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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

Mark Tennis: CIF, Sections, Districts Face Tough Decisions In Turbulent Times

CalHiSports Insights Football June 17, 2020 0

In A Notes-Style Column, Cal-Hi Sports’ Editor Writes On The CIF Facing Tough Calls On Fall Sports, And Looks At Black Lives Matter Protests Through A California HS Sports Lens • High school sports can seem insignificant during turbulent times, but it does play a role in the many... Read more

10 Years Of SportStars’ Staff Memories & Favorites

Central Coast Section High School Football High School Sports Features North Coast Section Sac-Joaquin Section June 16, 2020 0

For Its 10th Anniversary Issue, SportStars Staff Members And Longtime Contributors Share Their Memories And Favorites From The Magazine’s First Decade Of Publishing • On June 12, we released our 10th Anniversary issue. One of the cornerstones of the content were various staff accounts of their memories and favorites... 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

Nick Yorke, Boston Red Sox 1st Round Pick | SportStar Of The Week

Central Coast Section High School Baseball/Softball SportStars of the Week June 15, 2020 0

NICK YORKE Archbishop Mitty-San Jose – Baseball – Senior Despite having his senior season all but wiped out because of the Coronavirus, something tells us that the recently-graduated Yorke is a lot less bummed after June 11. That’s when the Boston Red Sox made him their first-round selection (17th... Read more

Luca Urlando- McClatchy Swimming SportStar

Aquatics Sac-Joaquin Section SportStars of the Week June 1, 2020 0

Luca Urlando- Senior from McClatchy High School in Sacramento is named SportStar of the Week! Luca Urlando ranks as the No. 2 overall senior recruit in the nation by SwimSwam.com. Which means NorCal was robbed to see what he might have done in his final postseason with McClatchy. Instead... Read more

Spirit Of Sport | A #NeverStop Message By Pat Cruickshank

#NeverStop Project May 19, 2020 0

North Coast Section Commissioner Pat Cruickshank Marvels At The Spirit Guiding Various Efforts To Honor The Student-Athletes Who Were Denied Their Seasons, Graduations • This is part of the SportStars #NeverStop Project The past few months have spun our world into a crazy and unprecedented time. Quarantine, sickness and... Read more

Madi Mays Minutemen Softball SportStar of the Week

High School Baseball/Softball North Coast Section SportStars of the Week May 19, 2020 0

Madi Mays’ Minutemen career began as a freshman in 2017 when she helped Concord High School softball claim a North Coast Section Division II title. Mays went 3-for-4 with 4 RBI in the final against Granada. Fast forward to her last varsity game, Mays spun a no-hitter against Monte... Read more

SportStars’ Girls Swimming Big 10 | NorCal’s Best Swimmers (’11-’20)

Aquatics Big 10 Anniversary Project Central Coast Section North Coast Section Sac-Joaquin Section May 15, 2020 0

SportStars’ 10 Year Anniversary Project Continues With Its Girls Swimming Big 10 — The Magazine’s Top 10 NorCal Girls Swimmers Of The Past Decade • The Girls Swimming Big 10 is an installation of the SportStars Big 10 Project: A 10-months-long anniversary project to celebrate what will be 10... Read more

Shaped By Sports | Tom Costello’s #NeverStop Reflection

#NeverStop Project High School Basketball North Coast Section May 14, 2020 0

A Coaching Legend’s Brief Remark Helped Dublin High Basketball Coach Tom Costello Crystalize His Philosophy And Career Goals • This is part of the SportStars #NeverStop Project What is it about sports that shapes you? There’s a hot, summer day in July 1998 that will forever be etched in... Read more

Simpson University Signs Fresno’s Luis Saucedo

High School Wrestling Pinned by TCW May 13, 2020 0

Fresno City’s Luis Saucedo Signs with Simpson University (NAIA) Luis Saucedo started wrestling at the age of 7 for the Ceres Hawks youth wrestling club. The Modesto-born wrestler and son to Jorge and Beatriz, Luis went on to a very successful wrestling tenure for Central Valley high school. Saucedo... Read more

Ben Dillard, Oak Ridge Swimmer – What Would’ve Been

Aquatics Sac-Joaquin Section SportStars of the Week May 11, 2020 0

SportStar Ben Dillard, a senior swimmer from Oak Ridge-El Dorado Hills, is a champion. A record-setting champion in fact. Dillard’s the kind of guy who fills the grandstands. The sort of swimmer whom spectators and other swimmers alike find themselves rooting for in hopes of witnessing a new record.... Read more