Scotts Valley High School Sports Year in Review

Now that summer is officially here, it's the perfect time to reflect back on the 2011-12 Scotts Valley High School sports season. 

A special awards banquet was held in May that recognized SVHS seniors who were named top athletes for 2012.

Here's a look at the school teams, championships, players and individual honors.

Football -Varsity Football advanced to CCS Playoffs. 

• The team was featured on KION Friday Night Bltiz
• Joel Claasen, Robbie McClure, Collin Corbella , Jack Pasquini, Patrick Flebbe, Patrick Marigonda, Noah Beito, and Joe Gillette were named All-League players
• Colin Corbella becomes the second leading rusher in SCCAL history
• Noah Beito and Colin Corbella were named to the All-State team

Freshman Football

•     MVP-Jake Lobo, Coach's award,David Snider
•     Offensive player; Andy Ramirez and Brandon Van Valer
•     Ironman Award, Joseph Espinola; Lineman of the Year Jonathan Valez
•     Defensive Player of the year, Ehtan Powers

Cheerleading, The cheer squad spent hours preparing for games, rallies and the homecoming events.

• The varsity team earned the Superior Award, the highest award possible for one of their routines at cheer competition in Buena Park, Calif.
• Falcon Mascot and Falcon Frenzy Club worked hard to get everyone pumped up during the games

Girls Soccer

• The team won SCCAL Title for the thrid year in a row
• Ranked #1 locally
• Jordin Carlson selected 2011/12 SCCAL Player of the Year
• Emily Johnson named Goalkeeper of the Year 
• Emily Payne, Ranae Maloney, Madison Black, Taylor Rohde and Sonia Gustafsson were named All-League Team

Junior Varsity Girls Soccer

• Matched their varsity colleagues by becoming SCCAL Champions

Cross Country

•  Both the girls and boys teams finished third in SCCAL competition  
•  Girls team placed second at CCS to earn a birth at the state meet for the second year in a row   
•  Vanessa Fraser places first at the CIF State Meet
•  Scott Edwards was All-League for the second year in a row

Boys Soccer

• Second in SCCAL League Play, advanced to playoffs
• Brenny Hillan named SCCAL Goalkeeper of the Year
• All League team were Nathan Keene, Noah Beito, Matt Seligman and Edgar Pedroza

Water Polo

• Girls fielded a varsity water polo team for the first time
  
• Sophomore Hannah Freeman named second team honors

Girls Volleyball

• Maggie Witzig, Allison Twisselman and Emily Payne were league honorable mention

Boys Volleyball

• Team motto, Y.O.L.O  You only live once
• Team coach Trevor Krieg selected as the Boy's Volleyball Coach of The Year in the SCCAL. RIP Trevor, he will certainly be missed by all athletes

Softball,  sophomore, star pitcher Seryna Tapuloa and MVP catcher Jackie Eicholtz along with homerun hitter Sigrid Holtrop, the Falcons had a competitive season.

• Center Fielder,Haley Robinson was named defensive player of the year
• First baseman Danica Houseman was named offensive player of the year
• Most improved, Bailey Affolter
• Falcon Award, short stop, Emily Payne
• Honorable mention: Second base, Michelle Ponos 

Wrestling Girls

• Girls Team finished fourth out of 47 teams at the CCS Championship 
• Shelby Baker, Domino Parrish and Alicia Pitts qualified for CIF State Meet
• Kendra Kannegaard was awarded the Ed Farrell Most Inspirational Award

Wrestling Boys 

• The team finished Second in Leaque competition for second year in a row
• Kevin Edington, Jake Revino, Grant Margerum, Doug Peyser, Andy Ramirez and  Baldan Dashiev all qualified for CCS Competition

Surfing

• First place in body board, second in women’s long board and fifth place overall
• Nathan Keane Men’s Long Board – sixth place
•  Henry Blake Co-ed Body Board first place
•  Katy Collins Women’s Short Board, fifth place and second place women’s long board

Non-Sanctioned Scotts Valley Cycling Team http://scmcycling.com/

• Eleven high school boys competeted in the first Nor Cal High School Cycling League
• Team placed 20th out of 40 teams in division 2 State Championships
• JV Boys Division 2 showed Nicky DiNapoli placing 19th out of 41 Riders
• Freshman Boys Division 2 places Joe Van Pykeren 8th, Mitchell Pisciotta 13th, Ryan Simonovich 21st & Dylan O’Connor 34th out of 58 Riders

Golf

• The Lady Falcons shared the SCCAL title with Santa Cruz having a league record 7-1 
• Team members: Heidi Riedel, Tessa Cados, Natalie Ifland, Jilli Culver, Jilena and Jemina Cheyiam

Boys Golf

• Colton Marshall and Thomas Flebbe earned the right to represent the Falcons in the SCCAL tournament with their combined season scores 

Swim/Dive Team

• Samantha Braverman, Carley Arana and Alex Sierant all were standouts this year
• JV Girls earned third place in league standings with only 11 athletes
• The Falcons sole male swimmer, Ben Shaw, swam to two top-8 finishes for the JV Boys
• Aria Leonard repeated as SCCAL Champion

JV Baseball

• The JV Boys team tore through the League, finishing 9-2-1 overall

Lacrosse

• Scotts Valley High School senior lacrosse player Scott Hunter was recently named an Academic All-American by the Central California Area of US Lacrosse

Track and Field

• 85 Athletes and 7 coaches, the Falcons strongest season in history
• Ricky Seago was the first league champion in the shot put in Falcon history
• Ranae Maloney, Vanessa Fraser, and Alex Benko qualified for the CCS Track and Field Finals