Sportstars
Happy summer, sports fans.       We all have approximately seven weeks before football teams hit the sleds again in mid-August. So, for now, while you’re catching rays and relaxing by the pool, we offer you this deluxe SportStars retrospective on the 2015-16 season of NorCal high school... Read more
Jr. Prep Sports FREE Combine
Jr. Prep Sports (JPS) is offering a FREE combine this Sunday, 06/12, at Pittsburg High School. Jr. Prep Sport is looking to select a team of the best 8th graders of 2016-2017 from Northern California to compete against the best from Hawaii and America Samoa at Aloha Stadium. When:... Read more
Walnut Creek Soccer Club hosts its “Invitational Challenge” each August. Heriitage Soccer, Pleasant Hill has its “Soccer Solutions” summer camps and Diablo Futbol Club (Concord) offers an academy. Of course, all these clubs have much more than just these, including rec programs, competitive teams, ODP (Olympic Development Programs). Heck,... Read more
Free Golf in Hawaii? Where do I sign up!
Free Golf in Hawaii? Where do I sign up!. From June through August, Kids can Play Free on the Ka’anapali Kai Course with a Paying Adult! 36 Holes, Infinite Incredible Views. it is Hawaii after all. Book a tee time Read more
Pass to Play: 4th Annual Sports Physical Event for Youth Athletes
Pass to Play: Fourth Annual Sports Physical Event for Youth Athletes Are you ready for the season? Get pre-participation evaluation and optional baseline concussion screenings by Muir Orthopaedic Specialists. Optional cardiac screenings are provided in collaboration with American Medical Response (AMR) and the Darius Jones Foundation. Select vendors will... Read more
De Anza Welcomes A New Don
Baseball is one of the great equalizing sports. Especially at the high school level. A team may be better than its opponent over the course of a season, but one strong outing from a good pitcher “” or an abnormally bad outing by one “” can tilt the scale on... Read more
SportStars’ All-NorCal Basketball Teams
THRILLING 30: Our first, second and third teams for boys and girls 2015-16 SportStars All-NorCal Basketball Teams BOYS FIRST TEAM PLAYER OF THE YEAR SOLOMON YOUNG | 6-7, Forward | Sacramento | Sr. The Dragons’ big man led Sacramento to a 30-win campaign that included a Sac-Joaquin Section Div.... Read more
Swing. WIN. Repeat
Jesuit’s David Laskin logged countless hours toward becoming one of the Sac-Joaquin Section’s best golfers  EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published in April 2016. View the full layout here.  Story By JIM McCUE | Photos by JAMES K. LEASH Practice can’t necessarily make perfect, particularly in golf. But, practice... Read more
State Breakdown: Bringing Out The Best
   For some, high school football is a year-round activity. For others, it doesn’t come into focus until teams start to practice in the August heat. But for me, the start of the next high school football season has always been the Northern California Nike Football showcase event that... Read more
Girl’s Basketball- Transition Game
In girl’s basketball there’s a rule of thumb about the constant traffic in transfer rumors: Believe them when you see the girl going to class at the school she’s supposedly going to attend. In the case of Sierra Smith, a starting guard for national-power St. Mary’s-Stockton last year, there’s... Read more
The Summer Trap: Exposure Gets You Seen, But Only Training Makes You Better
   It seems nowadays more and more parents of athletes are coming to my gym in hopes of getting their athletes healthy again, playing at the level they once were capable. After years of struggling through pain and injury they get to a point where their athlete just can’t... Read more
Maxime Rooney
SportStar Of The Week | Granada-Livermore | Swimming | Senior (2016) • The Matadors’ University of Florida-bound star won the 200-yard freestyle final in 1 minute, 33.7 seconds at the NCS Championships on May 14. The time set a national high school record that would stand for only a... Read more