Prep2Prep 2019 NCS Softball Honors
Foothill's Nicole May is the NCS Player of the Year.

ALL-NORTH COAST SECTION

Player of the Year
NICOLE MAY, FOOTHILL




After a season filled with superlative performances, and an aftermath which has included awards from multiple outlets following a perfect 28-0 season, Foothill junior Nicole May was a grand slam selection for the 2019 Prep2Prep North Coast Section Player of the Year.

She now adds the P2P top softball honor for the past school year to her previously being named both the Prep2Prep Freshman and Sophomore Player of the Year award winner, and this year the Gatorade State Player of the Year, Cal-Hi Sports State Junior of the Year and one of the top three of the six finalists for Cal-Hi Sports Ms. Softball State Player of the Year, and the All Bay Area News Group Player of the Year. The only award left for her to win is the San Francisco Chronicle Metro Player of the Year honor that will be announced this week, and at this point we might as well include it on her resume.

May, who was virtually unhittable from the circle and carried a huge bat herself at the plate, wanted to give her team the credit for her various honors.

“It’s very humbling, but I wouldn’t be receiving this type of recognition if I didn’t have a strong team that is able to make plays behind me and put runs on the board,” May said when told she was receiving the P2P honor.

With a 0.32 ERA against the best level of competition in Northern California this season, May didn’t need many runs, and there were times when she got a lot more than she needed and others when she didn’t but a key hit got it done.

Then, there were times when May did it all, like the North Coast Section Division I title game when she led the Cal-Hi Sports No. 2 and Prep2Prep NCS top-ranked Falcons to a 2-0 victory over a state-ranked Heritage-Brentwood after pitching a one-hitter with 13 strikeouts, and she hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the third inning to account for the game’s only runs.

May didn’t pitch every game in the Falcons 28-0 season but she was 24-0 with the miniscule ERA, and had 246 strikeouts in 151 innings pitched.

At the plate May (.463 average) was second on the team in batting average to fellow junior and battery mate Courtney Beaudin, and she had five home runs, 27 RBI and a .744 slugging percentage.

“Nicole is a coach’s dream,” Foothill Coach Matt Sweeney remarked. “Always on top, always having to live up to the expectations that she has to deal with, and still rising to those challenges.”

May seemed to be at her best against the toughest competition.

“The thing about Nicole is in every big game she gets bigger,” said Sweeney after the NCS D1 title game win over Heritage.

May gave an indication of things to come at the Livermore Stampede where she led Foothill to it’s first-ever Stampede title in five tries at winning the most prestigious softball tournament in Northern California.

Sweeney, who in the past eschewed pitching May in back-to-back games at the Stampede, and even rested her in the 2018 title game loss to Freedom-Oakley because she had a date with Amador Valley three days later, relented and let her loose.

After May dispatched a stubborn host Livermore, 3-0 in the 6:15 semifinal, and no one was warming up for the 8:15 championship game, Sweeney’s wife Trish turned to the media in the press box and said “I think he’s going to pitch her.”

In the championship game 1-0 victory over perennial CIF Sac-Joaquin Section power Sheldon-Sacramento, a leadoff bunt in the top of the first was one of the three hits May gave up, and she did hit a batter, but she struck out 13 including the final two batters on eight pitches with only one not a strike.

May also had two hits and a walk in three at-bats but the game’s only run came in the third inning on an RBI single by junior Boise State-commit Hailey Hayes that drove in Pittsburg-committed senior Hope Alley who singled and stole second base.

Just another example of how tough May was even when she didn’t get a lot of run support, but the great ones seem to dig down deep, and for a team to go undefeated there are going to be some tight squeezes in the mix.

Even after a perfect season May sees room for improvement in hers and the team’s game if they are to have another season like the last.

“There are always areas to be worked on,” said May from a tournament at Cal State Fullerton where she is playing for the OC Batbusters (Stith) out of Orange County. “So as a team we have to keep the same strong mindset and can’t just expect to win. We have to leave it all on the field.”

