Anderson takes his spot

Mike Sciacca

Matt Anderson had set several goals for the 2003 boys’ volleyball

season.

The main goal, he said, was to create a memorable season for

Laguna Beach High; a second, was to turn in a season comparable to

his junior campaign.

Anderson achieved both goals.

Laguna’s season came to an end in a CIF-Southern Section Division

II quarterfinal loss to eventual champion Valencia of Valencia in

May. Just this week -- on Monday -- the CIF-SS office in Los Alamitos

released its All-CIF boys’ volleyball teams.

Anderson was included in the Division II first team.

It marked the second consecutive year that he made All-CIF.

“I was stoked when I heard about it,” he said of learning of his

selection Monday night. “I had wanted our team to have a good year

this season, and we did, and I also wanted to make All-CIF again. I

knew it’d be tough, though.”

Anderson, a senior who will attend and play at USC in the fall,

was one of four outside hitters named to the eight-player first team.

Anderson’s selection capped a 2002-03 athletic year that saw 10

Laguna athletes earn All-CIF recognition.

It began with the fall football season when Clayton Caron, a

senior who played lineman on both sides of the ball, earned a spot on

the Division IX team.

Caron will play next fall at Cerritos College in Norwalk.

“He’s just a tough, hard-nosed player with a great heart. That

says it all about Clayton,” said Mario Morales, an offensive line

coach and offensive coordinator who worked with Caron during the 2002

season.

It continued in the fall with the selection of three Breaker

seniors to the boys’ Division I water polo teams: Nick McConnell made

the first team, Hugh Sandys made second team and Chris Stansbury was

a third team pick.

In the spring, five members of Laguna’s girls’ water polo team,

which reached the semifinal round of the Division II playoffs, earned

Southern Section honors.

Seniors Lina Moore and Annie Preble were named first team,

sophomore Addison Doud made second team and senior Kari Herdman and

sophomore Katherine Gordon made the third team.