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Ball Above Body | College Park Volleyball Takes NCS
A College Park Volleyball Team Led By 10 Seniors Played Through Aches, Pain And Relentless Opponents To Claim The Program’s First Title In 14 Years • It took a while for the reverberations to calm down on the gym floor at College Park High in Pleasant Hill. The wild... Read more
SportStars’ Season-Opening NorCal Baseball Top 20
De La Salle And Its Arsenal Of Pitching Talent Opens Atop Our First NorCal Baseball Top 20 Rankings Of The 2022 Season • PICTURED ABOVE: No. 1 De La Salle (Jean-Paul Toshiro photo) 1. DE LA SALLE-CONCORD (20-4 in 2021) Good pitching beats good hitting and the Spartans have... Read more
Are We There Yet? | High School Football In Search Of Normalcy
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
7 Friday Night Podcast | Ep. 2: Turn On The Lights, SJS!
Hosts Chace Bryson And Ben Enos Put The Spotlight On The Sac-Joaquin Section’s Opening Weekend, And Coach Terry Eidson Returns • It’s opening week in the Sac-Joaquin Section, and hosts Chace Bryson and Ben Enos are ready in their second episode of 7 Friday Night! The two mark the... Read more
NorCal’s First Four | RETURN TO FALL Football Preview Series No. 12
We Reveal The Top Four Teams In Our Preseason NorCal Rankings That Are Not Named De La Salle; PLUS Some Video From Our Visit To College Park-Pleasant Hill • This is the twelfth of 20 installments to our Return To Fall Series — a daily component to our 2021... Read more
Final NorCal Baseball Rankings | 2021
WCAL Reigns Supreme As Valley Christian Plays Its Way To A CCS Title And Another No. 1 Finish In Our Final NorCal Baseball Rankings • Final NorCal Baseball Rankings For 2021. Previous rank in parenthesis. (TOP PHOTO: Valley Christian celebrates its CCS Open title on June 19; photo by... Read more
Final NorCal Softball Rankings | 2021
St. Francis Left Zero Doubt Over Its Credentials To Be The Top Team In Our Final NorCal Softball Rankings Of 2021 • Final NorCal Softball Rankings For 2021. Previous rank in parenthesis. (TOP PHOTO: Tayler Biehl of No. 15 Vista del Lago-Folsom; James K. Leash photo) 1. (1) St.... 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
Amit Elor: College Park’s Pin-Seeking Phenom
2019-20 WRESTLING PREVIEW: Just A Sophomore, Defending CIF State Champion Amit Elor Has Rocketed To Superstar Status On The Mat • The next big thing in U.S. women’s wrestling is a remarkable 15-year-old College Park-Pleasant Hill sophomore with dazzling abilities and uncanny poise. She goes by the name Amit... Read more
College Park Softball: Ready To Rise
After Several Seasons Of Middle-Of-The-Road Finishes, The College Park Falcons Have Built A Diablo Foothill League Juggernaut With A Mix Of Experience, Youth • College Park High-Pleasant Hill’s softball team is growing confident. Winning 11 of your first 12 games will do that. But let’s not go too crazy.... Read more