NHS Athletic News
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Fall Sports Informational Meeting
Tuesday, Aug 6, 2019, 06:30 PM
Northgate High School, Castle Rock Road, Walnut Creek, CA, USA
Please Welcome our New Girl's Volleyball Coach- Grace Lau!
Grace brings her love for the game to the players and believes that team sports teach you invaluable life and leadership skills. She looks forward to fine tuning high performance habits, fostering a culture of respect, responsibility and hard work as well as growing together as a team.
Check out the team page- https://www.northgatebroncos.org/girlsvolleyball
Please Welcome our new Girl's Tennis coach- Calvin Thompson
Calvin was a highly ranked junior in Northern California including ranked #1 Boy’s 18s doubles. He was #1 for St. Mary’s High School in Stockton all four years. After High School he played Div 1 on tennis scholarship at University of Nevada and then transferred to play for Long Beach State, a top 20 National team. There he learned under NCAA coach of the year Peter Smith, now at USC. He graduated with his degree in Speech Communications.
Calvin has been ranked #1 in Mixed Open Doubles in Northern California and as a Senior player held top twenty National singles and doubles rankings. He is a Men’s 40 and over winner of Pacific Coast Nationals in singles and doubles and two time finalist for Father/Son doubles. His highest Senior rankings where #3 singles in USPTA 35 and over and #2 in doubles USPTA 35 and over divisions.
As a coach Calvin enjoys working with all levels of players. He has coached over 100 sectionally ranked and numerous nationally ranked players. He is the current owner of the Tri-Valley Tennis Academy in Livermore. He also serves as the Adult Tennis Director at Oakhurst Country Club in Clayton. Calvin runs the second most junior tournaments in Northern California which includes challengers, UTRs, and Opens. He has served as the Spare Time Tennis Academy Director at Rio Del Oro in Sacramento. Other positions include Head Professional at the University Club of Palo Alto and Diamond Hills Tennis Director. He has coached Varsity tennis at Heritage HS in Brentwood and Granada HS in Livermore.
Calvin has four children Tanner 17, Grace 14, Mia 10, and Emiliana 9, who all enjoy tennis. Tanner is a senior at San Ramon Valley HS and qualified for NCS singles as Freshman. Calvin and Tanner are ranked in the top 40 Nationally for Father/Son teams. Calvin is very excited to grow and take the Northgate Tennis Program to the next level. He is looking forward to running camps, having summer USTA teams, and have players enjoy the game while improving.
Tennis Information
*August 6th at 630PM is the Fall sports meeting. Please attend so I can meet parents and potential players. I will handout information including expectations, team philosophy, practice information, team policies, recruit parent help, challenge match rules, and field any questions.
Tryouts will take place 8/12, 8/13, 8/14, 8/15 from 4PM-6PM. I know a few have asked for morning but my work schedule doesn't allow it.
I will evaluate live hitting and serving. I may assign matches and will hold some round robins to create ladder and possible cuts.
For Varsity I will likely have 14 players and JV 10 players.
If you played last year please let me know what number you were on the team. For any new players please let me know your experience and if you play tournaments (level), ranking, or UTR.
Please Help Us Welcome- Pete Ceresa- Head Boy's Cross Country Coach!
Cross Country has a full Summer!
Football News!
Saturday, August 10th 8-11am' Crimson and Gold Scrimmage! Come watch our Northgate Football Players play each other and join us for our Northgate Footnall breakfast between 8-10am with breakfast drinks, breakfast burritos and more! Northgate Football apparel will be on site for purchase. Parents, friends and neighbors are all welcome to help kick off our 2019 football season!
Saturday, August 17th from 5-9pm. Northgate Football will be hosting a multi School scrimmage against American, Deer Valley, and San Lorenzo High School. Come out and help support our Bronco football players to help get them get ready for their upcoming 2019 football season out on our football field at Northgate High School! Are concessions will be open and our apparel sales will be in full force! Don't miss out on the fun to hang out and watch our players having some fun under the lights on our very own Bronco Football field!
See our Bronco Football game schedule for our full upcoming game schedule for more information!
Water Polo looks forward to a great season!
Northgate Athletics
Email: cooperk@mdusd.org
Website: northgatebroncos.org
Location: 425 Castle Rock Road, Walnut Creek, CA, USA
Phone: 925 938-0900
Twitter: @nhsbroncos