Cal State Bakersfield and Bakersfield College athletic departments and their programs are conducting various summer sports camps in June and July at their respective campuses. 

Carson Sorci, a 2025 Garces High alumnus, won a qualifying tournament at Bakersfield Country Club on Monday, the first of two steps needed to gain entry into the 126th U.S. Amateur Championship in mid-August.

Manav Shah, a Centennial High alumnus and a professional golfer who recently qualified to play in the upcoming U.S. Open, has gained a year-long sponsorship agreement with Hard Rock Casino Tejon, it was announced this week.

Bakersfield College introduced Lynn Kennedy as its new athletic director Tuesday morning. It happened in the new gymnasium, a key component for the Renegade Athletic Complex.

Cal State Bakersfield sophomore sprinter Makiah Parker completed a second strong season at this past week’s NCAA Track and Field West meet, but not before lowering her previous best time in the 100 meters quarterfinals and running on the women’s 4x100 relay team quarterfinals in Fayetteville…

Makiah Parker’s Thursday at the NCAA Track and Field West meet’s first round in Fayetteville, Ark. was tough. She competed in two events, the 100- and 200-meter runs, and while combined they take about 30 or so seconds to complete, there are multiple heats for each event. Thus, waiting to se…

Javier Toro, a senior men’s hammer thrower for Cal State Bakersfield, competed in the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Division 1 West first-round meet on Wednesday in Fayetteville, Ark., at the University of Arkansas.

The CIF State Track and Field Championships will take place Friday and Saturday at Clovis Buchanan High’s Veterans Memorial Stadium. Following last Saturday’s CIF Central Section Masters Championship meet to determine local athletes who qualified for state, a few more locals got in due to me…

Cal State Bakersfield sophomore sprinter Makiah Parker is one of 48 entrants in both the 100- and 200-meter individual events and is a member of CSUB’s 4x100 relay team that has qualified among 24 teams to compete at the NCAA Division I Track and Field Championships’ West first-round meet We…

The Kern Community College District approved the hiring of Lynn Kennedy as Bakersfield College’s new athletic director and dean of kinesiology and athletics at its board meeting Thursday. Kennedy, who most recently served as the head women’s basketball coach at Metropolitan State University …

Bakersfield College is expected to approve the hiring of a new athletic director who will also serve as the dean of kinesiology and athletics, at this morning’s Kern Community College District board meeting.

The CIF Central Section Boys Golf Championship tournament Monday brought a close to the team title hopes of Bakersfield Christian, Liberty and Centennial, but three local golfers among two of those teams — Centennial’s Bob O’Hara and BCHS’s Raeyyan Shahid and Connor Carr — extended their sea…

Bakersfield College freshmen Sofia Moody achieved a personal-best performance and, along with high jumper Kai Wilkins, earned California Community College Athletic Association All-America status with a top-four finish in their respective events at the 3C2A State Track and Field Championships…

Three local boys golf teams from Bakersfield Christian, Liberty and Centennial and four individual qualifiers will tee it up Monday morning in the CIF Central Section Division I Championship Tournament at the par-71, 6,521-yard Monarch Dunes Golf Club in Nipomo.

Bakersfield College announced on Thursday that it will conduct one open forum on Monday and another on Tuesday with finalists seeking to become the community college’s next athletic director and dean of kinesiology and athletics.

The CIF Central Section boys golf postseason started Monday at the Lemoore Golf Course with teams playing in Divisions 2 and 3 as well as many golfers who competed individually.

Bakersfield College freshmen Sofia Moody, Kai Wilkins, Jacob Quezada and Mason Level each placed well at Saturday’s Southern California Regional Championships track and field meet at Memorial Stadium and all advanced to this weekend’s 3C2A State Championships.

The moment has arrived for Bakersfield College track and field athletes. Today, the Southern California Regional Championship meet will take place at Memorial Stadium. It’s always been a big stage to perform on, but on this particular day it will be a matter of nine freshmen Renegades trying…

Liberty High boys and girls track and field teams swept their way to titles when the school hosted the South Yosemite River League finals on Tuesday.

The Cal State Bakersfield women’s track and field 4x100-meter relay team won its race Saturday at the Fresno State Invitational in a personal-best time. The group also broke a 43-year-old school record.

Four Bakersfield College wrestlers, including a returning finalist, will compete in the 3C2A State Women’s Wrestling Championships Saturday at Fresno City College.

The Cal State Bakersfield softball team will close out the regular-season portion of its schedule starting at 5 p.m. Friday in Big West Conference play on the road against UC San Diego.

