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December 10, 2024

Christopher volleyball faces new challenges

Last year, Christopher toughened up on a hard preseason schedule and blitzed its league with a 10-0 record and a Central Coast Section playoff berth. This year, the Cougars have been shifted up to a higher division in the Blossom Valley Athletic League.  After an...

Christopher multi-sport star Caitlynn Holt signs with Nevada

It was quite a senior year for Christopher’s Caitlynn Holt. In the fall of 2023, she scored 27 goals to help lead the Cougars field hockey team to a 17-2-2 mark, a league title and the playoffs. In the spring of 2024, she closed...

Major rule change announced for high school softball

A major rule change involving usage of electronic devices in high school softball has been approved by the National Federation of High Schools’ Softball Rules Committee. The change will go into effect with the upcoming 2024-25 school year softball season, which will take place...

Christopher baseball nails third CCS title in five years

Christopher baseball’s 2024 Central Coast Section playoff run of three victories gave them their third CCS title in five non-Covid years, following first-place trophies in 2019 and 2022.  In one amazing week in May, CHS won in different ways, with the latter two being dramatic...

CHS’ Holt, GHS’ Gonzales lead Gilroy’s athletes in track and field

Several local athletes put on impressive performances over the last few weeks of championship track and field meets.  Top efforts came from Christopher hurdler Caitlynn Holt, the only athlete from her school to qualify for the CIF State championships in Clovis, and from two Mustangs,...

Gilroy and Christopher pay tribute at Sarah Villar Memorial Game

Softball teams from Gilroy and Christopher high schools came together with members of the community for the annual Sarah Villar Memorial Game on May 8.  The event honors and memorializes Villar, a former Gilroy softball pitcher and graduate who was killed by a drunk driver...

Ryan Dequin’s Cougar hardballers back in the playoffs

Christopher High’s baseball program has one of the longest playoff streaks of any team on campus. The squad finished the regular season with a 16-8 record, in third place in the competitive Blossom Valley Athletic League, Mt. Hamilton Division with an 11-7 division record.  Next...

Cougars lacrosse makes strides

Alex Eidler is building the Christopher High boys lacrosse program. The Cougars are 10-1 overall this year, 4-1 and in second place in the Blossom Valley Athletic League. The squad was 8-4 last year, 8-3 in league action.  This season, they have decisive BVAL wins...

Christopher track shines in Gilroy

As the rain departed and the clouds passed by Gilroy, the Christopher track and field team shined brightly at the 51st Avis Kelley Invitational.  The big early-season meet on March 23 involved athletes from 39 schools from all over the Central Coast Section and some...

CHS boys reach CCS final, win in NorCals

In the early part of January, the Christopher High boys basketball team was fighting through a tough league schedule and had just a 5-8 overall record. After a hard last-minute loss to Oak Grove, guard Uriah Brown vowed that better days were coming. “This will...

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