A family fundraising event will be from 1 to 7 p.m. on May 19 at the parking lot at Foothills Park Plaza, Desert Foothills Parkway and Chandler Boulevard. This is a chance for the community to come out and support all levels of Blue and Gold football.

The Mountain Pointe duo of Natrell Curtis and Jalen Brown keep getting national attention.

Students from the Sacred Heart School in Tullamore, Ireland, visited the Seton Catholic Preparatory campus and showcased traditional Irish sports and music. Seton Catholic Prep’s relationship with the Sacred Heart is through the Chandler-Tullamore Sister Cities program.

It took a special meeting but the football schedules are near finalization.

The transition to a new coach is never as simple as the athletic director and principal introducing the new leader of the program to the players.

Sherrelle Jordan and Ky Westbrook finished with the same impressive result on Saturday.

With a little bit of a lull during spring break, I had a chance to get some down time and poke around about several topics.

The amount of emotion that poured out of Rachel Ressler nearly matched the sweat and dedication she put into her Desert Vista soccer career.

Stephanie Ann Kuells went to be with our angels on Wednesday, Feb. 20. She was born on Aug. 3, 1988, to Jennifer and Keith Kuells at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. This happened to be her father’s 30th birthday. What a beautiful gift! Stephanie had many challenges in her short life, but she tackled each one with determination, beauty and grace.

The posturing and rebuffs ended on Thursday.

On Jan. 22, Priest Willis slipped on a pair of powder blue football gloves, aligned his hands in the sign of a “U” and confirmed to the college football world what everyone long suspected: He was verbally committing to UCLA.

Desert Vista girls volleyball coach Molly West might have summed up the day the best.

The Mountain Pointe football program is headed to Nevada to open the season.

Desert Vista senior defensive lineman Lorenzo “Zo” Melvin gave his verbal commitment to continue his career at Northern Arizona in the fall after taking an official visit to Flagstaff last weekend.

The annual Tempe All City Banquet is being held on Monday.

Dion Jordan’s return to Arizona to play in the Fiesta Bowl was going to be just that.

The assignment is to predict the next year in sports.

The thing about covering the sports scene in Ahwatukee Foothills is there is always going to be a contender.

The signature play of Matt Guida’s astounding junior season looked like a split-second decision, but was actually days in the making.

A lot of people like to make predictions on what is going to happen. Too few of us take responsibility for their successes and, yes, their failures. Here is what I forecast on December 23, 2011 followed by what actually happened and my report card:

The i9 sports flag football champions in the junior division for the fall season are the Cardinals. This is the second season in a row that these young athletes have played together and won the league championship. After winning the east league covering Ahwatukee, Chandler and Tempe, they played the west league Raiders covering Avondale and Goodyear, and won 32 to 12. There were some outstanding performances to lead the league in the following categories by these Cardinals: Kent Rezaei, 23 receptions, 7 touchdowns; Charlie Allison total points and 7 interceptions, Landen Powell 13 touchdown passes; Mason Grady, 3 points after touchdowns and Braden Burness 24 pulls.

Aaron Windler and Jaysie Chambers Sheppard each took over successful basketball teams but are finding their respective programs a little different than expected.

Recruiting promises are wide ranging and some of them are actually true.

It was another memorable football postseason, as Hamilton assumed its familiar place atop Division I, while Queen Creek and Seton Catholic also won championships.