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Last week this space was all about Foothill sophomore Aman Deshmukh, who suffered a horrific accident on March 6 while practicing the pole vault during track-and-field practice.
Deshmukh is paralyzed from the shoulders down and has been at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland.
The crux of the story was about the family’s battle with Kaiser Permanente as to where Aman would be sent for rehabilitation. The family had requested Craig Hospital in Colorado, a location that has a teen-specific rehabilitation program that rehabs the teenagers together, promoting a support system and camaraderie.
Craig also promotes its instructional staff that keeps the kids involved in their education while going through rehabilitation. It was a center the attending specialists at Children’s Hospital had highly recommended.
Kaiser had informed the family that Aman was scheduled to be sent to the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.
Last Friday morning, I heard from Yogini Joglekar, the mother of Aman, informing me that Kaiser had made the decision to officially approve Aman for acute rehab at Craig Hospital.
On Easter Sunday I again heard from Joglekar confirming this Tuesday as the date for transfer to Colorado and she wanted to add one final thing.
“We are so grateful for the tremendous support from our community and beyond that’s made this possible,” she said.
As much as I criticized Kaiser last week, I must give them credit for agreeing to recommend Aman to Colorado to the place everyone seems to think was the best choice to provide all the tools for Aman.
Thank you, Kaiser.
Foothill boys’ volleyball
The Falcons continued their hot streak, playing well in a tournament, then a pair of East Bay Athletic League games to move into a first-place tie.
On April 12, the Falcons competed in the City Classic in San Francisco, going 3-2 and winning the Silver Division. Highlights for the tournament came from Josh Salonga (102 assists, 31 digs, 15 kills), Jeremy Sun (37 digs, 19 kills), Caleb Lai (34 digs, 5 aces) and Cam Hitchan (36 kills).
Coming off the tournament, the Falcons swept De La Salle 25-22, 25-21, 25-22. Highlights came from Salonga (33 assists, 6 kills, 6 digs), Hitchan (13 kills at a .520 clip, 2 blocks), Thomas Paduraru (11 kills, 3 blocks) and Sun (8 kills, 8 digs).
Finally, Foothill got another straight set win, this one over Livermore 25-21, 25-19, 25-18. Highlights came from Dean Caudill (13 kills, 13 service points, 4 aces), Lai (12 digs, 8 service points), Salonga (23 assists, 7 digs, 3 kills) and Paduraru (9 kills, 1 block).
Amador badminton
The Dons rolled a pair of teams, beating Dublin 11-6 and De La Salle/Carondelet 16-1.
In the victory over Dublin, Kayosh Kumar Mohapatra, Aadi Koshal, Kevin Ke and Luming Wang won in boys’ singles, and Varshini Subrumanian, Aishani Pramod and Xinyuan Ou all got wins in girls’ singles.
In boys’ doubles, the teams of Benjamin Li/Ziqian Wang, Geffen Kama/Nathan Han and Philip Liu/Brandon Chen all won their matches. Finally, the mixed doubles team of Cara Li/Nachiketh Nandish won their match.
In the thumping of De La Salle/Carondelet, the boys’ singles winners were Kevin Ke, Shravan, Ishaan Noolu and Athrv Gupta. In girls’ singles the winners were Nandith Mahesh Aditi Boddu and Aarya Godse.
The teams that won boys’ doubles matches were Nachketh Nandish/Shravan Sithhambaram, Jaeron Choi/Ishaan Noolu and Justin Wang/Rishik Miriyala.
Girls’ doubles winners were Nanditha Mahesh/Aditi Baddo, Shristi Deepak Jain/Prisha Jain and Gaurangi Patil/Aarya Godse.
Finally, the mixed doubles winners were Shravani Kurapatil/Justin Wang, Athena Fitzpatrick/Jaewon Choi and Shristi Deepak Jain/Athrv Gupta.
Amador JV boys’ tennis
The Dons went 2-1 last week, beating De La Salle and San Ramon Valley, and losing 6-3 to Cal High.
In the loss to Cal, Amogh Gore and Rohail Khweja were winners in singles matches. The doubles team of Neil Todkar and Darsh Goyal won their match.
In the 9-0 win over De La Salle, Goyal, Todkar, Avij Asarawala, Sameer Detta, Srikar Chidiposta and Erik Van Slyke were winners in singles.
In doubles, the teams of Amogh Gore/Pranav Joshi, Julian Liu/Jonathon Lu and Aaron Shaffer/Decker Gillette were all winners.
Finally, in the 8-1 win over San Ramon Valley, singles winners were Rohail Khwaja, Todkar, Goyal, Akshaj Shardiya and Shaffer.
In doubles, the teams of Thomas Manthes/Henry Bull, Avij Asarawala/Srikar Chidipothe and Udayan Sirghal/Pranev Joshi were winners.
Editor’s note: Dennis Miller is a contributing sports writer for Embarcadero Media Foundation’s East Bay Division. To contact him about his Pleasanton Preps column, email acesmag@aol.com.
