[Ma-pta-enotes] eNotes 5-19-08

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*Upcoming Events*

Tuesday, May 20, 7-9:30PM, M-A Spring Concert and Senior Awards,
Carrington Hall at Sequoia High School
Wednesday, May 21, 6:45PM in Ayers Gymnasium
Saturday, May 31, Pre-participation Athletic Physicals, 8:30AM to
11:30AM, BAK Physical Therapy

*Announcements*

YEARBOOKS ARE COMING, MAY 21ST LAST DAY TO ORDER ON-LINE
The YEARBOOKS are coming! The YEARBOOKS are coming! Wednesday, May 21 is
the last day to buy your yearbooks online for $75 at jostens.com.  Check
the list in Pride Hall to see if you've purchased your yearbook. Reserve
your copy today before they sell out!

M-A REPORT FINAL SHOWING THIS WEEK ON CHANNEL 28
Last week students shared their Homage project, in which they had to
imitate a scene from a movie, shot per shot, angle per angle.  The
producer has been really impressed with the quality of work coming out
of this year's Video Production students!!!  Catch them on Channel 28,
Monday and Friday, at 8:00PM or on the Shared Drive under Menlo-Atherton
Weekly Report.  Thanks for watching!!!

M-A SPRING CONCERT AND SENIOR AWARDS
M-A's Spring Concert and Senior Awards will be held May 20th from
7-9:30PM, at Carrington Hall on the Sequoia High School Campus located
at 1201 Brewster Avenue in Redwood City.  More information is available
on the band website http://www.mabandboosters.org/index.html.  Come
support the band and bid our seniors adieu.

*Senior News*

SENIOR WEEK TICKETS ARE HERE: Senior Week tickets go on sale outside
B-21 at lunch for the low, low price of $10!  They will be on sale
through May 30!
FREE TO ALL SENIORS!  Join your friends for breakfast on Wednesday, June
4th, 8:30 - 10AM in the courtyard outside the New Gym!  Hot chocolate,
coffee, and goodies before Graduation Rehearsal!  Bring your yearbooks
and come relax!  Class of 2008 - everyone is welcome!!

*Guidance and Career Center*

>From the Guidance Office: Students, Canada College is offering a program
this summer called Canada Connection Summer Program. This free program
is taught by college professors and you can earn college and high school
credits. The summer program is being held at Woodside High School and
offers classes in Speech, Sociology, History, Psychology, and Careers.
For more information, please see your Guidance Counselor or go to the
Canada College website at  www.canadacollege.edu  and click on "Future
Students" then to "High School Students".

*Athletics*

BADMINTON CCS NEWS
We had three teams qualify for the PAL badminton championships this past
weekend (5/17). Men's doubles:  Alex Amato & Daniel Chao, and Women's
doubles:  Sandy Nicolet & Erica Shepard, as well as Ada Chan & Nora
Ng-Quinn.  These players had to participate in a three-day tournament
just to get to Saturday's matches at Woodside.  Think about it!  How
many of our teams had to play in two tournaments just to get a chance to
go to CCS? It was four long hot days of six hours or more.  Our players
did great and Alex and Daniel will be going on to participate at CCS
this coming up week.  The coaches are very happy and proud of their
efforts.  Wish us luck.  Brought to you by Coach P (Podesta).

SWIMMING
The Menlo-Atherton Boys Varsity Swim Team was recognized as the Spring
Scholastic Championship Team on Saturday, May 16, at the CCS
Championships held at Stanford University.  The award is given to the
Varsity team from each CCS sport with the highest collective grade-point
average of all teams competing in that sport during that season of
competition.  The M-A boys varsity swim team, with a collective
unweighted GPA of 3.7, bested over 70
swim teams competing at CCS.  The members of the 2008 swim team are
seniors Matt Bogott, Alp Kutlu, Jason Kwok, and Alex Popp; juniors,
Richard Hong, Simon Hood, Chris Kelvie and Reid Schultz; sophomores Jed
Springer, Scott Swartz and Eric Wright; and freshmen Nick Henze, Kei
Masuda and Jackson Rafter.  Congratulations!

TENNIS
M-A IS THE NO. 2 SEED IN CCS
The PAL doubles champions, M-A's top two players, George Horowitz and
Alec Haley, have been selected as the No. 2 seed in the CCS Individual
Tournament!  They begin play on Tuesday morning at the tournament site
in Aptos.  The first two rounds are on Tuesday with the Semis and Finals
on Thursday.

GIRL'S TRACK TEAM CCS RESULTS
Congratulations to our Girls Track Team!!! Our 4x100 relay advances on
to CCS finals with a time of 49.43!!! This ladies and gentlemen is a
personal record for this relay team. Please congratulate Caprice Powell,
Dominique Greene, Kelli Branning, and K-C Tamme for a spectacular race. 
Dominique Greene will be advancing in the 100 and 200 and Caprice Powell
will be advancing in the 100. Also, great job to Ashby Cogan for
advancing in the triple jump with a distance of 36'2".  Come out and
cheer them this Friday night at Gilroy High School.

CROSS COUNTRY PRE-SEASON MEETING
The cross country meeting is here.  If you are interested in running
cross country next year,  there will be a mandatory sign-up meeting
after school in the visitor's bleachers, Wednesday.  If you can't make
the cross country sign-up meeting, you must meet with Coach Wilmurt if
you plan on running next year.

SPRING SPORTS AWARDS NIGHT
The Menlo-Atherton High School Boosters invite all Spring sports
student-athletes and their parents to the Spring Awards Night, Wednesday
May 21st at 6:45PM in Ayers Gymnasium.  All spring sports will be
honored at that time as well as the ever popular sports highlights slide
show will be shown.  Each team will then meet together to distribute
awards to individual athletes. Don't miss it!

Go Bears.   Grrrr.