What a great 2016 Spring Season.  9 of 11 Varsity teams advance into CCS this season!  Please congratulate the following student-athletes:

Badminton:
Varsity: 3rd Place in El Camino Division
JV: 5th Place in El Camino Division

Shangyu Hsu and Primo Mu advanced to League Finals in Singles.
Kenneth Huang and Matthew Wu competed as Doubles in League Finals.

Gokul Kalyamasundaram advanced to CCS and took 1st Place as a Singles players! He also went to the Inaugural Nor-Cal Regional Championships and took 2nd Place!!

Baseball:
Varsity: 8th Place in De Anza Division (7th Place after League Playoffs)
F/S: 6th Place in De Anza Division

Diving:
(B) Varsity: 4th Place in De Anza Division
      F/S: 1st Place in De Anza Division
(G) Varsity: 5th Place in De Anza Division
      JV: 4th Place in De Anza Division

The Mustangs sent 6 qualifiers to this year’s 2016 CCS Diving Championship.

The boys division had 33 competitors with the Mustangs filling out 4 of these slots. Congratulations to the following boys:
Dalton Miner – 9th place
David Truong – 20th place
Bryce Leone – 22nd place
Adrian Nakic- 27th place

The girls division had 38 competitors with the Mustangs filling 2 of these slots.  Congratulations to the following girls:
Anna Dupin – 28th place
Julia Clark – 37th place

Golf:
(B) Varsity (only): 3rd Place in the De Anza Division

Gymnastics:
(G) Varsity (only): 5th Place in the De Anza Division (out of 8 teams this year!)
Here are the top 2 places for our girls (this is out of 61 gymnasts who competed at CCS):
Emily Hasser – 9th  on beam, 13th  on bars, 18th All-Around
Amelia Farinas – 16th on vault, 19th  on bars, 25th All-Around
Dorene Friedman – 33rd on bars, 36th All-Around

Unfortunately, our 4th Gymnast, Ananya Verma was sick, so Homestead did not have a qualifying team score at CCS.

Softball:  (STILL IN PROGRESS!)
Varsity: 1st Place in De Anza Division
JV: 2nd Place in De Anza Division

Varsity won Quarter-Finals last Saturday and advance to Semi-Finals on Tuesday, May 24th, at PAL Stadium at 7pm.

Swimming:
(B) Varsity: 4th Place in De Anza Division
      F/S: 1st Place in De Anza Division
(G) Varsity: 5th Place in De Anza Division
      JV: 4th Place in De Anza Division

Youfu Yan and Caitlyn Koo both competed in the State Swim Meet held in Fresno last Friday and Saturday.  Youfu placed 14th in the 100 Backstroke with 51.43 seconds and became the first HHS swimmer to score points at the State Meet!  Caitlyn came in 19th out of the top 40 Freestyle swimmers in the state.  This was Caitlyn’s 2nd consecutive appearance at States.

Tennis:
(B) Varsity: 3rd Place in De Anza Division
      F/S: Tied for 6th Place in De Anza Division
The team, represented by Lucas Bandarkar, Austin Bi, Andy Hou, Aditya Kishen, Amit Kohli, Cyrus Miremadi and Andrew Wong, competed in 1st Rounds of CCS.  Those advancing to 2nd Rounds were David Zhou, Aravind Putnam and Ankit Maura.  Aditya Kishen was the only tennis player to qualify for CCS in Singles and did so as the #3 Seed.  He advanced to the Quarter-Finals before being eliminated!

Track:  (STILL IN PROGRESS!)
(B) Varsity: 7th Place in De Anza Division
      F/S: 4th Place in De Anza Division
(G) Varsity: 4th Place in De Anza Division
     JV: 5th Place in De Anza Division

Lindsay Allen, Elena Kamas and Miranda Zinola advance to CCS Finals this Friday after qualifying last Saturday at the Semi-Finals.  They will be competing in Gilroy.

Volleyball:
(B) Varsity: 5th Place in De Anza Division
      F/S: 3rd Place in De Anza Division
Advanced to 2nd Rounds in CCS before being eliminated by this year’s # 1 seed, St. Francis.

After their best effort of the year in front on many of their friends, the Homestead Varsity Tennis team closed out their 2016 season in the 2nd round of CCS losing to Menlo Atherton, 2-5.
Great play by Lucas Bandarkar at #2 singles winning 7-5 6-4 over a very tough senior.
Our #1 singles player Adit Kishen still has the CCS individuals for singles next week in Santa Cruz, so wish him luck.

After a very successful regular season going 15-4 overall and 9-3 in league, the Homestead Varsity Boys are seeded 6th for the CCS tournament starting on Friday with a home match at 3pm.  Please come out and support them as they move forward with their winning season.
And showing the leader of the team he is as the #1 singles player and Co-Captain, Junior ​Adit Kishen was seeded 3rd in CCS Singles play which will start May 17th.
Congratulate these men on their hard work.