High School Sports

The geographical center of Central Coast Section girls field hockey expertise and success lies within the city of Gilroy as both local high schools are among the section’s elite. With September ending and the season at the halfway point, Gilroy High is on top with...

The top two girls tennis teams in the seven-team Blossom Valley Athletic League West Valley Division are both in the city of Gilroy.  On Monday afternoon, Gilroy High hosted cross-town rival Christopher High in the battle of unbeatens.  In the end, the scoreboard showed the Cougars...

It was an unlikely scenario for the Gilroy High girls volleyball team to find some early success this year after a 2022 season that was full of challenges and struggles along the way.   But Mustangs head coach Sonya Beck along with a motivated and focused...

Christopher High girls’ volleyball team missed out on the Central Coast Section playoffs by the narrowest of margins in 2022.  This year’s pride of Cougars features several of those returnees along with some new faces who are focused on winning the close matches, while also...

Gilroy High’s football team continues to learn in a hard but effective way through an extremely challenging preseason schedule in 2023.  The Mustangs took in another tough lesson following a 59-15 loss to Carmel in non-league action Sept. 2.   Despite the defeat, the game still featured...

Christopher High’s football team lost about half of its starters from last season’s group that won a share of the league title and went on a postseason run.   The good news is that head coach Darren Yafai has the other half returning but in order...

The time has finally arrived for both Christopher and Gilroy high schools to kick off the 2023 football season. The Cougars finished in a three-way tie for the Blossom Valley Athletic League Mt. Hamilton Division crown and advanced to the Central Coast Section Division II...

Monte Vista Christian junior Dominic Pierini and his teammates were eager to get back on the football field for their first official day of practice on Aug. 4. So much so, they were already on the field just as the clock struck midnight and wasted...

For Joshua Adams, the transition to becoming the new athletic director at Gilroy High has been years in the making.  The 45-year-old has a total of 20 years of high school coaching experience—15 as a head coach—and spent the previous six years as the assistant...

Recent Christopher High graduate Cloey Turiello got accepted into 17 of the 20 colleges she applied to, so it goes without saying that she had plenty of great options on where to spend the next four to five years of her life.  In the end,...