Cahal Connolly

Cahal Connolly is our Athlete of the Week.

Over the past four years, Castro Valley resident Cahal Connolly has dominated the Western Alameda County Conference playing Varsity Basketball and Varsity Water Polo since his freshman year for Bishop O’Dowd High School. In the NorCal Quarterfinals against Vanden HS, his final high school basketball game, the 6’ 9” 240 pound Center got his third double-double of the season with 22 points and 10 rebounds. This year in Water Polo, he made First Team All Conference scoring 4.9 goals per game, the second most in the WACC. His first Track & Field meet, since winning the 75-yard dash as a Proctor Patriot, was as a high school Senior in the O'Dowd meet with Castro Valley and Encinal, he won his only two events: shot put at 38 feet 2 inches and discus at 99 feet 3 inches. Since then, he has placed in the top 3 in each Field event he’s entered and qualified to participate in the Stanford HS Invitational on April 2. In the North Coast Section, he is currently ranked 13th in the discus and 20th in the shot put. Cahal has been accepted to Claremont McKenna College and is excited to be playing basketball for the Stags next year.