2013: NFL Goes For Highlanders, Mavericks
Helix and La Costa Canyon are among 17 U.S. high schools to have two players selected in the 2013 National Football League draft. Â Chandler, Arizona, led all high schools with three. Boise State defensive back Jamar Taylor, in Round 2 by Miami, and Stanford tight end Levine Toilolo, in Round 4 by Atlanta, represented Helix. […]
Read More2013: Next Up, San Diego Section Trials
Hot weather and hot tracksters are heating up  the San Diego Section. Twelve section bests were recorded in league finals last week and the real racing (and jumping, vaulting, and throwing) begins with the Section trials, an all-day carnival at Mt. Carmel High  Saturday. STATE MEET IS GOAL Qualifiers move on to the section finals […]
Read More2013: Steve Brand’s Track Top 10
(Reported as of May 12, 2013) a–fully automatic. w–with wind.  h–hand timed.  c–converted. BOYS 100—(Fully automatic) Brown (Valhalla) 10.76, Smith (Mt. Miguel) 10.80, S. Pater (Mt. Carmel) 10.83, Molton (Hilltop) 10.84, Lucas (Poway) 10.85, Lewis (San Marcos) 10.88, McNair (Morse) 10.94, Le (Scripps Ranch) 10.94, Mayberry (Francis Parker) 10.94. Southern California & State–Muhammad (Sherman Oaks […]
Read More2013: Augie Escamilla, 90
Augustine (Augie)  Escamilla, whose voice was heard at major track meets in San Diego  for more than 30 years and who was a respected educator and coach for five decades, passed away on  May 1 at age 90.  A  service will be held at Greenwood Mortuary on May 21. Virtually every outstanding San Diego High […]
Read More1959: East and West San Diego
A town divided. The City Prep League, founded in 1950, and which followed a smaller, 1930-32 Â alignment of the same name, was history. Hoover, St. Augustine, San Diego, Lincoln and Crawford, schools located east of U.S. 395, became part of the new Eastern League. Point Loma, Mission Bay, La Jolla, Kearny, and Clairemont, schools west […]
Read More1959: Farewell, Southern Section!
San Diego had its own vision of manifest destiny. An inferiority complex, too. Dr. Ralph Dailard, superintendent of the San Diego City Schools, announced on Sept. 22, 1959, that 15 area high schools were lined up to become members of the proposed San Diego Section of the California Interscholastic Federation. Dailard said the schools were […]
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