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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
Laguna Creek Flash Flood | Youth Movement Skyrockets Girls Basketball Program
Lured By Academic Programs, A Dynamic Group Of Young Players Has Elk Grove’s Laguna Creek Rising At A Rapid Rate • There’s a lot of loose talk about student-athletes and the importance of academics.  But for most elite athletes, and most elite programs, sports come first, second and very... Read more
Riordan Basketball: Pick Your Poison
An Explosive Senior Backcourt, Height For Days, And Plenty Of Experience Helped Riordan Basketball Attain NorCal’s No. 1 Ranking Heading Into February • It was the final minute of the first half. Archbishop Riordan High guard Je’Lani Clark buried a 3-pointer, setting the home crowd off in the packed... Read more
How to Maximize Performance Training Time
Stop Wasting Your Time. Start Maximizing Your PerformanceTraining Time It’s all about time management. None of us have time to waste. Especially performance training time that should lead to peaking at just the right moment! The development of a properly outlined training regimen has a tremendous effect on an... Read more
SportStar Mike Mitchell (Mitty) Best in League
Mike Mitchell Archbishop Mitty- San Jose – Basketball Jr. Named SportStar of the Week. Mike Mitchell is considered by some to be the best all-around player in the vaunted West Catholic Athletic League. The Archbishop Mitty Jr. and Pepperdine-commit helped lead the Monarchs to a 16-3 overall record through... 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
Clovis North Takes 2020 Mission San Jose Invitational
In a match for the ages, complete with wrestling tradition, the Clovis North Broncos Took the 2020 Mission San Jose Invitational to the house. TOP 10 TEAM SCORES 1 – Clovis North (CS): 243.0 2 – Clovis (CS): 204.0 3 – Buchanan (CS): 193.0 4 – Evergreen Valley (CC):... Read more
Granada Wrestlers Win State Dual Championship
Granada (NCS) Wins California State Dual Meet Championships – Division 4 Feature photo: Granada’s Rylan Matheson, Carter Bailey, and Edward Vilchis receive Championship trophy CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS 108 Nathaniel Jackson (North Bakersfield) F Emilio Renteria (Granada), 0:43 115 Jaden Namayan (Granada) F Daniel Ornelaz (North Bakersfield), 1:24 122 Kalob Lopez... Read more
TCW California Wrestling Rankings: Selma, Buchanan Top Charts
TCW California Wrestling Rankings: Punctuated by the #1 wrestler in the Nation, 113 lb, Richard Figueroa of Selma High, TCW Michael Cho counts down the high school wrestling state rankings. Athletes and schools close out January with Team Buchanan topping the charts of schools in California. TOP CALIFORNIA WRESTLERS... Read more
TCW California State Wrestling Rankings – Jan. 2020
The California Wrestler State High School Rankings Top California Wrestlers – January, 2020 SportStars Wrestling INSIDER Al Fontes shares his expert analysis of state high school wrestlers in his up-to-the-minute Top California State Wrestling Rankings. Follow Al every week in SportStars (choose Wrestling from the MY SPORT dropdown and... Read more
Wrestling Award Recipients- USA Magazine (CA)
Wrestling USA Magazine National Award Recipients since 1980s (California) Al Fontes, Editor of The California Wrestler (and HOF member) remembers the greats of the sport in this list of Hall of Famers covering the ’70s to the present. It is said, “”There are many past coaches, officials, athletes and... Read more
JT Stinson CIT Invitational, Wrestling SportStar of the Week
JT Stinson, East Nicolaus Wrestling Senior Comes up Strong at CIT Invitational, Earns SportStar of the Week Video courtesy KSBY News. JT Stinson, East Nicolas High School (feature photo red jersey) bumped up a weight class for the prestigious 81-team C.I.T. Invitational at Morro Bay High, Jan. 17-18. And... Read more