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Shamar Garrett | 2019 SportStars NorCal Football Player Of The Year
After A Remarkable Senior Year, Shamar Garrett Closed His Three-Year Varsity Career With A Place Among De La Salle’s Best Two-Way Skill Players • For as much talent that takes the field for De La Salle year-in and year-out, Northern California’s best football program of the last four decades... Read more
Henry To’oto’o: 2018 NorCal Defensive Player Of The Year
De La Salle’s Wrecking Ball Linebacker Embodied The Physical Nature And Served As The Emotional Center To NorCal’s Best Team, Defense • Henry To’oto’o spent 12 games of 2018 cementing his stature as Northern California’s best linebacker — for the second year in a row. His standing as one... Read more
Kaiden Bennett: 2018 NorCal Offensive Player Of The Year
Folsom’s Offense Was A High-Octane, Well-Oiled Machine — And The Boise State-Bound Dual-Threat QB Was The Rocket Fuel Making It All Go • No player was more potent in 2018 than Folsom High’s Kaiden Bennett.  In his second year as the varsity starter, Bennett accounted for 75 touchdowns —... Read more
Sione Vaki: 2018 NorCal Football Player Of The Year
No Two-Way NorCal Player Did More For A State Bowl Winner Than The Liberty-Brentwood Receiver And Safety • Sione Vaki simply wasn’t going to be denied his chance to make a difference for his teammates.  After a regular season in which he was one of the East Bay’s most... Read more
All-NorCal Football Vote: People’s Player Of The Year
We’re Giving Readers And Fans Their Own All-NorCal Football Vote — Who Will Be The First People’s Player Of The Year? • VOTING IS CLOSED! THANK YOU TO ALL WHO VOTED. WATCH FOR THE WINNER ON FEB. 1 SportStars will be naming it’s fifth annual All-NorCal Football Teams right... Read more
SJS Spring Athletes of the Year
Lincoln’s Isaiah Garcia and Vacaville’s Jurnee Woodward take our top honors for the season as SportStars SJS Spring Athletes of the Year.   SPRING MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR   Isaiah Garcia | Lincoln | Baseball | Senior Isaiah Garcia is a believer in the line that baseball, like... Read more
SportStars 100: Top 25 Athletes
  1 – Maggie Steffens, Monte Vista-Danville, Water Polo When we named her our first SportStars Female Athlete of the Fall in January of 2011, we asked her if she could see herself competing at the Olympics. This is what Steffens said: “I can envision myself (in London), but... Read more