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Oak Ridge Volleyball: Gracie Rowland
Oak Ridge Senior Gracie Rowland Is Leading An Inspired Postseason Run By The Trojans • In her fourth year of varsity high school volleyball, outside hitter Gracie Rowland is helping to lead the Trojans on an inspired postseason run. Oak Ridge likely assured itself an automatic berth to the... Read more
James Logan Volleyball: Colt Blooded
NorCal’s No. 1-Ranked Team Headed Into November, James Logan Isn’t A Prototypical Volleyball Power — But The Colts Have Learned How To Win, And Now They Want Banners • Imposing? Nah. Intimidating? Hardly. But the James Logan High girls volleyball team gets the job done, again and again. Short... Read more
Best of the West Basketball and Volleyball Hits the Hardwood
Regency Baptist Academy from Orangevale will be teaming up with Placer Valley Tourism to bring the Best of the West Basketball and Volleyball Tournament back to Hardwood Palace in Rocklin on Nov. 6-8. This will be the third installment for this exciting three-day tournament featuring high school girls volleyball... Read more
5 Steps to Create an Environment for Kids to Succeed or Fail
Our Children Are Amazing, So Why Do We Keep Messing With Them? As parents, way too often we tend to fixate on our children’s failures. We look at their grades, their inability to hit a baseball or make a basket as failure, rather than focusing on their effort and... Read more
High School Athletes Video “Day In The Life” Voting Contest Presented by Fantag
SportStars has made a goal this school year to include more High School Athletes Video with its storytelling. Hopefully our more regular readers have noticed. As we begin to close out fall and transition to winter sports, we’re planning a pair of “Day In The Life” video feature projects... Read more
CalHi Sports SoCal NorCal Players of the Week
Coming off of a three-week absence due to injury may not have ever been done better than how Sean McDonald of Ramona High did last Friday. We’re also honoring one of three CIF Central Section QBs who should surpass 10,000 career yards on the same night this week. This... Read more
St. Francis Volleyball: Troubie Tough
With A Delta League Title And No. 1 Seed Already Secured By The Sacramento Power, St. Francis Volleyball Begins The Second Season As A Force To Be Reckoned With • Sorry boys, but if your Homecoming date plays the St. Francis volleyball team, you’re officially on standby. That’s because... Read more
Placer United Soccer Girls Cup Packs the House
Nearly 3,000 Youth Female Soccer Players to Compete Oct. 26-28 in Placer Valley Placer Valley Tourism (PVT) is teaming up with Placer United Soccer Club for the biggest and most competitive all-female fall soccer tournament in Northern California. Oct. 26-28 the Placer United Girls Cup returns, bringing nearly 3,000... Read more
Pleasant Grove’s Bright Lights
Youngest Light Sisters Are Helping Pleasant Grove Volleyball Illuminate A Path Toward Sac-Joaquin Section Glory • It is the middle of an era of sorts for the Pleasant Grove volleyball program. It’s an era of Light, as in the Light sisters. And while the two youngest Light sisters, Vivian and... Read more
What’s In A High School Nickname?
Every once in a while, in an effort to attract perhaps more casual fans to the CalHiSports.com website, we engage in what we like to call the nickname game. This is an exercise in going over some of the most unique, most appropriate and favorite high school nicknames (or... Read more
Power Hungry: Elite NCVA Clubs Prepare For Boys Power League Season
If the Northern California Volleyball Association’s Boys Power League Qualifiers on Sept. 15-16 and Sept. 22-23 were any indication, club volleyball fans should prepare for more of what they saw in 2017. Which is a lot of Mountain View Volleyball Club, Northern California Volleyball Club and Bay To Bay... Read more
Walnut Creek Surf Soccer Scores on the Beach & Valley
Surf Champions Cup Winners! U19’s Come Up Big on the Beach, Post Win in the Valley As if Walnut Creek Surf Soccer Club hasn’t had enough newsworthy success lately. Their 00/01 BB were finalists at the 2018 North Huntington Beach Tournament. Led by head Coach Paul Curtis, “the team had... Read more