Gavilan College

With a roster made up of 14 players coming out of 13 different high schools, the Gavilan College women’s volleyball team has really just started to find some chemistry on the court. But that doesn’t mean the expectations for the 2012 season aren’t just as high for the Rams, who are coming off their third straight Northern California regional playoff appearance.

Omar Kharroub feels the difference. Tim Rodriguez notices it too. And both Gavilan College sophomore football players have a hunch that everyone else soon will as well.

Gavilan College men's soccer head coach Justin Johnson halted the 11 vs. 11 end-of-practice scrimmage mid play to robustly reiterate to the players a few points of order.

Being named Student-Athlete of the Year was never a goal Emily Tonascia outwardly expressed during her two years at Gavilan College. But it certainly was something she wanted.

The Gavilan College women's volleyball program reappeared in 2005 after an 11-year hiatus. Two years later, Kevin Kramer took over as head coach, quickly, and quietly, turning a team that totaled a combined eight victories in 2005-06 to a conference contender.

A pair of Gavilan College football players recently signed their letters of intent, Rams’ head coach Spencer Gilford announced.

Over the course of the last six months, five players from the fall 2011Gavilan College moment's volleyball program have signed scholarship offers to play at colleges all over the country.

For the first time since the 2004-05 season, Gavilan College will have a women's basketball team. And Erik Nelson has been hired as the Rams' head coach to begin the ground-up resurrection of the program.