News - CYO Sports

The 2022 "Bill Ford" CYO scholarships have been awarded by the CYO Scholarship Committee. After a selection process with twenty eight 8th grade CYO players applying, three were selected: For information on the awardees and for more details, click on the link above.

Girls' CYO Basketball season for the western half of the diocese concluded with the first basketball playoffs in two years. All grades in two participating leagues finished the season with leading teams in the 6th, 7th and 8th grades meeting for a 10 team weekend playoff. For details, click the link above

After six weeks of sand volleyball at Quarry Lakes Regional Park in Fremont, Boys' CYO Sand Volleyball concluded with a 17 team tournament. Click the link above for more information on "Fun in the Sun and Sand!"

The CYO Track Season concluded in May with the annual Diocesan Track and Field Championship Meet. The meet was held after a two year CoVid pause with over 400 CYO runners participaing in a variety of running and filed events. Click the link above for more deetails.

At their annual year-end CYO Sports Banquet for St. Elizabeth CYO, long-time coach Jose Delgado was honored for 29 years of service in mentoring and coaching young people in CYO. Click the link above for more details.

CYO Girls' Basketball Playoffs (West) are back! Click the link above for more details on the excitement!

CYO Boys' Sand Volleyball has returned! Games are played on Sunday afternoons at Quarry Lakes Park, Fremont, Over 20 teams are on the sand this year after a two year pause due to CoVid. The league features volleyball on outdoor sand courts, picnics by families and a year-end tournament. Click on the link above for more details.

After a two year "rest," CYO Track and Field began again around the diocese. 1500 runners are participating in three track sections (leagues). Track Meets are on weekends and events include sprints, distance races relays, long jump, shot put, high jump, softball throw and tetherball toss for 8th grade and younger, girls and boys. Click on the caption above for more detail.

The CYO Scholarship Committee is now inviting applications for the 2022 Ford CYO Scholarships. Three $1000. scholarships will be awarded to 8th grade CYO players who participated during the 2021-2022 seasons. The scholarships are annually funded by a foundation. Click the link above for more details and to download the scholarship application.

CYO Girls' Basketball has begun to play! After a two year suspension due to COVID, 60 CYO girls' baskeball teams representing 20 parishes and Catholic Schools in the western part of the diocese have began league play. For more details, click on the title, above.

Workshops are planned to certify coaches for CYO Track and CYO Girls Basketball (West) for this spring. All CYO coaches are required to be certified to coach by the diocese. Click on the link above for more details.

Planning is underway with signups soon for the 2022 CYO Track and Field season in participating parishes/Catholic schools! Click the link above for more information.

Signups are underway and a season is being planned for Girls' CYO Basketball. (for the western half of the diocese.) Click the link above for more information.

Coach Frank Allocco has announced his annual Youth Sports Coaches Clinic on Saturday, October 16 at St. Isidore gym, Danville. A valuable experience for new and returning CYO coaoches. Click the title above for more information.

Coach Frank Allocco tells how a basketball game from his youth is an example of the importance for young people to set goals, have fun doing it with a lesson that the final score is more than one on the board. Click the title above for more information and to view the video.

Around the diocese, CYO Cross Country practices are beginning in preparation for a season schedule to begin with meets on Friday, September 17! Click the title link above for more information.

Coach Frank Allocco continues his series of inspirational videos, telling the story of his childhood role model, Bill Bradley: Princeton and NBA basketball star, Rhodes Scholar and former United States Senator! Click the title above for more information and a video link.

Listen to the mesmerizing story related by Coach Frank Allocco from the movie "The Legend of Bagger Vance," a true story of honor and integrity. Click the title above for more information and a video link.

A story of sacrifice on the football field and the battlefield – the moving story of Major Don Holleder, as told as part of the ongoing video series by legendary coach Frank Allocco.

The dedication of local athlete Todd Lichti, leading to success off and on the court, as told by Coach Frank Allocco.