Sports

The All League teams for the North Bay League (Redwood) have been announced for most fall sports. The named players in football will be revealed following the last playoff games this week, on Dec. 1

This winter’s unsung sports success is the Healdsburg Girls Soccer program, boasting a 5-0 record as 2025 comes to an end. Coach Edgar Gonzales and assistant Brian Saini have found a formula to produce wins on the grass, at home or on the road.

Healdsburg High School students are well aware that this is REIBT Weekend—when both of the school’s gyms are the scene of boys and girls basketball games among teams from Humboldt, Mendocino, Sonoma and Marin counties. Both tournament brackets have been finalized, and some good basketball already underway...

It’s no fun being on a losing team, and it might be less fun coaching one. But Jonathan Nuttall, who just completed his second year in the role with the Healdsburg High girls volleyball team, has a welcome perspective to share...

Michael Lucid has been at most home games, absorbed in taking photos of the players—volleyball, basketball, on the track or the field—photos that capture the athletes in action, a snapshot in time.

The Healdsburg Unified School District (HUSD) serves a population of 1,236 students, which reflects an increase in enrollment from last year. HUSD generated an increase of 7.2 percentage points in their graduation rate over one year, for a 2025 graduation rate of 96.7 percent.

There were so many things going on during the four days of REIBT that I wouldn't be able to comment on all of it, but starting Wednesday with the CASA/Auto Shop food truck unveiling, Culinary students making delicious tacos, and with a holiday sale of student-made goods, what a way to kick off REIBT week. 

Their current record is 4-4-3 (one could say they tie a lot of games), but the league season has yet to begin. The cagey coach Herbert Lemus admits he frontloaded the schedule to give his team the experience they’d need...

December is a strange month in prep sports—both girls and boys teams are playing basketball and soccer , but a two-week holiday break kicks in before the conference matches begin. That changes this week...

Healdsburg’s varsity basketball team plays as hard as any in the county, pulling off the occasional upset while fighting to keep its year record respectable. Second-year coach AJ Crosby said, as the league season began on Jan. 7, “I think we’re starting to hit our stride now.”