LA Times - With 25 seniors returning from a team that won the unofficial Southern Section lacrosse championship last season, Santa Ana Foothill had all the pressure to repeat that performance in 2008.

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USA Football - Interested in getting a leg up on the opposition? Now is the time to start preparing for the football season. USA Football is hosting a football coaching clinic Saturday, May 31 (8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.) at Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, CA.

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Velocity SP - When an athlete comes to Velocity Sports Performance to train we initially ask them for three goals they wish to accomplish. It is almost guaranteed that one of those goals will be to run faster. That can mean increasing their first step quickness so they can explode off the line or increasing their speed endurance so they are a scoring threat down the field.

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The Santa Clarita Spartans took another road trip to the Westside to face off against a tough opponent in Culver City. Fielding a scrappy squad of dedicated lacrosse players, the Spartans drew first blood and held on to a 1-0 lead deep into the second quarter.

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LA Times - The Southern Section doesn't conduct official playoffs for lacrosse -- or any other sport, unless 20% of its member schools participate. But that didn't keep the lacrosse community from organizing its own playoffs, culminating in a May 9 championship game between the Orange County and the North Division boys' champions at Mission Viejo Trabuco Hills.

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LA Times (4/30) One of the biggest surprises last football season was Encino Crespi's reaching the Southern Section Pac-5 Division championship game behind sophomore quarterback Bryan Bennett, who took over as the starter in the first quarter of the first game because of a season-ending knee injury to Kevin Prince.

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Former College of the Canyons football players –cornerback Justin Tryon and linebacker Joey LaRocque – were selected in the in the fourth and seventh rounds by the Washington Redskins and Chicago Bears, respectively of the 2008 NFL Draft this past weekend. They become the fifth and sixth Cougars to be drafted by an NFL team since the program was reinstated at COC in 1998.

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Santa Clarita continues to be not only cultural magnet, but our propensity to attract high profile sports performance businesses is second-to-none. Picture if you will, a cross between Golds’ Gym – an X-Box 360 – and the Rose Bowl and you may get a small picture of the new kid on the block in Velocity Sports Peformance. I took a recent tour and came away impressed and wishing I were a teenager again. This place is not only really cool but the coaches there are top notch!

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SCVAA - The entire SCVAA family would like to extend our most heartfelt condolences to the family of Dee Dilley. Mrs. Dilley past away after battling several health issues over the last few years in addition to the loss of her beloved husband, Richard Dilley. Richard and Dee Dilley gave more than they ever needed to the Santa Clarita Valley Athletic Association.

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The Signal - It's pretty difficult to gauge how good of an athlete you truly are. Your parents might tell you one thing, your coaches another thing. One local training facility, in partnership with Nike, will tell you how good of an athlete you truly are.

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The Signal - Canyon High student/athlete Stephen Wirthlin said he's lucky to be alive after a car accident on Saturday morning in Gorman. The 17-year-old was on a Boy Scouts retreat when the car he was a passenger in landed awkwardly on a dip, then flipped a couple of times, taking out a fence and a couple of trees.

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QB Combine concluded it's spring session on Sunday and recognized the Santa Clarita Valley as producing the best young quarterback prospects in all of SoCal. Coach Jio Lucci and his staff named three SCV youth QB's as members of the Elite 7.

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The Santa Clarita Spartans lacrosse team claimed a victory in their first game of the season against a more experienced squad from Cheviot Hills at Rancho Park in Los Angeles on Saturday. The Spartans relied on aggressive play and an attacking style to build a quick and early lead over the Riptide. Coach Steve Tyson managed the Spartans to a dominate victory after several weeks of preparation.

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Daily News - UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel wanted to name a starting quarterback by the end of spring practice, but injuries muddled a once-clear picture and the coaching staff is altering the landscape.

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Daily News - Stephen Wirthlin, an All-Foothill League receiver/defensive back at Canyon, suffered a broken neck Friday when he lost control of his truck and rolled it twice.

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LA Times - A proposal to create separate playoff divisions for private and public high schools in the Southern Section was withdrawn Thursday by the Century League moments before league representatives were scheduled to vote.

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CIF - For the first time in 32 years the CIF Southern Section will eliminate out-of-season restrictions on coaches working with their student-athletes.

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Daily News - The Home Depot Center in Carson will remain as the host site for the 2008 and 2009 CIF State Football Championship Bowl Games presented by Farmers, CIF Executive Director Marie M. Ishida announced Wednesday.

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The Gold Coast Youth Football League will hold their inaugural Passing Event on June 7 & 8 at Golden Valley HS in Canyon Country. SCV Gridiron will organize the event which will be hosted by the Santa Clarita Wildcats & Santa Clarita Grizzlies. Both programs participate in the GCYFL and are charter members of the Santa Clarita Youth Sports Association (SCYSA).

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LA Times - As a vote nears on whether to create separate playoff divisions for private and public schools in the Southern Section, Patrick Lee, principal at Bellflower St. John Bosco, said Monday he has asked supporters of the proposal to postpone a decision for one year in favor of launching a task force to discuss the issue more thoroughly.

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