A new paved pump track opened at Ramsay Park in Watsonville on Tuesday, offering the only all-weather terrain for bike enthusiasts in Santa Cruz County. And bike enthusiasts have already been swarming it.
Recreation & Sports
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Olympic hopeful surfer killed by lightning while training in El Salvador
Katherine Diaz, a 22-year-old surfer from El Salvador, died Friday after being struck by lightning while training for an Olympic-qualifying event.
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Upon further review: No COVID testing will be necessary for football, county school officials determine
On Tuesday, the Santa Cruz County Office of Education took its interpretation of the state guidance one step further and clarified that testing would not be necessary for football as long as positivity rates continued to plummet.
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Prep football community seeks answers on testing guidelines as weekend games, scrimmages get postponed
Amid confusion by sports league officials and parents over testing requirements and who is supposed to interpret them, Santa Cruz County health officials are saying they have “no oversight or orders related to return-to-play issues for high school sports.”
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Thursday Night (Pandemic) Lights: High School football returns with an eerie sense of promise
Thursday night marked the first night of high school football action in California in 15 months. At Santa Cruz County’s first game, there was plenty of rust on the field and plenty of oddities elsewhere — such as the empty stands where only a few crafty volunteer parents had a live view of the action.
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Into the ‘red’ again: Santa Cruz County’s reemergence from COVID restrictions takes big step forward
Tuesday marked the latest tier shift for Santa Cruz County, as COVID data pushed things back into the red. Beginning Wednesday, restaurants and theaters can reopen indoor service at 25% capacity, gyms at 10%. Other reappearances looming include high school football and live music.
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Santa Cruz will seek grant funding for multi-use trail, fishing park on the wharf
To secure funding, projects must be within a half-mile of a “critically underserved community” — with few parks or an average household income under $56,982. The average household income in those he surrounding Beach Flats neighborhood is $45,000, according to city estimates.
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Obstacles remain in new guidelines for indoor high school sports to begin
While the state has settled a lawsuit that seeks a return of indoor sports, schools need to follow testing and procedures similar to college sports.
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Settlement opens the way for all high school sports — potentially even indoors
Lawyers representing high school athletes in San Diego County have reached a settlement that would allow all sports to resume statewide.
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‘It’s complicated’: Everything we learned (and didn’t learn) about high school sports re-openings Thursday
Much is still to be determined on whether high school football will stay on its current course of COVID testing and whether a more relaxed version of guidelines will come down from the state on all sports. County health officials say they are still investigating what that might look like.