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SportStar Of The Week: Aquira DeCosta
St. Mary’s-Stockton – Basketball – Senior Showing why she’s one of the nation’s top talents for the Class of 2018, DeCosta was nothing short of phenomenal in leading the U.S. to gold at the FIBA U18 Women’s 3×3 World Cup in Chengdu, China. DeCosta was named the World Cup... Read more
Walnut Creek Aquanuts Medal at Synchronized Swimming Jr. Olympics
The Walnut Creek Aquanuts finished a fifth day of competition in Riverside, CA at the U.S. Junior Olympics where they competed against the top age group athletes in the country. Two hundred and fifty 11-12 year olds and three hundred and seventy one 13-15 year olds have completed the... Read more
NorCal’s Biggest Tennis Tournament Just Got Bigger!
Bank of the West Classic | July 31 – August 6, 2017 | Stanford University The Bank of the West Classic is the longest-running women-only professional tennis tournament in the world and is the first stop of the US Open Series. Owned and operated by IMG, the WTA Premier... Read more
Turning Heads
Given Their Own Chance To Shine, NorCal’s Asian-American Hoopers Made The Most Of Their First All-Star Event • Story By CHACE BRSON | Photos By SAMUEL STRINGER Kobe Ordonio hit his fifth 3-pointer of the game and the NorCal Asian Senior All-Stars bench shot up in excitement while the... Read more
SportStar Of The Week: Bryn Evans of St. Ignatius
St. Ignatius-S.F. – Lacrosse – Senior Playing for the top program on the West Coast, Evans was the only California boys lacrosse player named to a USA Today All-USA team (when the publication released its top three teams on June 28). Evans was named as a Third-Team midfielder. He... Read more
SportStars Vault: Lancers Baseball Living Large
  SportStars Vault (Issue 83, April 2014): John Gavin And The St. Francis Baseball Tradition Of Major League Talent •   EDITOR’S NOTE: We’re re-running this story from 2014 to celebrate former St. Francis-Mountain View star, John Gavin, signing his first professional baseball contract today (June 27, 2016) with... Read more
Walnut Creek Aquanut Synchro Swimmers Go International This Summer!
The Walnut Creek Aquanuts competitive program is proud to send swimmers ages 11-17 all over the world this summer! 20 members head to the Junior Olympics in Riverside, California June 31-July 8 to compete against top teams from around the country. The club’s 13-15A team will compete at the... Read more
USA Wins Gold with Aquamaids in Team at  Synchro America Open 
Team USA’s mixed duet places first in tech; 3 Olympians place on Olympic Day  The U.S. senior national team won gold and its mixed duet placed first in tech Friday at the Synchro America Open presented by Le Rêve – The Dream. Swimming to an African theme that included songs from... Read more
For Our Friend
Putting together our Yearbook retrospective is always refreshing. To be honest, we may enjoy going back through our year’s worth of coverage as much as you enjoy thumbing through it once we’re done. Nothing but fun memories and good honest feels. As it should be. The stars of all... Read more
SPORTSTAR OF THE WEEK: Equestrian Gabrielle Burshteyn
SportStar Of The Week – Equestrian Gabrielle Burshteyn Sr. Bentley-Lafayette Equestrian Gabrielle Burshteyn has certainly “earned her spurs” in horsemanship. She grew up riding horses for Nancy Dupont at Castle Rock Arabians. There, she bought her first horse, Karee from Nancy and learned her advance skills from the most outstanding... Read more
Bay Area 75 (2016-17): #75-51
Welcome to the fifth annual Bay Area 75 — SportStars’ countdown of the top 75 Bay Area athletes from the 2016-17 school year. The only criteria used in generating the list were that the athletes must be from one of the nine Bay Area counties, and they must have... Read more