Viewpoint’s Sheffield Finds Acceptance in Many Fields is Easy

It’s tough to tell which marks are higher for Chaney Sheffield.

Sheffield has set numerous baseball records at Viewpoint, a private school in Calabasas, and has also excelled academically, scoring a 1530 on the SAT and an acceptance to Harvard University.

“He’s not an egghead, though,” Viewpoint Coach Frank Pontello said. “He’s a neat kid with a neat sense of humor.”

Sheffield is all over the school record book.

He is the career leader with 125 hits, 122 runs batted in, 28 doubles and 14 home runs. On the mound, he is also the school career leader with 22 victories and 234 strikeouts.

Sheffield’s recent game against Windward demonstrated everything he can do. He pitched a no-hitter, striking out nine, and hit a two-run home run in the Patriots’ 6-0 victory.

An avid golfer and tennis player, Sheffield may get some of his athleticism from his mother, the former Natasha Karazissis, who played volleyball at UCLA.

His father, Chaney Sheffield Sr., is an attorney who said he can’t touch his son academically.

“He left me in the trees a long time ago,” Chaney Sr. said. “The things he brings home in physics, some of them I can’t even read.”

SWIMMING & DIVING

Standout season: It was a good season all around for both Crescenta Valley swimming teams.

The boys’ team won its first Southern Section Division II title since 1993, and the girls’ team finished fifth--its highest finish ever--partly because of Kasey Reinhard.

The sophomore won the Division II diving competition with 493.95 points Friday. Freshman Tara Cross was sixth for the Falcons.

SOFTBALL

Another first: North Hollywood softball Coach Frank Galvan has had quite a year.

Last spring, he was in his first season as the Huskies’ junior varsity softball coach and led the squad to an East Valley League title.

In his first season as the frosh/soph football coach last fall, he guided the Huskies to a league championship. And, this spring he led North Hollywood’s varsity softball team (7-9, 5-5) to the co-championhip of the East Valley League with Grant (9-8, 5-5).

“I’m three for three,” Galvan said.