Sportstars
Be Recruited by a College Coach. 3 Ways to Stand Out
High School Rugby Tournaments, as well as camps and clinics, are continuing to grow as the best places to be recruited by a college rugby (or other sport) coach. Top tournaments attract the cream of the crop. Meaning a big chunk of the nation’s top talent can be found... Read more
Competitive Cheer: Aiming For New Heights Under CIF
Traditional Competitive Cheer And Its Acrobatic Form, Stunt, Both Gain Boosts From CIF Recognition — Woodcreek High Eyes Second State Stunt Crown • Her arms outstretched, Woodcreek High competitive cheer athlete Alyssa Guillen bent her knees and dropped to the bottom of the pyramid, bracing for a millisecond against... Read more
Treven Crowley: Hilmar’s Double Impact Star
Born At Half The Size Of His Twin Brother, Hilmar Junior Treven Crowley Has Grown Up To Become A Star On Both Football And Baseball Field • As with any athlete, digging into statistics can reveal a lot of reasons why Hilmar High’s Treven Crowley is one of the... Read more
Biggest Junior Tournaments of the Year
NorCal Juniors Honor Roll: March 2019 As we close the first quarter of 2019, we take a look back at one of the biggest junior tournaments of the year: the Easter Bowl in Indian Wells, CA. Prior to the Easter Bowl, Team NorCal also played at the USTA Southern... Read more
Haley Jones: ’18-’19 NorCal Girls Player Of The Year
Archbishop Mitty’s All-American, Haley Jones, Cements Her Legacy Among NorCal’s Greatest Girls Hoops Talents With Another Do-It-All Season • It’s no surprise that Haley Jones is the SportStars’ Girls Basketball Player of the Year for the second straight season. Coming into the season, she was widely considered the top... Read more
Marcus Bagley: ’18-’19 NorCal Boys Player Of The Year
Sheldon-Sacramento 6-foot-8 Wing Marcus Bagley Delivered On The Expectations That Accompanied His Out-Of-State Arrival • Marcus Bagley lived up to his preseason hype.  Coming into the 2018-19 boys basketball season, Bagley’s addition to an already strong Sheldon High team made it one of the most explosive and most dangerous teams... Read more
Kyle Harrison: De La Salle Baseball’s Kyle Cool
With Unshakeable Poise, Hard-Throwing Kyle Harrison Is Dominating Opposing Batters And A Big Part Of The Spartans’ 9-1 Start To 2019 • It’s no stretch to say Kyle Harrison was businesslike from the day he was born. OK … maybe the day after. “He was born in San Jose... Read more
4x State Medalist Caleb Flores Takes Reigns at Vanguard
(Q&A) With New Vanguard University Head Coach Caleb Flores This decade, the Golden State of California has experienced an increase of wrestling opportunities on the collegiate level, and specifically with programs in the NAIA Division. At the beginning of the new Millennium, we witnessed the fielding of Menlo College... Read more
UC Elite 16 Wins First Trip to Jr. Nationals
Precisely the spike that was needed! UC ELITE Volleyball Club of Union City and Hayward secured a national spot with a Pacific Northwest Qualifier win this weekend in Spokane. It’s the teams first bid to the Jr. Nationals since its 2015 inception. According to head volleyball coach, Matt Guzman... Read more
UPDATE: Royalty In Redding – Quick 6 Airs it Out in The City
Update: 2019 GOLDEN GREAT 7-on-7  STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS SUNDAY – APRIL 7, 2019  are here. City College of San Francisco hosts. 16-Team Roster So Far. Get updates at Quick6.org The Last Of Quick 6’s Four Regional Qualifying 7-On-7 Football Tournaments — Air To The Throne — Arrives In Redding On March 24 • The 7-on-7... Read more
Cooper Hjerpe, Woodland Baseball SportStar of the Week
The Oregon State-bound lefty could do no wrong. Our 2018 FIRST TEAM ALL-NORCAL BASEBALL pick, Cooper Hjerpe, the Sr. Woodland High School Baseball player earns our SportStar of the Week title. During Woodland’s 14-0 win over Mira Loma on March 26, he went 3-for-4 at the plate with a... Read more
“Negative emotions accumulate and become an entity of their own.” ― Eckhart Tolle Psychologist Larry Steinberg did a study on adolescence looking at 10,000 American teenagers. In it he found that teens with warm, respectful, and demanding parents earned higher grades in school. He also found them to be... Read more