Amanda Hockett knew that when Haleigh Hutton came to the plate there was a chance of fireworks.

2017 BVarsity Softball All-Area

2017 BVarsity Baseball All-Area

One led a baseball program to the first Central Section title in school history, and the other led his school to its first title since he was a student.

Being ranked as high as No. 6 in the nation and reeling off 21 consecutive wins brings a mixture of fun and pressure to a high school softball team.

Try as you might, but it’s unlikely to find two more polar-opposite athletes in track and field than Daniel Viveros and Moises Medrano.

Aaliyah Wilson’s rise was record-setting, but how she fell and came back is what truly seemed to define the Stockdale standout’s junior season.

The fact that he has been blessed with some incredible athletes through the years is not lost on Dave Lonsinger.

A year ago, Highland won its first boys track and field league championship on a day when rain poured down in Bakersfield.

2017 BVarsity Boys Track and Field All-Area

2017 BVarsity Girls Track and Field All-Area

It was enough to make Garrison Chavez sick, except that he already was.

Stockdale coach Nick Kaiser is realistic about the landscape of boys golf in the Central Section.

2017 BVarsity Boys Golf All-Area

Julio Alcantar’s highly competitive nature doesn’t have an off switch.

Every time Ariane Skeggs jumps in the water at the start of a race, the only opponent she is focused on beating is the clock.

The Bakersfield Californian

BY TREVOR HORN

Just one week before the swimming season started, Jessica Pavletich was thrust into the role of the head coach at Garces.

This past season will go down as perhaps the best in the history of Wasco girls swimming.

Stockdale boys tennis coach Dave Hillestad started to say his top player, Brandon Park, was "competitive," but he stopped and searched for a better word.

Frank Thiessen has won 24 Central Section championships as the coach of Bakersfield Christian's girls and boys tennis teams, but this year's boys title stuck out for a few reasons.