Paly Sports Boosters

Ernesto was a positive light for the Paly Community. He touched the lives of so many throughout his career as a campus supervisor and soccer coach. As an expression of appreciation and kindness, members of the Alpine Strikkers league created a GoFundMe account. If you would like to give a monetary gift, please click HERE. As stated on the account, your contributions will pay for funeral costs, his daughter’s college tuition, and his ailing mother’s expenses.


Your generosity and kindness are greatly appreciated. Again, I will be in touch as soon as I receive more information regarding the memorial services. Be well, everyone.


GoFundMe honoring Ernesto Cruz

Brent T. Kline, Principal
Palo Alto High School

Honoring Ernesto Cruz, organized by Sara Filipek Ernesto had many families. There was his immediate family where he was a doting son, loving … Sara Filipek needs your support for Honoring Ernesto Cruz

Congratulations to Paly Boys Varsity Basketball on a great season and their SCVAL League Championship, Paly's 5th in the last 10 seasons. 🏆

Buy your beautiful holiday tree at Paly and support student-athletes!

We have Nordmann, Noble and Douglas Fir delivered fresh from Oregon. All proceeds from tree sales go to support Paly Athletics.



Open today until 6:30pm

Where: The Paly Parking Lot (corner of El Camino & Embarcadero)

http://palysportsboosters.org/holiday-trees-2021

Holiday Trees — Paly Sports Boosters

Join us on this SUNDAY, August 8th at Paly to honor Coach Mac and Coach Wes! 🏉🤼🎉🏆

Paly Signing Day! Class of 2021 🏊⚽️🏀🎾🏉
Livestream on Thursday, May 20th 11:40am

2021 Paly Golf Classic
This year, the Paly Golf Classic will take place at Baylands Golf Links in Palo Alto on Friday, May 21st. Participate in this fun in-person community event. When registering, designate a team and 50% of the net proceeds will go directly to the team. The full details about the tournament are on the Paly Sports Boosters website (http://palysportsboosters.org/2021-paly-golf-classic).

Paly Golf Classic — Paly Sports Boosters 100% of net proceeds from the 2021 Golf Classic will support Paly teams and capital improvement projects of Palo Alto High School Athletics facilities.

Athletics - Season 1 Parent Meeting 🎾⛳️🏊‍♀️🏆
Join us on Zoom Wednesday, February 10 at 8pm for our Season 1 Parent Meeting. Season 1 includes the following sports:

Boys & Girls Cross Country
Girls Golf
Girls Tennis
Boys & Girls Swimming and Diving

Questions? Contact Athletic Director Nelson Gifford, [email protected], or Assistant Athletic Director Fatima Giffen, [email protected].

🎄🎄🎄 PALY SPORTS BOOSTERS HOLIDAY TREE LOT 🎄🎄🎄

Buy your beautiful holiday tree at Paly and support student-athletes! ⚽️🏀🏈⚾️🏉🥍⛳️

Delivered fresh from Oregon and available for pick up at the Paly Tree Lot the weekend after Thanksgiving. All proceeds from tree sales go to support Paly Athletics.

Purchase online at http://palysportsboosters.org/holiday-trees-2020

Schedule a contactless curbside pick-up or chose your tree in the lot

When: November 27-29, December 4-6

Fridays 4-9pm, Sat/Sun 10am-6:30pm

Where: The Paly Parking Lot (corner of El Camino & Embarcadero)🎄🎄🎄

Holiday Trees — Paly Sports Boosters When: November 27-29, December 4-6 Fridays 4-9pm, Sat/Sun 10am-6:30pm Where: The Paly Parking Lot (corner of El Camino & Embarcadero)

Senior Parents ⚽️🏀🏈⚾️⛳️🤽‍♂️
A reminder that senior portraits and baby ads for the yearbook are due Friday, 10/16! And, buy your yearbook now if you did not get a chance in the BTS online packet.

PALY HOLIDAY TREES
PRE-ORDERS DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 9/28/20!

