Athletics
Hello ICA Community!
My attitude of gratitude today is for all our P.E. & Wellness students and their most excellent adult instructors! Thank you
to all who attended the WellEx event. My heart is full of pride and love for how we’ve taken this seed of vision and grown it
into a pioneering program ahead of its time. Seeing our students in those pictures and videos, and talking to them as the
semester pods came to a close, is my reminder of how fortunate I am.
I would like to thank our program frienducators and all of our ICA Cristo Rey family who go on camping trips, walk up hills,
drop in on Zumba or Filipino Martial Arts, climb rocks, ask students for help on your warrior pose, eat some tasty snacks
from Food Ed on Mondays or use the gym for any kind of movement activity for your class. Thank you!
With my loudest gym voice and the deepest heartfelt thanks, I humbly say,
Let’s do this again next semester!
Carolyn Sideco
Athletic Director / Healthy Lifestyles & Wellness Program Coordinator
Another multi-tasking teacher, Andrea
Manchester, Religious Studies Dept.
Chair, crafted and taught the much-
needed Foundations of Christian
Sexuality class to all of our 9th graders.
Thanks to Amanda Lesky and her team
(Cheryl, Nandi, Kendra and our own
alumna Jasmine Ortiz) for teaching
students recipes through the Food
Education Project.
Of course, our P.E. & Wellness Program
also includes our athletic teams, so a
grateful cheer goes to our fall sports
coaches:
• Matthew Tominaga, Media
Designer, led our Golf team to
doubling their win output from last
year
• Pat Steacy with AAA Division
champions Varsity Volleyball
• Debbie Aguilar (mother of Lili ‘20
and Bella ‘15) with JV Volleyball
• Rachel Dulay, mother of Rosalie
Lopez ‘06, our boomerang coach,
with Cross Country
Our very own Lauren Nazario, Social
Studies Dept. Chair, and the folks at
Mission Cliffs, encourage our students’
climbing on Friday afternoons. Also
a shout out to Cori Coccia at Girl
Ventures, who facilitated an outdoor
climb at Castle Rock State Park.
Joseph Bautista and Eskabo Daan
Filipino Martial Arts visited ICA and
taught students and faculty basic
defensive skills to protect them if ever
approached by an attacker.
Coach Tam Nguyen and ICA newbie
Kristine Casipe, Data & Gifts
Processing, enthusiastically took the
Wilderness Backpacking course lantern
and kept it shining brightly! Bay Area
Wilderness Training (BAWT) helped
out with camping gear rentals.
Hear that music? Yes! That’s Christine
Coleman, personal counselor
extraordinaire and Zumba instructor,
who transitioned from a casual 7th
period exercise session to twice-a-week
Zumba sessions with 25 students per
class.
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