High School Sports

Scotts Valley High girls lacrosse coach Colleen Niklaus has been having a blast watching this year’s senior class, especially Ellie Raffo and Siena Wong who helped launch the program during their freshman year. The third-year skipper mentioned this particular group has been through it all,...

Scotts Valley senior Aiden Boothby admitted he wasn’t feeling the greatest when he woke up the morning of the league’s cross country finals.  However, that mood quickly shifted once he realized it was more than just another race.  Boothby finished the 3-mile course in a personal...

Scotts Valley High senior Kaitlin Imai needed just three points to reach the 1,000-point milestone as a member of the Falcons girls’ basketball team. What better way to do it than on senior night and in front of a home crowd as Scotts Valley posted...

San Lorenzo Valley High boys’ soccer team has historically not been one of the strongest programs in the area. In fact, Twitter had just launched the last time they had a winning season in 2006.  However, there was a slight turnaround this season for the...

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...

Scotts Valley High junior Nico Iles has been the sturdy locomotive for the Falcons’ football team since the season kicked off three weeks ago. The junior running back was clicking on all cylinders on Friday night in a crushing 35-0 win against Watsonville High at...

The stakes were high for the Scotts Valley High girls’ lacrosse team heading into Wednesday’s pivotal meeting against Stevenson School. For starters, they were hoping to get a chance for redemption after suffering their first loss of the season to the Pirates. A strong team defense...

The future is looking mighty bright for the San Lorenzo Valley High boys’ soccer team, which this season will have more than half of its roster with club level experience. Cougars’ first-year coach Adam Lopez knows having players compete at the higher level, especially for...

Another chapter of the winter sports season is officially in the books following the conclusion of the Central Coast Section and California Interscholastic Federation NorCal playoffs. Scotts Valley High girls’ soccer team was snubbed from a postseason berth, yet they still stood out as one...

Scotts Valley High distance runners Jeremy Kain and Ashlyn Boothby went into last week’s Central Coast Section Track and Field Championships with a mission.   The Falcons duo delivered by sweeping the boys and girls 1,600 meters in front of a packed crowd at Gilroy High...