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March 2, 2026
Cate Falls to Laguna Blanca
The Cate Rams traveled to Laguna Blanca for an away match and fell in a competitive four-set battle. After a hard-fought first set loss (20–25), Cate responded with resilience, earning a tightly contested 27–25 victory in the second set to even the match at one set apiece. Offensively, the Rams were led by outside hitter …
March 2, 2026
Cate Cruises past Dunn and into Spring Break
Season record: 3-0 Today, your Cate School boys varsity tennis team trekked to Los Olivos for a matchup against the Dunn School. Missing from our roster, was not one, not two, but four players, including one of our captains, the recently decorated athlete of the week. Only nine players were dressed for the match, the exact …
March 2, 2026
Winning Start over Santa Barbara HS
Today, your Cate School Boys Varsity Tennis team faced a formidable non-league opponent in the form of the Santa Barbara High Dons. This was a rematch of an unfortunately timed scrimmage from last season, held on the day between two tough CIF playoff matches. At full strength for the first time this season, the singles starting …
March 2, 2026
Distance Track Runs Fast in Westlake
Early Saturday morning, eight distance runners from our track team traveled to Westlake for an early-season distance meet. Junior Sophie Blank returned to competition after missing last season due to an injury. Sophie finished 2nd overall in the 800m in a new personal record, PR, of 2:28.06. In the 1600m, she placed 10th out of 113 runners …
March 2, 2026
GVS Run Ends in the Semifinals
Saturday, 21-Feb-26 Cate GVS 1 – 2 Azusa High School (Semifinals) Saves: Mimi Power (9) Goal: Precious Adjei (her 20th of the season!) A quick note before bed as I didn’t want to leave this one hanging. We lost today down in Azusa, but not for lack of effort. At this point in the playoff, …
February 19, 2026
Community Engagement Day 2026
By: Will Holmes, Director of Community Engagement Cate’s long standing tradition of Community Engagement Days continued this week. In lieu of academic classes, students and faculty traveled off campus grouped by advisories to partner with 28 different local organizations. For five advisories, the morning started on the Rincon Bluffs Preserve where a City of Carpinteria …
February 19, 2026
This Week in Athletics
Cate Athletics Winter Recap Cate had another tremendous winter sports season. To start, the girls’ soccer team is still making a run at a CIF-SS D7 championship. After finishing the regular season 6-5-3, they hosted a first-round matchup against Pioneer High School and won 4-0. That set up another home game in the second round …
February 19, 2026
Cate GVS Rolls On
Wednesday, 18-Feb-26 Cate GVS 5 – 1 Santa Rosa Academy (Menifee) Saves: Mimi Power (6) Assists: Claire Bianchi, Nika Iverson, Fiona Pan, Harper Bishop Goals: Harper Bishop (3rd min, 7th, 30th), Fiona Pan (14th), Precious Adjei (16th) Well, that was a delightful opening 16 minutes: Harper with the hat trick, Fiona with the Olimpico*, and …
February 18, 2026
Reflections on Los Niños
By: David Alvarez ’27 On February 5th, 2026, a sunny Thursday morning, a group of Cate students gathered to endure a five and a half-hour drive to Mexicali. Before arriving in Mexicali, we found ourselves stuck in what seemed to be a never-ending line in Calexico, where the SUVs the group was traveling in were …