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Our all-state hoops patch for this year (2023) is now available to order at BillyTees.com. Patches also come with a certificate to further recognize the achievement.
Records can always be broken, but no one will ever take away the milestone achievement when longtime head football coach Herb Meyer won the 300th game of his career while coaching at El Camino High in Oceanside in the early 2000s. He became the first football coach in state history to reach 300 career wins and it doesn’t matter who else has done it since then. He’ll always be the first.
Meyer, who also will always go down as the first coach in state history to win 100 games at two different schools, died this week at age 87 while on vacation in Washington. According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, he was still going to Friday night games at El Camino as recently as last season.
Herb Meyer also still holds the record for best winning percentage among coaches in San Diego Section history with 200 wins or more. Photo: LinkedIn.
Meyer began his career at Oceanside High (where he also went, Class of 1953) in 1959. His teams there won two CIF San Diego Section titles and went 133-44-6 through 1975 when he switched to open the new school in town at El Camino. He built the Wildcats into a section perennial contender until retiring after the 2003 season. At El Camino, his teams compiled a 226-104-9 record with eight section titles.
When we were first getting into compiling state coaching records in the 1980s, Carson’s Gene Vollnogle (also now deceased) was the winningest coach in state history in football. He retired in 1990 with 289 wins. Meyer moved past Vollnogle into the No. 1 position a few years later and stayed in the No. 1 spot with his final total of 338 wins until it was surpassed in 2005 by Marijon Ancich (then coaching at St. Paul of Santa Fe Springs).
When Ancich retired for the first time after the 2005 season (he came back to coach the Swordsmen again for the 2009, 2010 and 2011 seasons), he held the record until the first game of the 2009 season when it was broken by Bob Ladouceur of Concord De La Salle. Lad went on to coach through the 2012 season and retired with the record sitting at 399 wins. Ancich is still No. 2 at 360.
We were fortunate one day at one of our early Student Sports/Cal-Hi Sports events in the late 1990s to speak with both Meyer and Vollnogle about their coaching careers. As they stood under a canopy, they both felt very fortunate to have had the careers they did, but spent most of their time talking about De La Salle. “That guy is going to leave all of us in the dust,” Meyer said of Ladouceur.
On another day when Meyer brought a talented team to a summer 7-on-7 event at University of the Pacific in Stockton, he couldn’t stop raving about the talented twosome he had of Bryant Westbrook and Michael Booker. He was right. Westbrook and Booker later became both first round picks in the same NFL Draft. How many coaches can say they ever coached two guys like that on the same team?
Since he retired, Meyer has received multiple honors and awards. He was the first football coach from California inducted into the National High School Sports Hall of Fame in 1995 and he’s in the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame. He’ll also be in the new California High School Football Hall of Fame (coming soon to the Rose Bowl) and in 2010 the Southern California Football Coaches Association renamed its Distinguished Service Award in Herb’s name.
We at Cal-Hi Sports also would like to extend our condolences and best wishes to Herb’s family and to all of those in San Diego and around the nation who knew him well.
Etiwanda head coach Stan Delus hands off the CIF Open Division state title trophy to standout junior Kennedy Smith following team’s win in Sacramento. Photo: Samuel Stringer.
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(Associate editor Harold Abend contributed to this article)
There was a time not long ago when it was almost normal for a stellar girls basketball program in California to earn back-to-back final No. 1 state rankings. The age of the Open Division that began in 2013 has definitely helped prevent it, but so has the competition level among the very top level of teams.
From 2000 to 2006, teams at Narbonne of Harbor City, Lynwood and Piedmont all won two straight Cal-Hi Sports State Team of the Year honors. Then from 2010 to 2012, Mater Dei of Santa Ana gained the top spot for three straight seasons.
It was expected by many that in 2023 there would be the first-ever back-to-back CIF Open Division state champion State Team of the Year crowned. It sure looked that way after the CIF Southern Section Open finals as 2022 champion Sierra Canyon rolled to a 70-57 win over Etiwanda. The Trailblazers also went to the regional playoffs unbeaten and ranked No. 1 in the nation.
