2003-2005 Girls Basketball Team

2003-2005 GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM
BACK-TO-BACK STATE CHAMPIONS

The 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 Piedmont High School Varsity Girls Basketball teams are the winningest sports teams in the history of Piedmont High School. From 2003-2005, the Girls Basketball teams won back-to-back BSAL titles, North Coast Sectional Championships, Regional Championships, and State Championship Titles. At the State Championship game in 2004, the team set the record for the largest margin of victory in any State Championship game, boys or girls, with a 40+ point victory over Brentwood High School (82-44).

In 2004, the team was named the #1 High School Girls Basketball team in the country (all divisions) by USA Today.  The 2004 and 2005 teams finished their seasons 33-2 overall, #1 in CA, and in the top 10 nationally both years (#7 in 2004 and #4 in 2005). This powerhouse team had 9 of its players go on to play collegiate basketball, three of whom also played professionally overseas, two of whom were drafted by the WNBA, and one who won a WNBA Championship. 

1976 Football Team

1976 FOOTBALL TEAM
NORTH COAST SECTION 2A CHAMPIONS

The 1976 Piedmont High School football team not only achieved the rare feat of an undefeated season – the only team to do so in the East Bay that season – but is the only PHS football team in the school’s storied history to win the North Coast Sectional (NCS) Championship of the California Interscholastic Federation (Division AA). Originally forecast to come in no better than 5th in the Alameda County Athletic League (ACAL) in 1976, PHS showed its power and grit by concluding its ACAL championship run with three straight shut-outs, and in the final six games of the year – including the NCS play-offs – outscoring its competition 106-27. Piedmont put a cap on its 11-0 season with a 20-8 victory over Salesian in the NCS championship game.


The Piedmont 1976 team demonstrated its dominance by claiming nine of the ACAL’s All-League Team slots, five on offense and four on defense. This 33-man team readily showed its proficiency in the important statistics, as the Piedmont defensive team yielded the fewest points of any ACAL team, while its offense scored the most points in the league. The 1976 team ranked third in the final East Bay Football poll, and ranked in the Top 10 of teams in the entire Bay Area.