Feature Image: St. Vincent de Paul High School It’s March 10, 1996, and Tom Bonfigli has just finished up his first season as the head varsity boys basketball coach at Justin Siena High School. He was named Coach of the Year in the Superior California Athletic League. He struggled with an alcohol addiction, and that…
Feature Image by Dwight Sugioka The St. Vincent de Paul High School boys basketball team is coming off a pandemic-shortened season that resulted in just two wins. Of their 11 losses, however, seven were by 12 points or less and five were single-digit losses. With nearly everybody returning for a normal season this year, things…
Feature Image by Dwight Sugioka For Petaluma High School Head Football Coach Rick Krist, it wasn’t about a girl being his kicker, she was just another player. “She earns the respect of her teammates,” Krist said of kicker Mackenzie Soper. “She’s a dedicated kid.” Soper, someone who has played soccer for the last 13 years…
High school sports are finally in full swing. None of us thought we’d be saying that in May, but better late than never. This pandemic has gone on longer than everyone thought and wanted and had to look at alternatives. Before the month of February, there was absolutely no action from state leaders in Sacramento…
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Friday that youth sports can finally be played in the golden state starting next Friday. 27 counties qualify right now in the state’s threshold for allowing youth sports. Sonoma, Marin, Mendocino and Napa counties all qualify to begin youth sports on February 26. With case rates between seven and 14…
2020 was a year we all want to forget. Deaths by some of the biggest stars in the world, a pandemic that killed hundreds of thousands of people, and schools remaining closed since March. There were, however, some big stories throughout the year. We look back on those below. Basketball season was heating up. We…
