This is MVXC athlete clearance status as of Sunday evening, August 2.
Mr. Bonacorsi has started to approve and clear athletes to be part of the Monta Vista athletic teams this coming Fall; he is working through the applications in the order that athletes completed their applications, and so Taylor Orr and Tarun Gandhi were the first athletes to be cleared!
One note…as Mr. Bonacorsi starts to review our clearance applications, sometimes the response will be “denied”. If you get a message or your application is denied, please address this…usually this is a problem with the concussion baseline test requiring you to retake the test, or your physical might be expired. It is important to know that after you have fixed the issue, you must reapply for approval so that the application again reads “pending”. Mr. Bonacorsi will not automatically recheck applications that were denied to see if they were fixed–applicants must reapply for approval. Please be sure your applications reads “pending”.
Please complete your application so that your approval comes soon!
On Saturday, August 8, we will be holding up our first practice as a team and everyone will need to be cleared if they want join the run!
Information on how to get cleared is available at Matador Athletics. The clearance instructions are fairly detailed.
One issue…you must have your athletic physical renewed every year. Your physical is only good for 12 months. If you have not completed your physical, or you don’t have it scheduled in the next three weeks, you should schedule it right away. If you can’t get on your doctor’s schedule before August 5, you need to find an alternative. Most walk in urgent care clinics, such as El Camino Urgent Care or Action Urgent Care, will perform your sports physical for you. Everyone needs to have a physical completed, uploaded, and approved before you practice with the team. “I couldn’t get an appointment with my doctor until next week” is not an excuse that will work…you cannot practice with the team without a physical and without being cleared by the school, and you will start accruing absences which at some point will cause you to lose academic credit and may lose your place on the roster.
So…please get your physical, don’t delay. And please start, and complete, your athletic clearance as soon as possible! We want to see more “Pending” status reports next week!
Clearance Status Summary
as of August 2, 2026
Key:
- Cleared means you are good to go! Welcome to MVXC26.
- Pending means your application looks good, we are waiting for approval. You need to have a current, updated physical for the 2026-2027 academic year uploaded, and your baseline concussion screening complete.
- Started means that you have started the process but something has not been completed, or you have not pressed the button for review. I added a # if the system indicatates that the athlete needs to upload a current physical.
- a ? means that we know your name, and you might be planning to join cross-country or you might not, but in any case you have not started the clearance process at all. We don’t know if you intend to join our team or not. Please start your clearance process today, even if you don’t have everything completed, so we know you are coming!
