Mayfield offers a well-rounded and successful high school athletic program in 11 different sports over three seasons. Our goal is to give each student the opportunity to experience athletics in a positive, fun-filled environment. We believe that the playing fields are an extension of the classroom, teaching the values and principles of Education-Based Athletics.
Fall Athletics Tryouts
Cross Country, Golf, Tennis and Volleyball are the four fall sports offered at Mayfield Senior School. Volleyball tryouts will be held the week of Aug. 9-13 and cross country, golf and tennis tryouts will be held Aug. 16-20. Our first matches/games of the season typically start in late August. Tryouts are mandatory for all athletes wishing to be on a team and regular practice continues immediately after the tryout period on a daily basis. Completing all the requirements on Magnus Health (including a current physical) is a pre-requisite for all sports.
Please note:
The tryout period is very important for the coaches to properly determine each student's spot on a team. If you have to miss any of the required dates, you must inform the coach before tryouts begin. Failure to do so could affect your spot on a team.
For most of our teams we do not make cuts and all those who try out will make the team. However, on our Tennis and Volleyball teams, we MAY have to make cuts depending on the number of students who try out for the team, so no one is guaranteed a spot on these teams.
Sports practice begins the day after tryouts. Practice takes place every afternoon and some Saturdays. Practice times and locations vary depending on the sport and level of play. Attendance at all practices is mandatory. Missing 20% or more will result in no credit for that season. The commitment is for the full season, including play-offs. Quitting a team midway through the season will compromise the athlete’s standing in the future.
Competition
Mayfield offers competition on two levels (JV and Varsity) for most sports. Volleyball has three levels — Frosh, JV & Varsity. A freshman may be selected for a varsity team! Post-season CIF play may impact school holidays and weekends so please check the school athletic calendar when planning vacations. Most tournaments occur over weekends and during school vacations. Please be aware of this when arranging vacation time.
Basketball and Badminton practices are on campus in the gym. Summer basketball is highly recommended for all potential players. Both F/S and Varsity play in a summer Tournament and league for basketball.
Cross Country is a fall sport, and our runners start practicing in the summer. The top 12-16 Athletes may attend a week-long camp in Big Bear the second week in August. All runners will continue practice the following week. The teams usually attend one or two overnight trips during the season, competing in San Francisco and Clovis. Extra fees apply to these trips. This highly successful team usually competes in the CIF State meet in Fresno over Thanksgiving weekend.
Pre-Season Strength & Conditioning takes place on campus in three six-week periods. This is typically held three days a week for one hour after school.
Swim occurs off campus at Flintridge Preparatory School in La Cañada. (Subject to change) Practice times vary depending on the facility. There are morning practices three times a week as well as afternoons. Coaches will drive the athletes to training in the school vans from Mayfield Senior School. Swimmers attend Tournaments/Invitationals on Saturdays and selected swimmers may attend an overnight trip for a meet. Extra fees apply.
Tennis practices occur off campus for varsity and on campus for JV. All JV and varsity matches are played at the Arroyo Racquet Center, our home base. Athletes are expected to practice over the summer.
Track and Field practice is on campus and at South Pasadena High School, as well as surrounding areas for long runs. Some Invitational Meets are held over Spring break and all are on Saturdays.
Water Polo occurs off campus at Flintridge Preparatory School in La Cañada. These practices are from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. daily. Coaches will drive the athletes to Prep in the school vans from Mayfield Senior School. Water Polo athletes attend tournaments/invitationals on Saturdays.
Summer Volleyball practice is highly recommended and essential for potential varsity players. Varsity will attend an overnight tournament during the season. CIF playoffs can carry over to the Thanksgiving weekend. All three teams play in an all-day tournament during the regular season.
