All participants of the first Contra Costa College Olympics received $100 for completion of all the events while first place was awarded $500, second place $350 and third place $250 on the Soccer Field...
After living life as a big fish in a small pond, the football team began its 2016 campaign by entering uncharted waters after shifting conferences to one of the toughest in Northern California, the National...
Although the volleyball team finished with a 2-18 overall record in 2016, it showed improvement over its zero-win total in the 2015 season.
The team’s 1-11 Bay Valley Conference record was just enough...
By Efrain Valdez, Social Media Editor
• May 17, 2017
After a season as captain and leading one the most competitive men’s soccer teams in Contra Costa College history, goalkeeper Eduardo Escamilla has been named The Advocate Male Athlete of the Year for...
By Efrain Valdez, Social Media Editor
• May 17, 2017
The women’s basketball team managed to finish with a 13-13 overall record despite only having five players at the end of the season.
First-year coach Vince Shaw took over a very successful program that...
The Comets (11-27 overall, and 6-14 in the Bay Valley Conference) lost to Napa Valley College 2-1 in the 11th inning Thursday in the team’s last home game of the season.
In another example of a disappointing...
It is said in football that it’s always better to retool a program than to rebuild one. Since Comet football coach Pat Henderson was tapped to lead the team, its infrastructure is being slowly reworked...
Contra Costa College has long been a hotbed of talented students who rarely receive the attention or recognition their accomplishments demand they deserve.
That all changed Thursday night when CCC...
Former Comet football player and John F. Kennedy High School alumnus Takkarist McKinley was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons with the 26th pick in the first round of 2017 NFL Draft on Thursday.
McKinley...
By Dylan Collier, Assistant Scene Editor
• April 25, 2017
The Comets (11-25 overall and 6-12 in the Bay Valley Conference) were able to squeeze in a win against visiting Mendocino College (6-12 in the Bay Valley Conference) on Friday behind starting pitcher Casey...
A fan’s relationship with their team is a complicated one. Fans endure a lot of emotions: the joy of scoring, the dejected feeling of watching your team fall behind, the frustration of terrible officiating,...
By Efrain Valdez, Social Media Editor
• April 25, 2017
The college Pool will soon undergo renovations to the deck surface and edges due to moderate cracking and chipping.
“The cracking and chipping on the edge of the deck is caused by the wheels on the...
