The Pasadena Star News is a community for profit paper. La Canada is part of the community. Lots and Lot of girls from Pasadena attend FSHA. They just drive a little ways west down the road to attend school.

When LaSalle Girls VB was winning a few years ago and upset FSHA...it was front page news. Last year when Pasadena High School won league and CIF..and had Kimmie Rohledher...they were always in the news.

St. Francis football will get the press from the newspaper when they win...and Arcadia football will get it when they win. The newspaper covers the entire community. Clearly the Pasadena Star News covers a larger area than Pasadena. That's the business model. If Alverno wins in VBall..or La Salle..or FSHA..or Mayfield...the more the teams win..the higher the level of play..the more coverage.

Play better in a sport...Get more coverage from local papers. Play better in a higher division in that sport...and you get more coverage..from newspapers a little out of the area.

Believe me...the Orlandini sisters and Condon would not get the press they get if they were not winning by the Daily News and the Glendale News Press. They are covered because they are good. FSHA has established a tradition as a VB power house over the past several years. That's primarily why they get coverage.

I live in Pasadena. I get the paper delivered every morning. I want to read about FSHA, Mayfield and Arcadia. Don't know much about Rio Hondo Prep or Gabrielleno. But if they win..and are good I'd like to know.

I have no affilitation with the Pasadena Star News..other than subscribing. I don't always agree with there coverage..but I'm certainly not going to complain about the paper covering the good teams in the community. Those are the ones I prefer to read about.

For detailed coverage of middle of the road athletic teams in various sports..you should refer to that schools newspaper.

If FSHA was not a top program and tough competition for Harvard Westlake and SO Notre Dame, the Daily News would ignore them.
As for Southwestern Academy- South Pas, San Marino, Monrovia and Pasadena would defeat them.

I agree with the question of FSHA. The daily news did a pictorial early in the season that included the Orlandini sisters of FSHA. The daily news also covers them (quite well) and La Canada. I agree that the PSN should spend some time covering the Pasadena area schools. The La Canada schools are covered by the La Canada, La Crescenta and Daily News. Also, I can't remember the last time that I could find a pasadena star news being sold in those areas. Give the Rio Hondo Preps, Mayfields, Gabrielinos and Maranatas their ink. Give some space to the Gabrielinos, Alvernos, San Gabriels, etc. If you find that teams are being heavily overlapped do you really need to cover them?

Southwestern Academy has done well so far this season.
As far as FSHA. Our coverage area is what it is and FSHA is in a much higher division. In fact, they're in one of the toughest divisions in CIF.

Does Southwestern Acad. really worthy of #10?
Does the Star News really have to rank Flint. Sac. Heart #1 in Pasadena area when Daily News already cover them?
Why can't Mayfield just be rank #1?
Can anyone confirm Gabrielino tourney playoffs was one game to 25? I dont think other schools would come to this big San Gabriel Valley tourney that was co-hosted by 3 local high schools gyms(San Gabriel High, San Marino High, and Gabrielino High).

It was little strange as to the format.
West Ranch had also defeated Pasadena earlier in pool play which oddly enough was best of three.

Unfortunately, nobody covered that one. Due to numbers, we opted to cover the Mt. Sac Invitational cross country meet.
I wish we could be at every sport for every game. Not humanly possible.
West Ranch from the usually strong Foothill League defeated Pasadena 25-7, 25-16 in Round 2 of the playoffs, beat Rio Hondo Prep 25-10 in the semifinals and Maranatha 25-22 in the finals to win the tournament.
Maranatha's Taylor McLeod and Nicolette Tsukomoto were named to the All-Tournament team, as was Rio Hondo Prep's Tiffany Horton.

By the way, having covered numerous tournaments in the past, I'm a bit confused with the decision to have semifinals and finals with just one game. They, in my opinion, should be no less than best-of-three matches.
My favorite tournaments are the ones that go best-of-five because you really get a sense of who's who.

Who covered the Gabrielino tourney?

It's always an annonymous post in cases like this, but I'll bite.
Mr. Anon: You obviously haven't been reading the Star-News lately to make a statement that we haven't covered those schools.
I was at La Canada's match against Monrovia, and we had the game between FSHA and Harvard-Westlake in the paper.
I'm also going to be at the FSHA-Harvard-Westlake match this week.
If you'll notice, one of the photos is of a FSHA player from the DN, who covered the Harvard-Westlake match for us.
Thanks for the post, and please read daily or you just might miss something. :)

The Daily News does a great job of covering FSHA and La Canada. You'd think that the PSN could use a little ink for the actual Pasadena area schools that aren't covered extensively by other papers.

The Mission league title will be on the line Thursday night when Flintridge Sacred Heart takes on Harvard Westlake at FSHA.

This game has the makings for the "Game of the Year".

FSHA was very close to taking HW to a 5th at HW a few weeks ago. FSHA can't play any poorer than they did.

It should be a great game.

hahaha

Must be that tough schedule Southwestern plays.

wow southwestern academy is better than san marino??