Sports

Ashley Gettleman was awarded the Santa Cruz Jr. Golf 2021 Player of the Year on Aug. 28 by the Santa Cruz Junior Golf Association at DeLaveaga Golf Course.  The award came as a surprise to the eighth-grader from Baymonte Christian School in Scotts Valley, who...

Last season was special for Scotts Valley High junior Allan Aragon, who battled his way to the football varsity team and into the end zone for his first career touchdown. In fact, last year was the first time he’d ever played football at any level. Aragon,...

San Lorenzo Valley High senior Alex Castro-Neri competed in track field for the first time this year. His performance at the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League track and field championships on April 24 made that hard to believe. Castro-Neri notched three first-place finishes 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...

When the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League was given the green light to allow the cross country season to proceed, most coaches and students figured they’d get to at least one or two meets, at the most. Six weeks later, and with no reported Covid-19...

There are words that will define this generation of children who were raised in the Santa Cruz Mountains, impacted by Covid and chased from their homes by fire: Strong. Resilient. Tested. Driven. Those words also fit the 2021 San Lorenzo Valley High School boys’ basketball...

Community members, city leaders, and cycling enthusiasts flocked to Skypark in Scotts Valley last Saturday to celebrate the grand opening of the long-anticipated mountain bike and BMX pump track.

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...

San Lorenzo Valley High School alumnus and former Cougars baseball standout Tyler Gilbert recently made his first Major League Baseball career start on the mound for the Arizona Diamondbacks.  The left-handed pitcher also etched himself into the history books after he threw a no-hitter in...

There’s no such thing as time off for San Lorenzo Valley High senior Jaden Hunter. The third-year starting quarterback, who was also on the baseball team, had a short break in between the offseason and jumped right into football conditioning in July.  On top of...