SportsHopes Spotlight: 7-12-2014

“It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer.” Congratulations, Alyssa Boisse, on your graduation from CSU East Bay in June with a BA in Human Development. Alyssa is a Founding Student-Athlete Mentor for SportsHopes (along with Jimmy Woodard and...

SportsHopes Spotlight: 7-2-2014

Thomas Soto (Castro Valley High – Class of 2016) is a top-notch 2-year varsity goal keeper for both high school and club soccer teams, and also was Captain of his team this past season. He and his family (pictured with mom, Charlotte Soto) have been very...

SportsHopes Spotlight: 6-27-2014

Angela Reid’s signing photo with Holy Names University (Oakland, CA) Women’s Basketball June 2014. Go get your future, Angie! From your Tae Kwon Do days when you were just a tiny tot to your varsity high school basketball days at Hayward High you have done...

SportsHopes Spotlight: 6-9-2014

Big CONGRATS to Anant Tikku who is West Point-bound (US Military Academy/Army, New York), and that is not an easy achievement to obtain! The pathway to a US Service Academy is extremely competitive on all fronts. Anant (pictured with his father and mother) is a June...

SportsHopes Spotlight: 6-2-2014

Dynamic Duo, Kaori Nguyen (L) and Tatiana Misco (R), are Merritt Community College-bound (Oakland, CA). Both are track & field student-athletes who had spent their freshman years at other colleges and not participating in sports, but they missed what they love!...

SportsHopes Spotlight: 05-28-2014

Dash Oliver is a Founding Student-Athlete Mentor for SportsHopes and a May 2014 graduate of UC Berkeley (BA in Legal Studies). He will start a paid internship with the PAC-12 Networks in San Francisco in July. He hopes to continue his higher education with an MBA or...