FALL • Cross Country (V, JV) • Golf (V, JV) • Tennis (V, JV) • Volleyball (V, JV, F/S) WINTER • Basketball (V, JV) • Soccer (V, JV) • Water Polo (V, JV) SPRING • Badminton (V, JV) • Softball (V) • Swim & Dive (V, JV) • Track & Field (V, JV)
Prep League Schools
Chadwick Preparatory School Flintridge Preparatory School Mayfield Senior School Pasadena Polytechnic School Providence High School Rio Hondo Preparatory School Westridge School for Girls Brentwood (Water Polo only) La Salle (Water Polo only)
The spring sports season came to an end last week, and yesterday we had a wonderful evening in the gym to honor the 126 student athletes who represented Mayfield this season. It was a particularly special evening as family members of Kelley Jones '97 were in attendance. Kelley passed away in 2003, and since 2004, the softball team has awarded the Kelley Jones Spirit Award to one of its members. Maria Dilbeck '22 was this year's recipient and had the opportunity to take a photo with Kelley's family.
And then there were four! The Mayfield athletics calendar for this year is coming to a close. We are down to just four student athletes still competing this season! Today, Taylor Carey '22, who has committed to swimming for Vanderbilt University in the Fall, will become the 1st Mayfield Cub in school history to compete in the California State Swimming Championships at the Clovis Olympic Aquatics Complex. Taylor will be competing in her signature event, the 100 Breaststroke. You can follow her progress on twitter, as well as on the NFSH Network. The meet starts at 1:00 today, and Taylor will be competing around 5:00 pm.
Tomorrow, we have three Cubs competing at the CIF Finals in Track & Field at Moorpark HS. Sade Falese '23 (Long Jump), Cecilia Kvochak '23 (800m), and Sissy Page '25 (High Jump) will look to bring home individual CIF titles in their events. The Cubs performed exceptionally well at last week's CIF Prelims - Sade and Sissy are the top qualifiers in their respective events, and Cecilia qualified fourth!
Earlier this week, our softball team concluded a memorable season by falling to the #2 seeded Katella Knights, 3-1, in a terrific 2nd round playoff game. The Cubs graduate four great seniors, but with a great group of freshmen, sophomores, and Juniors returning, the Cubs softball future looks bright!
Next week, we will celebrate our spring sport athletes with their banquet in the gym on Thursday
day, May 19 at 6:00pm. If you plan on attending, please RSVP by today at the link here.
Again, follow @msscubs on twitter for swim updates today and track updates tomorrow, and GO CUBS!!!
The spring postseason is off to a great start for the Cubs. Yesterday, Softball traveled to Redlands Adventist for a 1st round playoff game with the Bulldogs. After a 3rd place finish in league, the Cubs appear poised for a playoff run. Jenna Domingo '25 was sensational in the circle, as she gave up only one hit for the entire game, and the Cubs came away with a 15-0 victory. Next up for Mayfield, a home 2nd round matchup with the #2 seed, Katella, on Tuesday at Brookside Park.
Our spring regular season came to an end this week with mostly smiles, some tears, and a whole lot of winning. The week started off last Saturday with the Varsity Swim & Dive team winning their 2nd consecutive Prep League title and the JV team winning their 17th straight championship. The Cubs said goodbye to Seniors Lucia Avila ‘22, Avalon Bajarias ‘22, Taylor Carey ‘22, Katelin Echeverria ‘22, Emma Franco ‘22, Audrey Leung ‘22 and Alexa Valenzuela ‘22. The Varsity team's score of 392 points is the most that any Prep League school has ever scored in the nearly 40 year history of the meet. Event winners included Morgan Burns ‘25 (Diving), Taylor Carey ‘22 (100 Breaststroke), and the 200 Medley Relay team of Taylor Carey, Kate Georgino ‘25, Sophia Georgino ‘25, and Holly Gmelich ‘23, whose winning time broke a 20-year old school record. JV winners included Frances Aguirre ‘25, Kayley Bao ‘24, Delilah Dudas ‘24, Kate Grinnell ‘23, Zora Hinrichs ‘23, Ava Kook ‘24 and Alexa Valenzuela ‘23. The team qualified for CIF in nine individual events and all three relays and will compete at the CIF meet in Mission Viejo next week.
