players for the San Diego, Greater LA and Orange County Chapters (combined) 
Southern Tryouts at Poway School.
Over 111 players were nominated (no more than 6 from any one)
 
Between the two tryouts on 4/20 and 4/27: 
•	20 different people served as selectors 
•	3 trainers and 3 officials worked at each of the tryouts 
•	6 different people served as facilitators for the tryouts 
•	240 tryout pinnies had numbers pinned to them, and now need to be washed! 
•	4 student volunteers helped with equipment, data entry and site clean-up 
•	1 husband designed a brilliant spreadsheet to tally all of the scores (factoring in the drop of the highest and lowest scores received) 
•	numerous coaches joined (or renewed) US Lacrosse in order to nominate players for the tryouts 
•	countless girls joined US Lacrosse in order to register for the tryouts 
•	many, many balls and cones were borrowed and not too many lost 
•	most of the players listed above competed for a combined total of 8 hours to earn their spot on Team 1 or 2 
•	6 players have previous Pacific Team playing experience (2007 rosters and even 2006) 
•	22 juniors, 15 sophomores and 3 frosh make up the 40 players' different grades. 
•	2 juniors and 2 sophomores are the Alternates 
•	29 different high schools/programs contribute to the 40 players/4 alternates named to the 2008 teams (possibly the most ever; I'd have to check)
Thank you to EVERYONE who offered their TIME in all areas, especially as selectors and facilitators, and brain cells to assess the hundreds of candidates, loaner balls & cones, fields for tryouts, brainstorming to make sure tryouts plans were in full compliance with CIF, bouncers to keep the tryouts closed to the public, Etc, etc. It was a great lax team effort.
 
The above listed rosters represent our emerging California talent and we are confident that they will once again make us all proud as they
compete on the National stage at WDNT this Memorial Day weekend.
  
Please wish Both teams all luck in Baltimore, and we will let you know how they fare in each of their divisions.
 
Thanks also to ALL of the coaches who have joined or renewed US Lacrosse as coach members, and who abided by the deadlines and formats I requested for the nomination process. Also, thank you, again, to all of the amazing Pacific Coach applicants we had this year. Hopefully if (when) we advance to 3 teams next year we will be able to use more of you!!
 
Best regards,
Jen Lee
Pacific Teams Tryouts and Selection Chair 2008
]]></description><link>http://net.smes.org/master/Lists/Athletics News/display.aspx?ID=75</link><author>#Maga, Susie</author><guid isPermaLink="false">04FA3CFD-62DA-40B2-A61A-695756DFF807</guid><pbx:order pbx:Type="Number">7500</pbx:order></item><item><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:45:23 GMT</pubDate><title>Tartans Play Great Golf</title><description><![CDATA[The Tartans captured three of the five CIF-SS Individual Sectional qualifying spots at the League Finals today. Over the two day 36 hole championship, Tain Lee shot 66/76 142 for a total of two under par for 144 holes.  In doing so, he returns to the CIF-SS Individual Sectional for his fourth consecutive year and also won his second MVP title- he won the first in 2005 as a Freshman. 

Spencer Kushner also returns to post season individual play for the second consecutive year as he finished runner up to Tain in the quest for the MVP honors. By doing so, Spencer again earned 1st Team Honors. 

Grant Reindl also qualified for the CIF-SS Individuals at Seacliffs by finishing fourth in the league and earning 1st Team All League Honors. 

Martin Dolan earned 2nd Team Distinction and Brian Sanderson was Honorable Mention All League. 
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