Santa Ana

MATER DEI (Santa Ana, Calif.) will be the top football team in the country and win its 10th CIF championship thanks to QB Matt Barkley. Rated the No. 1 recruit in the class of 2009 by Rivals.com, Barkley threw for 35...

Effie Nielson, SALT LAKE CITYPowerliftingNielson, 90, a great-grandmother of 12 and a retired payroll worker, squatted 80 pounds, bench-pressed 50 pounds and dead-lifted 135 pounds at the Nevada Powerlifting...

Hal Hudson, HoustonPowerliftingHudson, 63, a lawyer, bench-pressed 248 pounds, deadlifted 473 and squatted 391 to win the 60-64 division of the U.S. Masters Powerlifting Championships, his 15th masters title....

Jamie KoizumiKAILUA-KONA, HAWAIIJamie, 17, and already a freshman at Duke, won the U.S. Golf Association girls' junior crown by defeating Alicia Allison, 16, of Santa Ana, Calif., 5 and 4. She also finished third at...

FRANK REYNOLDSSANTA ANA, CALIF.Reynolds, 55, a civil engineering consultant and a former All-America swimmer at Michigan State, became the oldest person to swim from Catalina Island to Palos Verdes, Calif. He covered...