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Thomas Frey Staff writer D espite falling to Colfax 66-23 Friday, Golden Sierra High School made it to the Division V Sac-Joaquin Section Championship for the second time in school history and did so with just one senior starter. Now Golden Sierra heads to the Northern California basketball playoffs.
The Grizzlies played a difficult non-league schedule to start the season before going on to win the Sierra Delta League with a 9-1 record.
Meghan Wright took over the head coaching job at Golden Sierra before the 2016 season and immediately turned the program around. In the four years prior to Wright taking over, the Grizzlies won just 27.2 percent of their games.
In her first year, she took a team that had gone 9-17 in 2015-16 to the playoffs. The next season, Golden Sierra went 18-11, lost in the second round of the section playoffs and qualified for the NorCal playoffs with a team full of juniors and seniors. With a young team the following season, Golden Sierra returned to the playoffs in 2018-19.
This season’s team, featuring junior Sarah Kuhl, sophomore Democrat photo by Kevin Christensen Golden Sierra High School junior Sarah Kuhl drives to the basket against Colfax in the Division V Sac-Joaquin Section finals at Golden 1 Center Feb. 28.
Rebecca Reed and freshman Raychel Reed, earned the No. 2 seed in the section playoffs and defeated Rio Vista and Le Grand to reach section finals.
Golden Sierra left Garden Valley at 7 a.m. for its 10 a.m. tip-off at Golden 1 Center.
The last time the Grizzlies reached the section finals, they were in Division III and they played Colfax, who won that day 60-32.
And 36 years later, Colfax won again without any issues. The Falcons also won a section championship in 2018 and are led by Grace Bliss, who is going to Cal Poly on a track scholarship. She stole the show scoring 24 points and grabbing 10 rebounds without playing during the fourth quarter. Bliss and the rest of the Falcons jumped out to an 18-2 lead before Golden Sierra cut the lead to 22-11. But Colfax regained its composure and led 42-16 at halftime.
The Grizzlies were led by Kuhl, who scored 8 points, pulled down 6 rebounds and guarded Bliss. “I do think that Sarah (Kuhl), made (Bliss) work very hard today, didn’t give her anything easy,” Wright said.
“This is kind of the beginning,” Wright said. “They’ve grown a lot together and have a lot of work to do. We’ve developed kind of later in the season. Winning league for the first time in several years, I know they will be back again.” Golden Sierra was to play University Prep in Redding Tuesday night in the first round of the CIF Northern California Regional girls basketball championships.
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to the Department of Public Health. The other 19 confirmed cases include 10 that are travel related, two due to person-toperson exposure from family contact, three due to person-toperson exposure in a health care facility and four from unknown sources.
On Monday a case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Placer County. The individual, a NorthBay VacaValley Hospital health care worker, had close contact with a person in Solano County confirmed to have the infection. No further details have been released by Placer County Public Health about the affected individual other than to say the person shows only mild symptoms so far.
COVID-19 is a virus that can cause symptoms similar to a seasonal flu including cough, fever and shortness of breath. COVID-19 has a high transmission rate and low mortality rate — estimated at 1 to 2%, according to the Department of Public Health. Some people may have COVID-19 and not even know it. Department of Public Health officials said that based on the international data they have, 80% of those who have tested positive for COVID-19 don’t have any symptoms that would require hospitalization and many people infected with the coronavirus circulating in the U.S. recover on their own. Those with underlying health problems, such as the elderly or those with severe symptoms, may require more intensive medical care.
Coronaviruses are part of a large family of viruses, some of which commonly circulate in humans. These viruses cause mild to moderate respiratory illness. COVID-19 is closely related to two other animal coronaviruses that have caused outbreaks in people — the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) coronavirus and the MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) coronavirus. This year’s flu season has already sickened at least 19 million across the U.S. and led to 10,000 deaths and 180,000 hospitalizations, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
People with symptoms of COVID-19 or who have reason to believe they may have been exposed are advised to call their health care provider or local health department before seeking care. Contacting medical professionals in advance ensures patients get the care they need without putting others at risk. As with any virus, especially during flu season, county officials remind residents there are steps that can be taken to protect their health and the health of others: • Wash your hands with soap and water.
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth with unwashed hands. • Avoid close contact with people who are sick.
• Stay away from work, school or other people if you become sick with respiratory symptoms like fever and cough.
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his predecessor, Jerry Brown, championed and a direct descendant of a “peripheral canal” that Brown had backed during his first governorship four decades ago, only to see it rejected in a statewide referendum in 1982.
In theory the tunnel, now dubbed “Delta Conveyance,” could deliver more water to the head of the California Aqueduct near Tracy and relieve pressure on the Delta — assuming that there was more water to deliver from upstream reservoirs such as Shasta, Trinity, Oroville and Sites. However, critics say the tunnel could reduce flows the Delta needs to stop its environmental degradation. If nothing else, Newsom and the state’s water management agencies should be commended for taking a serious look at California’s vulnerabilities and reinforcing the sometimes forgotten fact that despite the state’s constant political warfare over water, ultimately we will all feel the impacts, good or bad, of how it’s managed in the years ahead.
Meanwhile, we should all be hoping this month will bring another miracle.
Dan Walters is a journalist and author who writes for CALmatters.org, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.
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began four years ago when he tried and failed to reform an athletic show horse whose prior training and competition schedule had left him shut down mentally.
Confident in his training chops, Warwick tried his usual approaches and was astounded to find, “I couldn’t do anything with that horse!” As a result, the trainer began changing the way he looked at things.
Ultimately, he realized he himself was the problem.
“Men from my generation are taught that men don’t cry. But —and I learned this from author Brené Brown — you cannot selectively repress emotions. If you repress one emotion, you wind up repressing all of them to some extent. “I thought, am I repressed?” Turns out he was, but ongoing talk therapy helped him learn how to open up. He recalls one of his group-therapy homework assignments in particular — count his judgmental thoughts.
“We had to move a pebble from one pocket to another every time we had a judgmental thought. I figured I had about three negative thoughts a day so I put three pebbles in my pocket.
“Then I had 21 negative thoughts before breakfast! And the thing is, once you start counting them you become acutely aware of how many you have — about everyone and everything, including yourself. It was the most profound thing!” Now, I myself am no stranger to negative thoughts. I think of myself as an essentially positive person but I have perfectionist tendencies and that means a highly honed critical faculty — for better and often for worse. Warwick nailed for me exactly how that can be a problem.
“People can pick up on when you’re being judgmental in your head and when you’re not, even if they don’t consciously realize it,” he explained. “It affects how they feel about you and how they respond to you. And with horses … even more so.” Once he began letting go of the nonstop, inner critiquing he found all his relationships improving. And these days when someone hands him the lead rope of a “bad” horse that’s been acting up and it lowers its head and heaves a sigh and walks right up to him, that tells him something.
True enough. But the results are very much worth the effort. My husband and I both agree on that. Jennifer Forsberg Meyer is a columnist with the Mountain Democrat. Leave a comment for her online or reach her at jfmfeedback@gmail.com.
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