Placer County Local News: Sports

The grand opening of the soccer facility took place Oct. 19 at Bayside Church in Roseville.

Alpenglow Sports has announced the lineup of the 2023-24 Winter Speaker Series, presented by Tahoe Mountain Realty and running Nov. 30-March 7.

Created in 2008, the Roseville Youth Sports Coalition opted for dissolution at the Oct. 4 Roseville City Council meeting.

Palisades Tahoe is introducing a new reservation-based parking program for the 2023-24 winter season in an effort to alleviate traffic congestion.

The Town of Truckee Planning Commission voted in favor of a development permit for the proposed downhill ski lodge.

Alpenglow Sports is excited to announce the return of Mountainfilm on Tour to north Lake Tahoe on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 10-11.

A mad dash downhill from the starting gate, hills that beg for get-in-the-air jumps and “explosive sprints with turns” that can flip a last-place racer into the front of the pack in a few seconds are just part of the BMX Northern California State Finals on Sept. 17 at Oak Creek BMX in Roseville.

Del Oro High School graduate Stone Smartt made the 53-man roster for the Los Angeles Chargers. Smartt was bumped up to the active roster last season after being a member of the practice squad as an undrafted free agent.

Martis Camp Club will host the 68th U.S. Senior Amateur Championship for the second time from Aug. 26-31, the second time the tournament has been hosted there.

Michaela Johnson of Auburn collaborated with co-pilot Kristina Ledwith of Lincoln, and their team won the Palms to Pines race on its first try.

The annual Marlette 50K and 10 Miler was held by Big Blue Adventure last weekend, challenging runners across trails from Spooner Lake to Marlette Lake and back.

With this funding, Achieve Tahoe will provide U.S. sailing certification to volunteers and staff and purchase a safety craft and a new adaptive R.S. Venture sailboat.

Sugar Bowl Resort announced that Mike Jankowski will take over as executive director of sports.

As the Ta-Hoe Nalu Paddle Festival, believed to be the world’s oldest stand-up paddleboard race, heads into a 17th year, founder Ernie Brassard is handing off organizing duties to friend and surf legend Bob Pearson.

It was the trip of a lifetime for local girls' soccer coach Kara Diederichs and 10 of her players with Colfax High School and 49er United, as they journeyed across the Pacific Ocean for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

The third annual West Coast World Series is set to return to Lincoln next week, as some of the top collegiate summer baseball teams make their way to McBean Stadium to compete for the title of best in the west.

Securing a tee time at Diamond Oaks Golf Course was once a treasured possession, a chore that had the admiration of one’s golfing buddies.

Back in its infancy and continuing into the early 1990s, the Diamond Oaks Golf Course was one of only a half dozen municipal, 18-hole golf courses in the region.