In 1926, the San Pedro High School boys swimming program was born.

Ninety-six years later on Saturday, May 8 at Los Angeles Valley College, the Pirates finally captured their first CIF-Los Angeles City Section championship in that sport, as they scored a team-high 392 points to outdistance themselves from runner-up Granada Hills Charter (273),…

2022 was an unpredictable year in the world of San Pedro Prep Softball.

San Pedro, Port Of Los Angeles and Mary Star Of The Sea High Schools all came in relatively young, fresh and full of potential, eager to show their opposition what they were capable of. All three schools combined to have just eight seniors on their respective rosters, while the…

The 2022 San Pedro Prep Baseball season was the first fully felt-like-a-season kind of year.

For the first time since the pandemic, San Pedro, Port Of Los Angeles and Mary Star Of The Sea High Schools could finally participate in tournaments where they could play against other schools outside of their own respective CIF sections.

San Pedro…

Familiarity breeds contempt... that's what that old saying goes.

However, whenever San Pedro High softball hooks it up with Harbor Area neighbor Banning of Wilmington in a CIF-Los Angeles City Section playoff game, familiarity rears its ugly head in the worst possible way for the Pilots.

For the first time ever, San Pedro, Banning and fellow…

Ever since the 2017-2018 season, San Pedro Prep Girls Basketball has been a Star-studded takeover on Taper Avenue.

The five-year plan of head coach Victor Tuberosi has parlayed into three straight Santa Fe League championships the last three seasons, two CIF Southern California Regional appearances (2021 Division 3-AA runner-up), and even the school's…

At last, a full season of hoops for the first time since 2018-2019 in the world of San Pedro Prep Sports.

Starting hot early, overcoming a rough patch coming into their own tournament, and maintaining that confidence and belief in one another, San Pedro High boys basketball posted a solid 19-10 overall season which ended in the CIF-Los Angeles City…

New playoff division, same mindset.

Mary Star High girls basketball tested themselves with a grueling nonleague and tournament schedule before bulldozing their way to a third straight Santa Fe League championship, setting themselves up for arguably their toughest postseason journey…

San Pedro High football might have came up short in their bid to become CIF-Los Angeles City Section Open Division champions in 2021, but it still didn't diminish the impact they made along the way to the final.

For the first time in program history, the Pirates garnered a total of 15 All-City selection honors, and two of them were top individual…

The San Pedro Prep Sports world began not-so normally, with many sports teams at San Pedro, Mary Star Of The Sea and Port Of Los Angeles High Schools all hoping to just play again due to the overwhelming nature of the coronavirus pandemic which caused a national shutdown on March 14, 2020.

Everything returned with a carefully planned twist in March for…

At long last… it was a full season of high school football in San Pedro, California.

San Pedro and Mary Star Of The Sea High was able to enjoy the fruits of a ten-game season for the first time in two years, and the Pirates (10-2 overall) nearly came away with some hardware.…

After a one-year absence, the San Pedro High boys basketball team brought back their own Pirate Shootout tournament... and for the first time in its 13-year tenure, was able to win it.

It was a terrific Thursday for the Pirates, as they ended four days of Holiday hoops by treating their fans to a gritty 52-45 victory over perennial CIF-Los Angeles City…

In the first crosstown high school sports battle since the coronavirus pandemic, San Pedro High boys basketball battled visiting Mary Star Of The Sea in a San Pedro Pirate Shootout pool play game on Tuesday night.

It was a true game of runs, but it was the Pirates who pulled away in the midway point of the third quarter to eventually defeat the Stars,…

The 2021 San Pedro Prep Girls Volleyball season was a celebration of a return to somewhat normalcy.

Fans were able to take in the hard-hitting, fast and furious action while still adhering to the rules of the pandemic era that is still ongoing with seemingly no end in sight.

One area school managed to stand triumphant even when not fully…

On this past Saturday, San Pedro High girls volleyball was denied a fifth CIF-Los Angeles City Section championship when Sylmar swept their way to a Division 1 title.

Tuesday was a different story, as the Pirates got the next best thing.

For the first time in seven tries, the third oldest school in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)…

LONG BEACH - On Thursday, the San Pedro High girls volleyball team accomplished something few could do in recent years, and that's a Marine League championship.

By virtue of defeating host Rancho Dominguez Prep 25-10, 25-10, 25-12 in their regular season finale, the Pirates clinched an automatic share of their first league title in the Fall semester…

Due to adjustments made on the fly thanks to the coronavirus pandemic... San Pedro Prep Football fans got just an appetizer of what to expect this past Spring.

Now it's time to unleash the main course.

Thursday, August 19 marks the start of the traditional high school season when San Pedro High football battles St. Anthony of Long Beach at St.…

So many sports, so little time.

When the 2019-2020 school year was booming into the Spring, all high school sports everywhere was cancelled on March 14, 2020 due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak, ending the hopes and dreams of potentially make a run for a CIF Sectional championship for everyone who had them.

Some were still…

With the recent two California Interscholastic Federation sectional championships claimed last month by both San Pedro High baseball and Mary Star Of The Sea High girls basketball, San Pedro Prep Sports has finally come full circle in the ten years of San Pedro News Pilot online, which gives us the opportunity to review the ten best CIF sports championship…

San Pedro High baseball was well represented on the 2021 All-City Open Division teams after capturing the program's second CIF-Los Angeles City Section major division championship when it won the Open Division title on June 19 with a 7-6 victory over El Camino Real.

Senior INF/P Dylan Kordic was named the City Section's Open Division Player Of The…

Springing up excitement in 2021 for San Pedro Prep Softball was the uprising of a new era for San Pedro High softball.

First-year head coach Leanna Flores injected some well-needed optimism and a whole new level of intensity to a program that has produced 17 CIF-Los Angeles City Section championship seasons. With the combination of senior leadership…