Santa Cruz High beach volleyball standout Haisley Flanagan, a 5-foot-8 defender/split entering her junior year, has committed to NCAA Division I Santa Clara University.
Harbor High 6-foot-4 senior outside hitter Cooper Lastition was a driving force behind the Pirates’ boys volleyball team’s success this season, and league coaches rewarded his showing by naming him the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic…
Eli Fitchen-Young’s finish in the men’s 3,000 meters steeplechase at the 2026 USATF U20 Outdoor Championships was sensational and his reward was stupendous.
Soquel’s Rob Gibbs and Santa Cruz’s Yohei Rosen, who compete for Kua Nalu Canoe Club in Santa Cruz, medaled in the Long Course OC1 division at the 2026 Santa Cruz Paddle Classic at Capitola Beach on Sunday.
Soquel High two-way baseball star Jake Escalante posted even better numbers this season than he did a year ago, when he was voted the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League’s Player of the Year.
Two junior softball standouts, Kalina Healy of champion Aptos High and Emma Niizawa of runner-up Soquel, shared Most Valuable Player honors during 2026 All-Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League voting.
Soquel’s Daniel Meisel took 20th out of 1,537 athletes at the 2026 Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon on Sunday. He finished in 2 hours, 32 minutes, 25 seconds.
The Soquel High and Santa Cruz baseball teams both traveled four-plus hours, round trip, to play in the CIF NorCal Regional playoffs in the Greater Sacramento area on Tuesday, and both saw their seasons come to a close in tough-to-swallow losses.
The Soquel High baseball team was placed in Division I and Santa Cruz was placed in D-III during the California Interscholastic Federation NorCal Regional playoffs seeding meeting on Sunday.
For the CIF State Division III boys volleyball championship match, SoCal champ Central East took a nine-mile trip across town to Fresno City College. NorCal king Santa Cruz traveled much further, bussing 154 miles to the Central Valley.
Sophomore right-handed pitcher Adam Fowler delivered his second stellar postseason outing in five days on Thursday, and Santa Cruz High’s youth-laden baseball team made another huge statement: The future is now.
In an thrilling, emotional rollercoaster of a game, the No. 5 seed Aptos High baseball team dropped a 7-6, nine-inning heartbreaker to No. 1 Menlo in the Central Coast Section Division III semifinals at Santa Clara University’s Stephen Schott Stadium on Tuesday night.
Two Santa Cruz County boys lacrosse players, Soquel High’s Jedidiah Del Favero and Monte Vista Christian senior midfielder Zach Binder, received special honors in the Mission Division during coaches’ Pacific Coast Athletic League all-league voting.
Pitchers Cole McGillicuddy and Jacob Kissinger threw a combined four-hitter, and the No. 5 seed Aptos High baseball team slipped past No. 4 Sacred Heart Prep 3-1 in the Central Coast Section Division III quarterfinals on Saturday.
A sounding fire alarm delayed the start of the CIF Division III Boys Volleyball NorCal Regional Championship by an hour on Saturday.
Perhaps it was foreshadowing, because by the time the third set rolled around, the slow starting Santa Cruz High Cardinals were en fuego.
The top-seeded Santa Cruz HIgh’s boys volleyball team added to its unforgettable postseason on Thursday night by sweeping No. 4 Beyer of Modesto 25-21, 25-15, 25-23 in the CIF Division III NorCal Regional semifinals to enter uncharted territory.
The Wharf to Wharf race organization on Wednesday announced the launch of a formal community grant program to fund schools, organizations, and programs working to increase access to youth running and athletics throughout Santa Cruz County.
Harbor High’s boys volleyball team, competing in the CIF NorCal Regional playoffs for a second straight year, came up short against Liberty of Brentwood in a back-and-forth donnybrook that featured numerous momentum swings.
Gannon Buhr and Ohn Scoggins repeated as champions at the 2026 Santa Cruz Masters Cup professional tournament, a three-day event at DeLaveaga Disc Golf Course that concluded Sunday.