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SportStars’ Girls Volleyball BIG 10 | NorCal’s Best Players (’10-’19)
SportStars’ Anniversary Project Begins With The Girls Volleyball Big 10 — Our Top 10 NorCal Girls Volleyball Players From The Past 10 Seasons (2010-2019) • Welcome to the SportStars’ Girls Volleyball BIG 10.  This is an installation to our Big 10 Project: A 10-months long anniversary project to celebrate... Read more
Aidan Mahaney Campo Basketball SportStar of the Week
Aidan Mahaney, Campolindo Moraga Basketball, Sophomore named SportStar of the Week. One season after being named the Cal-Hi Sports Boys Basketball State Freshman of the Year, Aidan Mahaney picked up right where he left off. At the halfway mark of the regular season (through 13 games), Mahaney was averaging... Read more
Maddy Goldberg: Foothill Soccer GK Is Keeping It 100
Pleasanton’s Maddy Goldberg Is Taking Charge — And One Of NorCal’s Best Goalkeepers Has Foothill Off To A Strong Start • Don’t expect Maddy Goldberg to quietly, unassumingly hang out around the goal box. The always-vocal Foothill High junior is constantly in motion, whether the action is headed her... Read more
SportStar Alan Lloyd YV Football Comes Up Big
SportStars Names ‘Star of the Week’: Alan Lloyd, Ygnacio Valley-Concord Football Sr. This weeks’ SportStar Alan Lloyd shined in the defensive secondary while competing in the Jr. Prep Sports California Patriot Bowl senior All-Star game on Dec, 28 at Diablo Valley College. _______________________________ CONNECT WITH US: Follow SportStars on Twitter & Instagram | Like us on Facebook | Subscribe!... Read more
SportStars Final NorCal Football Rankings | 2019’s Top 30
FINAL RANKINGS: Bay Area Teams Take Top Four Spots In Our Expanded 2019 Final NorCal Football Rankings • Final NorCal Football Rankings — Like this page (above) and leave your name in comments (below) for a shot at winning a sweet SportStars T-shirt! 1. (1)  —  De La Salle-Concord   12-2 COMMENT:... Read more
Monte Vista’s Sarah Brans – SportStar of the Week
Sarah Brans, Monte Vista-Danville’s Basketball Soph. Posts Double-Double earning here SportStar of the Week accolades One of the youngest varsity teams in the East Bay got off to a stellar 7-2 start thanks in large part to the efforts of Sarah Brans. Brans posted a double-double of 18 points... Read more
Salesian Girls Basketball: Pride Powers Way To Diamond Delight
Richmond Power Showcases Its Talented, Balanced And Grit-Filled Roster En Route To Winning West Coast Jamboree’s Diamond Division • There was a moment during the Salesian girls basketball game with Miramonte-Orinda when the raucous crowd fell silent.  It came as guard Alexsandra Alvarado went down on the Las Lomas... Read more
SportStars NorCal Wrestling Team Rankings | Dec. 24
Gilroy Leads The Pack, But It’s Not A Runaway As Vacaville, Pitman, Del Oro And Oakdale All Trail By Narrow Margins • All season, SportStars will align the best wrestlers of each weight class, and the top teams in Northern California into lists of the 10 or 15 best.... Read more
Favorite 2019 SportStars Cover | Vote For Your Regional Favorites
We’ve Chosen A Dozen Finalists And Now We Leave It To Our Fans To Vote For Their Favorite 2019 SportStars Covers From Each Region • As we enter the final week of 2019, we thought we’d have some fun with a contest to decide our best covers of the... Read more
Cardinal Newman: Cardinals Football Collectively Says ‘No Flippin’ Way’
Two Years After The Tubbs Fire, And One Year After A Coin Flip Ended Its Season, Cardinal Newman Football Wasn’t Going To Waste Its Shot Jackson Pavitt stood near midfield teetering on the edge of being emotionally wrecked. The Cardinal Newman High quarterback had just delivered another one of... Read more
Jackson Pavitt Cardinal Newman Football, SportStar of the Week
Jackson Pavitt Cardinal Newman-Santa Rosa — Football — Senior Named SportStar of the Week Jackson Pavitt has been one of NorCal’s most dangerous dual-threat quarterbacks over the past two seasons. He closed his Cardinal’s career with a signature performance. Pavitt rushed for 176 yards and two touchdowns and threw for... Read more
CIF Football: Underdog De La Salle Set For Bosco Battle
De La Salle Steels Itself To Challenge National No. 1 St. John Bosco In The CIF Football Open Division State Championship • When you are as good as national No. 1-ranked St. John Bosco High-Bellflower, the array of talent never ends. With more than two dozen college recruits and threats... Read more