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Reprinted from the Harker Quarterly March 2010 issue Lower and Middle School Basketball: Coached by Greg Lawson, the Gr. 8 varsity A team improved defensively over the season, but had difficulty scoring. The team finished the season 3-7, with wins against Pinewood, Crystal Springs and Woodside Priory....

Jason Martin ’07 continues to stun opponents and wow his coaches. Martin was written up in the San Jose Mercury News by Dennis Knight in his Movin’ on Up column, April 20. “The former Harker standout started his career as a walk-on, but he has developed into the Spartans’ top offensive player...

[Update] The San Jose Mercury News noted the stellar performance of Harker’s boys volleyball team in an April 21 article by Dennis Knight: “The race for the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League’s De Anza Division title could go down to the wire,” said Knight. “Ranked 15th...

Harker’s wrestling and boys varsity soccer teams earned Central Coast Section Interscholastic Federation scholastic championships this spring. Wrestling had a cumulative GPA of 3.61, while the soccer team earned a 3.65. Girls soccer was a strong runner up at 3.79, only 3/100ths of a point from the...

Spring sports are ramping up and we’re already seeing great developments! Boys Golf The team opened the season with a 216-223 victory March 8 against Pinewood. Ram Seeni, Gr. 11, led the way with a 40 and Maverick McNealy, Gr. 9, had 41, while seniors Yash Khandwala, Jeremy Whang, James Feng and...

The lower school and middle school girls basketball and boys soccer seasons are coming to a close, and what fantastic seasons they have been! Girls basketball The varsity A Gr. 8 girls basketball team finished the season at 7-3 in league play and 8-4 overall, taking third place in the league. They...

The varsity tennis team made history last week when they defeated perennial state power Sacred Heart Prep for the first time ever!  The singles lineup of  Karthik Dhore, Adarsh Ranganathan, both Gr. 11, and Derek Tzeng, Gr. 10, won the top three spots. Ranganathan won an emotionally draining match...

[Update] Although the Eagles gave it their best, the varsity basketball team fell to Santa Cruz at the end of February, 56-44 in the CCS quarterfinals. Santa Cruz started off the game with a full-court press that never let up. At the end of the first quarter, we were down by seven points, but that was...

Foilist Isaac Madan, Gr. 11, fenced internationally at the Wappen von Moedling World Cup in Austria as a member of the Indian International Fencing Team in early February. His results pushed him into the top 400 under-20-years-old mens foil fencers in the world and makes him the second-ranked junior...

Santosh Swaminathan, Gr. 11, made Harker wrestling history on Saturday as he took fifth place in the 103-pound weight class at the CCS wrestling tournament. Although other Harker wrestlers have qualified for CCS, notably Mark Roh, Gr. 12 and Chris McCallaCreary, Gr. 11, Swaminathan is the first Harker...