“For me personally is to get stronger and faster and work out the kinks in both offense and defense,” continued May.”

Sweeney certainly has seen that desire to get better.

“She comes to practice every day trying to improve and stays after practice to work on different parts of her game,” Sweeney said. “She goes to weight training after or before practice a couple of time a week year round besides her pitching lessons.”

May always seems cool as a cucumber so it’s hard to tell from the outside if she’s a team leader.

“She actually has become more vocal and the one leading the cheers in the dugout,” was Sweeney’s response to questions about her leadership.

And what are her goals and team goals for next year?

“The team’s goal is to always be playing in that last game, winning it, and hanging a banner,” responded Nicole, who has a 3.7 GPA and tells P2P Psychology is her favorite subject. “Coach Sweeny does a really good job of reinforcing this goal in our heads which motivates the team to do better. I really don’t have any specific goals for next season yet except a goal to get stronger and faster.”

Getting stronger and faster will be a sight to see since as a junior May is the strongest and fastest player we’ve seen in Northern California since the great Keilani Ricketts of Archbishop Mitty and Oklahoma fame, and some analysts think Ricketts may be the greatest softball player of all time.

May becomes the second-straight girl from Pleasanton to win the NCS Player of the Year after 2019 national college freshman of the year Danielle Williams (now at Northwestern) won it last year after leading Amador Valley to the NCS D1 title in similar fashion to what May did against Heritage this year.

For her efforts throughout this season, we are pleased to recognize Nicole May as the Prep2Prep North Coast Section Player of the Year.

Other players considered include Marin Catholic's Julia Scardina, Heritage's Xiara Diaz and Bishop O'Dowd's Elizabeth Avery.


Coach of the Year
MATT SWEENEY, FOOTHILL





Foothill-Pleasanton Coach Matt Sweeney is not one to look for personal accolades.

What the old-school style coach and educator, and one the greatest two-sport coaches in not only NCS but state history, is really all about is his school, his team and players, and hanging championship banners, but mostly about his players.

Although he may not be looking for personal achievements, but after the kind of season his Falcons had the venerable Sweeney was almost a no brainer to be named the Prep2Prep North Coast Section Coach of the Year in softball for the second time after winning the 2016 honor to go with being named the 2015 NCS Coach of the Year for football.

Sweeney can now add the Prep2Prep softball honor to his being named the 2019 Cal-Hi Sports State Coach of the Year and the 2019 All Bay Area News Group Coach of the Year.

“Thank you for this honor, and yes I’m, proud of this and the other coach of the year awards,” Sweeney remarked when told he was snagging the P2P top coaching award for softball. “But I don’t look at it as accolades for Matt Sweeney. I’m more proud of how our girls competed every.”

“Knowing they had the bulls eye on their backs every game and they never stopped showing up and battling,” continued Sweeney. “It was as a result of the work of my players. They performed all season.”

Sweeney’s players certainly did perform. This past season Foothill went 28-0, the first time that has ever happened in CIF North Coast Section history, and after a 2-0 victory over Heritage-Brentwood in the Division I championship game, the Falcons captured their sixth NCS championship, the third with Sweeney at the helm, and a second in Division I in the past three seasons.

Along the way Foothill finished No. 4 in the final ExtraInningSoftball.com national rankings, No. 2 in the Cal-Hi Sports final expanded Top 40 rankings, and obviously was the top-ranked team in the Prep2Prep North Coast Section Final Rankings.

The team was led by Oklahoma-committed incoming senior pitcher and slugger Nicole May, the Gatorade State Player of the Year, Cal-Hi Sports Junior of the Year and the All Bay Area News Group Player of the Year, with help from incoming senior battery mate and slugging catcher Courtney Beaudin, Pittsburg-bound Hope Alley and junior Boise State-commit Hailey Hayes, plus others.

