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Questions and answers about football and other prep sports.
Prep sports will likely be getting in full swing again soon, and the La Jolla Light is looking for your help in covering them.
California public health officials loosened the rules Feb. 19 for youth sports, allowing all outdoor sports to resume in counties where coronavirus case rates are at or below 14 per 100,000 residents.
CIF section chief looks forward to a full schedule down the road.
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La Jolla High School hosted a special “signing day” ceremony for its Viking football players the morning of Dec. 16.
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Sports are grouped by physical contact levels and a county’s coronavirus risk tier.
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Student-athletes can’t return to practice or competition until after Jan. 1 at the earliest.
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Seventeen La Jolla student-athletes participated in the reconfigured National Signing Day on Nov. 11, committing to colleges as close as UC San Diego and as far away as Harvard University.
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La Jolla Country Day School, looking for a new boys basketball coach, got more than 80 applicants from across the country.
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La Jollans can be proud of both their high schools’ girls cross-country teams. Hats off to La Jolla High and The Bishop’s School for qualifying for the 2019 CIF State Championship in Fresno on Thanksgiving weekend. La Jolla High placed 19th of 25 teams in their division in the State Championships. The Bishop’s School placed 9th of 23 teams in their division, improving two places from last year’s team and tied the best finish by Bishop’s in the State Championships.
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In only the second effort of its kind in the United States, two La Jolla Country Day School juniors have created a high school-level law review and published the first volume this month.
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District 1’s Joe LaCava casts the lone dissenting vote, and other La Jolla representatives also have concerns.
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The La Jolla Light presents this continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet during your quarantine quandary. • The Scripps Institution of Oceanography presents “Cross-Border Pollution: Discussing the Tijuana River Valley Crisis and Future Vision” at 6 p.m.
More than 90 runners braved heavy winds, cold and drizzle to compete in a San Diego Unified School District’s middle school cross-country meet Nov. 20, 2019 at Morley Field Sports Complex in Balboa Park, San Diego. Nine students from Muirlands Middle School in La Jolla ran their best against a tough field. Payton Smith took second place overall for eighth-grade girls and Ilya Davydov took second place overall for sixth-grade boys within the district. Officials agreed the meet was a great experience for everyone involved and are looking forward to the next middle-school track meet in May 2020.
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La Jolla High School’s varsity girls cross-country team competed for the win in the 2019 California CIF state championship Nov. 30 at Woodland Park in Fresno. Head coach Mandy Benham said the first team is the first to qualify for the state championship meet since 2008. The girls competed in the division for race and came in 19th out of 25 teams. Sophmore Emma Valenzuela said: “It was a great experience to be part of the state meet and it was exciting to see some of the fastest runners in California!”
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From beginning to end, the 2019 La Jolla High School Homecoming game promises to an exciting one.
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The La Jolla High School Vikings football defense was strong during its opening home game against The Bishop’s School Knights, Aug. 23, slowing plays big and small.
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This year’s high school football season begins with the local favorite match-up “Battle for Pearl Street,” when the La Jolla High School Vikings take on The Bishop’s School Knights, 7 p.m.
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The town of La Jolla had an impressive spring sports season among all of the lacrosse teams.
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La Jolla High School sent both of its lacrosse teams to the CIF playoffs (girls and boys each cleared the CIF quarterfinals the weekend of May 10), and several other teams have already brought home titles.
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Taking a jet ride instead of a bus ride from San Diego to Sacramento might have been the best decision of the week for La Jolla Country Day School in preparation for its CIF state Division III championship basketball game against San Francisco University on Friday, March 8 at Golden 1 Center.
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Senior right-hander Tim Holdgrafer, the former Grossmont College standout who prepped at La Jolla High, recorded Cal Poly Pomona history on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019.
