More about me
Extracurricular Activities
Nevada Union Interact Club
Project Amigo
I participate and enjoy being involved with several organizations in my community. One of the clubs I am involved with at my high school, Club Interact, is an arm of the Nevada City and Grass Valley Rotary and we are involved with providing service and volunteers to local and international organizations in need of support such as Hospice of the Foothills, Nevada City Schools Foundation and Project Amigo.
In 2009, I traveled to Colima, Mexico with members of our club to volunteer and provide support to the children in a small rural poverty stricken area.
Project Amigo was started to help educate and support the local children of the remote villages and to tutor them in English, teach them dental hygiene, and to introduce them to educational games and books. We found that many of the children rarely had visitors so it was important that they could rely on the continued connection and support they receive from the Rotary and Project Amigo.
This trip required months of training and preparation, including advanced Spanish tutoring, training from local dentists, collecting donations and raising scholarship money to sponsor the Mexican students for the year.
It was an amazing and rewarding experience and I am traveling back in 2012 to continue our educational support and foster our friendship with the community in Colima and the children in the area. I am very interested in using my experience I have gained there to broaden my education in a field where I can use Spanish.
Junior Miners Football
Volunteer OL Coach 2008 to present
I really enjoy sharing the passion that I have for football and I love working with kids as a volunteer OL football coach for the Nevada Union Junior Miners. During the off season I continue to coach individuals as well who are interested in conditioning and want to develop new skills before the regular season begins.
NU Season Update – January 2012
2011 Post Season Update:
As the season concluded I was honored to have been named 1st Team Sierra Foothill All League and 2nd team Sacramento Region All Metro Team. I was also named to the Sacramento Region Holiday Classic All Star Team and we played against the East Bay All Stars in Danville California on December 23, and here are some video highlights.
Although we only made it to the first round of playoffs, two teams from our League won section championships: Granite Bay (D1) and Del Oro( D3). Del Oro went on to the California Bowl State Championship D2 game losing to Helix of San Diego.
2011 Season Overview:
The Miners finished the regular season 7-3 and headed for the playoffs in early November. We had a solid year and improved every week.
Here is an article about my team and me as we entered post season play. Earlier in the season our local newspaper did a profile on me that talked about both football and my work with Club Interact at my high school.
On 11-11-11 we played our 11th and final game of the season when we lost in the playoffs to Franklin of Elk Grove. I am proud of our team and to have started every game of my 4 years in high school.
It was exciting in 2009 when we won the CIF Division 1 Section Championship and exciting to be back in the playoffs again this year too. I am looking very forward to the opportunity to continue to play in college next year.
Here’s a shot of me (#54) with other members of the O Line from earlier in the season:
Alec Sarner (54) and members of the 2011 Nevada Union O - Line
Other news:
On August 19th The Sacramento Bee named me to their preseason regional high school Football All Star Team. I was honored to be selected from hundreds of school teams and thousands of players in the greater Sacramento Metropolitan area and beyond. For the complete list of the 30 selected players click here
Also, I attended a number of camps this past summer including the Yale and Princeton Camps as well as Cal and Cal Poly among others.
CLICK HERE FOR CAL CAMP HIGHLIGHTS from the UC Berkeley Camp on JUNE 19, 2011.
About Alec
I am a Senior  and 2nd year starting offensive center for the Nevada Union High School Miners – one of Northern California’s top high school football programs.
I’ve been playing organized sports since I was 6 years old including football, baseball, basketball, volleyball (including participating on the Nor Cal Junior Olympics Club Team) and even travel ice hockey. I also am on the NU Varsity Track Team too. While I love them all – my focus is now on football and specifically the offensive center position.
You can learn more about me here as well as my team on the Nevada Union Football Page on Facebook. I’ve also added a little bit more about me and my extracurricular activities here too.
Thanks again for visiting my site and I can be contacted at alecsarner54@gmail.com
Go Miners!
