Sports

Viliame "Billy" Vuniwai hopes to lead the Sobrato High football team back to the Blossom Valley League West Valley Division championship. The Bulldogs, who won the division title two years ago and finished second last season, have Vuniwai as their new coach after Tony...

When ESPN aired Rob Mendez's life story in a Sports Center Featured segment on Feb. 16, it forever changed his life. Mendez, a 31-year-old Gilroy resident who was born without arms and legs, started to get inundated with messages and requests to the point...

Not long after making history by winning two gold medals in freestyle and Greco Roman wrestling in the World Combat Games in Budapest, Hungary on June 18-19, Morgan Hill's Aden Valencia viewed those accomplishments as if they were in the rearview mirror.  "Right now I'm...

Five local youth lacrosse players are headed to Calgary to play Canada's national summer sport—and no, it's not ice hockey. It's actually lacrosse (ice hockey is designated as Canada's national winter sport). Brothers Luke and Jake Richey and brothers Nolan, Ben and Hudson Ledwith...

When Cole Davis was in his senior year at Live Oak High, he was in a similar position to literally hundreds of thousands of accomplished high school football players throughout the nation: without a scholarship offer from a four-year program. Davis, who carried a...

For two former local high school standouts, one person's athletic journey will continue while the other has ended. So it is for Madison Gallagher and Kayla Rooney, who last month helped lead the San Jose City College softball team to the California Community College...

Michele Adam and Emily Harris have known each other for as long as they can remember, having grown up in the same neighborhood. Now the lifelong friends will continue their journey together in college at Seattle University, where Adam will play soccer and where...

Before the season started, the Sobrato High baseball team had three goals: to win a league championship, advance to the Central Coast Section playoffs and move up from the Blossom Valley League's Santa Teresa Division to the Mount Hamilton, the A division. The Bulldogs...

Kolton McCrossen couldn't take his eyes off the medal he earned for finishing in third place in the 400-meter run in last Friday's Central Coast Section Championships at Gilroy High. For a good three to four minutes, McCrossen held the medal in his hands,...

When coach Karen Arnold began the inaugural season for the Oakwood High track and field team four years ago, there were only five members on the roster. However, one of those athletes, Maryam Moghaddami, really stood out from the rest. The versatile senior excels...