Santa Monica High School’s football team opens the 2010 season with three games on the road. The Vikings will face Leuzinger, Palisades and Villa Park all on their opponents’ turf.
By DANIEL ARCHULETA Managing Editor SAMOHI The Vikings’ dream softball season continues to bear fruit. Cal Hi Sports named Santa Monica High School’s Celisha Walker and Kaile Nakao to the All-California Medium School’s First Team this week.
LAKE ELSINORE — The legend of Cody Decker keeps growing. Since his days playing baseball for Santa Monica High School, Decker has been the inspiration behind a few local legends.
ST. MONICA — Shouts echo through the school quad as football players run through drills on a Wednesday afternoon at St. Monica. Standing in lines 10 yards apart, they toss tennis balls back and forth in a routine aimed at improving concentration and hand-eye coordination.
ST. MONICA — The beginning of football season is months away, but the Mariners already have football on the mind. St. Monica, a team that improved last season to 3-6 overall following a couple of years of hard times, advances to the beginning of the season with at least one side of the ball in order
CITYWIDE — The familiar “ping” sound of a ball springing off an aluminum bat has long been associated with high school baseball. In Santa Monica and the rest of California, that sound may soon be a thing of the past — at least if a bill proposed by Assemblyman Jared Huffman goes into effect.
SAMOHI — Nobody ever said that replacing the late Norm Lacy as Santa Monica High School’s athletic director was going to be easy. Yet, Daniel Escalera and his supporters think he has as good a shot as any.
SAMOHI — The hits just keep coming for the Vikings’ softball team. Santa Monica High School, coming off the first California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section softball title in school history, has placed a number of players on the All CIF-SS Division 4 team with senior pitcher Celisha Walk
KALAMATA, Greece — Jana Strain began freediving in 2008. Just two years later, she can call herself a world champion. Strain, a resident of Santa Monica, took home gold medals in both individual and team events at the Mediterranean World Cup in Kalamata, Greece, on Sunday, the final day of the two-w
SAMOHI — Already fielding a youth-laden roster, Santa Monica’s boys’ basketball team just got even younger. Jordan Mathews, a sophomore guard and son of new UCLA assistant men’s basketball coach Phil Mathews, has transferred to Samohi from Riverside North.
DOWNTOWN — Pacifica Christian’s baseball team may be young, but after a rash of awards and the Seawolves’ recent run through the CIF-SS Division 7 playoffs, don’t call them inexperienced.
