Prep football: Canyon WR Drew Wolitarsky chooses Minnesota

Canyon High senior Drew Wolitarsky, a record-breaking wide receiver, made his official verbal commitment to the University of Minnesota on Sunday evening, his father John confirmed.

Prep boys hoops: Calm under pressure

Valencia Vikings boys basketball is a team that preaches chemistry and playing team ball.

Prep boys soccer: ’Cats back atop league

There's nothing like beating your league rival to heal all the wounds of a painful loss earlier in the week.

The Day After Soccer: Path of the leaders

Tuesday was a good day for Valencia Vikings soccer on the boys and girls side. Both teams came into the day at second place in the Foothill League, and both came out of it in first. But that's only a few of the major story lines going on here at the halfway mark of the winter league season. Boys With five games in the books and five to play, the league title race appears to ...

Prep boys soccer: Just a single goal in mind

The way the Valencia Vikings boys soccer team is playing defense these days, all they need is one goal.

College of the Canyons' Jaylen Bland: Right place, right time

Timing has been everything for College of the Canyons sophomore Jaylen Bland. For better or worse, it took a lot of strange twists and surprises for him to end up in a Cougars uniform. After enduring a frustrating freshman year of college basketball, it was actually an old high school rival who played a big part in bringing Bland back to the Los Angeles area where he used to live. "I ...

Prep boys soccer: A meeting of the minds

Instead of practicing earlier this week, Saugus boys soccer held a team meeting following a third straight Foothill League loss.

Prep boys hoops: Cents’ fresh start

Whether or not this game could be considered a must-win for Saugus boys basketball, the Centurions certainly played like it.

The Day After Soccer: Big games on horizon

If Hart girls soccer is the hottest team in the Foothill League, Valencia gets the title of most consistent.

College basketball: Cool customers

The theme of anyone coming up big on any given night has spilled over to the conference season for College of the Canyons men's basketball.

Prep boys soccer: W.R. makes the right moves

It doesn't seem to matter how opponents try to game plan against West Ranch boys basketball.

Prep boys soccer: West Ranch shows resilience

For a few brief minutes, West Ranch boys soccer was pushed. The Wildcats didn't let it get to them though, which is part of the reason they've started off Foothill League play so well. Senior Wade McMillon recorded a hat trick, including two insurance goals late, to help West Ranch pull away from Saugus 5-2 on Tuesday at West Ranch High School. "I think we still have work to do," McMillon said of his team's ...

Prep football: Nine Foothill League players named All-CIF

The Foothill League was filled with potent offenses in football this season, and the CIF voters took notice.

Valencia's Jesus Fernandez: Always forward thinking

When he was a freshman, Jesus Fernandez remembers his coach yelling at him for passing the soccer ball backward.

Prep boys soccer: Vikes get their spark

One by one, Valencia boys soccer head coach Tony Scalercio peeled off nearly all layers of winter clothing.

All-Santa Clarita Valley Boys Track and Field: Canyon's Jeremy Kimmer

Jeremy Kimmer once said he wished he was allowed to compete in more than the maximum of four events allowed during Foothill League dual meets.

All-Santa Clarita Valley Girls Track and Field: Golden Valley's Azaria Hill

The advancement of girls distance runners in the Santa Clarita Valley are well documented (See Saugus girls cross country and seven straight state titles).

All-Santa Clarita Valley Boys Volleyball: Tanner Skabelund

Years from now, it won't be possible to look back at the last two years of West Ranch boys volleyball without thinking of Tanner Skabelund.

All-Santa Clarita Valley boys tennis: Valencia's Chad LeDuff

Given Valencia's dominance over the rest of the Foothill League in recent years, the team's best singles player should naturally be honored.

Max Homa's week among the elite

Max Homa is starstruck and he's not ashamed to admit it.

Valencia football's Davis Pitner: Finding his way on the line

Saugus' Charles Dulac: A message of acceptance

Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series of stories in which The Signal recognizes high school athletes whose greatest achievements go well beyond the playing field.

SCV track and field season ends at state finals

Somehow it was fitting that the last three remaining locals of the high school track and field season were all distance runners from Saugus High School, a perrenial power in distance races.

Max Homa, Cal upset in NCAA semifinals

The wave of emotion swung back the other direction this week for Valencia graduate Max Homa.

Saugus track's Rodrigo Ornelas: Determined to be the best

Even now, he still thinks about second place.

Local athletes will participate in NCAA baseball tourney

The Santa Clarita Valley once again has a few good reasons to tune into the college baseball postseason, which begins Friday.

Valencia track's Olivia Pear: On a different stage

It was Olivia Pear's goal all along to miss her high school graduation. Last fall, when it came time for seniors at Valencia High to order their caps, gowns and tassels for the ceremony, Pear astutely noticed that her school's graduation date fell on the same night as the CIF-Southern Section Track and Field Masters Meet. Pear decided to purchase the cap and gown anyway. But while 694 of her Valencia classmates walked across the ...

TMC baseball falls just short in game 2 of NAIA World Series

It all started to fall into place for The Master's College baseball.

Foothill athletes advance to state at Friday's Masters meet

NORWALK - The exact move Sabrina Janes was trying to make a week ago worked perfectly the second time around.

NAIA highlighted by distance runners

It was a good day for distance runners at The Master's College on Friday.