“Coach Sweeney is so deserving of this award, and I’m so happy he got it,” May said. “Our team is beyond lucky to have him as our coach because he has high expectations for us and knows how to motivate us.”

“He also puts so much time and energy into us and the season, and I’m beyond grateful for that,” continued May. “A lot of the success and the school’s history of success in softball is because of him and the way he develops a strong-minded culture in his teams.”

Sweeney has now been honored in football and twice in softball by Prep2Prep, but on a statewide level he is nearing a very significant career coaching win milestone.

When Sweeney retired from coaching football at the end of the 2015 season he had amassed 265 wins for No. 3 all-time in NCS history. His teams won back-to-back NCS titles twice, in 1993-1994 and again in 1999-2000. His Falcons teams have never been able to beat De La Salle, but in 2015 his boys won an amazing 55-54 NCS Division I semifinal match-up with Antioch and current Alabama running back Najee Harris to get to 12-0, but they fell to De La Salle in the championship game.

Cal-Hi Sports, the keeper of statewide records, doesn’t track combined coaching wins for just two sports, but for all sports, and while several coaches are over 1,000 combined wins, Sweeney is near a very magic number for combined wins in football and softball, particularly with football having less than half the games of other sports, and particularly with what he recently went through personally that we’ll touch on a little later.

When Foothill won the NCS Division I softball title this season it was career coaching win No. 230 for Sweeney in softball. That means when the Falcons win game No. 5 next season the wily veteran will have 500 combined wins for softball and football.

He already would be at 500 combined wins, but when his daughter Kelly graduated and went off to Boise State, Sweeney took a hiatus from coaching softball starting with the 2011 season and with no expectations about coming back.

Move forward to the winter of 2012. In the two seasons after he stopped coaching the team went 10-38 and lost the coach that replaced Sweeney.

That’s when AD Dusty Collins, himself an award winning girls volleyball coach this season, reached out to Sweeney.

“It was November of 2012 and they didn’t have a coach, and it was getting close to the season,” Sweeney remarked. “That’s when Dusty asked me to come back.”

“Originally my plan was to transition the team to a coach for the long haul, but we went 5-19 in 2013 and we were bad, and didn’t know how to win and compete,” continued Sweeney. “I didn’t want to go out that way.”

There were five freshmen on that team including Jenna Crawford, the little sister of San Francisco Giants star Brandon Crawford, and current Missouri pitcher Nalani Scates. Sweeney decided to stick around and with the help of those two and the other freshmen things turned around.

“We went 16-6 in 2014, 18-8 in 2015 and in 2016 we were 21-4 and lost 1-0 (in eight innings) to Freedom in the NCS D1 title game,” Sweeney said. “Those girls put Foothill back on the map and then the next year Nicole (May) came in.”

Since May has been the Falcons centerpiece the team has gone 78-8 in the past three seasons.

Receiving all the accolades this season has been good news, but the news Sweeney got three and a half years ago was anything but good.

Shortly after Sweeney stopped coaching football in 2015 he was diagnosed in February of 2016 with throat cancer just as the softball team began practicing in earnest.

Had Sweeney walked away from coaching at that point no one would have questioned him.

“I asked the doctor if I would be able to coach and he chuckled and said I’d be out of work three to six weeks,” Sweeney said. “So, I had surgery the first week of March and missed a week of school. Then I set up my treatments during non-school hours every day for seven weeks and was able to get to softball practice.”

“Some people made the assumption I was going to stop coaching,” Sweeney continued. “But that’s not me. I never thought about walking away. Cancer was not going to stop me from coaching.”

Not only that, but despite difficulty swallowing and eating that caused a weight loss, he had to see the 2013 team he started back with through their senior season.

“Coaching those girls is what kept me going and gave me my motivation,” said Sweeney fighting back tears. “I get choked up thinking about that year. Those girls were what kept me coming to work each day. They kept me motivated. When the doctor told me I would do better if I kept up my day to day activities. I took that and ran with it.”

Coaching has been in the 59-year old Pleasanton native’s blood ever since he was a boy growing up.

