Stories from the Christmas week

Hope everybody had a great Christmas week! We've got a ton of stories from the week, including all-area and all-Decade teams. Enjoy, and welcome back!

The Sacramento Bee has released its all-Decade teams for football and basketball. Oak Ridge's Austin Collie, now with the NFL's Indianapolis Colts, is the football player of the decade. Click here. ... And click here for the all-Decade football team. ... Oak Ridge's Ryan Anderson is the boys basketball player of the decade. Click here. ... And click here for the all-Decade boys hoops team. ... Sacramentoi's Vicki Baugh is the girls basketball player of the decade. Click here. ... And click here for the all-Decade girls hoops team.

The Modesto Bee released its athlete of the year profiles this week. Oakdale's Garrett Porter is the boys water polo player of the year. Click here. ... Johansen's Taylor Hanson is the girls water polo player of the year. Click here. ... Ceres' McKenzy Harden is the tennis player of the year. Click here. ... Enochs' Shawnee Martinez is the golfer of the year. Click here. ... Ceres' Luis Martinez is the soccer player of the year. Click here. ... Hughson's Becky Hobby is the girls cross country runner of the year. Click here. ... Davis' Roberto Rosas is the boys cross country runner of the year. Click here. ... Ripon's Kelsey Johnston is the volleyball player of the year. Click here. ... Modesto Christian's Isaiah Burse is the football player of the year. Click here.

St. Mary's senior Josh Harper is the Stockton Record's football player of the year and Sierra's Jeff Harbison is the coach of the year. Click here for the story. Chavez's Tess Lea'ea is the Record's volleyball player of the year and St. Mary's Angela McShane is the coach of the year. Click here for the story.

The Merced Sun-Star is running an online poll: Who is its top prep athlete of the decade? You can vote on your favorite athlete here.

The Merced Sun-Star has run several athlete of the year profiles. Golden Valley's Emmanuel Castellon is the soccer player of the year. Click here. ... Los Banos' Mallory Howard is the girls water polo player of the year. Click here. ... Golden Valley's Taylor Rocha is the boys water polo player of the year. Click here. ... Golden Valley's Teresa Mallory and Atwater's Pedro Osornio were the runners of the year. Click here. ... Golden Valley's Tori Johnson is the golfer of the year. Click here. ... Los Banos' Alexis Barcellos is the tennis player of the year. Click here.

The Manteca Bulletin released its players of the year in several sports. Sierra's Jena Anderson and Stephanie Vanni were its tennis players of the year. Click here. ... Ripon's Kelsey Johnston was the volleyball player of the year. Click here. ... Sierra's Braian Gomez was the soccer player of the year. Click here. ... East Union's Jackie Ketner was the golfer of the year. Click here. ... Sierra's Jarrod Daniels was the football player of the year. Click here.

Yuba City's Taylor Rowe was named the Marysville Appeal-Democrat's offensive football player of the year. Click here for the story. ... And click here for the Appeal-Democrat's all-area football team.

Click here for the Elk Grove Citizen's all-Decade team of male athletes. Click here for the Elk Grove Citizen's all-Decade team of female athletes.

ESPN/CalHiSports.com has released several final state football rankings, and many Sac-Joaquin Section teams are represented. You can also check out its all-Decade football team, which includes two SJS athletes. Click here for the stories.

BASKETBALL: The Del Oro boys beat Colfax. Click here. ... The Oak Ridge girls are off to Phoenix for a big tournament. Click here. ... The Del Campo boys beat Nevada Union. Click here. ... Click here for the Manteca Bulletin girls roundup. ... The Bear River girls beat San Juan. Click here. ... The Inglewood boys beat Manteca. Click here or here. ... Click here for a story on the River Valley girls team. ... Click here for a Modesto Christian boys tournament roundup. ... Click here for a Columbia boys tournament roundup. ... Click here for an Oakdale boys tournament roundup. ... Click here for a story on the Whitney girls. ... Click here for a Tracy girls tournament roundup. ... Click here for a Vallejo Times-Herald roundup.

WRESTLING: Click here for a story on the Placer team. ... Ceres took fifth at the Coast Classic. Click here. ... Vinny Waldhauser is off to a great start for Oak Ridge. Click here.