But playing teams for the second time around proved to be a good situation for Etiwanda. Instead of a coronation of a perfect season and newly crowned Gatorade National Player of the Year Juju Watkins being sent off to the college level with every single possible championship and accolade, the Eagles were not cooperative. They upset the Trailblazers in a rematch last week to win the CIF SoCal Open title and then needed a buzzer-beating put-back by Jada Sanders to nip Archbishop Mitty of San Jose for the state title last Saturday at the Golden 1 Center.
No, it’s not Sierra Canyon that was added to the 2023 line on the all-time state list of State Teams of the Year. It’s Etiwanda and it’s now been done.
“Our staff and players are honored to be the State Team of the Year, as we have worked hard to handle all the elements to improve as a unit, daily throughout the season,” said head coach Stan Delus in a text sent on Tuesday morning. “Our mental toughness evolved with every lesson, to where we were ready for anything & everything, especially in the state championship run.”
This is the second time in three years that a team from the Inland Empire region of the state has been State Team of the Year. The team from 2021 that earned the recognition, however, Centennial of Corona, was not able to win a CIF Open state title due to the state championships not being held and only the SoCal regionals being held due to COVID. Etiwanda is therefore the first team from the Inland Empire to be State Team of the Year AND win a CIF state title since the legendary Cheryl Miller led Riverside Poly to doing it two years in a row in 1981 and 1982.
Etiwanda will now take its crack at going back-to-back and has the returning players next season to greatly enhance those chances. Kennedy Smith, the 2022 State Sophomore of the Year, led the Eagles against Mitty with 30 points, 13 rebounds, six steals and four blocks. Aliyahna “Puff” Morris, the 2022 State Freshman of the Year, had 14 points and four assists. Senior starters Majesty Cade and Sa’La Hemingway will be missed but junior Mykelle Richards and Sanders (who came off the bench in the state final) also will be back.
With those two star players returning and their relentless drive to win when they are on the court, this could be an entirely different State Team of the Year announcement 12 months from now.
Cal-Hi Sports Girls Basketball
State Teams of the Year All-Time List
2023 – Etiwanda (32-3)
2022 – Chatsworth Sierra Canyon (30-2)
2021 – Corona Centennial (25-1)
2020 – La Jolla Country Day (32-1)
2019 – Chatsworth Sierra Canyon (33-1)
2018 – Los Angeles Windward (27-3)
2017 – Fresno Clovis West (34-2)
2016 – West Hills Chaminade (31-4)
2015 – Stockton St. Mary’s (34-1)
2014 – Long Beach Poly (27-3)
2013 – Oakland Bishop O’Dowd (30-3)
2012 – Santa Ana Mater Dei (34-3)
2011 – Santa Ana Mater Dei (34-1)
2010 – Santa Ana Mater Dei (32-1)
2009 – Brea Olinda Brea (33-2)
2008 – S.F. Sacred Heart Cathedral (33-0)
2007 – Long Beach Poly (36-1)
2006 – Fullerton Troy (33-1)
2005 – Piedmont (32-2)
2004 – Piedmont (33-2)
2003 – Lynwood (32-1)
2002 – Lynwood (32-0)
2001 – Harbor City Narbonne (28-3)
2000 – Harbor City Narbonne (34-0)
1999 – San Jose Archbishop Mitty (31-0)
1998 – Harbor City Narbonne (32-1)*
1997 – Berkeley (29-3)
1996 – Irvine Woodbridge (32-2)
1995 – Irvine Woodbridge (33-1)
1994 – Brea Olinda Brea (33-0)
1993 – Lynwood (31-0)
1992 – RH Estates Peninsula (33-0)
1991 – Berkeley (30-2)
1990 – Inglewood Morningside (32-3)
1989 – Inglewood Morningside (33-1)
1988 – Fremont Oakland (28-0)**
1987 – San Diego Point Loma (34-0)
1986 – San Diego Point Loma (31-1)
1985 – Compton (26-0)
1984 – Ventura Buena (31-0)
1983 – Ventura Buena (28-4)
1982 – Riverside Poly (34-0)
1981 – Riverside Poly (29-0)
1980 – Berkeley (29-0)
1979 – Woodland Hills El Camino Real (19-0)
1978 – Huntington Beach (25-2)
1977 – Los Angeles (16-0)
1976 – Ventura (23-0)
1975 – Chula Vista Hilltop (18-0)
1974 – Berkeley (19-1)
1973 – Fresno San Joaquin Memorial (12-0)
1972 – Ventura Buena (8-0)
*Forfeit losses not included. CIF Division I state title vacated due to residency issues.
