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SPORTS HEADLINES
fall sports headlines ¡ STUART HALL SPORTS Knights football scored 50 or more points six times en route to 7-1 mark, best record in program history. All League players led Knights soccer to NCS championships in big bounce-back year. Clay Mills, Gr. 7, won the BAIAL Cross Country Championships finishing four seconds off course record. After undefeated regular season, JV soccer claimed No. 1 seed going into playoffs. The Gr. 7 CYO soccer team won a dramatic playoff game on penalty kicks to earn trip to final. Top Middle Form golfer Elliot Kob led the Lions to 2nd place finish in inaugural Cathedral Golf Classic.
¡ CONVENT SPORTS The high school golf team defended its title with another BCL West championship in impressive undefeated season. Behind senior Alex Wood, Cubs volleyball outlasted Marin Academy in electrifying five-set playoff match to earn trip to league final. Senior Allison Watts finished high school tennis career with perfect 8-0 record in league play.
The Gr. 6 volleyball team topped off a dominant season with the CYO championship.
¡ CO-ED HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Hard offseason training program prepared the cross-country teams to finish in top half of BCL West.
winter sports headlines ¡ STUART HALL SPORTS Knights varsity basketball 30-win season included first ever NCS basketball title, five straight playoff wins and a trip to the NorCal semifinals. Knights wrestlers won their championship meet and finished as league co-champs. The Gr. 8 basketball team finished an undefeated season with second BAIAL varsity title in last 15 years.
¡ CONVENT SPORTS Cubs varsity basketball charged into NCS tournament and won a first-round game before closing out another strong season. The Gr. 5 soccer team went undefeated and won the CYO championship in the top division. The Middle Form varsity BAIAL basketball team made an exciting run to the league playoffs.
Middle Form JV volleyball team won the BAIAL championship after impressive back-to-back upset wins in playoffs.
Daniel Connolly Commits to Play College Golf at SMU Daniel Connolly, a junior at Stuart Hall, has given a verbal commitment to play college golf at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, starting in fall 2016. He was heavily recruited by several prestigious universities, but felt SMU was the best fit and a place where he could balance his education and social life with golf, just like he has at Stuart Hall. With an impressive campus and state-of-theart golf facility, which will be ready in 2016, Daniel says he couldn’t be more excited.
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SPRING 2015
After qualifying for the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship in 2013 and 2014, the highest-level tournament for players under 17, Daniel has been on the rise in the junior rankings, and he is currently at No. 41 on the Golfweek/Sagarin list for the class of 2016. His next goal is to qualify for the 2015 U.S. Amateur Championship in August. “I have a vision of where I want to be and how I want to do it,” Daniel says. “Golf has showed me that we get places because of hard work.”
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