DOWNTOWN — On a rainy Friday morning, Rachel Volman plays “La Bamba” on the piano at Silvercrest Senior Residence Center for her fellow residents. Every week, she attends a Spanish class in the community room that combines her love of music with her interest in languages.
HIGH SCHOOL CROSS-COUNTRY SAMOHI — With hopes of improving efficiency and lowering costs, the Santa Monica High School Vikings combined its boys and girls cross-country teams, consolidating their coaching staff to one head coach this season, school officials said.
INGLEWOOD — Friday’s game between Santa Monica and Inglewood high schools will be a homecoming of sorts. Head Coach Travis Clark, in his second year leading Samohi (3-2), will be pitting his Vikings against a mighty familiar foe on the road at Coleman Stadium.
INGLEWOOD — When Santa Monica High School’s football team squares off with Inglewood on the road Friday the Vikings will be facing a pair of major recruits.
SAMOHI — For the second consecutive year, Santa Monica High School’s girls’ basketball team has produced at least two players who have made verbal commitments to NCAA Division 1 schools, with a third still contemplating her options.
SAMOHI — In the final tune-up for Ocean League play, Santa Monica High School’s football team tore through Centennial of Compton, 56-13, on Friday at Corsair Field.
SAMOHI — If at first you don’t succeed, keep looking. That’s the maxim Santa Monica High School’s Daniel Escalera, the athletic director, had to stick with when his first choice for a new softball coach didn’t pan out.
SAMOHI — Looks like Santa Monica High School’s football team has a mystery on their hands. As the Samohi Vikings (2-2) prepare to host Centennial of Compton (2-2) at Santa Monica College’s Corsair Field on Friday, even Head Coach Travis Clark said that he doesn’t know much about his opponent.
SAMOHI — With Ocean League play underway, the Vikings’ girls’ volleyball team hopes to improve on the success they had in the playoffs last season. So far this year, the Santa Monica High School Vikings have played two regular season games — last Wednesday they faced El Segundo and lost in straight
SAMOHI — Santa Monica High School’s football team is partnering with organizers of the Pico Festival and Car Show for the second straight year to raise funds to benefit the team and injured player Cody Williams, who suffered a traumatic spinal injury last season.
DOWNTOWN — Education activists organized as the group LEAD is pushing for a new direction on the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District board, endorsing two challengers in November’s election and declining to support incumbents Oscar de la Torre and Ralph Mechur.
