Aptos High's girls track and field team won seven events and benefitted from its depth to win the team title at the SCCAL Championships at Soquel High on Monday.
At Santa Cruz High, boys volleyball is a way of life. Go to the beach and play volleyball after school. Then head to the gym for indoor practice in the evening. Bonding and community. On the court, it’s about having fun and winning games. Lots of wins.
Volleyball is practically in Marilu Pally’s DNA.
Now a sophomore with Cal’s beach volleyball program – the No. 7-ranked NCAA Division I team in the country – the Santa Cruz High grad is the daughter of two elite volleyball players from France: Her father Laurent played professionally, while her mother Veronique Baudon suited up for the French junior national team.
It was nothing but congestion on nearby Highway 17 with all the beach-goers, but at the 43rd Central Coast Section Top 8 Invite at Los Gatos High on Saturday, Los Altos High's Nathaniel Guillory had an empty lane to accelerate.
"On Dec. 8, 1941, all students and teachers were ushered into the Santa Cruz High School auditorium at 9:30 a.m., to hear President Franklin D. Roosevelt speak live over the radio. In his address to the joint session of Congress, FDR announcing that Dec. 7, 1941 was 'a day which will live in infamy,' as an unprovoked Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor occurred while a state of peace existed between the two nations," writes columnist Ross Eric Gibson.