On March 28, the Islanders’ track and field team members with the best marks competed in the Mt. Carmel Invite, where there were more than 85 schools and 2,500 athletes participating. In the boys’ 800-meter run, Nathan Ayan and Vincent Russo led the way for the Islanders. Ayan ran a time of 1:57.73 and Russo […]
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Islanders swim fares well in meet against The Bishops School
Coronado hosted The Bishops School for their first home swim meet of the 2026 campaign. The girls beat the Knights handily, 92-65. The boys, however, lost by 12, 79-91. For the girls, there were three individual first-place finishes from Jillian Stachowicz, Mirren Fallon and Baleri Garces. A relay team of Stachowicz, Fallon, Isabella Kenny and […]
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Islander sporting events this week
With Coronado Unified School District out on spring break, this week is the least busy of the spring semester. With that being said, the featured sporting events revolve around three varsity baseball games and the UC Track Classic on Saturday. 30 Monday: CHS varsity baseball is at home playing against the Carson High Colts. First […]
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Islanders compete in league match and Jim Cerveny Invite
On March 19, the Coronado High track and field team headed to Crawford High School for its first league meet of the season. Coronado was among City Conference Central League rivals: Crawford, Kearny and Morse. Coronado fared well, and the boys’ 4×100-meter relay team posted a record time for Coronado. The Islanders took the top […]
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Head coach David Tschakert and the Islanders look to dominate in league play
Growing up, he played baseball and only baseball, until one day on the beach in eighth grade. David Tschakert, the Imperial Beach native, was on the sandy shore with friends when he noticed a group of people playing volleyball. He said it looked like fun, so he asked the group if they’d let him and […]
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A spring season update for Coronado High athletics
Still less than halfway through the spring sports cycle, there’s a lot of time for Islander teams to continue playing well or, in the case of some teams, start to play better and gain ground in division competition. The Islanders baseball team, which lost to Mt. Carmel in the Division II CIF championship last year, […]
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Islander sporting events this week
Similar to last week’s schedule, Coronado athletics has a lot going on in the middle of the week. Baseball will start the week off for CHS, and track will end it with a meet on Saturday. 23 Monday: Coronado High School baseball is the lone team to play on Monday, with a game against Bonita […]
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Islanders show out at Field and Distance Carnival
The Coronado High School track and field team made its way to Mt. Carmel for the Field and Distance Carnival, where two Islander runners — Nathan Ayan and Vincent Russo — put up personal best times in the 800-meter run. Both seniors ran the 800 in under two minutes, with Ayan posting a time of […]
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Islander sporting events this week
Each of Coronado’s spring sports teams compete this week, with Islanders baseball having the busiest week, as they play three games. The track and swim teams finish the week off for the Islanders on Saturday. 16 Monday: Islanders baseball gets the week started for Coronado athletics. JV and varsity are both playing Eastlake, with varsity […]
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Multiple Islanders PR at Elmer Runge Invite
On Feb. 28, the Coronado High School track team competed in the Elmer Runge Invite at University City High. Five Islanders runners put up personal best (PB) times. Seniors Vincent Russo and Andrew Buck each set PBs in the 800-meter run and finished third and eighth, respectively. Russo finished with a time of 2:00.42, and […]
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Alex Cade: 25 years, over 300 wins, and a life in lacrosse
He was new to private school, and the bullying was getting out of hand. This time, nine-year-old Alex Cade decided to fight back – to stand up for himself, prompting a physical altercation between him and a classmate. When one of the teachers monitoring recess saw this, he pulled Cade into his office, who assumed […]
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Islander sporting events this week
This week is a busy one for Coronado athletics, with the baseball and volleyball teams leading the way. The track team ends the week for the Islanders, competing in the second meet of the season, the Viking Sunset Relay in La Jolla. 9 Monday: Varsity girls’ lacrosse gets the week started for the Islanders with […]
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Coronado boys’ lacrosse loses to La Costa Canyon, hopeful for season
The game ebbed and flowed, but unfortunately for the Coronado High School boys’ lacrosse team, the second home game of the season resulted in a loss to La Costa Canyon, 11-9. The Islanders, a No. 5 seed in the CIF open division last season, started the game off poorly, quickly finding themselves in a 4-0 […]
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Islander sporting events this week
It’s another loaded week for Coronado High’s spring sports, with each team playing multiple contests. The most notable home games include boys’ lacrosse and tennis on Tuesday, beach volleyball on Wednesday, tennis and beach volleyball on Thursday, boys’ lacrosse and baseball on Friday and baseball again on Saturday to close out the week. 2 Monday: To […]
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Islanders beat Francis Parker in CIF Finals
The Coronado High School girls’ water polo team is back on track, taking its fourth CIF title in five years with a finals victory over Francis Parker High. Though the other three championships were in Division I, this year’s Division II title is a nice bounceback from a first-round exit in Division I last season. […]
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CHS girls’ water polo narrowly beats Del Norte, advances to CIF finals
For three consecutive seasons, the Coronado High School girls’ water polo team won the CIF Division I title, from 2022-24. After a “down” year in ‘25 – by Islanders’ standards – that ended with a first round exit, the team is back on the upswing in coach David Throop’s second season, headed to the CIF […]