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Exclusive: Want Your Kids to Learn Self-Motivation?
Follow through and commitment? How about achieving their goals? In our ongoing dialogue about self-motivation, how do you motivate your kid to want to do what it takes to achieve their goals? It’s a big question, isn’t it? You can only remind them so many times before it sounds... Read more
Cynthia Lau Paves Way for Tennis Scholarship Recipients
Tennis Star Cynthia Lau Breaks Down Barriers, Sets Influential Example For Asian Women Women’s History Month, now celebrated annually in the United States, grew out of a weeklong celebration of women’s contributions to culture, history and society organized in 1979 within the Sonoma School District. The idea quickly caught... Read more
Monte Vista Girls Soccer: Old Reliable, New Ground
Monte Vista Girls Soccer Goes Where No Monte Vista Girls Soccer Team Has Gone Before — And That’s Saying Something Finally, the Monte Vista Girls Soccer-Danville girls soccer team could celebrate something it had never done before. The Mustangs became the first CIF NorCal Division I girls soccer champions... Read more
Four for Four: USTA Scholarships up for Grabs
Sandra Walle remembers walking wide-eyed into the array of possible clubs and organizations at high school freshman orientation. As she made my way through the maze of tables, she gravitated toward a group representing the tennis team. Eager to become involved she decided to try out for tennis. She... Read more
March Of The Mustangs
Monte Vista Prepares For Showdown With Mitty-San Jose — A Match Between Two Nationally Ranked Teams For The First CIF Div. I NorCal Title Monte Vista High-Danville girls soccer player Rachel Anderson loves this kind of matchup: just her against the goalkeeper. Awarded a penalty kick after a foul... Read more
Modesto Christian: CIF Basketball Open Division Tips-Off
Modesto Christian’s Deep, Versatile Bench Could Be The Crusader’s Best Weapon As CIF Basketball Open Division Tips-Off  As the postseason gets longer, the bench typically gets shorter. But the Modesto Christian boys’ basketball team still relies on the depth of its roster as the teams left with a shot... Read more
Heels of Winter Olympics, Figure Skaters Head to Roseville
Figure Skaters from Across the Nation Arrive in Roseville for the Gold Rush Dance and Showcase on Ice, March 17-18 at Skatetown Ice Arena. Figure Skaters: Capital City Figure Skating Club (CCFSC) and Placer Valley Tourism are gearing up for the Gold Rush Dance and Showcase Ice figure skaters competition taking... Read more
First Annual NorCal Wrestling Postseason Awards
SportStars’ NorCal Wrestling Writer, Ike Dodson, Dishes Out His First Annual NorCal Wrestling Postseason Awards In The Wake Of The CIF Wrestling Championships  How do you put a full NorCal Wrestling season of triumphs and heartbreaks — the result of countless hours of grass drills, weight cuts and sniffing... Read more
Oh My, Omania: CIF State Wrestling Championship
De La Salle’s Sr. Wrestler Captures First Gold In Program’s History With His Triumph In The 145-Pound Bracket at CIF State Wrestling Championship. Mark Halvorson’s heart sank when Tony Mendoza’s outstretched hand snaked toward the left foot of his De La Salle-Concord wrestling star, Peyton Omania, in the waning... Read more
Burlingame Boys Soccer “Super” Motivation
Embracing The Role Of Underdogs, Burlingame Boys Soccer Reached CIF NorCal Semifinals By Attempting To Mirror Mindset Of Super Bowl Champs • Though this was a CIF NorCal soccer playoff game, the Burlingame boys soccer team took a Super Bowl team’s mindset. “When we entered CCS, we were given... Read more
Learning the R.A.C.E. Formula to Perform to Your Potential
If you’re still with me in this ongoing conversation, you clearly connect with the messages I’ve been espousing, that young basketball players, like Tod, are carrying around mental/emotional baggage that interferes with ones ability to perform to your potential. Remember this equation:  Performance = Potential – Interference Let’s talk about some typical... Read more
2018 Baseball Preview: 20 Players To Watch
Prior To The 2018 High School Baseball Season, SportStars Highlights 20 NorCal Players To Keep An Eye On Click here to see our 20 Softball Players To Watch. Enjoy our SportStars High School Baseball Players Preview below. PITCHERS Titus Groenweg (Wood-Vacaville), Sr. — The CSU Fullerton-bound left-hander earned All- State... Read more