Berkeley High School's football team returned to the playoffs in 2007 after six years of mediocrity. BHS plays in the ACCAL, a collection of schools that runs from Alameda through Pinole Valley.
Berkeley is the biggest high school by far and its football teams are usually harder, bigger, stronger faster than the teams from Alameda, Encinal (soon to leave the league), El Cerrito, Hercules, Pinole Valley, Richmond and De Anza. However, the football program has lacked discipline on the field or in the classroom for many years. The picture at the left is of a pre-season jamboree at Pitsburg H.S.
Berkeley is the biggest high school by far and its football teams are usually harder, bigger, stronger faster than the teams from Alameda, Encinal (soon to leave the league), El Cerrito, Hercules, Pinole Valley, Richmond and De Anza. However, the football program has lacked discipline on the field or in the classroom for many years. The picture at the left is of a pre-season jamboree at Pitsburg H.S.
This year, BHS hired Alonzo Carter away from McClymonds in Oakland to rejuvenate the program and get its boys to study and stay in school. Carter calls himself the "real coach Carter" and his record at Mac was fantastic--several OAL championships and almost 60 students with 
scholarships in his 9 years there. Unfortunately for Mac, they couldn't give Carter a full-time job and BHS could. Now, Carter not only supervises more than 120 boys on the football team, but works on campus to provide security and guidance during the day.
Football provides motivation to keep more than 100 boys who have limited interest otherwise to stay in school. Football also teaches many boys without strong family units to work hard and to work with others.
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