IMPERIAL — Home field it’s not, but the Imperial High football players do have a place to work out for the near term.
EL CENTRO — Wildflower Park here will be renamed after the late Efren Coronel, who died in the line of duty while serving as a city police officer on June 3.
CALEXICO — Fernando Solano is the new head football coach at Calexico High School.
EL CENTRO — A football, some friends, strips of cloth and a field is all that is needed to play flag football — no face mask required.
EL CENTRO — The Imperial Valley Spartans youth flag football team will be throwing a Hail Mary today when it holds a tryout session at Bucklin Park.
COLUMBIA, Miss. — Friday night, while Imperial Valley football teams patiently hoped for the COVID-19 pandemic to ebb sufficiently to allow them to…
CALIPATRIA — The pendulum has come full swing for the Calipatria High School Football program with the hire of Matthew Self as head coach.
EL CENTRO — There will be high school football this fall, but the glow of Friday Night Lights will be that emanating from your radio dial.
Diminished dreams
When the pandemic shut down schools and canceled spring sports this year, the consequences were far-reaching for the student-athletes involved.
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Victory was in Fanny Mae Gutierrez’s grasp, but a late lapse cost her the top spot on the pedestal at the North American Grapplin…
The CIF-San Diego Section unveiled it’s 2020-21 prep sports “calendar” this past week, and the good news is the plan includes having all sports com…
LOS ANGELES — A 58-year-old retired Imperial County chief deputy sheriff, which is the highest appointed rank possible, recently proved he can stil…
BRAWLEY — Not only is former Brawley Union grappler Miricle Barra joining a college wrestling program this fall, she’s essentially going to be star…
EL CENTRO — Jose Berlin Torres Beltran always believed he would play soccer collegiately; only he expected he be doing it with his five other recen…
BRAWLEY — Imperial Valley high school athletic directors will be meeting here Tuesday at 9 a.m. with CIF-San Diego Section Commissioner Joe Heinz t…
The California Interscholastic Federation announced Monday that fall 2020 high school sports tentatively will begin in December and mostly be playe…
HEBER — Mario Nava-Esparza would have loved to play football before he graduated from Central Union High School in 1989.
As the pandemic gripping the world continues to seemingly raise more questions than answers, a survey of various stakeholders in the Imperial Valle…
EL CENTRO — While he certainly enjoyed his time playing quarterback on the Central Union High football team, Sergio Osuna didn’t expect his kids to…
EL CENTRO — Having a team-first mentality has given Jonathan Medina plenty of success in the sport of football.
EL CENTRO — Krystal Guerra Castañeda is another 2020 Valley high school graduate who will be attending college on an athletic scholarship. The thin…
EL CENTRO — Four players from the 2019 Central Union High football team will be playing college football next school year.
EL CENTRO — Southwest High’s Eric Rojo has agreed to take his baseball talents to Northwestern Oklahoma State University next school year.
EL CENTRO — In most cases, being successful in high school wrestling means that you either grew up wrestling in a feeder program or came from a fam…
Father knows best
EL CENTRO — Years ago, Chris Acosta was adamant he would leave the Valley and never return once he the finished high school.
EL CENTRO — A burning question that has been on the mind of every player, parent and football fan is, when will high school football in the Imperia…
BRAWLEY — “What you’re doing at home right now dictates what you’ll see on the field.”
He is Marshall
EL CENTRO — Getting the attention of a Division I university soccer program isn’t easy to do, especially for athletes in Imperial Valley.
EL CENTRO — The public’s input is being sought for a proposed multi-purpose, “tournament type” sports complex to be built here.
IMPERIAL — Recent Imperial Valley College graduate Lyndon Prayer’s talents on the basketball court have earned him an invitation to keep playing on…
BRAWLEY – The day after attending the 2020 “drive-thru” graduation from Brawley Union High School, Adrian Chavez signed a National Letter of Intent…
BRAWLEY — For Brawley Union High School senior Anthony Maldonado, the sport of wrestling has been an uphill battle.
EL CENTRO — Once Sandy Noujaim announced she’d be retiring after 10 years as Central Union High School’s athletic director this year, plenty of loc…
BRAWLEY — Brawley Union High School senior Lilly Martinez will be taking her softball talents to Bethany College in Kansas this fall.
BRAWLEY — Brawley Union High School senior Haylee Garcia will be taking her softball talents to the university level as she signed her National Let…
