Acalanes Girls Water Polo | 2019-20 NorCal Team Of The Year

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To fully appreciate the perfect 27-0 season that led to the Acalanes girls water polo team becoming our 2019-20 NorCal Team of the Year, one needs to go even further back. 

Back to the 2018 season — when they also finished 27-0, though it wasn’t quite on their terms.

California’s wildfire season forced havoc on the end of the fall sports calendar and led to the cancellation of CIF’s Northern Regional Championship tournament. Acalanes was able to secure its North Coast Section title after a long delay, but it was denied from making the full statement it wanted to. 

“We felt like we were the best team out there,” Dons coach Misha Buchel said.

Though Acalanes missed out on one NorCal title that season, it did win Sacred Heart Prep-Atherton’s 16-team NorCal Invitational in late October of 2018. The way in which they accomplished it set a tone for the next 13 months. 

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