- Denied means your application was reviewed and a problem was identified. Please take a look and correct the problem, then reapply (Mr. Bonacorsi will not automatically review your application when you make a change, make sure you reapply and your status is pending).
| Firstname | Lastname | Grade | Gender | Clearance Status | |
| 1 | Alexandra | Perrault | 12 | G | Pending 🙂 |
| 2 | Alexandra | Qiu | 11 | G | ? |
| 3 | Ananya | Parakimeethal | 11 | G | ? |
| 4 | Caroline | Labudde | 10 | G | Pending 🙂 |
| 5 | Chloe | Ahn | 10 | G | Started |
| 6 | Ella | Z | 10 | G | ? |
| 7 | Eva | Huang | 10 | G | Pending 🙂 |
| 8 | Fiona | Shi | 9 | G | Started |
| 9 | Iris | Lee | 11 | G | Pending 🙂 |
| 10 | Jolena | Lai | 10 | G | Pending 🙂 |
| 11 | Josephine | Gan | 10 | G | Denied-Concuss. |
| 12 | Kaitlyn | Lum | 10 | G | Pending 🙂 |
| 13 | Medha | Rustagi | 11 | G | Pending 🙂 |
| 14 | Melinda | Zhao | 11 | G | ? |
| 15 | Miranda | Hsu | 12 | G | Pending 🙂 |
| 16 | Myra | Mishra | 11 | G | Pending 🙂 |
| 17 | Naomi | Hsu | 12 | G | Pending 🙂 |
| 18 | Rachel | Wang’ | 10 | G | Pending 🙂 |
| 19 | Ruoshi | Li | 10 | G | ? |
| 20 | Sophia | Li | 10 | G | Started# |
| 21 | Tais | Recalde Brizuela | 9 | G | Denied-Concuss. |
| 22 | Taylor | Orr | 10 | G | CLEARED! |
| 23 | Victoria | Dulay | 9 | G | Pending 🙂 |
| 24 | Vishakha | Shastri | 11 | G | Pending 🙂 |
| 25 | Youheng | Zhong | 10 | G | Started |
| 26 | Zeynep | Dogan | 10 | G | ? |
| 27 | Aadit | Shinde | 10 | B | ? |
| 28 | Aditya | Prasad | 9 | B | Started |
| 29 | Aditya | Sarcar | 10 | B | Pending 🙂 |
| 30 | Agastya | Sharma | 9 | B | Started |
| 31 | Aidan | Cushman-Kihnley | 12 | B | ? |
| 32 | Aiden | White | 11 | B | Denied-Concuss. |
| 33 | Akshat | Ambekar | 11 | B | Started# |
| 34 | Andrew | He | 9 | B | Pending 🙂 |
| 35 | Aric | Obaidur | 11 | B | ? |
| 36 | Ashwanth | Sundaramoorthi | 11 | B | ? |
| 37 | Constantine | Chua | 11 | B | Pending 🙂 |
| 38 | Eli | Wang | 10 | B | Started# |
| 39 | Ethan | Ge | 11 | B | ? |
| 40 | Ethan | Wong | 9 | B | Started |
| 41 | Fahad | Ali | 10 | B | Started# |
| 42 | Gary | Zhang | 9 | B | Started# |
| 43 | Gyan | Kodagi | 10 | B | ? |
| 44 | Harris | Yang | 9 | B | Pending 🙂 |
| 45 | Jayden | Mattekatt | 10 | B | ? |
| 46 | Jimin | Park | 10 | B | Started# |
| 47 | Jiwoo | Han | 10 | B | Pending 🙂 |
| 48 | Jonah | Chang | 12 | B | Pending 🙂 |
| 49 | Josiah | Lim | 10 | B | ? |
| 50 | Kento | Murase | 12 | B | ? |
| 51 | Krishna | Batni | 10 | B | ? |
| 52 | Lucas | Chuang | 11 | B | ? |
| 53 | Lucien | Ma | 9 | B | Pending 🙂 |
| 54 | Maxwell | Heinonen | 9 | B | Pending 🙂 |
| 55 | Oliver | Perrault | 10 | B | Pending 🙂 |
| 56 | Peter | Dunn | 9 | B | Pending 🙂 |
| 57 | Pranshu | Jha | 10 | B | Started# |
| 58 | Rajit | Pandey | 10 | B | ? |
| 59 | Ritik | Shenoy | 11 | B | Denied-Physical |
| 60 | Roger | Chen | 9 | B | Pending 🙂 |
| 61 | Rohan | Kumar | 9 | B | Started |
| 62 | Rusheet | Suglar Jayapala | 10 | B | Started |
| 63 | Samuel | Heinonen | 11 | B | Started# |
| 64 | Shouki | Baba | 10 | B | Pending 🙂 |
| 65 | Sihoon | Lee | 10 | B | Pending 🙂 |
| 66 | Soma | Pujara | 10 | B | Pending 🙂 |
| 67 | Takumi | Matsunami-Huerta | 9 | B | Pending 🙂 |
| 68 | Tarun | Gandhi | 11 | B | CLEARED! |
| 69 | Vihaan | Parakar | 10 | B | ? |
| 70 | Vikram | Mallya | 11 | B | ? |
| 71 | Yibo | Wang | 11 | B | ? |
| 72 | Zhengyin | Zhu | 10 | B | Started# |