Author Archives: Mark Tennis
Reopening First Before Football
Before the prospects of how or when the 2020 high school football season will get going in the state, schools have to reopen and will need to do that successfully. Here’s a look at various school districts across the state and how they stand heading into the first full week of July. We hope you […]
Single-Game Defense, Special Teams Records Updated
All individual single-game categories for the state football record book files have now been updated heading into the 2020 season. We had done offense earlier this week and today it’s special teams and defense. This also includes additional categories such as most consecutive PATs made where we have a new record holder in Oxnard Pacifica’s...
Class of 22 FB: Close Call At Top
For various reasons, it’s more of a mixed bag surrounding California’s top Class of 2022 football players entering the 2020 season. The group of wide receivers does seem exceptionally strong, but for this first in-depth look at the state’s leading recruits we went with a DB from Mater Dei of Santa Ana in the No....
More Boys State Athletes of the Year
We have two repeaters among this year’s state athletes of the year as wrestler Richard Figueroa of Selma and golfer Luke Potter (now at Classical Academy of Escondido) gain the top honors for juniors and sophomores after taking the same as a sophomore and freshman, respectively. We also have swimming represented for D1 with Sacramento […]
Single-Game Offense Records Updated
All individual single-game offensive categories for the state football record book files have now been updated heading into the 2020 season. In addition to updating all single-game totals for rushing, passing and receiving, we’ve also tried to list every 99-yard touchdown run or 99-yard touchdown pass in state history. There’s a good chance we didn’t...
Prep Notes With A Twist
In a regular feature that’s our version of prep notes with opinion mixed in, we express our support for Black Lives Matter and police reform and look at ways in which high school sports can reflect this important movement. Plus, we go over a list of important current political leaders (and one major political commentator) […]
State Athlete of Year: Sarah Willis
Even though her senior season in softball was cut way short by the Coronavirus pandemic, Norco’s Sarah Willis did more than enough in her two sports of softball and basketball to earn overall girls state athlete of the year honors. She’s the first from the Inland Empire to be named in nearly 30 years and […]
More Girls State Athletes of the Year
Even without spring sports for the last two and a half months of the school year, it was still possible to choose a track and field athlete plus a swimmer among the best from California for 2019-20. We also have the best from soccer, two multi-sport athletes for Division 3 and Division 5 and two […]
Softball: All-Time 30 Greatest Teams (1)
Here’s an updated and expanded version of our ranking of the all-time greatest teams in California high school softball history. This one includes two teams from last season placed fairly high — one in the top five and the other in the top 15. We also have added three more teams from the first 25...
Softball: All-Time 30 Greatest Teams (2)
This group of the state’s all-time greatest Top 30 softball teams begins with No. 16 Bullard of Fresno 1999 and ends with No. 30 Charter Oak (West Covina) 1993. See which other teams were selected and featured from No. 16 through No. 30 in this expanded, updated version of this feature. You’ll need to be...