ALL PROCEEDS SUPPORT PALY ATHLETICS

Delivered fresh from Oregon and available the weekend after Thanksgiving. 25% deposit on purchase price due by 9/28/20 and the remaining balance due 11/15/20.

http://palysportsboosters.org/holiday-trees-2020/street-trees-7cdps-yms24-96rpt?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=5f6427b2a164e906048ca8d4&ss_email_id=5f64ec36121d3c7d7cbb436b&ss_campaign_name=Paly+Holiday+Tree+Sales&ss_campaign_sent_date=2020-09-18T17%3A19%3A59Z

6-7 FT Noble Fir (Pre-Order - 25% Deposit) — Paly Sports Boosters Purchase holiday street trees and support Paly Athletics.  Delivered fresh from Oregon and available for pick-up at PALY Tree Lot 11/28-11/30/20. 25% deposit on $95 purchase price due by 9/28/20 and remaining balance of $71.25 due 11/15/20.

PALY HOLIDAY TREE PRE-ORDERS DUE SEPTEMBER 20th 🎄🎄🎄 Pre-order your beautiful holiday tree online and support Paly Athletics

http://palysportsboosters.org/holiday-trees-2020

Delivered fresh from Oregon and available for pick up at the Paly Tree Lot the weekend after Thanksgiving.
25% deposit on purchase price due by 9/20/20 and the remaining balance due 11/15/20. Street Trees Block Packages of 10 or more trees available for delivery. Thank you for supporting our Paly student-athletes!

Holiday Trees — Paly Sports Boosters Delivered fresh from Oregon and available the weekend after Thanksgiving. 25% deposit on purchase price due by 9/20/20 and remaining balance due 11/15/20.

This is the last weekend to take advantage of the 10% back-to-school discount on all Paly gear. Use discount code PALY2020. Online orders can be picked up on Fridays in August from 4-5pm next to the Peery Center. Pick up info for September will be posted later. If you are not able to pick up your order, then you can add a shipping/ delivery fee. All proceeds benefit Paly’s sports programs! 🏀⚾️🏈🥎

http://palysportsboosters.org/paly-gear/

Paly Sports Boosters is offering a 10% discount on all Paly gear now through 8/23 (use discount code PALY2020). Sko Vikes!
http://palysportsboosters.org/paly-gear

The CCS 2020‐21 Sports Calendar

CIF-Central Coast Section CIF-Central Coast Section

Sports will start in December or January (as of now) and many will overlap....

CIF Statement Regarding 2020-21 Sports Calendar and Bylaw Modifications https://cifstate.org/covid-19/7.20.20_release

Paly Sports Fans....if you know any rising 8th or 9th graders, I am sure they would be thrilled to join Camp MAC and hear from Karen!

Camp MAC is proud to announce that photojournalist Karen Hickey will be a guest speaker this year! Sign up for Camp MAC (Aug. 3-7) to hear Karen Hickey speak about how she got involved in sports photography, and learn photography skills from her during our multimedia workshop series. Link to register is: tinyurl.com/campmac2020

The Paly gear store will be closed from June 8 until August 8. Any orders placed by June 7 will be delivered to addresses in Palo Alto only. Out-of-town shipping will not be available until August.⚽️🏀🏈⚾️🎾⛳️🤽‍♀️

http://palysportsboosters.org/paly-gear/

Paly Gear — Paly Sports Boosters All proceeds go directly to the PALY Sports Boosters.

A full issue of Viking Magazine dedicated to Women's Sports ⚽️⛳️🤽‍♀️

THE WOMEN'S ISSUE This special edition of Viking Magazine feature exclusively women-centric stories in order to address the staggering disparities in sports journalism's representation of women—a disparity seen both in Viking itself, and in professional sports journalism around the world.

Still looking for a graduation gift? 🎁

http://palysportsboosters.org/paly-gear

Online orders will be delivered within a few days (to addresses in Palo Alto only).

