What kind of impact is the coronavirus pandemic having on area athletes, particularly football players?
"He was one of the hardest hitting, win-at-all-costs type of guys I've ever seen," Santa Ynez coach Josh McClurg said of Smalley. "Lots of energy."
The early signing period has come and gone and with it a number of area football standouts signed with four-year schools.
St. Joseph football player Darien Langley, who has signed with UC Davis, celebrated that achievement with a ceremony on campus Wednesday.
"He's a special young man:" St. Joseph football star Darien Langley celebrates signing with UC Davis
"He's a special young man," St. Joseph coach Pepe Villasenor said of Langley. "Obviously, he's known throughout the Central Coast for his spee…
Wagner, a linebacker out of North Forsyth High School in Cumming, Georgia, signed with FCS program Gardner-Webb on Wednesday. The Running Bull…
Wednesday was a special day for a handful of Central Coast football players. The day marked the opening of the early signing period for colleg…
Taua and Araujo both offered advice on how to manage all the difficulties that come with high school, like high expectations, failure and success.
Full practices aimed at preparing for a season were scheduled to begin this month. For the sport of football, for instance, practices were sla…
With Saturday's big performance, Taua topped 2,000 career yards with the Wolf Pack. Taua now has 2,117 career rushing yards in 2 1/2 seasons i…
"If we aren’t able to start the acclimation period on Dec. 7, the football season will either be canceled or postponed," Santa Maria High foot…
"I'm real excited. That's what I played in high school so it's going to be fun," Cole said during a recent fall practice. "Going from high sch…
Multiple athletic directors contacted Tuesday said the governor's announcement and Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties both moving from…
Now, after a long layoff due to the coronavirus pandemic, Will is chomping at the bit to get back on the field for the 2021 spring season... a…
Taua has starred in high school and college. He's earned All-American honors and nearly etched out a career playing in the NFL. Taua is now a …
Pretty much from the time he stepped foot on the Lompoc High campus as a freshman, Nunez became the area's top offensive lineman. (He was also…
“I hope to be an EMT,” said Aldana, who ran for a combined 2,668 yards and 43 touchdowns for VCA in 2017 and 2018. Taylor's career goal is to …
The Central Coast duo doesn't resemble the young men they were when they left the area, in a positive way.
Austin Hayes is what you may call a sleeper.
Thomas, now at 6-foot-3 and 280 pounds, made his first appearance for the Green Wave in a September game against Southern Miss, playing on the…
Last week, I wrote a column with this question as its premise: Why is just about every CIF Southern Section football team playing 10 games in …
There was that night in 2014, though, where the Knights nearly upended Lompoc's reign over the Los Padres League.
Vreeland recorded 109 total tackles as a sophomore in 2015, then added 115 total tackles the following year before closing out his varsity car…
But one question I haven't been able to quite figure out: Why did the CIF Southern Section choose to forego a bye week for the football season…
Cusack never topped 1,000 yards rushing in a single season during his three-year varsity career at St. Joseph. Nevertheless, just by watching …
During that 2017 season, one in which Gregg led the Pirates to an 8-2 record, he completed nearly 66% of his passes (149 for 227) for 2,566 ya…
Derrick Portis was a great Lompoc High athlete. Did he get overlooked? Not really. But he wasn't included in the our Player of the Decade cont…