“I’ve known from the time I was a little kid I wanted to be a coach,” remarked Sweeney. “In every sport I played I always had a plan. Coaching football is about developing a plan, studying the other team and breaking down film, and it seemed to come easy to me.”

Sweeney graduated from Amador Valley in 1978 where he was a defensive back in football and a third and second baseman in baseball. From there he went to St. Mary’s College where not only did he play defensive back in football and scrum halfback in rugby, but met his wife of 34-years Trish, a former basketball and softball player.

With his long history and the number of outstanding Falcons teams Sweeney has had in football and softball, the inevitable question comes up.

How does this 2019 softball team compare to some of the other teams he’s coached at Foothill where he’s taught for 36-years and currently teaches US History and Global Studies?

At the top of the list is the 2015 Falcons football team that featured current Fresno State quarterback Ben Wooldridge. That team is followed by three other football teams from 1994, 2000 and 2006.

Next are the 2007 softball team he coached in his second year at the Foothill helm and the 2019 team, but Sweeney balked a bit at choosing between the two teams.

“That 2007 team was stacked, just like this year’s team,” Sweeney said.

At the center of the 2007 team was the great Valerie Arioto. She was one of the best-ever players from the NCS who became a big star at Cal and is now coaching at the University of Southern Florida. Arioto is still a member of the USA Softball National Team and considered one of the best players in the country.

Along with Arioto the 2007 team had five other players that went on to the next level. Infielder Amy Crawford, another younger sister of Brandon Crawford played at UCLA, Sweeney’s daughter Kelly, infielder Lauren Gandy played at Biola, outfielder Alissa Murphy went on to San Jose State, and infielder Kelly Wolfe played at Chico State.

Besides May and Beaudin, who recently was offered by UCLA, the 2019 team had Alley, Hayes and Morgan State-committed infielder Ellen Ebbers.

Comparing the two superstars, in this era of high school softball in California May might or might not be as dominant as Arioto was as a high-schooler, as May did not face the kind of competition this year the 2007 team faced. In 2007 the 26-3 Falcons lost twice to Archbishop Mitty and Keilani Ricketts, who many consider to be one of the greatest pitchers and sluggers ever in girls softball.

“If the 2007 and 2019 teams played each other it could be a 15-inning duel between Val and Nicole,” Sweeney said. “A little spinning ball cued off the bat for an infield hit probably would be the difference.”

Sweeney has been coaching in some way, shape or form in football and softball, and even JV baseball, since 1986, so at some point he has to be looking at retirement. He’s eligible for retirement in January when he turns 60, and like before when he stepped aside from softball but came back, the wheels are turning again.

“I’ve always told myself if I’m not teaching at Foothill I won’t coach,” responded Sweeney when asked about his retirement plans. “I have to go to 60 but I haven’t decided after that. If I’m teaching at Foothill I’ll coach.”

With May and her Falcons flock returning for the 2020 season, the bulls eye will be on the Falcons backs once again based on this season’s accomplishments, but for Sweeney, who will see his second class through graduation since coming off his 2-year hiatus, he’s already done more than just about every high school coach could ever dream of accomplishing.

Congratulations to Matt Sweeney the 2019 Prep2Prep North Coast Section Coach of the Year for softball.

David Albini of Marin Catholic and Mike Cobb of Bishop O’Dowd were also considered for this award



FIRST TEAM ALL-NCS

Nicole May, Foothill
Position: Pitcher
Year: Junior

There is seemingly nothing that the Oklahoma commit and EBAL MVP cannot do on a softball diamond. May struck out 246 batters in 151 innings pitched this season, posting a 0.32 ERA in the process. Meanwhile, she also hit .463 with five home runs and 27 RBIs.


