Campolindo High School

Campolindo High School
Campolindo High School
Location
	300 Moraga Road ; Moraga, California
Information
Type	Public High school
Established	1962
Principal	Carol Kitchens
Enrollment	1,339
Newspaper	La Puma
Colors ; Mascot	Red and Blue ; Cougar
Website	http://www.acalanes.k12.ca.us/campolindo/

Campolindo High School is located in Moraga, California. The school is one of the five high schools in the Acalanes Union High School District. Campolindo offers an advanced education system in the Acalanes School District, with particular emphasis on its participation in the Advanced Placement Program. In 2003, Campolindo ranked 490th in Newsweek's top high schools and top ten of California high schools.^[1]

Athletics

Campolindo has been a notably strong school for sports. The Cougars play in Division III and have exceptional programs in women's volleyball, men's basketball, men's/women's cross country, men's/women's track and field, men's/women's swimming and diving, men's/women's soccer.

Men's Fall Sports: Football, Water Polo, and Cross Country

Men's Winter Sports: Basketball, Soccer, and Wrestling

Men's Spring Sports: Baseball, Golf, Swimming, Diving, Tennis, Track and Field, Volleyball, and Lacrosse

Women's Fall Sports: Water Polo, Cross Country, Golf, Volleyball, and Tennis

Women's Winter Sports: Basketball and Soccer

Women's Spring Sports: Softball, Swimming, Diving, Track and Field, and Lacrosse

Notable Alumni

Matt Biondi, eleven time Olympic medal winner in swimming.
Astronaut Stephen Robinson

Rivalries

The school's main rival is Miramonte High School in the neighboring town of Orinda, though a rivalry with Acalanes High School in Lafayette exists as well. Students often wear t-shirts saying "Stomp the Mats" (Miramonte's mascot is the Matador, or Mat for short).

Soda Aquatic Center

The Soda Aquatic Center opened in 1999 and has three pools: a three and 1/2 foot deep pool, a diving well 10 to 13 feet deep with two 1-meter springboards and two 3-meter springboards, and a competition pool. The 50 meter by 25 yard competition pool is considered to be one of the fastest pools in the country.^{[citation needed]}

The Soda Center is the annual host of:

The Water Polo Premier League
The Orinda Moraga Pool Association's Swimming Championship Meet
The DFAL Swimming and Diving Championship Meet

Because it has one of the few 50 meter pools in the area, the Soda Center is also frequently used for USA Swimming swim meets.

The diving tank was used during the filming of the "Underwater Car" episode of MythBusters (2006).

Music History

The Campolindo High School gymnasium was the location of a Grateful Dead show on May 17, 1969. A poorly recorded portion of this exists and circulates among traders of Grateful Dead Live shows. The spring of 1969 also included a show by Santana a few months before they performed at Woodstock (with the Grateful Dead) and their first album that fall. Other notables of that era that came to Campolindo were The Joy of Cooking and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

The cafeteria was also the location of notable early concert by the Dead Kennedys, on the evening of December 19, 1978. The band, who had just made their first appearance 5 months earlier, performed under the pseudonym of "The Creamsicles". The DKs were preceded by a set by The Zeros and openers The Liars, a punk-pop band from Berkeley. The concert, promoted as "The Whittler's Ball", was produced by a group of Campolindo students. A recording exists of the concert.

From 1990 to 1992, a student band named Code Blue, featuring Sub Pop and Brushfire Records recording artist Zach Rogue (of Rogue Wave) and Beluga Heights record label founder and hip-hop record producer JR Rotem, often performed at lunchtime.

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