**Eleven wins forfeited due to use of ineligible player.
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
Harvard-Westlake players & coaches are shown at center court at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento after their win in CIF Open Division state final. Photo: Samuel Stringer / Cal-Hi Sports.
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(Managing editor Ronnie Flores contributed to this article)
The players surrounding Harvard-Westlake head coach Dave Rebibo after they had defeated St. Joseph of Santa Maria last Saturday at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento for the CIF Open Division state title got a little amped up when their coach didn’t immediately declare them the best team he’s ever coached.
“Okay, yes, they are the best team I’ve coached,” said Rebibo, who had a previous CIF state title team in D4 in 2016. “They are just so connected to each other. Win or lose after this game they wanted to travel back together just to be with each other one last time.”
It was a different story, though, when it was asked about the team being on the same all-time list of teams that have been No. 1 in the state.
“We’re fine to say we’re the second best ever (from Harvard-Westlake),” the coach added. “These guys up here won’t get it, but some of the people in the back get it (why that’s the case).”
There were also a few others that were in the press conference (especially those of us from Cal-Hi Sports) who saw Harvard-Westlake’s only other State Team of the Year, which came after the 1997 CIF state championships. There were no Open Divisions or competitive equity seedings then, but the Wolverines cruised to the D3 state title, lost just one game all season (which was in the finals of a major tourney in Las Vegas to a team from North Carolina that was led by future Hall of Famer Tracy McGrady) and were ranked No. 11 the last time we did our all-time rankings of the greatest teams in state history.
When Jaron and Jason Collins played at Harvard-Westlake of North Hollywood, their parents were always close by. Photo: Willie Eashman / Cal-Hi Sports.
Small forward Rico Cabrera Jr., shooting guard Ryan Smiley, and point guard Victor Munoz rounded out the starting lineup for that 1997 team. Despite all of its accomplishments, however, this year’s starters with junior Trent Perry at the point, with senior Jacob Huggins providing most of the inside power and then senior Brady Dunlap, senior Robert Hinton and sophomore Nikolas Khamenia able to do pretty much everything within the team’s system would be hard to top as a unit that as the coach said was completely connected to each other. Junior Christian Horry also scored in the state final.
Just for this year’s team to have been able to knock off the school that had been State Team of the Year for 2021 and 2022, Centennial of Corona, also is a feat hard to top despite historical comparisons. Centennial didn’t win a CIF state title in 2021 (the COVID season in which there were no CIF state playoffs) but was No. 1 in the final rankings. Sierra Canyon also wasn’t able to win a CIF state title in 2020 since the pandemic hit just a few days before those finals. The Trailblazers did win CIF Open titles in both 2018 and 2019 and were named State Team of the Year after winning the 2020 CIF SoCal Open Division regional title. And other than those two schools, there are no others on the all-time list of state No. 1 teams from the San Fernando Valley.
