Category Archives: State Record Book

State Coach of the Year: Anna Almeida

The highest girls hoops coaching honor in California, the one that now goes back 53 years, lands in the small town of Caruthers. It can be difficult to build a hugely successful program in a place like that, but it came together for 20-year head coach Anna Almeida with a CIF state title. She won […]

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Girls BB: More State Coaches of Year

Congratulations to all of the 2023-24 Cal-Hi Sports State Coaches of the year for girls basketball. These are the ones for each of the five state divisions, although we do combine the Open and Division I.

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State Stat Stars of the Week

This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. More than lists and numbers, we can provide historical context since we’ve maintained state records in California for more than 40 years. Home runs in softball takes the lead this week as we have confirmed a state record tying four...

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State Coach of the Year: Matt Dunn

For winning at a high level in a terrific league and becoming just the fourth coach in CIF history to win state titles at two different schools, Matt Dunn from St. John Bosco of Bellflower has been named the 2024 State Coach of the Year. From a historical view, however, just winning an outright league […]

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Boys BB: More State Coaches of Year

Congratulations to all of the Cal-Hi Sports State Coaches of the Year for boys basketball for the 2023-24 season. We have one selected for each CIF division and like the all-state teams the Open Division & Division I are bunched together. FOR MORE ON THE 2024 OVERALL STATE COACH OF THE YEAR, CLICK HERE. We […]

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FINAL Girls BB State TOP 40 Rankings

For these final expanded rankings we obviously had a change at the top with Etiwanda defeating Archbishop Mitty for the CIF Open Division state championship, but after that only nine of the next 23 teams in the Top 25 held onto the same spot they had in the last rankings. Seven of the next 10...

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SoCal/NorCal Players of Week

Giving up no hits is the theme for this week’s honorees as three of them have been chosen for their pitching feats with one named primarily for hitting homers. The foursome hails from Camarillo and La Habra for Southern California and Woodside and Woodlake for Northern California. We hope you enjoy this free story on […]

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Girls BB: FINAL Division State Ranks

To go along with the final overall & expanded State TOP 40 rankings, we also do an expanded & final series of rankings of all teams in the state according to the same CIF divisions they played in. These also are the final rankings placed in our archives for every season for girls hoops that...

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FINAL Boys BB State TOP 40 Rankings

As is another of our traditions, we present our expanded, final State Top 40 overall boys basketball team rankings for the 2023-24 season. There is some movement from our previous weekly Top 35 update, as CIF Southern Section teams that didn’t make the regional playoffs deserve to move up over some NorCal and SoCal D1...

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Boys BB: FINAL Division State Ranks

These divisional rankings can only be done three times now in this era of competitive equity when no one knows the divisions teams will be in until the CIF regional playoffs start. Still, we have them as final in our archives for every season and here are the final rankings for boys hoops for the...

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