As a freshman, current Santa Cruz senior point guard Ashley Claussen was a standout varsity basketball player for the Scotts Valley High girls basketball team. Her family then moved to Santa Cruz following her freshman year and joined the Cardinals girls basketball team.Â
Whether you celebrated Christmas, Kwanzaa or Hanukkah, this time of year is special to each of us in our own way. We really do greet friends and neighbors with a bigger smile and a warm holiday wish when we see them on the street, at a community event or even in a store.
When I was growing up in Silicon Valley, the favorite place to go was Santa Cruz. And, then as now, we teenagers preferred to travel in packs. So we’d stuff as many of us as possible into a car and head over the hill.