Cal-Hi Sports Boys Basketball
State Teams of the Year All-Time List
2023 – Studio City Harvard-Westlake (33-2)
2022 – Corona Centennial (33-1)
2021 – Corona Centennial (21-2)
2020 – Chatsworth Sierra Canyon (30-4)
2019 – Chatsworth Sierra Canyon (32-3)
2018 – Chatsworth Sierra Canyon (27-4)
2017 – Torrance Bishop Montgomery (31-2)
2016 – Chino Hills (35-0)
2015 – Oakland Bishop O’Dowd (28-4)
2014 – Santa Ana Mater Dei (35-0)
2013 – Santa Ana Mater Dei (34-2)
2012 – Santa Ana Mater Dei (34-2)
2011 – Santa Ana Mater Dei (32-3)
2010 – Los Angeles Westchester (32-3)
2009 – Los Angeles Westchester (35-2)
2008 – Oakland McClymonds (32-0)
2007 – Lakewood Artesia (33-2)
2006 – Lakewood Artesia (32-1)
2005 – Los Angeles Westchester (25-3)
2004 – Los Angeles Westchester (23-2)
2003 – Santa Ana Mater Dei (34-2)
2002 – Los Angeles Westchester (32-2)
2001 – Santa Ana Mater Dei (33-2)
2000 – Compton Dominguez (35-2)
1999 – Compton Dominguez (32-3)
1998 – Los Angeles Westchester (29-3)
1997 – Studio City Harvard-Westlake (35-1)
1996 – Compton Dominguez (34-2)
1995 – Santa Ana Mater Dei (36-1)
1994 – Los Angeles Crenshaw (29-2)
1993 – Los Angeles Crenshaw (26-2)
1992 – Alameda St. Joseph (32-3)
1991 – Alameda St. Joseph (31-3)
1990 – Santa Ana Mater Dei (34-1)
1989 – Los Angeles Crenshaw (25-2)
1988 – Los Angeles Manual Arts (27-3)
1987 – Santa Ana Mater Dei (31-1)
1986 – Los Angeles Crenshaw (25-2)
1985 – Los Angeles Crenshaw (24-0)
1984 – Long Beach Poly (31-2)
1983 – Los Angeles Crenshaw (27-2)
1982 – Carson (26-2)
1981 – Long Beach Poly (26-2)
1980 – Inglewood (29-0)
1979 – Los Angeles Verbum Dei (28-1)
1978 – Pasadena (26-2)
1977 – Oakland Fremont (25-1)
1976 – Long Beach Poly (30-1)
1975 – Elk Grove (27-5)
1974 – Los Angeles Verbum Dei (30-2)
1973 – Los Angeles Verbum Dei (29-2)
1972 – Los Angeles Verbum Dei (30-1)
1971 – Los Angeles Verbum Dei (29-2)
1970 – Berkeley (32-0)
1969 – Compton (30-0)
1968 – Compton (32-0)
1967 – Los Angeles Fremont (16-2)
1966 – Los Angeles Jordan (18-0)
1965 – Long Beach Poly (29-3)
1964 – Long Beach Poly (32-1)
1963 – Oakland McClymonds (19-3)
1962 – Oakland McClymonds (23-0)
1961 – Compton (28-3)
1960 – Oakland McClymonds (22-0)
1959 – Oakland McClymonds (22-0)
1958 – Oakland McClymonds (21-0)
1957 – San Francisco Poly (28-1)
1956 – El Cerrito (31-1)
1955 – Alhambra (27-2)
1954 – San Francisco St. Ignatius (26-2)
1953 – Los Angeles Loyola (34-2)
1952 – Compton (32-0)
1951 – Los Angeles Jefferson (27-0)
1950 – Chico (15-3)
1949 – Los Angeles Washington (21-0)
1948 – San Francisco Lincoln (29-2)
1947 – Los Angeles Mt. Carmel (34-2)
1946 – Stockton (20-2)
1945 – San Diego Hoover (16-1)
1944 – Alameda (15-1)
1943 – San Francisco St. Ignatius (14-0)
1942 – Palo Alto (18-0)
1941 – Glendale Hoover (21-1)
1940 – Long Beach Poly (22-2)
1939 – San Francisco Lowell (17-3)
1938 – Whittier (24-3)
1937 – San Francisco Lowell (17-3)
1936 – San Diego (14-1)
1935 – Santa Barbara (14-1)
1934 – Santa Barbara (16-1)
1933 – Stockton (16-2)
1932 – San Francisco Lowell (18-3)
1931 – Whittier (25-1)
1930 – Palo Alto (13-0)
Note: List continues back to 1903 in Cal-Hi Sports Record Book & Almanac. All selections prior to 1975 made retroactively based on research by our founder, the late Nelson Tennis.
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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The longtime commissioner of the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section (from 1996 to 2014) died last weekend after a long battle with cancer. His impact on high school athletics will be felt for decades not just in his section but throughout the state.
For the more than 40 years in which we’ve come to know many of the section commissioners in the California Interscholastic Federation, we can say that if there was one who cared just as much about student-athletes, coaches and schools from outside of his or her section that Pete Saco of the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section would be first on the list.
