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Warrior girls tennis players celebrated after winning their second straight CIF Division V championship.
Warrior girls repeat as CIF champs
Carpinteria High School girls tennis finished what it set out to do this season in defending its CIF Southern section division v championship on nov. 15 at Claremont tennis Club. Warriors singles players—Kelsie Bryant, Kassandra Ni and Odessa Stork—continued to be dominant against Riverside Poly, and doubles players rose to the challenge presented by Riverside’s tough lineup to help the Warriors capture the 12-6 victory. Bryant swept her sets and finished the season with a personal 67-1 mark. “Winning CIF for the second time is so unbelievable and exciting. We’ve worked toward this day the entire season, and it paid off,” stated the junior. The Warriors won the first round of play 5-1 and led 9-3 after two rounds. The third round was a race to see which Warrior could snag the deciding 10th point for the championship. Stork won her set, 6-1, to clinch the victory. Stork, a freshman, swept her three sets, and Ni, a junior, won two before subbing out in the final round. Warriors doubles team Natalie Saito/Lesly Zapata swept three sets, and the junior tandem “has been playing at an incredibly high level,” according to coach Charles Bryant. Makenna Pike/Emily Saito picked up one win in doubles play. Coach Bryant commented that even though Kelsie finished with a nearly flawless personal record, having lost only 12 games the entire season—none of which came in the championship round—the farther a team advances in playoffs, the more balance across the roster is necessary. “As incredible as her season was, she only gets us three points a match, so we needed everyone to play at a high level and they did,” coach Bryant said. He commended the entire team for great sportsmanship and enjoying the game. “This season will definitely be
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Grant Walker takes a turn at the not-so-high wire while brother Eric Walker looks on. The sturdy and accessible trees in Linden Field have become a training ground for budding tight rope walkers, or Walkers in this case. The brothers bought the rope to the field for an afternoon gathering of roommates and friends on Nov. 17.
School board faces $60 million in facilities needs/wants By LEa BoyD
The Carpinteria Unified School District’s Board of Education was hit with sticker shock on Nov. 15 when it received a $60 million wish list of improvements to the district’s seven campuses. Proposed facilities upgrades include new construction, such as a science wing at Carpinteria High School and a new Summerland School, as well as replacement of aging portables, electrical upgrades to classrooms and parking lot reconfiguration. Board members are now faced with the task of whittling down the list to strike a balance of needs and wants at a cost that voters will support in a bond election anticipated for November 2014. “We are not going to go to the public and ask for $60 million,” said Boardmember Terry Hickey Banks. “So we really do have to hone it down and get it right.” Developed over the last year with input from teachers, administrators and parents, the Draft Facilities Master Plan presented to board members last week
“We are not going to go to the public and ask for $60 million, so we really do have to hone it down and get it right.”
––Boardmember Terry Hickey Banks
represents six months of work completed by a small group of community volunteers who assessed districtwide priorities, assigned cost estimates and considered the likelihood of public support for each. District-wide, the top priority in the plan is to upgrade infrastructure to improve electrical systems and technology. Second is replacement of portables, and
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