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Ask any local volleyball player or coach about Walt Ker, and they'll tell you the same thing.
Homa tops locals at SCGA
A quartet of local high school men's golf products teed off in the first two rounds of the 110th Southern California Golf Association Amateur Championship Friday, with one player positioning himself for a potential championship push over the weekend.
Cougars make impact
College of the Canyons head football coach Garett Tujague lined up over the football. Returning first team all-Western State Conference defensive back Arron Fisher stood in the backfield and called out his cadence. Rather than "Red 55" or "Blue 17," he took a playful jab by exaggerating his coach's age. "Coach Tujague is 55. Coach Tujague is 55." Fisher took the snap, pulled his arm back and as the ball came forward, a throw that ...
Fighting for their sport
The crack of Ruben Lahn's kick contacting with his instructor's arm pads reverberates throughout the gym.
Muay Thai is a stand-up art
Nowadays, Muay Thai is utilized worldwide. From its inception thousands of years ago to its use in the top mixed martial arts organizations today, Thailand's national sport has combined punches, kicks, elbows and knees to win battles and belts and has been thusly dubbed "the Art of Eight Limbs." Though a sport, the art form was born out of necessity. "In Thailand, you don't do Muay Thai because you want to do Muay Thai. In ...
Martial artist: del Rosario wins world title in sparring
As a child, your potential seems limitless. Some children want to be firefighters. Others want to be astronauts. At the age of 4, Victoria del Rosario wanted to be a world champion in taekwondo. A lofty goal, indeed. Now 8 years old, the Valencia resident has done just that. On June 24 in Little Rock, Ark., del Rosario defeated her friend Abigail Kirshy from Port Charlotte, Fla., to win the American Taekwondo Association World Championship ...
A cut above: Lee readies for Western Amateur
Daniel Lee is not an average 16-year-old. He is even further from being an average golfer. The term "average" is almost inappropriate when referencing Lee and his golf game. The soon-to-be junior at West Ranch High School is talented beyond his years, ranking 11th in the American Junior Golf Association's Polo rankings. Lee is set to participate in the prestigious Western Amateur Golf Tournament with 150 of the best junior players in the country starting ...
Locals win gold at Junior Olympics
A pair of local athletes pulled down prestigious honors in Reno, Nev. last week as Jasmine Hall and Ted Glasnow both won gold medals at the AAU West Coast Junior Olympics. Hall won the heptathlon and Glasnow took home first place honors in the decathlon. "I figured that I'm pretty good at most events, so during my senior year I decided to focus on the decathlon," said Glasnow, a Hart graduate. "There are still things ...
Hockey moves into pool
Ben Jarvis stood on the side of the pool. It was the winter of 2005, and steam was rising off the water. With the temperature sitting at just above freezing, Jarvis dove in, effectively bringing underwater hockey to the Santa Clarita Valley. Underwater what? Believe it or not, the sport of underwater hockey - or "octopush" as it was originally called - dates back nearly 60 years. "People basically just want to know why," Jarvis ...
Masters team attracts talent
They come from all over. Not just different cities and careers, but also levels of experience. But no matter the skill level, the Santa Clarita Masters swim team has given athletes the opportunity to hit the pool for myriad reasons. Among them, a chance to give back. This rings particularly true for Brian Roney, a qualifying member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic team that boycotted the Games in Moscow, who has spent time as a ...
Post-career moves
A million things go through an athlete's mind when his or her playing career faces mortality. Do I keep trying to play? Do I give it up? What's next?
Previously impossible
Monday's Los Angeles Marathon will be a triumph against athletic odds for many individuals, but there may be no group which represents the ability to overcome obstacles more than a team of handicapped people that are slated to finish the event thanks to the help of the Center of Rehabilitative Enhancement (C.O.R.E.) and Together Each Other Achieves More (T.E.A.M.) Rise Above. On May 25 at 1 p.m, approximately 15 individuals who have sustained debilitating injuries ...
'Signal Community Sports' page spotlights local youth, adult sports online and in print
The Signal will soon provide local youth and adult sports leagues a new outlet for submitting and publishing their game results, news and photos in print and online in the Santa Clarita Valley's only daily newspaper and most-visited news Web site.
Order on the court
You can almost alter the saying to: "The family that referees together, stays together?" It sounds right for one family, at least.
Skills for success
On a Friday night at the Powerhouse Gym in Santa Clarita, Marsalis Ellison is working up a sweat. The 16-year-old student at Blair High School of Pasadena is practicing his footwork by executing the same crossover dribble and pull-up jumper until it becomes natural.
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Youth sports: Local AYSO teams make state
Even some of the coaches and parents in the community didn't realize a state championship existed for the American Youth Soccer Organization.
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