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Fall Sports’ Alternate Reality: An Imagined Sports Future
With Football Delayed Indefinitely And Other Sports Forced To Adapt To Virus Concerns, NorCal’s Fall Sports Season Was Like No Other   EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a purely fictionalized look into NorCal’s 2020 fall sports future in a state and region still heavily affected by COVID-19. We composed it without... Read more
#NeverStop Project | Calling On Sports Passion In A Time Without Sports
As COVID-19 Keeps Athletes & Coaches Stuck At Home, SportStars Is Asking Them To Share Their Passion For Sports Through Stories, Essays And More — A Call To #NeverStop • So here we are. Stuck at home. With no sports to play. No sports to watch. No definitive end to... Read more
SportStars Girls Golf BIG 10 | NorCal’s Best Golfers (’10-’19)
SportStars’ 10 Year Anniversary Project Continues With Its Girls Golf Big 10 — The Magazine’s Top 10 NorCal Girls Golfers Of The Past 10 Seasons (2010-2019) • The SportStars Girls Golf Big 10 is the second offering to a 10-months long anniversary project to celebrate what will be 10... Read more
Grads Focus on Technique, Mobility at “The Foundation”
Building On Movement Technique, Proper Mobility Are Focal Points Of College Park Football Grads Who Co-Own Concord’s The Foundation training facility Daniel Adler’s training facility is known as The Foundation: House of Movement for a good reason. His goal is to get young athletes to move the right way.... Read more
ELLIE BUSHNELL Granite Bay – Golf – Freshman
SportStar of the Week –Ellie Bushnell, Granite Bay Golf, Freshman It would be hard to have a better first season of high school golf than Ellie Bushnell. Her stellar season potentially reached an apex on Nov. 4 when she fired a 5-under par 67 to take the top medalist... Read more
Rally in the Valley: San Ramon Jr.’s Take Third in League
Team Georgia Comes Back from Stunning Divisional Loss to Capture 8th PGA Jr. League Golf Championship. Team Texas finishes runner-up; California is third; and Minnesota fourth. SPECIAL: 11-year old Brody McQueen sinks dramatic 25-foot eagle to clinch championship Team Georgia’s journey through the 8th PGA Jr. League Championship presented... Read more
Granite Bay Golf: Diverse, Talented Roster Fuels Girls Powerhouse
NEW WORLD ORDER: A Young Phenom, Tested Veterans And An International Talent Has Granite Bay Golf Aiming For More Than Just A Fifth Straight SJS Girls Crown • On Oct. 14, Anika Varna shot a two-under-par 70 across 18 holes to lead Granite Bay Golf to its fifth straight... Read more
San Ramon All-Stars Win PGA Jr. League Section, Advance to Regionals
Update: San Ramon Wins PGA Jr. League Regionals! The San Ramon All-Stars won the PGA Jr. League Regional at Boulder Creek Golf Club to advance to the PGA Jr. League Championship presented by National Car Rental at Grayhawk Golf Club (Scottsdale, Arizona) Oct. 11-14. Below are the final results,... Read more
Youth on Course Golf Awards Students College Tuition Support
Latest round of college sponsorships propels Youth on Course over the $1.6 Million marker. Youth on Course, the non-profit renowned for providing affordable golf – awarded $258,000 in scholarships to 18 high school golf graduates, continuing its commitment to provide youth with access to high-quality education. This year’s scholarship... Read more
Luke Dugger, Davis Golf SportStar of the Week
You’d be hard-pressed to have a much better June than Luke Dugger had. Just weeks after graduating from Davis high school, Dugger shot a 5-under-par 67 at the Yolo Fliers Club in Woodland to qualify for a spot in the USGA Junior Amateur Championship. One week later he posted... Read more
Luke Dugger: Davis Golfer Reaches National Stage
Davis High 2019 Grad Gets A Taste Of The Big Stage After Qualifying For And Competing At The U.S. Junior Amateur Championships In Ohio • Like many kids, Luke Dugger grew up playing basketball and baseball. It wasn’t until age 13 when he and his friends decided to give... Read more
Bay Area 75 Rankings: 2018-19
We Reveal Our Annual Ranked Countdown Of The Bay Area Athletes Of The Year For The 2018-19 School Year • Below are the first 55 athletes from our seventh annual Bay Area 75 — SportStars’ rankings of the top 75 Bay Area athletes of the year from 2018-19. The Top... Read more