Camas High School (CHS) fall sports teams have finished up or are finishing up their seasons. Multiple teams are on their way to their respective state playoff games, while others are focused on bi-district games.
The teams that have ended their seasons are slow-pitch, boys tennis, and boys golf.
“Slow-pitch finished up, and they were third in league for their season,” CHS Associate Principal and Athletic Director Stephen Baranowski said. “Boys tennis played through the bi-district tournament. They won the bi-district tournament and have two singles moving on to state: Leo Zhao and Dylan Siems. They will continue in the spring since there are some pauses.”
The boys golf team won the title of league champions and is going to bi-districts in the spring when their season starts up again.
The teams with ongoing postseasons are working towards wins in bi-districts and state.
“Cross country runs at state on Saturday [Nov. 8, 2025],” Baranowski said. “Our girls team is ranked in the top two in the state, and the boys are in the top five. They both have a chance to win a trophy [so that’s] pretty awesome.”
According to Baranowski, the girls soccer team made it to the semifinals of the bi-district tournament, and now they play at the state tournament, either Tuesday, Nov. 11, or Wednesday, Nov. 12. Volleyball has its bi-district tournament the week of Nov. 10, and then its state tournament is the following week. Football’s first playoff game is Friday, Nov. 7, and if they win that game, there is a 50-50 chance of there being a home game the following week.
These feats come with challenges that the teams have to endure together and support each other through to perform their best and win.
“[In cross country] during training, especially with running, it is easy to just have days where it’s like I don’t want to run and stuff like that, and like shortening your run,” CHS senior Elizabeth Nava Orozco said. “[When] our coach told us to do six miles, but one of us only wants to run four, we say, ‘hey, you can do it, run the extra two miles,’ and we hold ourselves accountable for doing what is told.”
The team’s growth comes from positive self-talk and pushing each other to be accountable and put out their best effort.
“[In tennis] the team as a whole is always striving to be better and to just improve on ourselves, which is why I think we find success so often,” CHS senior Tristenh Teso said. “So all the guys have just been finding ways to improve and keeping a mindset of ‘what can I change?’ or ‘what would make me better?’”
When striving for wins, there is discipline and recovery that need to happen so that athletes remain healthy and can perform to their fullest.
“Right now [in preparation for state], we are really tapering. Normally, we run, like 50 miles a week, so we are going to go down to 30 to 40 miles a week, just to make sure that our legs are fresh for the race,” Orozco said. “So just like running less and really taking our easy runs easy, and then we have workouts, but our workouts are only, like, two or three miles long, like, something short, basically just slowing down the mileage, and then also doing weights and visualization.”
The teams are confident that they will put out a good showing in multiple competitions because of their focus on growth and their drive to become better.
“Looking towards State and next year, I think we will be pretty successful since all the guys on the team have shown nothing but growth throughout the season, and I can confidently say it’s only up from here,” Teso said.