Saco speaks to writer Jim McCue shortly before his retirement from the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section in 2014. Photo: James K. Leash / SportStars.
Although he started his coaching career in basketball, Saco will always be connected to the CIF state football championships. The CIF hadn’t had state football since 1927 when Pete took it upon himself to be the leader to come up with a proposal that could pass all the way through the CIF Federated Council. Working with the support of CIF state commissioner Marie Ishida and along with longtime SJS assistant commissioner John Williams and his own section board of managers, Saco got it done with a plan that was approved in 2005. Under that first plan, only section champions would be eligible, three divisions would be played over one day to start and there would be teams chosen by a committee of CIF section commissioners. The commissioners met after all of the 2005 section football championships were played for a rehearsal of how it might go in 2006.
Saco always knew that once three games were played that the state football championships would continue to grow. It did and in 2008 the Open Division was added. That also was the year that a team from his section, Grant of Sacramento, was involved in a tough race with perennial power De La Salle of Concord plus Bellarmine of San Jose for the NorCal Open berth. He knew the voters on the committee very well, knew which arguments for his team would have the most impact and Grant got the vote. We don’t know his politics, but Pete would have been a great legislator, able to craft bills and get them through Congress or a state senate.
By the time Saco retired in 2014, his final imprint on the CIF state football championships was a proposal that ensured that every CIF section championship team would be at least in a NorCal or SoCal regional. There would be no teams feeling left out. So the next time anyone is excited about winning any of the CIF state titles and raising a state title trophy (such as Grant in D3-AA just this last season) Pete should be thought about first. They really should name those trophies after him, just like the NBA does for trophies in honor of Bill Russell.
There was so much more to Saco than just CIF football. His other career highlights with the section included building the section’s current office building in Lodi, and starting several new projects, including the Dale Lackey Scholarship, the Women in Sports Leadership Conference, and the Sac-Joaquin Section Hall of Fame. We were honored to be the first media inductees into that Hall of Fame and always felt the support and encouragement from Pete to continue and build our work.
Saco was always easy to talk to for members of the media and the section’s media day to start every school year has been very helpful. Photo: Oakdale Leader.
Perhaps Saco’s greatest challenge while commissioner of the section was dealing with an eligibility issue at Franklin High of Stockton. The Yellowjackets’ head coach in the early to mid-2000s was a wealthy developer, Tom Verner, who wanted to build up his alma-mater but definitely cut corners on rules to do it. In the 2007 season, after the section ruled several players ineligible, Verner (with the support of then Stockton Unified school board president Anthony Silva), decided to thumb his nose at the CIF and had those very same players in the lineup for a game against Tracy. As the story goes, Tracy’s football coach, Mark Stroup, called Saco, not knowing what to do. Saco told him to play the game and that Franklin would be dealt with the following week. At a press conference, Saco gave Franklin what amounted to a “death penalty,” suspending all sports at the school immediately. It is still the most severe punishment that any section commissioner has ever had to hand to out to any school in state history. The section eased some of the restrictions after Verner resigned.
Saco also got to know many of the athletic directors in his section very well. One of those was Ron Nocetti from Jesuit of Carmichael. Nocetti was encouraged by Saco to join the CIF state office, which he did and several years ago after the retirements of Ishida and then Roger Blake it was Nocetti who was named the CIF state executive director.
“For someone who was constantly expressing gratitude to those around him, I don’t think Pete received many thanks during his tenure as the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section commissioner,” Nocetti wrote in a tribute earlier this week. “And he never let that bother him. A lesson that I learned early on from Pete was something that his father told him at an early age, ‘You make sure that you always do what is right, not what is popular.’ I think we can all agree that Pete lived this philosophy every day of his incredible life.”
Pete met the “love of his life” in September of 1977 after a baseball game in South San Francisco. The El Camino High of South San Francisco grad married Barbara in 1979. They lived in Lodi as Saco was building his teaching/administrative career first at Tokay and then later at Lodi High. They retired to the Lincoln Hills area of Placer County after 2014 and enjoyed golfing and traveling until Pete’s illness.
Along with Barbara, Pete is survived brothers James and Joseph along with numerous nephews, nieces and cousins. His obituary also indicated that he had an “adopted” son in one of his former players, Todd Reiswig, and that the two talked every day.
