Santa Cruz’s Judi Oyama, who turns 64 on Sunday, has been named to the 2024 USA Slalom Skateboarding Team and will represent the U.S. at the World Skate Games in Rome in September.
Freshman running back Peyton Hatten made himself a fixture in the end zone, and Cabrillo College’s football team shined in all three phases in its 43-7 rout of visiting Gavilan to pick up its first Coast Conference win Saturday.
Belene Rodriguez had six goals and two assists and Sadie Bigler had five goals and two assists as the Cabrillo College women’s water polo team routed San Mateo 19-4 on Wednesday in Aptos.
St. Francis High junior quarterback Javier Fonseca passed for three touchdowns in the first half, and the Sharks knocked off visiting Santa Cruz 39-0 in the teams’ Pacific Coast Athletic League Mission North Division game Saturday.
Scotts Valley High’s football team still has four games remaining in the Pacific Coast Athletic League Mission North Division, but the Falcons continue to look like the title is their’s to lose.
Aptos High’s football team produced one of its trademark Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League blowouts in its Pacific Coast Athletic League opener Saturday in front of 1,200-plus fans at Trevin Dilfer Memorial Field.
Several Monte Vista Christian School parents have created a GoFundMe page to help support Mustangs football player Taylor Fernandez: “Support Taylor Fernandez Road to Recovery #51.”
Senior goalie Lucas Primovera made nine saves to help Santa Cruz High’s boys water polo team beat Soquel 12-10 in Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League action Tuesday.
Amanda Scott scored in the 75th minute, and the UC Santa Cruz women’s soccer team knocked of host Menlo 2-1 in Atherton on Friday for its third straight win.
Monte Vista Christian School’s football team dropped from the unbeaten ranks Friday. But the Mustangs’ decisive loss, a 55-19 nonleague setback to powerful Monterey, started and ended with an emotional appearance from injured lineman Taylor Fernandez.
Harbor High senior receiver Michael Servin knew exactly what was at stake as he gathered a shovel pass from quarterback James Veiga, and cut up the right sideline with an empty lane to the end zone Saturday night.
Lynden Gooch, a 27-year-old Santa Cruz native and former Soquel High standout, has signed a two-year deal with Stoke City F.C. of the English Football League Championship.
The two Harbor High’s football assistants who were ejected from the Pirates’ abbreviated, scuffle-marred, 40-0 win over rival Santa Cruz on Friday won’t be on the sidelines in the near future.
Santa Cruz High’s football team, which suited 23 players in its 40-0 loss to Harbor on Friday, has cancelled its Sept. 16 home game against powerful Hollister, Cardinals brass said Wednesday evening.
After serving as punching bag for the majority of its 52-year existence, Harbor High was poised to put an all-time thumping on crosstown foe Santa Cruz on Friday night in front of a capacity crowd.
High school football programs at Harbor, Pajaro Valley and San Lorenzo Valley all look to make some noise in the Pacific Coast Athletic League’s Santa Lucia Division this season. All three will attempt to do so with new head coaches.
Santa Cruz’s Autumn Hays won her opening heat Tuesday at the World Surf League’s Barbados Surf Pro, a Qualifying Series 5,000-point event at Soup Bowl in Bathsheba, Barbados.
James Wiseman had a career-high 31 points to go along with six rebounds, but the short-handed Santa Cruz Warriors suffered a 128-116 loss to the South Bay Lakers in their NBA G League game in front of 353 fans at UCLA Health Training Center on Wednesday night.
Aptos High’s Caden Prichard, Soquel’s Jordan McCord and Justice Grauel Tebong, and St. Francis’ Miguel Orozco received special honors in their respective PCAL football divisions this season.