High School Sports

The Scotts Valley High girls’ lacrosse team was on the verge of something special prior to the start of this season.  Part of it was the addition of freshmen Taylor Santos and Sofia Niklaus, a pair of attackers/midfielders who played a major role in the...

Scotts Valley High senior Jeremy Kain is beginning to run into postseason-form after another dominating performance at last week’s Knights Invite. The Duke University-bound distance runner won the 800-meters in 1 minute, 53.14 seconds in the 15-team track and field invitational at Soquel High School...

Scotts Valley High boys’ soccer coach Adrian Mondragon was faced with a couple of tall tasks during the offseason.  The biggest one: recruit enough players to field a varsity team. The Falcons currently have a total of 15 players in the entire program. That was after...

Scotts Valley High senior Danica Kelley captured her second straight section title after another dominant performance at the Central Coast Section Wrestling Championships this past weekend. The standout Falcons athlete placed first after beating Joseline Hernandez of Alisal High in an 8-0 major decision in...

It’s been a season of trials and tribulations for San Lorenzo Valley High senior Damian Cardenas and the rest of the boys’ soccer team. The Cougars were shut out for the sixth time in a 4-0 loss to Aptos High in Santa Cruz Coast Athletic...

Scotts Valley sophomore Eli Velez isn’t used to the spotlight quite yet and has seen action on the field on just a few occasions. But no moment was bigger for the young running back, who recorded a pair of critical first down runs to help...

San Lorenzo Valley High senior Kaitlin Seigle came into the track season feeling the fastest she’d ever felt in her career. But just when things started to look up, she hit a snag that included a lung infection, followed by a pulled hamstring and then...

A local Amateur Athletic Union girls’ basketball team won a competitive competition in the Bay Area this past weekend.  Athletic Club Santa Cruz beat out teams from Oakland, Richmond and San Francisco to capture the tourney championship held at a local gymnasium in Richmond. ACSC coach...

Scotts Valley High junior Ashlyn Boothby is on pace for another historic record-setting season with the Falcons’ girls’ cross country team.  The defending Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League and Central Coast Section champion has won two league dual meets and four invitationals, but the season...

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...