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.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Tyler Skaggs has gone from the baseball diamond at Santa Monica High School to being a minor league all-star. In his second season of professional ball, Skaggs, a starting pitcher, has been named to the Midwest League All Star team, it was announced last week.
ST. MONICA — St. Monica’s baseball team’s reward for a successful two-season run in the Camino Real is a move to a more difficult league. The Mariners completed this season second in league and won the Camino Real crown last season, which, by league rules, forces St.
