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.

Congratulations to Senior Houfu Yan for placing 14th in the 100 backstroke at the 2016 California State Swimming and Diving Championships.

Houfu once again lowered his own school record to 51.43 seconds in his specialty event and became the first Homestead swimmer to score points at the State Meet.
Congratulations Houfu!

Congratulations to the Homestead Boys Swim and Dive team on a Top 16 finish at the 2016 CCS Championships at Santa Clara International Swim Center on May 13th and 14th, see page 2.  Also congratulations to Senior Houfu Yan for extending this successful season by qualifying for the State Championships this coming Friday and Saturday in Clovis.
Houfu qualified in the 100 backstroke while taking home 8th place overall at the CCS Finals on Saturday lowering his school record in the process.
At CCS Trials on Friday Houfu, Junior Corbin Jee, Sophomore Zach Birrer, and Senior Davis Horeff also set a new school record in the 200 Medley Relay with a time of 1:38.09.  (The previous record of 1:39.94 was set in 2007).  That time qualified them 11th overall for Saturday where the boys again lowered their school record to 1:38.05, won the Consolation Finals heat, and placed 9th overall. The team narrowly missed the State Meet consideration time by less than half a second!
Davis and Houfu then teamed up with Senior Paul Maier and Sophomore David Jung to qualify 16th in the 200 Freestyle Relay, eventually moving up to 15th and, again, narrowly missing the State Meet in a time of 1:29.81
The boys capped off their scoring in the final event of the meet, the 400 Freestyle Relay.  The team of Paul Maier, Corbin Jee, and Sophomores Raymond Lee and Brandon Hong again qualified 16th for the Consolation Finals in a time of 3:20.11.  Once again the boys rose to the challenge on Saturday.  Paul led off the relay with a personal best (and CCS 100 free qualifying time) of 49.79 and Brandon anchored in a sizzling 48.05.  Corbin and Raymond also swam personal best splits while the team shaved just over 2 seconds from their prelim time to move up 3 places and finish 13th overall!!  It was an exciting finish to a great meet for the Homestead Boys.
Special congratulations to Trevor Carpenter and David Jung for posting personal best times and placing in the Top 40 in the 100 backstroke in their first trip to the CCS Championships.  Things are really rolling for Mustang Swimming!
Good luck to Houfu at the State Swimming and Diving Championships.  Go Mustangs!!