Here is a list of the Orange County athletes who officially signed their National Letters of Intent on Wednesday.
BOYS BASKETBALL
Payton Banks (Orange Lutheran) Penn State
Tanner Lancona (Tesoro) Washington State
Mamadou Ndiaye (Brethren Christian)...

Santa Margarita's football team won CIF-Southern Section and state championships.
Aliso Niguel's girls soccer team won a CIF-Southern Section championship, too. Aliso also was the No. 1 team in the nation, according to at least one ranking system....

We published a ranking of Orange County's top sports schools when the fall season was over, updated it when the winter season ended, and now that the 2011-12 is complete it's time to rank county schools for the school year.
There are ways to rank...

Eugene, Ore. — As UCLA sophomore Mike Woepse watched the final stages of the U.S. Olympic Trials pole vault Thursday night beneath a tent in Hayward Field infield he couldn't help sneaking a peak at the future.
While Woepse was disappointed by hi...

On Dec. 8, 1994, three lives changed forever.
Vida Owens-Grant wasn't feeling well. Her mother, Claudette, who was to meet Vida for lunch later that day, thought perhaps her daughter had indigestion. Claudette instructed her husband, David, to bring...

Slideshow: Check out all of the photos from the Register/OCVarsity.com Athlete and Coach of the Year Awards banquet Wednesday night at ESPN Zone in Anaheim.

2012 BOYS ALL-COUNTY TEAM
*Athletes who qualified and competed at the Masters Meet are automatically selected for the All-County team
(In alphabetical order)
100m
Herbert Gamboa (San Clemente, Sr.)*; Austin Hazel (Mater Dei, Sr.)*; Kezue Nwachie...

Newport Harbor's Ethan Cochran entered his senior season poised to defend his state title in the discus and continue his climb up the county's all-time list of top throwers.
However, Cochran wasn't going to be content with supremacy in just the...

Slideshow: Who are the best male and female high school athletes in Orange County?
That's the wide-ranging question the OCVarsity.com staff asks and answers each spring when selecting its athletes of the year.
It's a tough question because the county...

CLOVIS – Even on a day when he wasn't at his statistical best, the dominant season of Newport Harbor senior Ethan Cochran ended with him proving to being the state's undisputed king of the rings.
Cochran won state titles in the discus and the sho...