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Two Mater Dei players selected to McDonald’s All-American team

CARLOS ARIAS — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:37:39 +0000

Tweet Mater Dei girls basketball players Jordan Adams and Nirra Fields were selected to the McDonald’s All-American high school basketball team Thursday. Adams, who has signed with USC, and Fields, who has signed with UCLA, were picked to play in the March 28 game in Chicago. They were among five Southern California players chosen for [...]

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Football recruiting: MV’s Pinner signs with USC, his ‘first and only choice’

Adam Maya, staff writer — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:55:12 +0000

Tweet Mission Viejo fullback Jahleel Pinner took the podium on Wednesday and promptly thanked his father, mother, grandmother, head coach and position coach, before closing his short speech with a special thanks to teammate Colby Cyburt for choosing UCLA. “It’ll make me work that much harder,” said a smiling Pinner, bringing 24 student athletes and [...]

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Why Mission Viejo OL Colby Cyburt picked UCLA

Adam Maya, staff writer — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:14:15 +0000

Tweet How persuasive was new UCLA coach Jim Mora? Mission Viejo offensive lineman Colby Cyburt forgot all about the Bruins’ turbulent season, cancelled an official visit to Stanford and wouldn’t take calls from USC. Cyburt said Mora called him the week he was hired. And again the following week. and the week after that. And [...]

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Water polo: UCLA, former O.C. stars capture MPSF title in sudden-death thriller

DAN ALBANO, ocvarsity.com — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:09:43 +0000

Tweet Former Villa Park goalie Matt Rapacz, far left, made 11 saves and six former county players scored one goal apiece to help the UCLA men’s water polo team earn an automatic berth to the NCAA championships with an 10-9 victory against top-ranked and visiting USC in the MPSF tournament final Sunday. UCLA won on [...]

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Servite baseball signees

Steve Fryer — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:36:02 +0000

Tweet Servite pitcher Cole Irvin signed with Oregon, and Friars catcher Darrell Miller Jr. signed with UCLA today. Irvine was All-Orange County second team last season. Miller comes from a pretty good athletic family; dad Darrell played catcher for the Angels (and now is vice president of Youth and Facility Development for Major League Baseball), [...]

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Los Alamitos’ Fattal to UCLA

DAN ALBANO, ocvarsity.com — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:10:52 +0000

Tweet Los Alamitos’ Rachel Fattal, last season’s Orange County girls water polo player of the year, just announced that will sign with UCLA. Fattal is a key recruit for Orange County’s class of 2011. She is one of the top players on the U.S. junior national team. The latest Signing Day news from the OCVarsity [...]

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Mater Dei signees

Steve Fryer — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:41:20 +0000

Tweet Today’s Mater Dei letter-of-intent signees: Baseball Ryan Barr, University of Portland Ty Moore, University of California, Los Angeles Men’s Basketball Xavier Johnson, University of Colorado at Boulder Katin Reinhardt, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Women’s Basketball Jordan Adams, University of Southern California Nirra Fields, University of California, Los Angeles Alexas Williamson, Washington State University [...]

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Football: La Habra’s Aaron Porter commits to UCLA

Damian Calhoun — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:35:38 +0000

Tweet La Habra linebacker Aaron Porter has committed to UCLA, Highlanders coach Frank Mazzotta confirmed. Porter was the Freeway League and All-CIF Southwest Division Defensive Player of the Year, leading the Highlanders to their fourth consecutive CIF title. Porter earned second team All-County honors. He had offers from Washington, Washington St., Colorado, Boise St. and [...]

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Football: Inspiring Luke Gane to meet Tim Tebow

DAN ALBANO, ocvarsity.com — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:30:01 +0000

Tweet Luke Gane‘s dream will come true later this week. The former Edison lineman and current UCLA tight end, pictured at far left with teammate Jordan Zumwalt, will depart Wednesday for Denver to meet Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, his mother, Tomoko, said in an e-mail. Gane missed his junior season [...]

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OLu signees …

Steve Fryer — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:22:44 +0000

Tweet Orange Lutheran coach Jim Kunau reports the following … Lorenzo Devers, LB, with Nevada Ryan Lefotu, OL, with UC Davis Mike Markovsky, QB/DB, is going to the Naval Academy Will Gonzales, DB, is going to University of San Diego Jay Weneta, long-snapper, is going to walk on at UCLA Christian Licciardi, OL, signed with [...]

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