Dave is married, has two children and lives in Castro Valley. He was born in San Francisco and grew up in Greenbrae, attending Greenbrae Elementary, Kent Junior High and Redwood High. A former editor of the Redwood Bark, Dave's first sportswriting job was with the Marin Independent Journal while attended Redwood High. Dave is an avid sports fan and covered the Golden State Warriors for 16 years for the Alameda Newspaper Group based in Oakland. He remains very active in youth sports, coaching soccer, basketball and softball, and can be contacted through his fantasy football Web site -- www.mrfantasy.com -- as well as via Facebook and LinkedIn.
One of the MCAL's top scorers in girls basketball last season has transferred to Novato, but an NCS ruling citing a pre-existing relationship with some Hornets is preventing her from playing.
The junior is a difference-maker on the football field as a kick returner, as he demonstrated with two long touchdowns in the Wildcats' NCS-opening win over Sonoma Valley.
The former San Marin High basketball standout gives up his scholarship to Cal State Northridge to play closer to home at City College of San Francisco and pursue a more desirable future destination.
The next boy the 156-pound girl flattens on special teams won't be the first as the senior finds a way to contribute to the Pirates' successful season.
First-year head coach Jon Black took his 5-1 football squad to the San Francisco Food Bank on Sunday in a program-building exercise that helped the community as well.
San Rafael's Carrie Zarraonandia has many trophies to show for her illustrious tennis career, but memories of her pre-championship youth remain freshest in her mind.
Amid all her trophies and, soon, a spot in the Marin High School Sports Hall of Fame, Carrie Zarraonandia still thinks first about the worn-down tennis court that began her rise.
The former Redwood High football and baseball standout, who played under Don Shula with the Miami Dolphins, has many to thank for his Marin High School Sports Hall of Fame honor.
Sophomore Megan Campbell, star of the Mustangs' girls water polo team, looks forward to the day when she and her brothers, Louis and Ryan, could possibly play together in MCAL competition.
The former ballet star has been a difference-maker in Tam's historic water polo season, one that already features a win over perennial Marin County Athletic League powerhouse Drake.
After helping beat Drake in the pool, Tam goalie standout Elliot Ordway could be playing water polo for the Pirates if not for the fact he began high school interested in something else -- dancing.
The 33-year Novato resident leaves the photo industry with a lifetime of memories — some from the Little League fields of Novato, others from the sidelines of Candlestick Park.
Gary Nelson II, who grew up playing golf courses in Marin and was a two-time champion at Redwood High, is assigned the task of taking the Penguins to the next level in collegiate golf.
Getting hired to head the men's and women's programs at the San Rafael university is a homecoming of sorts for Gary Nelson, the 2008 USF graduate who grew up playing the Mill Valley Golf Course.
The two-time Marin County Athletic League champion with the Giants, a 2008 USF graduate, will head a young women's team and a men's squad that includes Kentfield's Jordan Siskin.
The county's powerful athletic history and diversity come into clear view on one man's Top 10 dream team featuring the like of Pete Carroll, Brad Gilbert and Steve Lavin. Care to disagree? Who'd we miss?
The Novato United U12B and U9B teams go unbeaten en route to division titles; five levels of girls play kick off Saturday as the 25th annual event continues at three sites.
Nathan Lopes, Jack Singer and Ben Lightner of the Mill Valley Fusion turn guest invitations into a championship in the 25th Annual Novato Soccer Classic.
The Sleepy Hollow Aquatics 12-and-under water polo team finishes 12th in the nation; Mill Valley's Fiona Mosser, Ally Glave and Brandon West also help SHAQ squads impress in Irvine.
Augusta Lewis, Leyla Waters and Kate Christie are just three of the many local standouts as two teams earn Top 25 finishes and a third comes home with a bronze medal in its division.
