- 1915-2020: Boys State Track and Field Champions
They didn’t necessarily post the all-time San Diego County best in their event, or even their best, but 62 individuals have won 80 state track championships since the first meet in 1915.
Pole Vaulter Bill Miller of San Diego, jumper Dokie Wiliams of El Camino, and weight specialist Darius Savage of Morse stand out as triple ...
- 1974-2020: Girls State Track and Field Champions
It’s the time of year that University City’s Katrina Wright, Poway’s Ashley Callahan, and members of Scripps Ranch’s 4×100 relay squad should be preparing to defend their San Diego Section championships Saturday and move on to the 102nd state track meet at Clovis next week.
Like the prom and traditional graduation, they sadly won’t have the ...
- 1929: Coronado Steals Some Hilltoppers Thunder
San Diego High was on its fifth head coach in the last three seasons and found itself sharing headlines for the first time with a team not from Long Beach.
Coronado High, across San Diego Bay, was flexing muscles.
Controversy would follow.
John Perry left coaching after the 1926 season and was succeeded by John Hobbs in 1927 ...
- 1940: Firestorm Over Oceanside Transfers
Voices were raised, fists shook, and fingers pointed in a conference room at the downtown YMCA on Oct. 24 in a dustup over eligibility involving players who notoriously became known as the “Adopted Football Stars.”
Metropolitan League principals and coaches held a special meeting to consider the status of two “sensational Oceanside athletes,” Jimmy Bender and Bill ...
- 1991-92: Legendary Pointers Coach Lee Trepanier Passes
The basketball community lost a legend in August when Lee Trepanier, the retired, 56-year-old Point Loma coach, died in his sleep August 2, 1991.
Trepanier, 56, had been battling stomach and esophagus cancer for two years.
Trepanier learned of his cancer in August, 1989, but coached and taught math through the school year and retired as coach ...
- 1991-92: “Indiana” Playoff System in Place This Season
After restricting playoff Divisions I and II to 16-team brackets the last two seasons, the San Diego Section board of managers went back to the ”Indiana” model of the 1987-88 and 1988-89 seasons in which all San Diego Section teams playing basketball were eligible for the postseason play.
“I think I was one of the few ...
- 2019-20 Week 18: La Jolla Country Day, Cathedral, Madison Girls Still Standing
La Jolla Country Day and Cathedral are where they’re supposed to be, according to the seeds. Madison is a welcome surprise.
That’s the state of San Diego Section basketball today as the section’s final three go into tonight’s Southern California regional finals.
The girls saved the day after the boys went out early, with a thud, despite ...
- 2019-20 Week 17A: San Diego Contingents Stumble in Regional
Super Tuesday was essentially a Super Wipeout for San Diego Section boys teams in the first round of the State Tournament’s Southern California regional. The girls did better.
The guys posted a record of 3 wins and 14 losses, the young ladies 7-8, and the overall 10-22 was in grim comparison to the 16-14 record in ...
- 2019-20 Week 17: Road to State Championships Starts Here
No teams in the boys’ Open Division looks like a break for San Diego Section teams, which were assigned some favorable seeds in other divisions of first-round play that gets under way in the Southern California regional tournament Tuesday night.
Two girls teams are seeded No. 1 and have byes to the quarterfinals. Open Division La ...
- 1990-91: And the Scoreboard Blinked…and Blinked.
The three-point basket, which became a part of the game in 1986, continued to be refined and exploited and teams’ scoring points in the 80’s and 90’s was common. One-hundred-point totals were at a record pace.
Valhalla’s Mark Dillon set a state record with 145 three-pointers and tied the state record with 12 treys in a ...
- 1990-91: Christian Girls Almost Go All the Way.
Christian star Tiffany Stutz played with a re-injured ankle in the state championship game after the underdogs from El Cajon mounted a late-season run through the San Diego Section and state Division V playoffs.
Erik Meek of San Pasqual, headed for Duke University, averaged 30.18 points, a figure topped only by Tony Clark’s 30.3 in 1987-88 ...
- 2019-20 Week 16: Cathedral, La Jolla Country Day Win Open Titles
CHAMPIONSHIPS
SEEDS IN ITALICS
OPEN BOYS
Cathedral was hot. The No. 1-seed Dons had won 14 of their last 16, but No. 2 Torrey Pines was hotter, on a 15-game winning streak.
It wasn’t about heat; it was defense.
The Dons, who won the Division I championship in 2018-19, trailed, 28-25, at halftime but broke to a 39-34 lead in ...
- 2019-20 Weeks 11-18: Cathedral Wins Final Newspaper Poll
This is the first The San Diego Union-Tribune Top 10 we’ve posted in several weeks and is final for the 2019-20 season, including San Diego Section playoffs.
*Completion of San Diego Section teams’ participation in the CIF state tournament are included in the final ratings by Max Preps and Cal-Hi Sports.
First-place votes in parenthesis.
*Well-regarded teams not ...
- 2019-20 Week 15: Favored Teams win 78% as San Diego Section Playoffs Move Into Semifinals
Shockers, upsets, and surprises (maybe) shook up the first week of the San Diego Section playoffs, which resume Feb. 25 following 120 games in boys and girls first- round and quarterfinals competition.
Twenty-seven games have been won by teams with less attractive (higher) seeds. Favorites won 93 games, a 77.5 winning percentage, according to results from ...
- 2019-20 Week 14: Just 27 of 133 Can Claim League Superiority
What’s in a league championship?
Especially in this era of power ratings and strengths of schedules and what they mean in playoff pairings and postseason division assignments, which will be announced today?
A league title represents essentially just bragging rights, but ask the players and coaches who achieved it and what they think when banners are hoisted ...
- 1989-90 I: Coaching Icons Trepanier, Saner Step Down
Two legendary mentors pulled the pin.
Point Loma’s Lee Trepanier, whose Pointers teams dominated the state and earned national recognition throughout the decade, retired after 14 seasons, with a 331-56 record and .855 winning percentage.
Neville Saner, whose Poway teams won four Division I titles in his seven seasons, retired after posting a 139-42 (.768) record.
CLARK WINNER ...
- 1989-90 II: Sports Arena Out, Golden Hall In
For the first time in 14 years the San Diego Section championship games did not take place in the Sports Arena (13,700 capacity) on Midway Drive or Peterson Gymnasium (3,668 capacity) on the San Diego State campus.
The championships were played at Golden Hall, a downtown facility of 3,200 seats that was more known as a ...
- 2019-20 Week 11: San Ysidro Cougars Continue to Run
San Ysidro is making noise again. Not enough to earn a top 10 ranking, but the Cougars have won five in a row and scored more than 100 points for the fifth time this season, including a post-poll vote,106-30 victory over Castle Park last night.
The fall of the Trojans marked the third time in the ...
- 1988-89: Kane Raised Cavers From Depths
As Steve Brand of The San Diego Union wrote, Dennis Kane began preparing the day after San Diego High concluded the 1986-87 season. The coach moved to quickly put the worst year in school history in the Cavers’ rear view mirror.
San Diego had bottomed out at 0-20 in Kane’s first season.
No Cavers squad, dating to ...
- 1988-89: Valhalla’s Clark Stars in Basketball, Makes Mark in Baseball
Tony Clark, a 6-foot, 7-inch junior at Valhalla High, set a San Diego Section record with a 30.3 scoring average and had 55 points in one game.
Clark’s season seemingly could lead to future honors in college basketball, or even the NBA.
Clark did play professionally, but it was in baseball and, after a 15-season career on ...
