Sportstars
Clash Splash: Keshad Johnson Shines At Hoop Showcase
NorCal Clash Provides Proving Ground And Newest San Leandro High Standout Makes The Most Of It • In a basketball all-star event like the NorCal Clash, players are preparing for their move from the high school stage onto a larger platform: the college game. It’s an evolutionary stage for these... Read more
NCVA’s Nine High Performance Teams Show Well At National Event
Another sparkling summer for the NCVA and its member clubs wrapped up at the end of July as the organization’s NorCal High Performance program sent nine different teams to compete in the USA Volleyball High Performance Championships in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With five boys teams and four girls teams, NCVA... Read more
Mack Keeps Truckin’: McClymonds Looks To Remain King Of Oakland Football
You lose 18 of 30 players to graduation or transfer and there’s reason for concern. But McClymonds- Oakland football coach Michael Peters just rolls with the punches. That’s how it works in West Oakland. The Warriors have suffered their unfair share of pain and tragedy, including the death last month... Read more
Northern Section Lights: NS Football’s Four Big Questions
There’s Plenty To Watch For In the Northern Section This Football Season — We Take A Look At Some Of The Biggest Storylines To Follow • Some things are automatic for Northern Section football. Linemen will grow humongous, section officials will refuse to start football early and someone will be... Read more
Berean Christian Football: Size Advantage
With A Roster Of Less Than Thirty, The Berean Christian Eagles Are Happy To Play Underdogs In A Much Larger League — And Prepare For A Real Run At A Division V Section Crown • As an outsider looking in, it would be perfectly understandable to argue a small... Read more
What Multi Sport Athletes Actually Struggle With
I recently just got this in an email from a coach who had watched all 3 R.A.C.E. videos who said about his Multi Sport Athletes, “That’s all great theory, Craig, Tell me how to antidote the real problems I have with my athletes right now, like these: Great in practice, but not in... Read more
Hawaii State Jr. Golf Match Play Champions
HSJGA Hawaii at Ka’anapoli’s Courses Crowns its Royalty. After grinding it out in Saturday’s heat at the Hawaii State Jr. Golf Match Play Championships, second seed Joshua Hayashida outwitted first seed Marshall Kim in 21 holes Sunday to take home the trophy in the Boys 13-14 Championship Match. Kim ongas 1Up... Read more
Hawaii’s Top Jr. Golfers Take on Ka’anapali HSJGA Match Play
39 of Hawaii’s top Jr. golfers competed Saturday in the annual Ka’anapali HSJGA Match Play Championship on the Ka’anapali Kai Course.  Maui’s hot and humid weather took a toll on several players during the second round of play, but there were no real surprises in the leaderboard heading into... Read more
Clear the Fear: Nothing Grows in a Toxic Environment
Nothing grows in a toxic environment til you clear the fear – that mental baggage we all carry around. So here’s an interesting way to think of things. Young competitors and performers are like plants! Let’s say you come home from the nursery with a small plant in one of... Read more
How to Set a Goal, Plan to Reach it and Dream
“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent. Doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”~ Henri-Frederic Amiel Imagine Parents, Teachers, Coaches… if your athlete, player, or child that you so care about showed up with a DREAM — set a GOAL based on that DREAM and a plan to... Read more
Football 2018: Liberty’s Encore Roar
A Liberty-Brentwood Team With A Stacked Roster Aims For More NCS Glory After 2017 Championship Breakthrough • What a night! Second one of December in 2017. They won’t forget it. Not Liberty High School, the 116-year-old school at the heart of Brentwood, the agricultural community of over 60,000 in... Read more
Sac-Joaquin Realignment: All Shook Up
Placer’s Move To Div. III-Size Foothill Valley League Among Storylines In Sac-Joaquin Section Realignment • Michael Stuck had to crane his neck and shout to be heard on the Placer High practice field Aug. 1.  The Auburn school’s three-year quarterback kept such a furious pace during conditioning that his... Read more