All Monta Vista athletes can now start the clearance process to participate in sports for the 2025-26 seasons. I suggest you get this out of the way now — as I write this on July 14, you have four weeks to get cleared so you can join the first team practice. If you delay, all of a sudden you will be scrambling to get your physical done and all the signatures complete and you and your parents will stress out…so let’s knock this out now. You can get on line right away and start the process, and ask your parents to set up the appointment for your physical this month.
All the information you need and the forms you, your parents, and your doctor must complete are on the matador athletics website. (https://matadorathletics.org/interested-in-playing-a-sport/).
I suggest a couple things:
- You can start the clearance process this instant and when you click cross country and file this doc, we know you are planning to join the team this fall! https://www.athleticclearance.com/
- Take thie concussion baseline test now. This is annoying, I don’t know why, but every once in a while there is a problem that needs to be resolved. It’s tedious. Just take a bit of time now or this afternoon and get it out of the way and then you can forget about it for another year! If you have a problem with the test you have plenty of time to ask Mr. Bonacorsi (nick_bonacorsi@fuhsd.org) or Ms Myaesha what to do. https://app.informedk12.com/link_campaigns/concussion-baseline-testing-instructions-and-agreement-2024-mvhs?token=AjtDrbvTpE5V9B3oUZyEJQz1
- Ask your parents to set up an appolntment with your doctor for a sports physical.
- After your physical is done, upload your completed forms to athleticclearance.com .
- Once you have completed ALL 3 of these things–completed your baseline test, uploaded your physical forms, and completed the online registration form–ensure that your status reads “pending”. Once you are “pending” the athletic director, Mr. Bonacorsi, and/or the trainer Ms. Myaesha, will review your account and process your clearance (during summer, this might take a while).
You don’t have to complete all this for summer running, but you do have to complete this before you start practicing with me and the team in August (and go to the beach trip we want to do before school starts!) so please let’s just bang this out now…let’s set a new high bar for getting our registration done early.
I’ll keep track of registrations here!
Status as of August 4
Started Clearance Process, application not yet complete:
- Raghuram Chandramouli (9)
- Oliver D’Souza (10)
- Aidan Cushman-Kihnley (11)
- Zhengyin Zhu (9)
- Rajit Pander (9)
- Ashwanth Sundaramoorthi (10)
- Pranshu Jha (9)
- Krishna Batni (9)
- Darin Young (9)
Pending Status, Waiting for Approval or Comments from Mr. Bonacorsi:
- Vaishnavi Eranti (9)
- Vikram Mallya (10)
- Jimin Park (9)
- Darren Hsu (12)
- Tarun Gandhi (10)
Denied–there is some problem to be fixed; most of these are issues with the concussion test so you should retake this. Some are because your physical from last year has expired. Please correct the issue, then make sure you reapply, and email Mr. Bonacorsi so he can clear you.
- Kento Murase (11)
- Taylor Orr (9)
- Sam Heinonen (10)
- Ethan Ge (10)
- Sarah Kumar (9)
- Kaitlyn Lum (9)
- Melinda Zhao (10)
- Constantine Chua (10)
- Shayan Mahajan (9)
- Zeynep Dogan (9)
- Brandon Wang (10)
Cleared for MVXC25!
- Naomi Hsu (11)
- Miranda Hsu (11)
- Medha Rustagi (10)
- Youheng Zhong (9)
- Caroline Labudde (9)
- Jayden Mattekatt (9)
- Oliver Perrault (9)
- Shouki Baba (9)
- Aiden White (10)
- Isaac Yan (11)
- Ethan Yang (12)
- Soma Puhara (9)
- Eli Wang (9)
- Yibo Wang (10)
- Josiah Lim (9)
- Eva Huang (9)
- Vishakha Shastri (10)
- Ananya Vijay Parameetkhal (10)
- Riu Yamada (10)
- Jonah Chang (11)
- Chelsea Nie (9)
- Myra Mishra (10)
- Ritik Shenoy (10)
- Akshat Ambekar (10)
- Hao-Chun Chuang (10)
- Aanya Dhua (9)