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Jonesin’ In July

CalHiSports Insights July 6, 2016 0

If you’re a die-hard high school sports fan, July can be a tough month. In June, you can coast off the adrenaline of the section and state championships that wrap up at the beginning of the month. In August, you can start reading football season previews at... Read more

Best College Advice For High School Student Athletes

CalHiSports Insights HS / CLUB Soccer Soccer July 6, 2016 0

Who Knows Best? A lot people are giving college advice for high school student athletes and where to go to college. I’d like to play soccer, but I don’t really know how good I am. Some people say I can play Division I, and one of my coaches said I... Read more

Putting A Bow On 2016-2016

CalHiSports Insights June 15, 2016 0

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

Hollywood Here We Come

CalHiSports Insights June 1, 2016 0

SportStars will be experiencing a first this month, and many of around headquarters are excited about it. For the first time in our six-plus years, we were asked to appear on television so that our vast knowledge of NorCal high school sports could be broadcast to the... Read more

License To Drill

CalHiSports Insights June 1, 2016 0

Conditioning, Strength Workouts Are Good, But Not As Important As Skills Development Some guys spend the whole summer just working out. They do conditioning and lifting plus they do a lot of skill work. I’m working this summer and I don’t have the money to join a gym and... Read more

License To Drill

CalHiSports Insights June 1, 2016 0

Conditioning, Strength Workouts Are Good, But Not As Important As Skills Development Some guys spend the whole summer just working out. They do conditioning and lifting plus they do a lot of skill work. I Read more

Five for Spring

Baseball CalHiSports Insights High School Baseball/Softball May 4, 2016 0

When did May get here? Weren’t we just writing about our All-NorCal football teams and previewing baseball and softball? For whatever reason, it often feels like no high school sporting season goes by faster than spring. As a sports writer, it always feels like we emerge from the basketball... Read more

New Coach: Walk Softly & Win Games

CalHiSports Insights May 4, 2016 0

We just got a new coach and he came in and changed everything without even talking to us about it. Now we’re all confused and it seems like we’re just starting over. Wouldn’t it make more sense to see who’s on the team and do some of the things... Read more

BEHIND THE CLIPBOARD: Group Therapy

CalHiSports Insights April 8, 2016 0

I really like to run the 100 (meters), but my coach not only makes me run the 200 some of the time, he also wants me to do relays. I hate relays because I don’t like to depend on other people. I want whatever happens to be up... Read more

Spring Break – Summer Camp Salvation

CalHiSports Insights April 1, 2016 0

I ran across this blog post the other day for summer camp directors, called Camp Directors: Spring Break is a Parental Preview of Summer. As we well know, it’s serious business marketing our summer camp programs, so I feel compelled to share it with you. And as the largest... Read more

HEY! That’s MY kid!

CalHiSports Insights March 18, 2016 0

Published in Issue #113 / March 2016 Hello sports fans! Welcome to spring. As I write this, the sun is blazing through my office window from a pleasant 71 degree afternoon in Concord. I’m wearing shorts and a t-shirt. All of which makes it only feel right... Read more

BEHIND THE CLIPBOARD: Pressing Matters

Basketball CalHiSports Insights High School Basketball November 20, 2015 0

There’s this one really good team in our league, and they press all the time. It’s really hard to play against them, and we just keep turning the ball over. My dad wonders why we don’t press, because it works so well, and I do too. If a team... Read more