Our thoughts and best wishes also go out to those at the section office still there who worked closely with Pete, especially assistant commissioner Will De Board.
Pete’s services will be Monday at 11 a.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Lincoln. Burial will be private at a Catholic cemetery the next day in Colma (near South San Francisco).
If there was one thing that the late, legendary football coach Terry Donahue understood it was recruiting players to colleges and how a graduating senior may be unknown but still very much interested in maximizing opportunities to play at the next level.
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That’s partly why 10 years ago Coach Donahue founded the Terry Donahue California Football Showcase, which says it is for graduating high school seniors and second year community college student-athletes to have an opportunity to display their skills to NCAA Division II, III, and NAIA football programs in a one-day (absolutely free) skills combine.
This year’s California Football Showcase will take place on Saturday, Feb. 11, at the Great Park, Irvine, which also is one day before the Super Bowl.
Donahue was the head coach at UCLA from 1976 to 1995 and remains the winningest football coach in school history with 151 career wins. He also was general manager of the San Francisco 49ers from 2001 to 2005. He remained very active in the sport until his death in 2021 at age 77 due to cancer. He also was easily able to put himself into the shoes of the very players that the California Football Showcase aims to help. Donahue was not recruited much as an undersized player from Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks, but attended San Jose State as a walk-on, then went to L.A. Valley College and then walked-on as a player at UCLA.
The event will feature student-athletes from all over California and brings together NCAA Division II, III, and NAIA college/universities from across the country, as well as California community college programs. Players will showcase their skills during a series of tests and drills that will best display each player’s talent at their respective positions. The CA Showcase will be organized and managed by former college and professional football players and coaches associated with Coach Donahue throughout his career.
Following the activities, players and coaches from the colleges/universities will meet in an adjacent facility to discuss scholarship and financial aid opportunities. Admission in the area will be restricted to student-athletes, participating coaches and volunteers, visiting high school and college/university coaches and/or administrators, and the media.
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First or Second Teams
Marley Alapati (Serra, San Mateo)
DayDay Aiupiu (Pacifica, Oxnard)
Brandon Baker (Mater Dei, Santa Ana)
Luke Baker (San Ramon Valley)
Joseph Bey (Serra, San Mateo)
Stacy Bey (Bishop Amat)
Kobe Boykin (Orange)
Terrell Bradshaw Jr. (Inglewood)
Eugene Brooks (Sierra Canyon)
Elijah Brown (Mater Dei, Santa Ana)
Zabien Brown (Mater Dei, Santa Ana)
Aaron Butler (Calabasas)
Isaiah Buxton (Mater Dei Catholic)
DeAndre Carter (Mater Dei, Santa Ana)
David Clifford (Poway)
Kodi Cornelius (Casa Grande)
Darius Curry (Long Beach Poly)
Ethan Dasmann (Oak Ridge)
Paki Finau (Oak Hills)
Sire Gaines (Orange Vista)
Marquis Gallegos (Chaminade)
Omari Gayles (St. Mary’s, Stockton)
Josh Glanz (Eastlake)
Dillon Gresham (San Jacinto)
Cornell Hatcher (Centennial)
J.T. Houston (Warren)
Myles Jackson (Millikan)