What seemed like a slim possibility at the beginning of the school year, looks like it will come to fruition next week. We will be finishing the regular season for our four spring sports and honoring our members of the Class of 2022 playing in their final home games. We will have successfully made it through all three seasons of sport and given our seniors a final season as Cubs! The seniors have given us one of the most memorable athletic years that Mayfield has seen in a long time. We hope you can come out and honor them one last time as they finish their careers as Cubs.
The Swim & Dive team concluded its regular season yesterday with a dominating victory over Pasadena Poly, 131-41, at Poly yesterday. The Cubs won 11 of 12 events on the day with CIF qualifying swims in 8 of them. The most impressive victory was that of our diver, Morgan Burns '25, who clinched the Prep League championship in the event with a score of 418.00 points. The score is the second highest in school history and is not only a CIF Consideration score, but an All-American Consideration score as well. The Cubs, who finished 11-0 on the season, have not lost a dual meet since April 2, 2019—a streak of 24 meets in a row. The team will look to win their second consecutive league title next weekend in the Prep League Finals on Saturday afternoon.The JV team has won 16 consecutive league titles going back to 2005 and they also look well positioned for another league title.
After a truncated athletics calendar during the 2020-2021 school year that included six of our twelve sports having their seasons canceled, it seems the entire Mayfield community was looking forward to a return to a more traditional calendar during this school year. The most obvious example of this was the record number of our Cubs trying out for sports during all three of our seasons—from Golf, to Basketball, to Track & Field—it seems as if one of the things that our students missed most was representing Mayfield on the athletic field. And other than the required masks for our indoor sports during the Fall & Winter seasons, sports at Mayfield have basically been back-to-normal for 2021-2022. In fact, better than normal! In addition to the large numbers of athletes competing this school year, we are in the middle of one of the most successful athletic school years in our school’s history. Three teams have made it to the CIF Semifinals: Tennis (for the first time since 1988), Volleyball (for the first time since 2013), and Soccer (for the first time since 1990). Volleyball then continued their remarkable season in the California State playoffs by advancing all the way to the Southern California Finals—the farthest Mayfield has ever advanced. And now as we come towards the end of our spring season, it appears that both the Swim & Dive and Track & Field teams will add league titles to an already incredible sports year. What a return-to-school we have had! Go Cubs!
After enjoying a Spring Break (with some of our Soccer Cubs traveling and playing in Scotland!), the Cubs have returned to action with early success in our post-break games. The Swim & Dive team continued its successful 2022 campaign with a thrilling 86-86 victory over Flintridge Prep on Tuesday. The meet featured the two best teams in league and the winners of the last three league championships. The short-handed Cubs were missing four of their Varsity swimmers but still received great performances from a number of girls to pull out the victory. Mayfield is now 9-0 overall and 3-0 in league with two more meets next week before the league finals meet on 4/23 at Pasadena Poly.
First and foremost, we want to congratulate our amazing Athletic Trainer, Jayme Harrold, who gave birth to a very handsome 7 lb. 8 oz. boy, named Ryloe on Wednesday. Baby, mom and dad are all doing well and are already back home! We can't wait to meet him!
In a season when each of the sports are off to red hot starts, perhaps the hottest team so far is the Swim & Dive team. The Cubs swept all 11 events in Tuesday's meet with La Salle and ran away from the Lancers, 124-44. With the return of the core of last year's league champion team and an influx of a strong group of freshmen, the Cubs are 6-0 on the season, including two league wins over Chadwick and Rosemead. This weekend the Varsity squad is up in northern California competing in the De La Salle Invitational against some of the best teams in the state. In their last meet before Spring Break, the Cubs will swim against FSHA at Occidental on Wednesday.
