Fall Sports Preview – Women’s Volleyball
Dana Vargas was captivated by the drama when, as a young girl, she watched UCSB and Long Beach State face each other in women’s volleyball.
Dana Vargas was captivated by the drama when, as a young girl, she watched UCSB and Long Beach State face each other in women’s volleyball.
Autumn signifies not only the start of the academic school year but also the kickoff of myriad sports seasons. This week, our Indy sportswriter gives the lowdown on whom to watch at which schools in what sports — including soccer, volleyball, water polo, and football.
The setting for Santa Barbara City College’s football games is nothing short of spectacular.
For 29 consecutive years, Santa Barbara High’s girls’ tennis team has been the champion or co-champion of the Channel League.
Minutes old 3rd generation Monarchs.
UCSB has a pair of returning water polo All-Americans — Milos Golic, a first-team selection, and Zsombor Vincze, honorable mention — who could be poster boys for the NCAA ideal of the well-rounded student/athlete.
Any notion that UCSB would have a smooth ride to the 2010 College Cup, the NCAA men’s soccer championship that will be held in its own stadium, was dispelled in the first game of the season.
Before hitting up Buckingham Palace this summer to see the changing of the guard, sisters Natalie (left) and Camille (center) Wyss and their friend Emily Clark (right)—all three Dos Pueblos High students—stopped outside a London phone booth to pose for a photo with a copy of The Independent.
Brad Jellison ran 55 yards for the S.B. Dons’ first touchdown in a 17-0 victory over the Channel Islands Raiders last Friday night at Peabody Stadium.
I like that you focus for a brief moment on your staff and interns in the contents section of your paper. I was looking at the photo of Susannah Lopez with her Independent on the shores of Lock Ness and I thought to myself, “Wait, I’ve been there at that exact spot.”