Elizabeth Avery, Bishop O’Dowd
Position: Pitcher
Year: Senior

The Boston University commit did it all for the Dragons, going 19-4 with a 0.77 ERA in the circle, striking out 297 batters in 154 innings pitched. She also hit .525 with eight home runs and 14 doubles. Her performance on the mound against Castro Valley in early May was arguably the top performance of the year, a 10-inning one-hitter with 22 strikeouts during a 1-0 victory.


Delia Scott, Heritage
Position: Pitcher
Year: Senior

Scott took the Patriots back to their first section title game in 12 years, going 23-3 with a 0.52 ERA in the circle, throwing three no-hitters in the process, including one in the NCS quarterfinals against Carondelet.


Courtney Beaudin, Foothill
Position: Catcher
Year: Junior

The rock behind the plate for the Falcons, one with growing interest from the Pac-12 including an offer from UCLA, drew 18 walks but still managed to hit .493 with seven home runs and 28 RBIs. She also committed just one error all season.


Hope Alley, Foothill
Position: Infielder
Year: Senior

The Pittsburgh commit displayed some pop for the Falcons this season, and also anchored the infield from her shortstop position. She hit .415 with four home runs and seven doubles, while adding 15 stolen bases from her leadoff spot in the lineup.


Xiara Diaz, Heritage
Position: Infielder
Year: Senior

The Cal Poly commit and BVAL MVP hit .587 with 11 home runs, six doubles and 39 RBIs for the Division I runner-up Patriots. Batting leadoff, she added 36 stolen bases and scored a whopping 51 runs.


Nicole Hammoude, Bishop O’Dowd
Position: Infielder
Year: Senior

The Cal commit hit .403 with eight home runs and 35 RBIs for the Division II champion Dragons, driving in runs during each of the last eight games.


Julia Scardina, Marin Catholic
Position: Infielder
Year: Senior

The Utah commit and MCAL Player of the Year hit a ridiculous .671 with 13 home runs, 10 doubles and 55 RBIs for the Division III champion Wildcats. That included long balls in both the NCS semifinal and championship games.


Viviana Gamez, Newark Memorial
Position: Outfielder
Year: Senior

Gamez was named MVP of the MVAL for the second straight year, and she had the performances to back it up. She hit .471 with eight home runs, seven doubles and 27 RBIs for the Cougars, who advanced to the Division II semifinals. Gamez also had 17 stolen bases and scored 32 runs.


Morgan Hess, Heritage
Position: Outfielder
Year: Senior

The Idaho State commit and first-team All-BVAL selection hit .495 with 12 doubles, 32 RBIs and had 23 stolen bases, while also patrolling center field for the Patriots.


Sydney Frankenberger, California
Position: Outfielder
Year: Senior

The Cal Poly commit and first-team All-EBAL centerfielder hit .518 for the Grizzlies. The lefty also led the team with 17 stolen bases, but could generate power when needed, with no better illustration than her game-winning grand slam in a big victory over Amador Valley.


Tehya Bird, Cloverdale
Position: Utility
Year: Junior

The Oregon commit and multi-sport standout led the Eagles to wins in their first 23 games and continues to dominate the sporting scene in the NCL. Bird hit .754 with 13 home runs, 15 doubles and 48 RBIs, while also drawing 38 walks for a .850 on-base percentage and an unbelievable 2.522 OPS. She also went 23-1 with a 0.88 ERA in the circle, striking out 215 batters in 144 innings pitched.


Madison Papenhausen, San Marin
Position: Utility
Year: Junior

Had Papenhausen’s season not been cut short by injury, the Mustangs would have been among the favorites for the Division II title. Before her season ended prematurely, the Utah commit went 12-4 with a 1.97 ERA in the circle, striking out 170 batters in 106 innings pitched. She was even better at the plate, hitting .554 with 11 home runs, eight doubles and 35 RBIs.


Caity Newburn, Napa
Position: Designated Hitter
Year: Freshman

The UCLA commit hit .649 with 11 home runs, nine doubles and 33 RBIs in her inaugural high school campaign, despite being walked 25 times. She finished the year with a .759 on-base percentage and a whopping 2.145 OPS.