New Cal State Bakersfield men’s basketball head coach Todd Lee hired two assistant coaches who have worked with him before and he will retain CSUB alumnus, player and assistant coach Brent Wrapp, CSUB Athletics announced in a press release on Wednesday.

The Bakersfield College men’s swim team will send its top two competitors to the 77th annual 3C2A State Championship meet, which begins Thursday at the Orange Coast College Aquatic Pavilion in Costa Mesa.

Five Bakersfield College tennis players, Mateusz Lipczynski in men’s singles, Shang en Kao and Axl Lajon Gonzaga in men’s doubles and the women’s doubles team of Naomi Pavletich and Kailani Lua, each lost in the semifinal round of divisional play in the 3C2A Individual State Championship tou…

The CIF Central Section boys tennis team division playoff brackets were released on Friday, officially kicking off the postseason for all local high school spring sports.

The CIF Central Section boys tennis team division playoff brackets are scheduled to be revealed on the section’s website this afternoon. Playoff matches will be played on Tuesday and Thursday with the semifinals on May 5 and the finals on May 12.

After a 48-minute rain delay, the Roadrunner bats were eager to get going in a non-conference home game Tuesday against Cal State Los Angeles. CSUB scored all of its runs in the first four innings to claim a 7-3 victory.

As the Bakersfield Condors prepare for their first participation in the Calder Cup playoffs in two seasons with an AHL Pacific Division first-round series with Coachella Valley, this is a chance to examine the regular-season statistics to show what helped them offensively to reach the postseason.

The Bakersfield Condors split a home-and-home regular-season-ending series against San Jose last weekend and, as a result, finished fifth in the AHL Pacific Division standings. A best-of-three playoff series against Coachella Valley opens at 7 p.m. Thursday at Dignity Health Arena.

The Cal State Bakersfield Athletics Department announced its latest head-coach hiring, Shane Pelton as its new director of men’s and women’s swimming and diving, on Friday. For the third straight time, there’s already a familiarity with Bakersfield.

Bakersfield College freshman Jacob Zimmerman swam the 50-yard freestyle in a personal-best time of 20.67 seconds to win the Western State Conference title on Thursday’s first day of the three-day WSC Championships meet at Los Angeles Valley College.

The Condors will play their final regular-season home game of 2025-26 at 7 p.m. today at Dignity Health Arena against the San Jose Barracuda and their second-to-last game as it pertains to playoff positioning in the upcoming AHL Pacific Division playoffs. The teams will meet again Saturday n…

The Bakersfield Condors lost an AHL Pacific Division road game, 3-2 in overtime, against the Henderson Silver Knights on Tuesday and that is good for the Condors’ playoff positioning push.

Cal State Bakersfield Athletics announced late Tuesday night that women’s head basketball coach Ari Wideman has resigned her position, effective April 21.

Bakersfield Condors Captain Seth Griffith has won the team’s IOA/American Specialty Man of the Year award, the American Hockey League and the team announced Tuesday.

The local high school track and field scene enjoyed a weekend in which most of Kern County’s competitors experienced some success and learned more about how they can keep working to improve after going up against top talent locally, in the Central Section and beyond.

The Bakersfield Jockey Club program will recognize seven area college and 11 high school student-athletes at its next event on Tuesday morning at Hodel’s Country Dining restaurant.

Among the 2025-26 Bakersfield Condors’ team goals entering the season was to return to the American Hockey League’s Calder Cup playoffs for the first time since the 2023-24 season.

Bakersfield College scored six runs in the bottom of the eighth inning and held on for a 7-6 victory Tuesday in the opening game of a three-game Western State Conference baseball series against L.A. Mission at Gerry Collis Field.

The Bakersfield College men’s tennis team, coming off another championship performance, took its first step Tuesday toward the next goal, a team 3C2A state title by winning the opening round of the Southern California Dual Team regional playoffs at home.

The Bakersfield College men’s tennis program won a Western State Conference team title two weeks ago. On Saturday, the Renegades continued their winning ways in WSC play, capturing the conference singles and doubles championships at Ventura College.

The Pac-12 Conference has announced that its wrestling team membership will expand from four schools to nine, effective in the 2026-27 season.

The Bakersfield College men’s and women’s tennis teams have competed in the Western State Conference Singles and Doubles tournament since Tuesday and will do so through today at Ventura College.

The Bakersfield Condors began the April postseason push by stalling with a 5-2 AHL Pacific Division home loss against Colorado on Wednesday night in front of 5,005 fans.

Landon McDonald hit a two-run homer, his 14th of the season, and Brady Baird followed with a home run in a four-run sixth inning, but the power display was too little to lift Bakersfield College in a 6-5 Western State Conference loss at College of the Canyons on Tuesday.