The PALY online gear store is open again ⚽️🏀🏉⛳️🤽‍♂️:

http://palysportsboosters.org/paly-gear

From today until Tuesday, April 14 all inventory will be available. Starting Friday, April 17 we will only sell a limited selection of items. Please note that we will deliver online orders to addresses in Palo Alto ONLY. Out-of-town shipping is temporarily not available. (Thanks Angelique!)

PALY SPRING SPORTS PHOTOS! Here's Jenna Hickey (safely distanced) taking a headshot of a spring sports athlete so we can create virtual team photos. We have about a week! Athletes can send me photos (well-lit, plain background), pick a previously taken sports photo or have us come and take a quick headshot. Contact [email protected]
Thank you Karen Ambrose Hickey

Boys Basketball CIF State Championships!
Round 1 #16 Wood at #1 Paly 8pm Tuesday, March 3rd 🏀

Full brackets here:
https://www.maxpreps.com/tournament/nLcKokk-EeqAzqREozo6lw/nLcLT0k-EeqAzqREozo6lw/basketball-winter-19-20/cif-state-2020-boys-basketball-championships-division-iii-.htm

Paly Boys Basketball are back-to-back CCS Champions after a 47-36 victory over Sequoia! Congratulations 🏀🎉‼️

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/01/ccs-basketball-championships-saturdays-surprises-trends-and-more/

CCS basketball championships: Saturday’s surprises, trends and more Palo Alto boys back-to-back Division I champion; M-A girls pull off monumental comeback; plus more.

Paly Girls Varsity defeats Los Gatos 43-37! Congratulations and CCS Finals here we come!
Photo Credit 📸 Karen Ambrose Hickey

Both Paly Girls and Boys Varsity basketball have advanced to the CCS championships! Saturday 6pm girls face MA and 8pm boys take on Sequoia 🏀🏀
We need snack bar parent or student volunteers, 2 hr shifts starting at 1pm, earn money for your team and service hours. Email palysportsboosters@gmail to volunteer or with questions

No. 1 seeded Vikings (21-4) advance to play Santa Teresa in the CCS semifinals, tonight at Fremont High 🏀🏀🏀

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/02/26/paly-priory-eastside-boys-advance-in-ccs-basketball

Paly, Priory, Eastside boys advance in CCS basketball It wasn't a work of art, but the Palo Alto boys basketball team survived its Central Coast Section Division I playoff game Tuesday with a 45-43 win over Mountain View. Priory won its game in Division V 63-49 over Nueva.

Paly Girls Soccer News...come cheer them on in their CCS semi-final game this coming Wednesday (2/26) at PALY at 7p.m. against Menlo! ⚽️⚽️⚽️

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/02/22/local-soccer-teams-kick-off-ccs-tournament-play-with-wins

Local soccer teams kick off CCS tournament play with wins It was a busy day for local high school teams as the Central Coast Section tournament opened in five separate divisions. At least seven of the nine local teams involved have advanced into the semifinals.

Paly Wrestling's Schwarzbach sets his sights on state success
🤼‍♂️🤼‍♂️🏆

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/02/23/palys-schwarzbach-sets-his-sights-on-state-success

Paly's Schwarzbach sets his sights on state success Palo Alto junior Adar Schwarzbach has been working toward the moment ever since getting into wrestling a few years ago and he's not about to stop now. Winning a CCS title is special and now he's thinking about higher achievements.

Congratulations to Ryan Purpur, Palo Alto basketball!

The senior scored 48 points in two games last week to help the Vikings clinch the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division title. He scored 21 against Los Altos in the clinching game. He scored 27 against Milpitas.

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/sports/athlete_of_the_week.php?d=2020-02-19

TUESDAY, 2/25 CCS quarterfinal playoff games! 🏀🏀
Varsity Girls at 5:30 and Varsity Boys at 7:00 pm at PALY
Photo Credit: Karen Ambrose Hickey