SECOND TEAM ALL-NCS

Courtney Rose, Castro Valley
Position: Pitcher
Year: Senior

The Player of the Year in the WACC-Foothill, Rose struck out 217 batters in 152 innings pitched, and held opponents to a .098 batting average. Four of her losses in the circle came by one run, and her overall record of 16-9 included defeats to Foothill, Heritage, Bishop O’Dowd and Sheldon.


Annabel Teperson, Marin Catholic
Position: Pitcher
Year: Sophomore

The sophomore was the workhorse in the circle for the Wildcats, going 20-1 with 1.06 ERA, and striking out 178 batters in 132 innings pitched. Twice during the year she struck out 15 batters in a game, including during a one-hit effort against St. Patrick-St. Vincent. She also hit .430 with four home runs.


Kaylee Drake, Rancho Cotate
Position: Pitcher
Year: Junior

Drake was 19-2 with a 1.38 ERA for the Cougars, who captured the NBL-Oak title and reached the Division II quarterfinals before falling to eventual champion Bishop O’Dowd. She had 151 strikeouts and held opponents to a .184 batting average.


Katherine Montuya, American Canyon
Position: Catcher
Year: Junior

Montuya hit .529 with eight home runs, seven doubles and 24 RBIs for the Wolves, including a home run in the section playoffs to force extra innings against Antioch. She also did not allow a stolen base in the last month of the season.


Kaylee Pond, Acalanes
Position: Infield
Year: Junior

The Iowa State commit and DAL-Valley Player of the Year led the Dons to a perfect mark in league play, hitting .680 with seven home runs, 32 RBIs and 47 runs scored. She walked 23 times for a .787 on-base percentage and had 25 stolen bases. Pond was also the Player of the Year in the DAL-Valley for girls basketball.


Ellen Ebbers, Foothill
Position: Infielder
Year: Senior

The Morgan State commit can play either corner position and has plenty of pop at the plate, hitting .430 with four home runs, 10 doubles and a team-high 29 RBIs. That included a three-run shot in the Division I semifinal victory.


Katie Hicks, Northgate
Position: Infielder
Year: Junior

The Dartmouth commit was named DAL-Foothill Player of the Year after hitting .508 with eight home runs, 11 doubles and 37 RBIs for the Broncos.


Deijah Pangilinan, St. Patrick-St. Vincent
Position: Infielder
Year: Senior

The Oregon commit hit .634 with 10 home runs, 11 doubles, 40 RBIs and 49 runs scored for the Bruins, also racking up 38 stolen bases. She had one stretch during the season of seven straight games with two or more stolen bases.


Grace Guzman, Napa
Position: Outfielder
Year: Junior

The Michigan commit hit .471 for the Grizzlies with seven doubles, racking up 33 hits to go with 14 stolen bases and committed just one error all season.


Valeria Torres-Colon, Amador Valley
Position: Outfielder
Year: Junior

The University of Pacific commit and first-team All-EBAL selection hit .426 to go with 11 stolen bases and a team-high 20 runs scored for the Dons, who reached the Division I semifinals. She also did not commit an error in the field.


Taylor Brandt, Vintage
Position: Outfielder
Year: Senior

Brandt, who will play next year at Eastern Nazarene College, hit .552 with 10 doubles, 22 RBIs and 24 runs scored for the Crushers, while also playing error-free in the field. She also ended the year on a six-game hitting streak.


Gabriella Williams, Carondelet
Position: Utility
Year: Junior

Williams had 13 wins in the circle for a young Cougars’ team, striking out 178 batters in the process. She also hit .400 with four home runs and eight doubles.


Alexis Bishop, San Marin
Position: Designated Hitter
Year: Junior

The Cal commit and standout backstop for the Mustangs hit .530 with eight home runs, seven doubles and 35 RBIs in her junior campaign, including a three-run blast during San Marin’s final game of the year in the section quarterfinals.


