Trinity League North?
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Any such league would have to include DLS.
Folsom-Cordova is also an open enrollment school district. Well before Folsom ever rose to prominence 13-14 years ago, Cordova once ruled the SJS and NorCal back during the 70’s, 80’s and early 90’s and the districts open enrollment surely aided it’s ascent and ability to sustain for such a long period of time, as did the long closed Mather AFB.
Highlands suffered much the same fate when McClellan AFB closed. At one time it's enrollment was over 3k with only 3 classes.....Frosh attend Don Julio Jr. High.
SHC still uses the older gym. The area that used to be the cafeteria is loaded with locker rooms and workout facilities. Combined with the new gym, it makes for much more boys & girls' basketball + Volleyball practice space than Riordan and SI. SHC has a practice field, extra practice space, including use of a softball + soccer field at the renovated Lang Field a block or so from the school, for which SHC made a significant donation, plus they have plans to expand their current practice field by utilizing a rooftop field on top of it. Home football games are at Kezar. Who doesn't want to play under Friday Night Lights at a historical venue? They have baseball practice and batting cages on campus and are currently playing their home baseball games at Marchbank Park in Daly City. SHC is donating again for significant upgrades at the facility. In other words, they're doing every single thing they can do with what they have at their disposal. When Marchbank Park is finished, every Sacred Heart Cathedral home athletic facility used by the Irish will be first-rate for which any good athlete would like to play. Especially for the best gymnasium in the league with it's new digital scoreboards, 30-foot high ceiling, a bright, clean interior and new lighting which effortlessly outclasses any other prep gym in the league, if not the Bay Area. They deserve credit for it. Any snark from the usual suspects is borne of hatred and petty jealousy. (like 'cityfan' or other assorted shallow dimwits, plus the idiots who defend them).
If you get a chance to see the new (2010) theater, do so. It's first-rate - outclassing all other prep theaters - and features a highly regarded theater program to go with it.
"Pvt Henry Lives" is one of most WCAL familiar posters on here, even the SF schools."
(Unless he feels like ripping ONE SF school...).
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Thinking outside "Those Were the Days"
Mindset. The league could be a football only regional competitive league while the participating schools would maintain membership in a more local based league for all other school sports programs to cut down on numerous week day traveling that is common for baseball, swimming, waterpolo, soccer, etc.
DLS football, for example, would participate in a NorCal "TrinityLeague"
which I am sure would not upset the other EBAL members who when they're feeling they have an up year team could try to schedule The Spartans in the early season to challenge themselves.
And I am sure if the CIF after many court challenges from the SoCal schools and now regularly pulling a Sargeant Schultz's
"I see no-thing, I know no-thing!!" with regards to the seasonal migration of Prep players to the Trinity power houses could creatively contribute to equalizing the competitive level of NorCal football
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Pretty proud of our school and what they contribute to the city/daly city to make their sports programs work with the lack of their own facilities. The obstacle is always land which we dont have much unlike the other two. What is going to be scary is when SI completes their expansion. They will be able to increase their enrollment substantially thus attracting any athlete of their choosing from anywhere. What's it going to cost per year to go to SI then? $100K?
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I think in the 70s, the policy was most of the military kids went to Folsom, but there were a few that happened to end up at Cordova.
Kind of crazy how the percepton has flipped in that district
My wife attended Highlands and by the time she graduated there were 4 classes. I believe the freshman class was added "around" 1984ish. But prior to that they only had 3 classes.
It is a long distance but it is not without historical precedence. But you have to go back a long ways. In the '40's and into the 50's the top level Central Valley league had Turlock, Modesto, Stockton, Lodi, Sacramento, Grant, McClatchy, and Woodland high schools in the league. So it stretched well over 100 miles from Turlock to Woodland, and they made it work. When I graduated from Turlock High in 1969 the league went from Merced in the south to Lodi in the north, 85 miles or so, and we didn't think anything of the sometimes long bus rides for all sports. Of course there were far fewer high schools then and now the leagues can be more concentrated. It would be hard to convince schools to take on large travel distances for all sports, not just the occasional football game not in the immediate area, when it isn't necessary.
Along those same historical lines, the ancient California Catholic Athletic League, the 1940s forerunner of the subsequent Catholic Athletic League and, finally, the West Catholic Athletic League, embraced such widely dispersed small papal outfits as St. Vincent's of Vallejo, St. Mary's of Stockton, St.Mary's of Berkeley, St. Elizabeth's of Oakland (now closed), Serra of San Mateo, Bellarmine Prep of San Jose and St. Joseph's of Alamda (sans football). The CAL included Marin Catholic of Kentfield, Riordan of San Francisco and Bishop O'Dowd of Oakland. Holy Cross of Santa Cruz (now closed) and Palma of Salinas were not involved back in those days. But petrol was a lot cheaper after WWII. How about 25 cents per gallon in the mid-1950s. Mercy.
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I wonder how many high schools all across the country were impacted by the military base closings in the mid-90's? In this area Atwater and Merced benefited by Castle Air Force base, although Merced was probably helped more by having over 4,000 students. Atwater had good athletes over the years and a really good team in the mid-90's that ended up playing for the section championship, unfortunately running into Lance Briggs and Elk Grove and getting torched 77 to whatever. When the base closed there was worry that the town would dry up but it didn't and they even built another high school, Buhach Colony, after the base closed. Merced had some great teams in the 70's and 80's, in particular basketball. Now there are three public high schools in Merced and one private and they and the Atwater schools have gone from Div.1 to Div. 3.
Its a good question. Also interesting how the area seemed to shift and ended up building a new high school
The area like the rest if the valley, growing! But Atwater was in our league when I was in high school. You had MANY one and 2 year kids there. As in Carlos Boozer along with Rod Connors from Cordova were best athletes I saw while in high school. The only town in the valley that are not growing is Escalon.
