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How to Maximize Your Golf Training

Central Coast Section Central Section Golf High School Golf Los Angeles City Section North Coast Section Northern Section Oakland Section Sac-Joaquin Section San Diego Section San Francisco Section Sections SoCal Edition Southern Section October 19, 2021 0

Want to know how to maximize your golf training? Putting these tips into practice can improve your game from its very foundations. Give them a try! Photo by Daniel Stenholm on Unsplash Golf may seem like an easy, relaxed sport. But if you want to take it a step... Read more

Are We There Yet? | High School Football In Search Of Normalcy

Central Coast Section Central Section High School Football High School Sports Features Los Angeles City Section North Coast Section Northern Section Oakland Section Sac-Joaquin Section San Diego Section San Francisco Section Southern Section August 18, 2021 0

Fall High School Football Is Back, But “Normal” Is Defined Differently Campus To Campus. Coaches Weigh In On What Is Normal As The Lights Prepare To Come Back On • On a typically hot mid-August afternoon, everything felt normal at College Park High School. About an hour after the... Read more

Leave The Clipboard | New Football Coaches Adjust To Changed Landscape

Central Coast Section Central Section High School Football Los Angeles City Section North Coast Section Northern Section Oakland Section Sac-Joaquin Section San Diego Section San Francisco Section Southern Section August 18, 2021 0

For New Football Coaches, Old Methods Don’t Apply To Socially-Distanced Sidelines And Team Rooms • So you want to run your own high school football program? Try figuring out how to do it during a global pandemic. The learning curve associated with taking over a program is steep under... Read more

California Coaches Join West Coast Colleagues In Restart Push

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California Coaches Join West Coast Coaching Alliance In Hopes To Inform, Lobby Local & State Officials Regarding Sports Restart • We’ve reached the point where California coaches know they need more than trending hashtags to be heard. There’s less than four weeks remaining before the CIF’s Dec. 7 start... Read more

California’s Top Wrestler Rankings – September 2020

Central Coast Section Central Section High School Wrestling Pinned by TCW Los Angeles City Section North Coast Section Northern Section Oakland Section Rankings Sac-Joaquin Section San Diego Section San Francisco Section Southern Section September 30, 2020 0

Feature image: 120 – RICHARD FIGUEROA (Selma, CS, 12) 3x California State Champion/#1 Nation California’s Top Wrestler Rankings by Open Mat are contributed by SportStars INSIDER, Al Fontes of The California Wrestler. Rankings by Weight Class 106 – Aden Valencia (Ann Sobrato, CC, 9) #4 106 – Isaiah Quintero... Read more

Bryson’s First Pitch: Resorting To Imagination

#NeverStop Project Blog Central Coast Section Central Section Los Angeles City Section North Coast Section Northern Section Oakland Section Sac-Joaquin Section San Diego Section San Francisco Section Sections Southern Section Uncategorized July 14, 2020 0

Bryson’s First Pitch July 2020: The sports dimmer switch is dialed all the way up. Just when we thought we were out, it pulled us back in. As coronavirus cases rise throughout the state, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom scales back that sports “dimmer switch”, the July 20 target... Read more

2020 AWN’s High School All-American Team

Central Coast Section Central Section High School Wrestling Pinned by TCW Rankings Southern Section June 18, 2020 0

A bevy of seniors top 2020 AWN’s High School All-American Team. Gonzales, Figueroa, Vasquez, and Saldate earn First Team Honors. With more than 10,000 high schools across the country sponsoring wrestling programs for more than 250,000 athletes, it’s easy to see how picking the crème de la crème of... Read more

MLB Draft 2020: Seven NorCal Natives Selected, Two Stay In Bay

Central Coast Section Central Section High School Baseball/Softball North Coast Section Northern Section Oakland Section Sac-Joaquin Section San Francisco Section June 15, 2020 0

Detroit Tigers Take Former Casa Grande High Slugger Spencer Torkelson No. 1 Overall As Seven Former NorCal Standouts Are Chosen In Five-Round MLB Draft • The two-day 2020 MLB Draft started with a bang for local fans as Case Grande-Petaluma’s Spencer Torkelson was drafted first overall by the Detroit... Read more

SportStars: 10 Years of Sports Coverage • A Decade of Gratitude!

#NeverStop Project Big 10 Anniversary Project Central Coast Section Central Section Los Angeles City Section North Coast Section Northern Section Oakland Section Sac-Joaquin Section San Diego Section San Francisco Section Southern Section Special Editions June 12, 2020 10

SportStars 10th Anniversary Special Edition is now Live Online A mammoth 70-page effort jam-packed with Best Of’s, Player Spotlights, Memories, Favorites, Amazing Photography and More. 10 Years of Sports Coverage. A Decade of Gratitude! Honor. Encourage. Inspire. Thank you Reader Friends! #NeverStop #SportStarsNow Mike, Sharon, Chace, MikeD, Ryan... 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

SportStar Ashley Hiraki Mitty Girls Basketball

Central Section High School Basketball SportStars of the Week March 16, 2020 0

Ashley Hiraki, Archbishop Mitty-San Jose — Basketball – Senior named SportStar of the Week Amidst the concern and confusion of the COVID-19 outbreak, stellar student-athletes continue find ways of standing out. And wowing us! At the time this piece was written, girls (and all) high school basketball has been... Read more

CIF Wrestling Preview: A Weight-By-Weight Boys & Girls Breakdown

Central Coast Section Central Section High School Wrestling Pinned by TCW Los Angeles City Section North Coast Section Northern Section Sac-Joaquin Section San Diego Section Southern Section February 27, 2020 0

SportStars’ Wrestling Guru, Ike Dodson, Runs Down Each Division Listing Favorites As Well As NorCal’s Top Contenders, Dark Horses • 2020 CIF Wrestling Preview The walls of Mechanics Banks (formerly Rabobank) Arena will soon be singing the sweet melody of state championship wrestling. Thursday’s pigtail rounds open 28 brackets... Read more