Jesse Juinio, Carondelet
Position: Designated Hitter
Year: Sophomore

Juinio hit .493 this season for the Cougars, slugging 11 home runs to go with eight doubles and 27 RBIs. The power hitter and Saint Mary’s College commit also drew 11 walks for a .570 on-base percentage, and was difficult to run on behind the plate.



THIRD TEAM ALL-NCS

PITCHERS

Kate Gillum (Benicia), Bailee Reed (Antioch), Mary Locher (Las Lomas), Lainey Hanehan (California)


CATCHERS

Julia Barnett (Heritage), Isabela Emerling (Alhambra), Gabi Perez (Moreau Catholic), Olivia Alves (McKinleyville)


INFIELDERS

Morgan Salmon (Acalanes), Madisyn Leffle (Pittsburg), Jordan Woolery (Clayton Valley), Hailey Hayes (Foothill), Morgan Crosby (College Park), Haley Painter (Antioch), Tatum Hayes (Granada), Haylee Giarritta (Napa), Allyson Kim (Amador Valley), Milan Machado-Buckley (Berkeley)


OUTFIELDERS

Olivia Silvestre (California), Karyn Jensen (Eureka), Alex Schwenger (Carondelet), Gianna Lyng (Foothill), Tatum Maytorena (Rancho Cotate), Erin Schnabel (Cardinal Newman)


UTILITY

Caroline Evans (St. Joseph Notre Dame), Ally Hersh (Kennedy-Richmond), Katelyn Poole (Campolindo), Elizabeth Phillips (Mt. Eden), Reyna Heredia (Saint Mary’s), Amber Holland (Salesian)


DESIGNATED HITTER

Sarah Giles (San Lorenzo), Tianna Bell (Heritage), Haley Titone (Cardinal Newman), Sully Henry (St. Vincent de Paul)




HONORABLE MENTION:

