“This field is a special place for my family. It was John’s baby. There is no better pilgrimage than this field,” Sports Information Director Tony Altobelli said, standing on Wendell Pickens Field at John Altobelli Park.
Orange Coast College point guard Meghan McIntyre has been playing basketball since she was in first grade. Her passion for the sport began to grow while watching her older brother Josh play in her youth.
OCC freshman middle blocker Natalia Brandlin had a season to remember, breaking the OCC record for most blocks in a season.
The Orange Coast College women’s water polo squad added to its historic season by winning the Southern California Regional Championships, and will now advance to the first round of the CCCAA State Championships at Southwestern College on Friday.
Welcome to another edition of The Plank, the official sports column of Coast Report. This week, we’ll take a look at the latest stories in Orange Coast College sports “By the Numbers.”
Members of Orange Coast College’s women’s soccer team were upset, but not shocked by a recent report of widespread sexual, verbal and emotional abuse in the National Women’s Soccer League.
Welcome to the first fall 2022 edition of The Plank, Coast Report’s weekly sports column that will highlight key takeaways from Orange Coast College sports programs.
After a long day of school and work, students try to make an effort to take care of their health by working out with such a tight schedule. Marvin Diebel, an Orange Coast College international student and resident at The Harbour, chooses to prioritize his health by working out five to six da…
In a five month span, Orange Coast College sophomore and captain of the dance team Valeria Gonzalez went through hell and back — and her rebound included two of collegiate dancing’s most prized team awards.
Long before they became the single most successful pair in Orange Coast College beach volleyball history, freshmen Alanna Shields and Sophia Sola first met at Club H Volleyball in Huntington Beach over 10 years ago.
Orange Coast College sophomore Giselle Quinonez returned to competitive swimming after taking a three-year break following her sophomore year of high school. Being brand new to the swim team at OCC and returning from a global pandemic, the 2022 season was uncertain. This, however, did not st…
College of the Canyons baseball played under the lights on April 30 in its regular season finale, winning 15-6 over LA Pierce College, a struggling 10-30 non-conference opponent. The victory allowed the Cougars to clinch a CCCAA Southern California Regionals appearance on the last day of the…
Welcome back to The Plank, Coast Report’s monthly sports column. In the first edition of the column, I shared my list of OCC’s most historic achievements of March. This time, I’d like to move away from a list-oriented discussion and talk about OCC volleyball’s “golden generation.”
Welcome to “The Plank,” Coast Report’s new monthly sports column hyper-focused on developments from all 25 Orange Coast College athletic programs.
At 25 years old, Orange Coast College women’s basketball head coach Sammy Doucette inherited a program so undersized that she had to run drills with her own players.
Orange Coast College’s dance team took first place at United Spirit Association Nationals in the pom and jazz division as its season comes to a close.
A rollercoaster of events might be an understatement for describing Orange Coast College women’s basketball sophomore guard Alexis Legan’s basketball journey.
In late January 2020, Orange Coast College’s sports information director Tony Altobelli received an email from Nate Fernley, the head coach of El Camino College baseball.
Steven Spencer, an Orange Coast College kinesiology professor and the men’s basketball head coach, receives a lot of love from his students and basketball players for how good of a person he has been to them over the years.
Raised in Vista Hermosa, a neighborhood in the suburbs of Mexico City, José Pablo (J.P.) Segura-Queijeiro began playing gridiron football at just 9 years old.
A stellar offensive performance on the pitch this season has earned Orange Coast College women’s soccer freshman forward Eden Makaafi a student-athlete feature.
As the playoffs begin, the Orange Coast College men’s and women's water polo teams led by coach Dan Matulis have become the squads to beat.
Through exceptional individual and team performance, Coast Report’s first feature athlete of the fall season is Orange Coast College women’s volleyball freshman team captain and libero, Emily Payne.
The NFL and NCAA football are back and that means that fantasy football and sports betting return in full effect. Millions of people around the country treat this as a religion, and every Saturday and Sunday they put their money down and set their lineups in fantasy with hopes to win big.
Think of what you can buy for $2,700.
This NFL season, the NFC East has been unforgivably bad, and the idea that one of the four teams making up this train wreck of a division will be playing playoff football come January is laughable.
The dream of collegiate athletes being able to profit off advertisements and endorsements is quickly becoming a reality in California.
The Lakers celebrated their 17th championship win in franchise history and 12th crown in the City of Los Angeles this past Sunday.
Just over a month ago, NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) colleges and universities played their first games in 2020. A month before that, most of the Power Five Conferences were ready to postpone the entire 2020-21 athletic season.
Juggling tragedy and a global pandemic, Orange Coast College Baseball’s first-year head coach Nate Johnson hopes to get his team ready for the approaching spring season.
Sports was one of the first facets of society to feel the wrath of COVID-19. Even before schools shut down, the biggest leagues in the world fell like dominoes; the NBA, MLB and even MLS all followed suit. About seven months later, the world finds itself slowly easing back into our normal state.
As the pandemic continues, Orange Coast College women’s basketball head coach Sammy Doucette, added a new hobby: beginning her very own podcast.
Across two years at Orange Coast College, volleyball standout Hunter Dickey excelled on and off the court, before capping off his stay with a transfer to Stanford University.
The collegiate athlete has not had an easy seven months since the coronavirus pandemic closed schools and canceled sports seasons.
Samantha Doucette knew she would never make the WNBA — she was too short — but her basketball IQ allowed her to play four years at Vanguard University, an NAIA Division 1 program.
Following Orange Coast College’s baseball team winning its seventh state baseball championship in May, head coach John Altobelli was selected as the American Baseball Coaches Association as the National Coach of the Year.
In the famed words of Babe Ruth in “The Sandlot,” “heroes get remembered, but legends never die.”
Sydney Driggs is perseverance personified. What some think of as a nightmare is a normal day for the 19-year-old.
For most kids growing up in picturesque Newport Beach, if dreams of Olympic gold medals are at play, they typically include a sport where balmy temperatures and cloudless skies set the stage. For Carlo Valdes, however, Olympic greatness is dependent on the one thing that Orange County cannot…
The biggest and most predictable commercial event in combat sports history was held in Las Vegas Saturday.
Clarisa Colling has been playing tennis for most of her life and says countless hours on the court with her sisters at a young age brought her to where she is now — a powerhouse of competitiveness, finesse and flare.
Orange Coast College volleyball standout Jordan Hoppe gets his motivation from the people he has looked up to in life but the first year captain, nicknamed by his team Hop, has led his team by example.
As the sun comes up on the frigid murky waters of Newport Bay, practice begins for the Orange Coast College’s men’s and women’s crew.
Orange Coast College track and field all-star Gabe Warner, 20, has high expectations for his future career as a sprinter and has proven to be an exceptional athlete.
Orange Coast College will induct five athletic standouts and one team at the 2016 Athletics Hall of Fame Induction at the David A. Grant Rowing Center Friday at 5 p.m.
Orange Coast College’s women’s volleyball assistant coach Adrian Delgado had a summer most in his position might envy -- he traveled as an assistant coach to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the 2016 Summer Olympics with the Mexican National Men's Volleyball Team
Dominant, consistent and humble are just some of the words that women’s head coach Chris Ketcham used to describe Orange Coast College female athlete of the year Clarisa Colling.
The Orange Coast College softball team went Dutch this year to find a much needed ace to anchor its pitching staff and found a hidden gem in freshman Montana Roelvink.
Pirate pitcher Casey Costello is a man of many talents.
After a long journey overcoming some hardships in life, Orange Coast College basketball player Jamaal Lee achieved his dream Friday when he signed on to become a Vanguard University Lion.
