Aptos’ Isla Hardy, 16, took first place in the U18 age division at USA Surfing Prime Series’ West Stop No. 1 in 1- to 3-foot conditions at Steamer Lane on Sunday.
Ten Santa Cruz groms made finals at the four-day National Scholastic Surfing Association West Coast Championships, which concluded Sunday at Huntington Beach Pier in Huntington Beach.
UC Santa Cruz’s Eric Anderson and Elena Stanciu advanced from the prelims to the finals on the opening day of the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships at Nazareth University in Rochester, New York, on Friday.
More than a dozen student-athletes from Santa Cruz County have been chosen to compete in the 39th annual Central Coast High School Football All-Star Game.
Joseph Espy had 23 points, six rebounds, and three blocks, and the UC Santa Cruz men’s basketball team beat Whitman 83-79 at Kaiser Permanente Arena on Sunday.
Soquel High junior Cheryl Brightfield and Santa Cruz senior Jonah Susskind each made a pair of finals at the second annual Santa Cruz Scholastic Surf League Individual Championships at The Hook on Saturday.
Aptos High junior wrestler Lucas Zuniga won the heavyweight division title at the 59th annual Overfelt Classic at Overfelt High in San Jose on Saturday.
It was hard for Santa Cruz’s Adam Bartlett to decide which was bumpier, his descent down the face of the waves at iconic surf break Steamer Lane, or his ascent up a flight of stairs, while he was being chaired by a couple of his teenage friends after winning his first USA Surfing Prime title Sunday.
Large wind-battered waves and a continuous surge of whitewater turned the USA Surfing Prime event at iconic Steamer Lane turned into a track meet Saturday afternoon. It was survival of the fittest.
Santa Cruz freshman Kaikora “KK” Nauenberg was among the four division winners, as the Santa Cruz Scholastic Surf League held Contest No. 4 of the 2023-2024 season at Pleasure Point.
Santa Cruz’s Judi Oyama, who turns 64 on Sunday, has been named to the 2024 USA Slalom Skateboarding Team and will represent the U.S. at the World Skate Games in Rome in September.
Santa Cruz High won the final Santa Cruz Scholastic Surf League contest of the 2022-23 season in small, but clean conditions at Pleasure Point on Saturday.
Aptos’ Finn Brownlee, Santa Cruz’s Zoey Howland, and Soquel’s Jack Snyder and Katie Slevin won titles at the inaugural Santa Cruz Scholastic Surf League Champions Contest, held at Steamer Lane on Saturday in 6- to 8-foot surf.
The UC Santa Cruz men’s volleyball team, ranked No. 10 nationally among NCAA Division III programs, closed its seven-match road trip with a pair of wins Sunday in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.
Santa Cruz native Aaron Woliczko, the West Coast Conference senior associate commissioner for men’s basketball and sport administration, was been named to the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) Selection Committee, the NCAA announced Friday.
The Cabrillo College women’s soccer team (13-5-1), the Coast Conference’s South Division champion, received the No. 8 seed for the CCCAA NorCal Regional playoffs.
Junior right-hander Gabe Gaeckle struck out 16 batters in five innings of work, and Aptos High’s baseball beat visiting Burlingame 10-0 in a nonleague game called after six innings on the mercy rule Saturday.
Nike Bowerman Track Club’s Vanessa Fraser finished 13th out of 26 runners in Sound Running’s The Ten at JSerra Catholic High in San Juan Capistrano on Sunday night.
Junior guard/forward Ashley Kowack scored 25 points, but the UC Santa Cruz women’s basketball team suffered a 74-70 loss to Christopher Newport, the nation’s top-ranked NCAA Division III team, on Saturday.
Santa Cruz High senior Keanna Miller placed in the top three in two divisions at the Santa Cruz Scholastic Surf Contest No. 2 at Steamer Lane in Saturday.