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 […]
Read More1929: 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 […]
Read More1940: 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 […]
Read More1991-92: 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 […]
Read More1991-92: “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 […]
Read More2019-20 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 […]
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