After a successful few weeks of preseason meets and games, the Cubs spring sports begin to move into the league season with hopes of league titles. The track team looks poised to win a 7th consecutive league championship. The Cubs ran in the Colt Classic last Saturday and performed at a very high level. The highlight of the day was Sade Falese's ‘23 victory in the long jump, and Mayfield had PR's across the board. With the Prep League 2nd cluster meet coming up next week, the Cubs’ large contingent of 30+ girls look well on their way to another championship.
The spring sports season just launched two weeks ago, but the early season results have been very promising for the Cubs. While Softball and Swim & Dive have both been impressive, the Track & Field team threw down the most dominating performance of the season so far on Tuesday. In the first of three Prep League “cluster meets” to be held at Burroughs HS, the Cubs look to be well on their way to a 7th consecutive league title. Mayfield overwhelmed the competition scoring 104 points—almost as many as the next three teams combined! Chadwick (48 pts.), Westridge (39 pts.), and Flintridge Prep (25 pts.) rounded out the top four teams. Six different Cubs won events—Sade Falese ‘23 (Long Jump), Zoe Griffin ‘24 (Triple Jump), Nikki Hensley ‘24 (100H), Cecilia Kvochak ‘23 (800), Erin Michelena ‘24 (300H), Sissy Page ‘25 (High Jump) as well as the 4 X 400 Relay team of Lara Georgian ‘25, Clare Kvochak ‘24, Sophie Limongelli ‘25 and Cecilia Kvochak ‘23. Tomorrow the Cubs will run in their first invitational of the year, the Colt Classic in Covina.
In a historic return to athletics at Mayfield this year, our Cubs teams have done more than their share to bring excitement back to campus. In the fall season, two teams (tennis and volleyball) both made thrilling runs to the CIF semifinals. During our winter season, the soccer team took its fans on an equally wild ride over the past two weeks. After ending the regular season with a stunning victory over league rival Flintridge Prep, the Cubs entered the CIF playoffs as the #4 seed, but the Cubs had not won a soccer playoff game since 2013. In the playoff opener at St. Francis, the Cubs dominated Shadow Hills 6-1 on the strength of Tessa Neal's '25 four goals! The Cubs then went on the road to Ventura and shutout the Cougars 3-0 with Ellery Potter’s '24 shining goal. In a CIF quarterfinal match last weekend against #5 seed Paraclete, the Cubs Sonja Smeritschnig '22 scored her first goal in the first five minutes and then added three more in leading Mayfield to a thrilling 6-1 win over the Spirits.
It was another special night in the gymnasium last evening as we honored the winter sport athletes that played basketball, soccer, and water polo at our annual team banquet. There was much to celebrate—after numerous cancellations, basketball and water polo both finished their first seasons in two years, the JV soccer team completed their second consecutive undefeated season, and the Varsity soccer team ended a 54 match winning streak from a league rival and has advanced to the CIF Quarterfinals for the first time in 32 years!
Last Saturday, we had our remarkable win over Flintridge Prep. It's hard to overestimate that victory. Flintridge Prep has won 54 consecutive Prep League matches dating back to January, 2017. The Cubs have not beaten the Wolves in a league match since January 2009 —a 25 match streak! So we are thrilled about our playoff game this weekend. It is scheduled for this Saturday Feb. 12, 5:30 p.m. at St. Francis High School against Shadow Hills High School. Come cheer in person. And WEAR RED! Go Cubs!
Established in 1931, Mayfield Senior School in Pasadena, CA is a Catholic, independent, college preparatory school for young women grades 9-12. Noted for its rigorous academic program, which includes 28 Advanced Placement and Honors courses, Mayfield’s curriculum is underscored by a philosophy of educating the “whole child,” which also encourages commitment to and excellence in the arts, athletics, community service and spiritual growth. The nurturing environment at Mayfield Senior School allows each student to flourish in an atmosphere of personal attention.