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| Any room for wrestling? He said it's now a running joke. |
| Athletes will be gauged Saturday It's pretty difficult to gauge how good of an athlete you truly are. |
| AYSO 678 soccer signups start today Registration for the upcoming fall AYSO soccer season begins today, May 8, for Newhall, Valencia, Stevenson Ranch and surrounding areas. Walk-in registration will be held at three elementary schools May 8-15, or parents may register players online at www.ayso678.org until May 31. Registration will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on the following dates at these schools: • Thursday, May 8: Old Orchard Elementary, 25141 N. Avenida Rondel • Tuesday, May 13: Valencia Valley Elementary, 23601 Carrizo Dr. • Thursday, May 15: Meadows Elementary, 25577 N. Fedala Rd. • Saturday, May 31: Registration officially closes. AYSO Region ... |
| College of the Canyons gears up for summer with five youth camps SANTA CLARITA, Calif. - As the temperature rises and the days get longer, it is inevitable that summer vacation is right around the corner for the children of the Santa Clarita and its surrounding communities. Instead of sitting at home watching television, College of the Canyons offers an alternative - five different youth sports camps starting in June to accommodate everyone's little athlete. Staffed and run by COC coaches and athletes, the youth camps provide an affordable way for the novice to the experienced player to learn a new sport or to take their game to a higher level. Basketball ... |
| Ventura Black Widows join NWFA The National Women's Football Association has awarded a team license in the California coastal town of Ventura. The team will be an exhibition squad this year and officially playing a full schedule in 2009. Ventura County's only women's full contact football team Invites ladies to attend the Preregistration and Info Session. A preregistration and information session will be held between 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. on June 28. Walkthrough with information before the first tryouts on, July 11 at Blanche Reynolds Park. |
| Swimmers break world records at SCAC long meet On May 18, world records were broken when the Santa Clarita Masters Club and the Santa Clarita Aquatic Center hosted a Long Course Meet. The meet consists of competitors swimming 50-meter lengths versus the usual configuration of 25-yards. Rita Simonton, 90, broke the world record for the womens' 1500-meter freestyle setting a mark of 36 minutes, 28.48 seconds. The previous world record in this event was 42:30.27. Jurgen B. Schmidt, 85, broke the world record for the mens' 1500 with a mark of 29:12.85. the previous record was set at 29:35.88. Erick Hochstein, 40, broke the record for the 100 ... |
| Local kids getting their kicks Leagues Of Their Own is a continuing series featuring stories behind local youth sports organizations. The American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) Region 678 covers mostly Newhall, Valencia and Stevenson Ranch, as well as other smaller satellite communities. The largest such league in the Santa Clarita Valley, there are over 2,200 children competing on over 170 teams. "Soccer, while enormously popular with kids all over the country, still has a long way to go to get into the American sports mainstream," said Joe Franco, the Assistant Regional Commissioner for Competitive Teams (10 and over). "For kids and parents, it's very cost ... |
| PYFL passing tourney begins |
| Building character one child at a time While youth soccer and baseball leagues abound in the Santa Clarita Valley, there are few football organizations by comparison. |
| Hart PONY Mustang Blue team wins district The Hart Mustang Blue Tournament team won the PONY District Tournament in Greenfield, Calif. |
| Milan GU-16 SA team makes Irvine Summer Classic finals Playing in their inaugural tournament the GU-16 Milan SA team made the finals of the Irvine Summer Classic. Milan went undefeated in pool play. |
| Local team brings home the gold The Hart 14U softball team took third place in the ASA Western District Tournament in Moorpark this past weekend qualifiying for State in San Diego. The team will represent Southern California for softball and participate in the Junior Olympic ceremonies at Qualcomm Stadium with 30,000 athletes. |
| Kids learn to save lives ... "Saving" fellow competitors with yellow rescue cans, swimming up to 300 yards and running around in the sun-splashed sand, the annual Junior Lifeguard Competition took place Tuesday at Castaic Lake. |
| Never too old Albert Gandy never even thought about golf until he retired. He had too many other things on his plate. Like when he spent 197 straight days in combat during World War II. Or when he worked 12-14 hour days as an executive for a carpet cleaning company. He didn't become a golf lifer until he retired at age 68. He didn't make his first hole-in-one until he was 85. After June 26th, the 92-year old ... |
