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May 9, 2025

Christopher focuses on the process

The Christopher High girls basketball team has a goal to be its own version of a D.R.E.A.M. team. It's their acronym for discipline, respect, effort, attitude and mentality. The Cougars want to grade high in all of those categories. If they do, they'll look...

Local goaltender has eyes set on National Hockey League

If Dustin Wolf continues on his upward trajectory, he would become the first South Valley-born player to make the National Hockey League. Talk about heady stuff. Born in Gilroy, Wolf moved to Southern California when he was 9 or 10 to pursue his dream of...

Gavilan College football team looks to buck history

From a numbers standpoint, Covid was not kind to the Gavilan College football team. Rams coach John Lango said the team lost several players from March 2020 to now, putting Gavilan’s roster number at 44 through the end of July. However, Lango expects the...

On top of their (weight) class: Gilroy High wrestlers Daniel Zepeda and Elijah and Isaiah Cortez win State championships

Daniel Zepeda, Elijah Cortez and Isaiah Cortez all started wrestling at age 5. It wasn’t too long before they started dreaming of winning a CIF State Wrestling Championship.  On Feb. 25, reality was better than a dream. The Gilroy High standouts—all sophomores—made history in capturing...

Darren Yafai excited to man the Christopher sideline

Make no mistake: Darren Yafai is excited to be the new Christopher High football coach—it just wasn’t on his radar.  “By no means at all (was I thinking of doing this),” said Yafai, who spent the last five years as an assistant coach helping the...

Seven Christopher High student-athletes to play at the next level

The seven Christopher High student-athletes who are set to play a sport at the four-year level expressed a common theme during a May 18 letter of intent signing ceremony on the school’s football field. Whether it was family, a friend, a coach—or all three—they...

GHS, Daniel Cormier Academy wrestlers make history in USMC Nationals

Gilroy High wrestlers have achieved lofty status over the years, both in California and nationally.  But what the Mustangs did at the 2022 USA Wrestling Marine Corps Junior & 16U Nationals in North Dakota July 16-19 is at the very top of what they’ve accomplished...

Former CHS standout Andrew Kachel realizes dream after getting drafted by hometown team Giants

Before the start of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, Andrew Kachel said it didn’t matter which team drafted him because he would be grateful either way. But once the 2019 Christopher High graduate saw he had been selected by the team he grew...

Gilroy native Eric De La Cerda realizes dream, signs with Earthquakes second team

For as long as he can remember, Eric De La Cerda dreamed of becoming the starting goalkeeper of the San Jose Earthquakes.  The Gilroy native is one step closer to making that a reality after he signed a Major League Soccer (MLS) NEXT Pro contract...

Gilroy grad to play for Division 1 team

For the longest time, Ellie Pickford thought she would be competing in gymnastics in college. It was Pickford's sport of choice growing up, and she did it for 15 years. "But in the ninth grade, I had to give myself a reality check," the recent...

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