Acalanes Water Polo Charges Toward A North Coast Section Repeat, Powered By Jewel Roemer — Arguably The Bay Area’s Biggest Water Polo Talent Since Maggie Steffens • Jewel Roemer amazes in many ways. Foremost might be her positive energy, which shines like the sun. And there’s her mastery of the... Read more

POWER TRIP: A Senior Core Stocked With Heavy Hitters Looks To Lead Bishop O’Dowd Volleyball Back To The State Finals • Aggression. Intimidation. These are not words usually associated with girls volleyball  —  after all, there’s a net separating the two teams, and contact is not only infrequent, it’s forbidden. But it’s how... Read more

Peyton Omania of Michigan State to take Olympic redshirt to pursue spot on U.S. Olympic Greco-Roman team Michigan State wrestling freshman Peyton Omania elected to take an Olympic redshirt for the 2019-20 season, MSU wrestling head coach Roger Chandler announced Wednesday. See SportStars story, Omania: CIF State Wrestling Championship Omania, from... Read more

Paul Doherty Ushers In A New Era Folsom Football That Should Look A Lot Like The Bulldogs Of Recent Years — Perhaps An Even Faster Version • When longtime head coach Kris Richardson left the Folsom football program to join his former co-coach Troy Taylor at Sacramento State in December,... Read more

SportStars Opens The 2019 High School Football Season With Our NorCal Preseason Top 30 Rankings • NorCal Preseason Top 30. All records are from 2018 1. DE LA SALLE-CONCORD (11-1) FINAL 2018 NORCAL RANK: 1 OUTLOOK: No surprise here. The Spartans enter 2019 with 27 straight North Coast Section championships,... Read more

SportStars’ 2019 Preseason All-NorCal Football Team Features 44 Players Representing Five Different NorCal Sections • Welcome to our Preseason All-NorCal Football Team, a staple of our annual Football Preview Issue. Selections are based on a variety of criteria, including 2018 performance, 2019 expectations, comments from coaches and recruiting buzz. PRESEASON... Read more

SportStars Football Preview OFFICIAL Voting Welcome to the 2019 Cover Vote! Tell us who should grace our SportStars Football Preview covers next month. We’ll have our two covers, Bay Area and Sac-Joaquin. So tell us who you believe are the most deserving players for each region. GOT A WRITE-IN VOTE? EMAIL our... Read more

Three Players Are Honored In The Third Year Of The West Coast Jamboree Scholarship Program; Tournament Looks To Expand Program In 2019-20 • On July 11, the West Coast Jamboree (a 501c3) girls basketball tournament announced the three 2018 winners of its annual scholarship program. The West Coast Jamboree Scholarship Program is... Read more

These 20 Athletes Conclude Our Annual Ranked Countdown Of The Bay Area Athletes Of The Year For 2018-19 • Below are the top 20 athletes from our seventh annual Bay Area 75 — SportStars’ rankings of the top 75 Bay Area athletes for the 2018-19 school year. The first 55 athletes... Read more

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 20... Read more

Bubba Gomez And His Dad Completed A Four-Year Promise To Each Other By Leading Fremont Christian Baseball To The School’s First Section Title • A four-year plan ended just the way coach Chris Gomez and his Fremont Christian baseball team envisioned it — capping off a 24-6 season with the... Read more

CHRIS SANTIAGO, De La Salle-Concord – Baseball – Senior Takes Top Honor at SportStars Chris Santiago, Saint Mary’s College-bound infielder closed out a stellar Spartans career in style. In his final high school at bat, Santiago belted a two-run homer in the sixth inning of the Spartans’ 10-1 defeat of Heritage-Brentwood... Read more