| Sprinting toward China Even though it was the fourth-fastest time in the world, not even a personal-best record of 44.61 seconds was good enough for David Neville to win the 400-meter dash at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials on July 3 in Eugene, Ore. |
| Riding the wave One of the up-and-coming young surfers in Southern California does not reside in San Diego, Malibu, or even within a 30-minute drive from any beach. |
| Swimmers of summer Summer has begun, swimmers have taken their marks, and the referee has blown his ear-piercing whistle. |
| Black Belt's Boy Wonder Whirling kicks, pick ax-like weapons and a black belt are part of the exciting universe of Taekwondo. |
| Last-minute soccer loss Canyon High School soccer player Robert Freise and the Under-17/18 LAFC soccer team were four minutes away from winning the U.S. Soccer Development Academy Finals late Friday night on Glenn Myernick Field at the U.S. Soccer National Training Center. |
| Alexandria the Great At the age of 11, Alexandria Florent has already begun the second stage of her young track career. A heel injury has forced the pre-teen to switch from sprints to high jump. |
| In the pool and beyond Sure, every youngster hates getting dragged out of his bed for a morning practice at the crack of dawn. It makes it even worse when they have another workout practice in the evening. |
| Six pack of swimmers Some of the most professional, fastest swimmers not only compete in the city, but also in the state. |
| Beyond the belt On April 2, 2007, David Moreno's life changed forever. His son Joshua Moreno, 20, a volunteer karate instructor at the Santa Clarita Community Center in Newhall, was killed in a motorcycle accident. After the untimely death of his son, Moreno was determined to continue his son's work at the community center. The elder Moreno, who had been teaching classes of his own at the center, took over Josh's karate class with one goal in mind ... |
| Canyons hosts Junior Olympics The Jr. Olympics featuring Southern Californian swimming at the Santa Clarita Aquatics Center through Aug. 2. |
| Jumping for joy Cassie Naranjo has been involved in high-jumping a good part of her life. Since she was eight, the 11-year-old Legacy Christian Academy student strived to be one of the best athletes in the county. Three years ago, Naranjo's neighbor got her into the sport. "My friend from down the street talked about it," Naranjo said. "My dad signed me up. The first time I tried, my dad was really amazed. He said I was a ... |
| Kicking it off the Canyons way Canyons Aquatic Club had several swimmers who set the tone in Wednesday's Summer Southern California Swimming Junior Olympics at Santa Clarita Aquatic Center. |
| Record-breaking effort highlights Day Two Breaking a record that was set before he was born for the second time in two weeks, Zachary Stevens established a new benchmark in the 50-meter breaststroke on Thursday. |
| Russian missile sets club record Born in Moscow, as the granddaughter of a former USSR swimming champion, Liza Kuznetsova showed her prowess Friday at the Southern California Swimming Junior Olympic Championships at the Santa Clarita Aquatics Center, claiming two gold medals (for a total of four, so far). |
| Mad about Football During the day, Valencia attorney Bradley Tyer protects the justice system; at night, however, he protects his quarterback while toiling on the offensive line for his LaBelle Community Football league West club, the Santa Clarita Maddogs. |
| Around the SCV Around the SCV is a weekly look at what's going on with local athletes and teams. Being a 6-foot-5 southpaw with a fastball in the low nineties is a gift. But in minor league baseball that gift is held by many. Hart's Michael Montgomery is proving he's just as qualified as his competitors. Montgomery, who was taken No. 36 by the Kansas City Royals in the first round of the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft, ... |
| ‘Icing’ on the cake The booming voice of junior hockey coach Chris Hartly filled the hockey rink Thursday afternoon at Ice Station Valencia. |
| Area youth baseball team wins Game 1 The Hart Mustang under-10 baseball team won their first game yesterday, 3-2, vs. Puerto Rico in the 2008 Pony Mustang World Series in Irving, Texas. |
| Offense erupts in Game 2 win Hart busted into the semifinal round of the Mustang Pony World Series in a big way Thursday, winning 15-4 over East representative Richmond, Va. in Game Two. |
| AT&T to make last hurrah at Champions Classic Fear not, local golf fans. The Champions Classic still has its sponsor. AT&T will continue to sponsor the AT&T Champions Classic Champions Tour event at Valencia Country Club for the final time in 2009, Brian Fitzgerald, executive director of the tournament, announced Tuesday. The tournament will take place March 9-15, 2009, in Valencia, with Champions Charities again operating and managing the event on behalf of AT&T. The company will be in its fourth year of ... |
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