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Aiden Bankowski, who was born with primordial dwarfism, plays football for Fillmore High at 4 feet 3 and 120 pounds.

The Condors 9U club baseball team won the Santa Barbara Memorial Day Tournament with a 13-12 come from behind win over the Simi Valley Diamond Miners on Monday afternoon at Girsh Park. The Condors finished the tournament with six wins and one loss, which came at the hands of their...

After no local high school baseball or softball team captured a CIF-Southern Section title this spring, four teams will have a chance to win a CIF State Southern California regional championship after earning victories Thursday. The Westlake and Calabasas baseball teams and the Oaks Christian and Santa Paula softball teams...

The Goleta Valley Girls Softball Association (GVGSA) 12U Thunder team dominated opponents throughout the annual Thousand Oaks Memorial Day Tournament this past weekend at Los Cerritos Middle School. In taking the championship with four consecutive mercy-rule wins, the Thunder excelled on offense and defense. The team’s offense batted .505, producing...

The Calabasas High School baseball team will have a game with Santana High School on June 03, 2023, 17:00:00 CST.

The Oaks Christian School boys golf team capped its sensational season by finishing fourth at the CIF State Championships on Wednesday at Poppy Hills Golf Course in Pebble Beach. The Lions shot an 12-over-par 367 to finish behind champion De La Salle (9-under 346), runner-up Torrey Pines (1-over 356) and...

More than 50 local student-athletes gathered Sunday night at the Serra Center in Camarillo, where their successes on and off the field were celebrated at the Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame’s annual induction dinner. Prompted by chairperson Brian Fitzgerald, the Hall of Fame’s five-person class of inductees used...

Castaic Coyotes baseball rode a late surge to pull away from the Fillmore Flashes and punch its ticket to the CIF SoCal Regional Finals. The Coyotes won the home semifinals matchup 9-1, with five runs coming in the bottom of the sixth inning. Fillmore ace Jathan Magana nearly swung the...

Jaylen Jasper earns spot on U.S. beach volleyball team; others get All-America and All-Academic recognition The Pepperdine Waves men’s tennis team’s season ended in April. However, members of the squad received accolades this month.  Standout opposite Jaylen Jasper earned a spot on the U.S. Beach Volleyball Collegiate National Team on May 3. Two days before, […] The post Pepperdine men’s volleyball players earn various honors appeared first on The Malibu Times.

Mr. Kip Atwater is an Anatomy teacher as well as a water polo and swim coach at Channel Islands High School. As an aquatics coach and a teacher, Mr. Atwater faces struggles and challenges, yet that never stopped him from doing what he loves most: coaching, having fun, being spontaneous, and teaching.

MALIBU, Calif. – Pepperdine women's golf head coach Laurie Gibbs has been named Women's Golf Coaches Associations (WGCA) West Region Coach of the Year, as the organization announced today. "Our team had a great year with six tournament wins and excellent individual wins and top finishes," said Gibbs. "Having...

Waves salvage one win in final three-game series against BYU, finish with 19-30 record The bats of the Pepperdine Waves baseball team were ablaze in the team’s last game of the season.  The Waves scored a season-high 19 runs in their 19-6 win over BYU in Provo, Utah, on May 20.  Pepperdine tallied five runs […] The post Pepperdine baseball scores season-high run total in season finale appeared first on The Malibu Times.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Derek Hitchner wasn’t present for Pepperdine’s NCAA Championship victory two years ago at Grayhawk, but he recalls watching the final round of stroke play that year when the Waves fired a 9-under 271, a championship record on the desert layout. “I can remember watching...

They saved the best race for last. Abdihamid Nur fell on the first lap, but was by far the best on the last lap, as he ran 13:05.17 to get the win and be the only athlete under the 13:07.00 World Championships qualifying standard. Nur, who made Team USA for Worlds last year and finished 11th, looks to be rounding into great form for USAs the first week in July.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – After posting the best NCAA Championship round ever played at Grayhawk Golf Club, an 11-under 269, the Pepperdine men's golf team jumped up three spots to second place heading into the final round of cuts tomorrow. Seven teams shot below par today, though the Waves outshot...

This season, the CHS baseball team made it to CIF division two semi-finals, with three playoff game victories over Norco, Vista Murrieta and Gahr, before a loss to South Hills. Based on its performance, the team has qualified for state regional playoffs, which begin May 30. In an effort to...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – The Pepperdine men's golf team's quest for a third national title will continue as the Waves qualified for match play for the third-consecutive year after a fourth-place finish in stroke play at the NCAA Championships on Monday. Three Waves finished in the top-15, led by Sam...

Senior Roderick Pleasant tied his own California State record in the 100-meter dash by winning the event at 10.14 seconds in the CIF-Southern Section Masters Championships Saturday at Moorpark High. Pleasant won a very fast race that included two of his prime challengers in second place junior Jordan Washington of...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Three from the Pepperdine men's golf team were named to the PING All-West Region team today, as announced by the Golf Coaches Association of America. Derek Hitcher, William Mouw and Sam Choi all earned recognition. All three are repeat honorees, as Mouw and Choi have both...

Water has been like a magnet for 18-year-old Jacob Levin since around age 2. “He’s naturally gravitated toward the water since he was a toddler,” says his father Steve Levin. Passionate about swimming, the teen from Calabasas became competitive, recently earning a spot in the upcoming 2023 Summer Games of the Special Olympics Southern California.