Thursday, April 19, 2012
Ramses Barden will return to Flintridge Prep Friday to retire his jersey number (11). During his high school years, he caught 41 passes for 915 yards.
The first Flintridge Prep alumnus to play professional football will return to the La Cañada Flintridge school on Friday to retire his high school jersey number. New York Giants wide receiver Ramses Barden will attend a quick ceremony in the morning and return at 3 p.m. for an informal reception, said Flintridge Prep spokeswoman Nicole Trevor, noting he was instrumental in the school's 2003 CIF victory. Barden, who was raised in Altadena, graduated from Flintridge Prep in 2004 and played at Cal State San Luis Obispo before being drafted by the Giants. Trevor pointed out that Barden beat the odds earning a spot on the NFL roster, as Prep is a small school that played eight-man offense until the 1990s. He is the first alumnus to play pro …
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Generations of Dodgers visited the school to honor Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier.
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Track-and-fielders came from near and far to South Pasadena High School on Friday to compete. The near ones hailed from all over the San Gabriel Valley, including Altadena, Monrovia, Sierra Madre, Glendora and La Canada Flintridge.
Athletes came from as far away as Colorado, Utah and Washington to take part in the second annual Tiger Invitational track meet Friday. The event was hosted by South Pasadena High School with the help of Tiger track coaches P.J. Hernandez and CB Richards, along with a host of local volunteers. The meet serves as a prelude to the Arcadia Invitational track, which has become one of the most prestigious sporting events of its kind in the nation for high school athletes. Some of the runners who participated at the South Pasadena meet qualified for the Arcadia meet due to their placement or times. The Tiger Invitational had more than 600 entrants, including 10 teams from out of state.
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
John Hardy, a former NFL player who has served as an assistant coach at John Muir High School, has been hired to be the head coach next season
John Hardy, a former NFL player and John Muir High School alumnus, will take over the role of head football coach at the school next Fall. Hardy was the assistant coach last year and has been the junior varsity coach from 2009 to 2011, according to a Pasadena Unified School District press release. After graduating Muir, Hardy played college football at UC Berkeley from 1986 to 1990 and went on to play for the Chicago Bears and then in the Canadian Football League, according to the release. Hardy was hired after two levels of interviews with "community stakeholders," according to the release. He replaces Ken Howard, who was suspended in October following a physical altercation with a student. According to the release, Howard is no longer …
Gamal Smalley, Muir basketball coach and Altadena resident, stepped down from his job following an investigation into the use of an illegal player that lead to the forfeiture of 20 games.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
A high school mountain biking team founded by Altadena residents enters its second year and is looking for team members from foothill towns across the San Gabriel Valley.
High school students from the San Gabriel Valley interested in mountain biking invited to participate in an Altadena-based team that will participate in a local mountain biking race competitions. The team is now entering its second season; it was started last year by Altadena resident and mountain biker Tom Lockhart and some other local volunteers. The team had great success last year, Lockhart said, finishing as the top team in the Southern California region in a statewide competition. The team competes against other high school teams across the state. "It's modeled after traditional high school sport, and the season goes from the end of February to the middle of May," Lockhart said. The team currently has about 14 or 15 members and …
Friday, January 6, 2012
Tryouts for children aged 7 to 12 will take place at Farnsworth Park and Longfellow Elementary on Saturday and again on January 14.
The Central Altadena Little League is holding tryouts for their leagues for children aged 7 to 12 this Saturday and on January 14, according to the league's website. Tryouts for the league's 'Minors' division, which generally accepts children age 8 to 11, and the 'Bantam' division, which accepts children aged 7 and 8, will be at Farnsworth Park from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Check-in time is 8 a.m. The league's 'Majors' division, which accepts children age 11 and 12, will have tryouts at Donley Field from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Donley Field is located at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena, at 1065 E. Washington Blvd. The league is also looking for team sponsors. Interested parties can contact derek@playcall.org.
Friday, November 11, 2011
The Muir football team continued to dominate its cross-town rival with a win Thursday night
Monday, October 31, 2011
Pasadena Police are looking for a man who attempted to lure a young boy away with him outside a La Salle High School football game.
Pasadena Police have released a computer-generated sketch of a man believed to have tried luring an 11-year-old boy away from a football game at La Salle High School recently. According to police, the boy was attending a football game at the school on Oct. 7 when--after he walked away from his parents to contact friends near the school parking lot at around 8 p.m.--the man "came out of some nearby bushes and placed his hand on the juvenile’s arm," according to a release from the Pasadena Police Department. When the suspect directed the boy to go with him, the boy pushed the suspect away and ran back toward the field. The suspect then entered an older model, small size, dark pick-up truck and left the scene headed eastbound on Sierra …
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
The City of Pasadena is studying the traffic impact of bringing professional football to the Rose Bowl on a temporary basis, according to the Pasadena Star-News. How will it affect Altadena?
The NFL could be coming to the Rose Bowl on a temporary basis in the next few years, according to the Pasadena Star-News. With two new stadium proposals in the area that are designed to bring a NFL team permanently to Southern California, the Rose Bowl could end up as a temporary venue while either of those projects was under construction, according to the Star-News story. The city has commissioned a traffic study this month to see how the extra games at the Rose Bowl might impact local traffic. The stadium is already used regularly during the autumn months for UCLA football home games--bringing the NFL to the area would mean eight additional days in which traffic picked up in areas around the Rose Bowl--including 210 Freeway outlets that …
Nicole Trevor
8:20 am on Friday, April 20, 2012
Thanks for the love, Altadena Patch. Ramses is still a home-town boy. more ›