NCVA Volleyball Players Throughout NorCal Will Have Plenty Of Options To Stay Local This Spring With multiple NCVA tournaments taking place almost every weekend, March represents one of the busiest months of the spring season for the Northern California Volleyball Association.  For clubs and parents looking to keep travel to a minimum, the Girls Premier League is a quality option throughout the month. Premier League #2 will take place March 2-3 for 12/11s, 16/15s and 18/17s with sites varying depending on district. Later in the month, Premier League #3 takes place on March 23-24 with 12/1 ..read more

With Come From Behind Win Over Marin Catholic, Foothill Volleyball Improved To 36-1 And Snapped Four Game Skid In NCS Finals Appearances PICTURED ABOVE:Nisa Kincaid (left) and Katie Salonga (5) join teammates in celebrating a Foothill point late in the NCS championship match. (Chace Bryson photos) Katie Salonga fully admitted to not having got the best night of sleep Friday. The Foothill High four-year setter was about to be heading back to the North Coast Section Division I finals after losing the same championship game a season ago. It was the program’s fourth runner-up finish during a 13-ye ..read more

East Bay Coaches Weren’t Shy About Telling The Newest Amador Valley Volleyball Coach His Team Was Ready To Take Off — And The Dons Appear To Be Proving Them Right PICTURED ABOVE:Amador Valley senior outside hitter, Zoe Allison. After a long stretch of focus on club volleyball, Jacky Yao was merely excited to get back into a high school coaching situation.  Then the newest Amador Valley High girls volleyball coach heard about the team and players he was inheriting. “There were just a lot of coaches from the volleyball community who kept telling me, ‘Oh my gosh, you’re going to be good,’” Y ..read more

NorCal Team Of The Week Options Include CIF Regional Champ, Repeat NCS Champ, A Dominant Softball Team + Baseball Bracketbusters We’re using this last month of the 2022-23 interscholastic sports calendar to try out a new weekly feature at SportStars. Welcome to our second vote for the SportSquad NorCal Team of the Week. Fans can vote every six hours, up to four times a day if you time it right. The winning team will be honored on the website each Friday. Voting closes at 11:59 p.m. Thursday night. SCROLL TO BOTTOM TO CAST VOTE Let’s meet this week’s nominees: BRANHAM BOYS VOLLEYBALL: After los ..read more

Newest SportSquad Team Of The Week Options Include Three Section Champions And A Softball Team Undefeated Vs. NorCal Opponents • We’re using this last month of the 2022-23 interscholastic sports calendar to try out a new weekly feature at SportStars. Welcome to our second vote for the SportSquad NorCal Team of the Week. Fans can vote every six hours, up to four times a day if you time it right. The winning team will be honored on the website each Friday. Voting closes at 11:59 p.m. Thursday night. SCROLL TO BOTTOM TO CAST VOTE Let’s meet this week’s nominees: CUPERTINO BOYS TENNIS: The Pioneer ..read more

Mixing Positive Energy With Plenty Of Talent, San Ramon Valley Volleyball Sets Out To End A Nine-Year Section Championship Drought • PICTURED ABOVE: Senior captains Morgan Daetz, right, and Audrey Ross ham it up during a water break. (Chace Bryson photos) It’s early evening on Sept. 1, and inside of the San Ramon Valley High main gymnasium is a cacophony of booms and echoes as volleyballs thunder off of the hardwood flooring.  And laughter. There’s plenty of that too.  These are the routine practice sounds of the San Ramon Valley volleyball team. Coach Brian Fujinaga keeps the w ..read more

Stockton Classic Results Don’t Change The Very Top Of The NorCal Volleyball Rankings, But Several Teams Move Up This Week • NorCal Volleyball Rankings All records are through Tuesday, Oct. 11. Previous ranking in parenthesis. Record obtained via MaxPreps. PICTURED ABOVE: Members Of No. 10 Marin Catholic-Kentfield Celebrate A Point During Their Stockton Classic Match Vs. No. 12 Amador Valley-Pleasanton. (Chace Bryson photo) 1. (1) St. Francis-Mountain View   24-0 2. (2) Archbishop Mitty-San Jose   23-6 3. (3) Sacred Heart Prep-Atherton   17-4 4. (5) San Ramon Valley-Dan ..read more

Only Three Teams Hold The Same Spot They Did In Last Week’s NorCal Volleyball Rankings; Top 5 Sees Slight Shuffle And New Team • NorCal Volleyball Rankings All records are through Tuesday, Sept. 27. Previous ranking in parenthesis. PICTURED ABOVE: No. 3 Sacred Heart Prep-Atherton. (SHP Athletics photo/Twitter) 1. (1) St. Francis-Mountain View   14-0 2. (2) Archbishop Mitty-San Jose   18-4 3. (5) Sacred Heart Prep-Atherton   12-4 4. (3) Monte Vista-Danville   16-2 5. (7) Amador Valley-Pleasanton  14-1 6. (4) Branson-Ross   8-6 7. (6) St. Mary’s ..read more

With Four Straight Five-Set Wins, Berean Christian Girls Volleyball Closed Out An Incredible State Championship Run — The School’s First Ever  • EDITOR’S NOTE: This Feature Has Been Updated With Quotes Following Berean Christian’s State Championship Win. More than a half hour had passed since freshman Marley Seelye delivered a match-winning kill that would send the Berean Christian volleyball team to its first ever state championship appearance. Several players, parents and fans still milled about the gymnasium soaking in the vibes.  Meanwhile, setter Aunyka Uresti — one of just two ..read more

NorCal Open Champ St. Francis-Mountain View Assures Itself A Wire-To-Wire No. 1 Finish In The NorCal Volleyball Rankings • NorCal Volleyball Rankings All records are through Saturday, Nov. 15. Previous ranking in parenthesis. Record obtained via MaxPreps. PICTURED ABOVE: Cayman Stein and Sadie Snipes of No. 5 Branson-Ross (Chace Bryson photo) 1. (1) St. Francis-Mountain View   34-0* 2. (2) Archbishop Mitty-San Jose   30-9 3. (3) San Ramon Valley-Danville   28-8 4. (4) Sacred Heart Prep-Atherton   24-6 5. (8) Branson-Ross   22-10* 6. (5) Oak Ridge-El ..read more