ACALANES: Riley Nicosia, Bailee Takano
ALAMEDA: Taylor Andolsek
ALBANY: Sidney Plummer, Giahna Owens
ALHAMBRA: Sarah Shepherd, Bryanna Waters
AMADOR VALLEY: Sophie Youngberg, Mia Hildebrand
AMERICAN: Hannah Hillman, Sarah Provancha
AMERICAN CANYON: Lisa Bolton
ANALY: Chloe Hadrich, Makayla Kraemer
ANTIOCH: Alissa West, Jazmin Alanis
ARCATA: Maria Morehouse, Makayla Bernald
ARROYO: Taylor Hanchkamp
BAY SCHOOL: Dorri Amundsen
BENICIA: Alicia Campbell, Bailey Sample
BEREAN CHRISTIAN: Kylie Chen
BERKELEY: Mackenzie Andrew, Madeline Kaneko
BETHEL: Teralyn Wimberly, Alexis Gomez
BISHOP O'DOWD: Jayla Dailey
CALIFORNIA: Amanda Robman, Alexis Burt
CALIFORNIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: Jasmine Jimenez-Lara
CAMPOLINDO: Abbie Lee, Kelly Gagnon
CARDINAL NEWMAN: Keegan Smith, Caroline Courier
CARONDELET: Ella Romero
CASA GRANDE: Presley Ruoff, Katie Humphreys
CASTRO VALLEY: Haley Klemmer, Caroline Allman
CLAYTON VALLEY: Jordyn Williams
CLEAR LAKE: Joe Ingalls, Maddie Ferguson
CLOVERDALE: Lane Hughes
COLLEGE PARK: Sofia Berryhill, Hana Elawady
CONCORD: Marina Delaluna
CREDO: Maya Weigel-Murphy, Julia Anderson
DEER VALLEY: Kayla Smith
DOUGHERTY VALLEY: Rylie Barber
DRAKE: Alyssa Freed
DUBLIN: Brooke Promes, Liberty Schlag
EL CERRITO: Alyssa Chin
EL MOLINA: Ericka Olson, Katelynn Tourady
ENCINAL: Kaitlyn Ogata, Madeline Leung
EUREKA: Makaila Napoleon, Alexa Morehouse
FERNDALE: Makenzie Renner
FOOTHILL: Alejandra McElroy, Caelin Cavanaugh
FORT BRAGG: Caitlin Nell, Ashlynn Villapando
FREEDOM: Sydney Carmignani
GRANADA: Marissa Herrera
HAYWARD: Kaya Suani
HEAD-ROYCE: Samantha Patterson-Kohout
HEALDSBURG: Aleah Molina
HERITAGE: Juju Sargent
IRVINGTON: Vanessa Perez
JAMES LOGAN: Tyavana Salazar
JUSTIN-SIENA: Clare Garcia, Victoria Politz
KELSEYVILLE: Paige Bour
KENNEDY-FREMONT: Marina Rodriguez
KENNEDY-RICHMOND: Ariadna Castro
LAS LOMAS: Maddie Murphy, Claire Sellick
LAYTONVILLE: Melissa Adkisson
LIBERTY: Kylie Alfano
LICK-WILMERDING: Annabelle Hendricksen
LIVERMORE: Kylie Roberts, Melanie Laronde
LOWER LAKE: Shelby Sapeta, Xelin Fred-Mota
MAKING WAVES: Stacey Bravo
MARIA CARILLO: Makena Goldbeck, Julia Rivera
MARIN CATHOLIC: Emily Press, Kiera DeLacy
MCKINLEYVILLE: McKenzie Gonsalves, Jada Bailey
MIRAMONTE: Ashley Miller
MONTE VISTA: Ashley Frantz
MONTGOMERY: Olivia Gabriel, Lily Castro
MOREAU CATHOLIC: Reesah Baker, Janessa Khamseh
MT. DIABLO: My’Ari Randall
MT. EDEN: Arianna Fernandez, Christiana Guamataotao
NAPA: Lindsey Lehman, Kimmie Walston
NEWARK MEMORIAL: Jojo Campusano, Lainey Malimban
NORTHGATE: Haley Randall, Olivia Lee
NOVATO: Ainsley Ingles
PESCADERO: Monse Marin
PETALUMA: Indya Smith, Rachael Bles
PIEDMONT: Kyra Gardner
PINER: Courtney Peterson
PITTSBURG: Ally Gordon
RANCHO COTATE: Tiare Guerrero, Kenadi Akin
REDWOOD: Morganti Bello, Kamaleiani Kaleikini
REDWOOD CHRISTIAN: Alisha McCullen
SAINT MARY'S: Caili Anderson, Alyssa Kambulu-Docherty
SALESIAN: Avyanah Washington
SAN LEANDRO: Aritza Brown
SAN LORENZO: Liliana Rodriguez
SAN MARIN: Amanda Simonetti, Lucy Morgan
SAN RAFAEL: Ryan O’Hagan
SAN RAMON VALLEY: Lauren Bible
SANTA ROSA: Hannah Hosier, Valerie Bertoli
SONOMA VALLEY: Kennedy Midgley, Ally Alcayaga
SOUTH FORK Jasmine Todd
ST. HELENA: Carter Dahline
ST. JOSEPH NOTRE-DAME: Caroline Bridges
ST. PATRICK-ST. VINCENT: Kaleena Yra, Jaeleen Pangilinan
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL: Sophia Skubic, Alessandra Ditizio
SWETT: Kourtney Patrick
TAMALPAIS: Sofia Piombo
TENNYSON: Luz Santiago
TERRA LINDA: Sydney Costan, Vivian Johnson
UKIAH: Kelly-Ann McKeown
UNIVERSITY: Ali Fishman, Nicole Cuthbert
URBAN: Sam Wong
VALLEY CHRISTIAN: Kathy An
VINTAGE: Morgan Groves, Sierra Crocker
WASHINGTON: Ashley Tosh
WINDSOR: Kayla Scott
YGNACIO VALLEY: Angela Garcia