Tag: sports

When Charlene Tomasini played on youth soccer clubs growing up, she was the person who other players’ parents feared.

In her first two years at San Benito High, Marisa Villegas has performed remarkable feats in volleyball and track and field.

The Gilroy and San Benito girls soccer teams entered Wednesday’s Monterey Bay League Gabilan Division opener with renewed optimism—and for good reason.

Denise Martinez admitted she used to take the game for granted.

Of all the superlatives Hartnell College women’s soccer coach Ivan Guerrero had for her sophomore defender, Victoria Perez, two remarks stood out.

Tony Rosa knows talent when he sees it.

Mike Perez is in his first year as the Anzar High boys’ soccer coach, but he already knows the team well.

If there is ever a sport where endurance and stamina play a vital role in winning and losing, it’s soccer. Becky Bonner, the third-year San Benito High girls soccer coach, makes sure her players will be in tip-top shape before they play their season-opener at Scotts Valley on Dec. 1.

The San Benito High girls volleyball team was facing its worst-case scenario last Saturday in a Central Coast Section Division I playoff quarterfinal—down two games to none and in danger of getting swept out of the postseason in front of its own fans.

San Benito High freshmen Annie Breger, Kieley Hoskins, Nicole Andrade, Noel Chavarria and Lauren Sabbatini weren’t even born when the original Fab Five dominated the nation’s sports consciousness—that would be the Chris Webber-led Michigan basketball team in the early 1990s—but they’ll gladly take the moniker.