NOTES AND QUOTES for a Saturday in the Napa Valley:

Kelsey Lew, a former Napa High School spiritleader captain, is attending UC Berkeley and is on the 17-member Cal dance team.

Lew, a 2008 NHS graduate, and the Cal dance team perform song-leading style cheers at Cal football games and pregame rallies, as well as at Golden Bears’ volleyball matches in the fall. Members of the team are also provided with the opportunity to travel to other campuses throughout the Pacific-10 Conference and other colleges to cheer on Cal during televised Cal football games.

In the winter, the Cal dance team supports the men’s and women’s basketball teams for audiences at Haas Pavilion in Berkeley. The dancers also get the opportunity to highlight their dance styles, talents and techniques by performing a variety of halftime routines at all home basketball games.

This is Lew’s second year at Cal and her first year on the Cal dance team. She is majoring in media studies and has 16 years of dance experience.

Lew had to make it through an extremely intense three-phased audition process before being selected.

There were three rounds of cuts in the tryout selection process.

The first round involved learning a dance routine and a cheer and performing it in front of six judges.

Those that moved on to the second round learned 12 short pom routines, one to each of the 12 Cal fight songs, in a two-week period and performed them in front of the two head coaches.

The third round came after summer conditioning and training.

The final candidates participated in an intense, physical training of eight hours a day, five days a week in July and August. In the middle of August, right before school started, the coaches made the third cut based on the summer training program.

The selected team members next attended college dance camp with the United Dance Association at UC Santa Barbara in preparation for their new season.

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Four Napa Valley Swim Team swimmers — Chardonnay Biter-Mundt, Megan Morris, Brittany Sicard and Curtis Tinloy — recently competed at the California/Nevada Senior Section Swimming Championships in Clovis.

Biter-Mundt, now a freshman at the University of Utah, had some standout performances, producing a lifetime best time of 58.47 and a ninth-place finish in the 100-meter freestyle (out of 330 competitors) and a strong time of 26.92 and a sixth-place finish in the 50 freestyle (out of 319).

The Senior Section meet (also referred to as the Speedo Champions Series) is held twice annually, one time each in the long course and short course seasons, and is the championship meet for the fastest swimmers throughout California and Nevada. This season’s meet attracted over 1,200 athletes from the two states.

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University of Oregon free safety John Boyett, a Napa High graduate, is tied for sixth in the Pacific-10 Conference in tackles going into today’s game against UC Berkeley at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Ore.

Boyett, a redshirt freshman who intercepted his first pass for Oregon last week against Utah, is averaging 7.3 tackles per game after three games.

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A special wine tasting with Mario Andretti takes place today from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Andretti Winery, 4162 Big Ranch Rd., Napa.

Mario Andretti is co-founder of the winery, which will have its newest releases and award-winning wines available.

The tasting fee of $10 includes one tasting; additional tastings may be purchased for $5 each.

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Haylee Yepson, the most improved gymnast as a freshman, has started her sophomore year at Seattle Pacific University. Yepson, a Napa High graduate, started on the team last year.

She is ranked nationally in the top 400 in the vault and in top 500 in the beam and bars.

In NCAA Division II, Yepson is ranked 19th in vault, 21st in uneven bars, and 20th in beam.

She continues to excel academically, making the Dean’s List all three quarters with a 3.8 GPA as a biology major.

Yepson is a former member of the North Bay Athletic Association.

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Running back Frank Gore of the San Francisco 49ers is the NFC Offensive Player of the Week for games played the second week of the 2009 season.

Gore rushed for 207 yards and totaled a career-high 246 scrimmage yards in the 49ers’ 23-10 win over Seattle. He had touchdown runs of 79 and 80 yards, joining Pro Football Hall of Famer Barry Sanders as the only players in NFL history with two touchdown runs of at least 75 yards in a game.

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The Golden State Warriors open their 2009 training camp at the team’s practice facility in Oakland on Tuesday. It continues through Oct. 3.

The Warriors begin their preseason NBA schedule against the Los Angeles Clippers on Oct. 4 at Oracle Arena in Oakland.

E-mail Executive Sports Editor Marty James at mjames@napanews.com or call 256-2223.