Multi-Sport State Coaching Leaders

California's winningest football and boys basketball coaches are Bob Ladouceur of Concord De La Salle and Gary McKnight of Santa Ana Mater Dei. Ladouceur retired after the 2012 football season. McKnight reached 1,000 wins in 2015.

California’s winningest football and boys basketball coaches are Bob Ladouceur of Concord De La Salle and Gary McKnight of Santa Ana Mater Dei. Ladouceur retired after the 2012 football season. McKnight won his 1,000th game during 2014-15 season.

For the first time, we present an anchor home for instant access to the Cal-Hi Sports state record lists for coaching wins in football, boys basketball, girls basketball, baseball and softball. All records have now been updated through the 2022 football season. Go inside for all the details.

Note: All state record lists in various sports will eventually be posted on this site as part of our Gold Club membership. There is no other source for this information other than through Cal-Hi Sports. To sign up for your Gold Club membership so you can see all of our weekly state rankings, player rankings, record updates and more, CLICK HERE.

(Be sure to also check out our basketball records and football records.)

For List of Coaches With Most CIF State Titles In Various Sports,
CLICK HERE.

FOOTBALL COACHING LEADERS

These records have all been updated through the 2023 season.

For the complete list, which is up-to-date heading into the 2024 season, and is for Gold Club members only, CLICK HERE.

To join our Gold Club membership, CLICK HERE.

BOYS BASKETBALL COACHING LEADERS

These records have all been updated through the 2022-23 season.

For the complete list, which is for Gold Club members only, CLICK HERE.

To join our Gold Club membership, CLICK HERE.

GIRLS BASKETBALL COACHING LEADERS

These records have all been updated through the 2022-23 season.

For the complete list, which is for Gold Club members only, CLICK HERE.

To join our Gold Club membership, CLICK HERE.

BASEBALL COACHING LEADERS

These records have been updated through the 2023 season.

For the complete list, which is for Gold Club members only and has now been updated through the 2023 season, CLICK HERE.

To join our Gold Club membership, CLICK HERE.

SOFTBALL COACHING LEADERS

These records have been updated through the 2023 season.

For the complete list with all updates added for the 2023 season, which is for Gold Club members only, CLICK HERE.

To join our Gold Club membership, CLICK HERE.

Mark Tennis is the co-founder and publisher of CalHiSports.com. He can be reached at markjtennis@gmail.com. Don’t forget to follow Mark on the Cal-Hi Sports Twitter handle: @CalHiSports


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9 Comments

  1. admin
    Posted March 12, 2014 at 12:29 pm | Permalink

    Looks good, guys!

  2. Vicente
    Posted June 20, 2014 at 5:55 pm | Permalink

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  3. Parle
    Posted June 18, 2015 at 8:35 pm | Permalink

    If all-time coaches are judged soley on number of wins accumulated, there is an absolute unfair advantage going to the coaches who practice their craft in sections who allow more games to be played than others. The playing field will not truly be level until the state (or federal) organizations agree on standardized rules. Not taking away from the accomplishments of these great men…they deserve all accolades. The system, however, is broken and unfair (speaking primarily about the kids).

    • Mark Tennis
      Posted June 19, 2015 at 3:13 pm | Permalink

      This is a record list. There’s no judgement given or meant to be given in any way. Other coaching categories include most CIF state titles, most CIF section titles and more.

  4. Guy Anderson
    Posted June 24, 2015 at 11:11 am | Permalink

    My 45 years of coaching baseball at Cordova High School have been a sure joy. Your continued sports information on high school baseball continues to be out standing and to be in your record book is in deed an honor. Coach Guy Anderson

  5. edert ramirez
    Posted February 28, 2016 at 10:58 am | Permalink

    is there records for cal. junior college ?

    • Mark Tennis
      Posted March 1, 2016 at 4:43 pm | Permalink

      If there are, sorry don’t know about them.

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  1. By Oh What A Night – Sportscenetv's Blog on March 2, 2016 at 9:17 pm

    […] Gary McKnight. It is my understanding that McKnight is the winningest coach of all time in CIF.( http://www.calhisports.com/2014/07/12/multi-sport-state-coaching-leaders/). He has coached at Mater Dei High School for better part of 30 years. He is known, honored and […]

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