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NorCal Girls Basketball Preseason Top 20

High School Basketball Rankings November 21, 2018 0

Led By The Nation’s Top Recruit, Archbishop Mitty Begins The Season At The Top Of Our NorCal Girls Preseason Rankings • 1. Archbishop Mitty-San Jose (29-1 in 2017-18): Yes, we know Pinewood beat Mitty in the NorCal Open finals last year, and that the San Jose power lost a... Read more

Ready To Run: Clayton Valley Basketball Is Turning It Up

High School Basketball North Coast Section November 16, 2018 0

Clayton Valley’s Senior Core Is Deep, Fast, Talented And Determined To One-Up The Program’s Terrific 2017-18 Season • Led by a trio of talented seniors, Clayton Valley Charter High-Concord opened its 2017-18 season with 18 straight wins. The Ugly Eagles were seemingly leading the charge of a wave of... Read more

Inderkum Football: Depth Charge

High School Football High School Sports Features Sac-Joaquin Section November 8, 2018 0

With No Obvious Superstars, Inderkum Football Has Used Its Widespread Talent To Carry On A Tradition Of Excellence • As November arrives, high school football looks to the postseason and gridiron news also centers on student-athletes making commitments to colleges. Inderkum football has been at the center of both of... Read more

Concord 5000 Set For Nov. 11

Blog XC-Track-Running November 7, 2018 0

Popular, Affordable 5K Benefitting The Armed Forces And Its Veterans Takes Place At Newhall Park • On Nov. 11, Diablo Valley Federal Credit Union will present the Concord 5000 5K Run/Walk to benefit the Contra Costa Blue Star Moms. The Blue Star Moms are a non-profit organization devoted to... Read more

5 Steps to Create an Environment for Kids to Succeed or Fail

LEVELUP INSIDERS October 31, 2018 0

Our Children Are Amazing, So Why Do We Keep Messing With Them? As parents, way too often we tend to fixate on our children’s failures. We look at their grades, their inability to hit a baseball or make a basket as failure, rather than focusing on their effort and... Read more

High School Athletes Video “Day In The Life” Voting Contest Presented by Fantag

VOLLEYBALL — Served by NCVA October 24, 2018 6

SportStars has made a goal this school year to include more High School Athletes Video with its storytelling. Hopefully our more regular readers have noticed. As we begin to close out fall and transition to winter sports, we’re planning a pair of “Day In The Life” video feature projects... Read more

CalHi Sports SoCal NorCal Players of the Week

CalHiSports Insights High School Football October 24, 2018 0

Coming off of a three-week absence due to injury may not have ever been done better than how Sean McDonald of Ramona High did last Friday. We’re also honoring one of three CIF Central Section QBs who should surpass 10,000 career yards on the same night this week. This... Read more

St. Francis Volleyball: Troubie Tough

Sac-Joaquin Section VOLLEYBALL — Served by NCVA October 23, 2018 0

With A Delta League Title And No. 1 Seed Already Secured By The Sacramento Power, St. Francis Volleyball Begins The Second Season As A Force To Be Reckoned With • Sorry boys, but if your Homecoming date plays the St. Francis volleyball team, you’re officially on standby. That’s because... Read more

Pleasant Grove’s Bright Lights

High School Sports Features Sac-Joaquin Section VOLLEYBALL — Served by NCVA October 17, 2018 0

Youngest Light Sisters Are Helping Pleasant Grove Volleyball Illuminate A Path Toward Sac-Joaquin Section Glory • It is the middle of an era of sorts for the Pleasant Grove volleyball program. It’s an era of Light, as in the Light sisters. And while the two youngest Light sisters, Vivian and... Read more

Walnut Creek Surf Soccer Scores on the Beach & Valley

Club Sports HS / CLUB Soccer Soccer October 15, 2018 1

Surf Champions Cup Winners! U19’s Come Up Big on the Beach, Post Win in the Valley As if Walnut Creek Surf Soccer Club hasn’t had enough newsworthy success lately. Their 00/01 BB were finalists at the 2018 North Huntington Beach Tournament. Led by head Coach Paul Curtis, “the team had... Read more

Women’s West Coast Tournament of Champions News

High School Wrestling Pinned by TCW October 11, 2018 0

Hey, so we just learned our partners at Placer Valley Tourism have started a new Facebook page to support the Women’s West Coast Tournament of Champions wrestling tournament. Check it out, wrestling fans — and give it a LIKE! https://www.facebook.com/wwctoc/ SportStars wrote up a story in mid-August about the WWCTC coming to Rocklin’s... Read more

Life Lesson, Parent of Athletes: Keep Perspective

Camps & Clinics LEVELUP INSIDERS September 23, 2018 0

The quality of your child’s ability is not a direct reflection of the quality of your parenting skills. First, let me say, I am one of you. A parent of athletes. I have two kids, a son now 16 years of age and a daughter, 14. They both have... Read more