High School Sports

It was a defensive gridlock matchup last week between Watsonville and San Lorenzo Valley high schools as neither team allowed a single point until the fourth quarter. Seemingly every four plays the defense would force a punt, going back and forth like a ping pong...

Scotts Valley High senior Quinn Turowski and his teammates waited nearly an entire year for a chance of redemption against Soquel High after losing its league opener and a shot at a perfect season in 2022. However, it was the same result for the Falcons...

San Lorenzo Valley High School varsity and junior varsity cheer squads have been practicing their aerials, basket tosses and roundoffs in the campus’s cafeteria since 1992. The space allows for throwing stunts into the air, storing and laying out the required heavy and expensive...

Scotts Valley High football team continues to roll following a 35-13 win over San Lorenzo Valley in non-league action on Sept. 9. With the win, the Falcons improved to 3-0 this season, while the Cougars dropped to 1-2 following back-to-back losses in the preseason portion...

Scotts Valley girls volleyball head coach Margaret Anderson has been preaching confidence since the beginning of the new season. It was something extremely important to her, especially in a sport where players can easily lose focus during a match after making a mistake on the...

The Scotts Valley High cross country program has been the cream of the crop in the Central Coast Section for the past two seasons. For those who doubt it, then perhaps back-to-back Division IV team championships in 2021 and ‘22 for both the boys and...

After nearly a month of grueling summer football practices, both Scotts Valley and San Lorenzo Valley high schools are ready to kick off the 2023 campaign. The Falcons are hoping to bounce back in the newly reformatted Pacific Coast Athletic League Mission North Division and...

San Lorenzo Valley High football team has gone through some major adjustments and unfortunate situations over the past three seasons, including three coaching changes in that same time span. However, not everything is grim for Cougars’ first-year head coach David Grant, who has one of...

Scotts Valley has always had a talented group of offensive linemen, the “weight room kids'' as head coach Louie Walters calls them, to provide running lanes wide enough for a garbage truck to get through. But the past two seasons were a challenge for the...

It’s been a lifelong dream for Scotts Valley High School track and field coach Todd Hoffman to watch a meet inside Hayward Field stadium at the University of Oregon.  The field has hosted more USA Olympic Track and Field trials and NCAA championships than any...