Jericho Johnson (Armijo)
Cameron Jones (St. John Bosco)
Xavier Jordan (Cathedral, Los Angeles)
King Large (St. John Bosco)
Kingston Lopa (Grant, Sacramento)
Justin Ludovico (Etiwanda)
Austin Mack (Folsom)
Jabari Mann (Serra, San Mateo)
Anthony McMillian (Mater Dei Catholic)
Adonte Medley (Highland, Palmdale)
Emmett Mosley (Santa Margarita)
Kamar Mothudi (Campbell Hall)
Ryan Pellum (Millikan)
Robert Petrich (Granite Hills)
Cincere Rhaney (Serra, Gardena)
Marshel Sanders (Clovis West)
Ryon Sayeri (Chaminade)
Julian Sayin (Carlsbad)
Mark Schroller (Mission Viejo)
Maealiuaki Smith (Serra, San Mateo)
Logan Studt (Buchanan)
James Tivao (Madison)
Justin Tauanuu (Huntington Beach)
Trey Tolmaire (Mission Viejo)
Zeus Venegas (Mater Dei, Santa Ana)
Makai Viavia (Madison)
Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa (St. John Bosco)
Damarrion White (Granite Hills)
Charles Williams (Marin Catholic)
Dylan Williams (Long Beach Poly)
Marcelles Williams (St. John Bosco)
Peyton Woodyard (St. John Bosco)
Third Team
Manny Adieza (San Pasqual)
Travis Anderson (Mission Viejo)
Jake Arellano (Loyola)
Navi Arretche (Hughson)
Monte Beam (Concord)
Daulton Beard (Santa Ynez)
Michael Beresford (Palos Verdes)
Tayten Beyer (Centennial)
Jalonn Booth (Merced)
Aydin Breland (Mater Dei, Santa Ana)
Ratumana Bulavalavu (Army-Navy)
Joshua Cason (Long Beach Poly)
Clarence Chaney (JSerra)
Carmel Crunk (Sierra Canyon)
TJ Cunningham (Los Alamitos)
Frank Cusano (Granite Bay)
Stacy Dobbins (Chaparral)
Bryson Davis (Manteca)
Dermericus Davis (Etiwanda)
Jonah Dawson (Rancho Cucamonga)
Bryson Donelson (Central Valley Christian)
Darius Doyle (Kimball)
Tommy Ducker (Palma)
Tyler Dudden (Norco)
Elijah Eason (Bullard)
Ethan Elder (Casa Roble)
Reid Farrell (Valencia)
Kado Felder (Washington, Easton)
Dylan Fingersh (Capistano Valley)
Marino Fragata (Johnson)
Rueben Gamboa (Sierra Canyon)
Jordan Glaze (Granite Hills)
Devin Green (Sheldon)
Jaden Green (Serra, San Mateo)
Braylon Hall (Central, Fresno)
Chance Harrison (Rio Mesa)
Wade Helton (Centennial, Corona)
Lucas Hardeman (Folsom)
Javonnie Haymon (Edison, Stockton)
Drew Henderson (Berkeley)
Wyatt Hook (Homestead)
Aidan Houston (Cypress)
Shawn Irwin (Hart)
Manasse Itete (Modesto Christian)
Preston Jernagan (St. Francis, LC)
Jamil Kassab (Ramona)
Tytus Khajavi (Clovis West)
J.R. Kirkwood (Culver City)
Marcus Lee (St. John Bosco)
Jordan Lockhart (St. John Bosco)
Matt Long (Vista del Lago, Folsom)
Owen Long (La Serna)
Noah Luginbill (Clovis)
Anthony Luna (Western, Anaheim)
Thomas McCormick (Carlsbad)
Tyree McCowen (Lakewood)
Jerry Misaalefua (Carson)
Cameron Mitchell (Pasadena)
Richie Munoz (Bishop Amat)
Phillip Ocon (St. Francis, LC)
Cole Owens (Casa Roble)
Misa K. Paiou (Bishop Diego)
Jordan Palega (Clayton Valley)
Wayshawn Parker (Elk Grove)
David Perez (Downey)
Caden Pinnick (Del Oro)
Dez Polamalu (M.L. King, Riverside)
Kai Presendorf (Redwood, Visalia)
Jason Robinson (Long Beach Poly)
Jordan Ross (Warren)
Makai Sagiao (Edison, HB)
Jaxton Santiago (Centennial, Bak)
Tanu Sosa (Serra, Gardena)
Malakhi Statler (Frontier)
John Stowers (Overfelt)
Baron Taylor (Inderkum)
Jaylen Thomas (Los Gatos)
Shaun Torgeson (St. Bonaventure)
Drew Underwood (Liberty, Bak)
Ananias Walker (Rancho Cotate)
Peyton Waters (Birmingham)
WR/DB Ananias Walker (Rancho Cotate, Rohnert Park)
Jordan Washington (Jordan, Long Beach)
Tyler Wentworth (Central Catholic)
Justice Williams (Oaks Christian)
Turran Williams (Muir)
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Hayden Anderson (Windsor)
Bear Bachmeier (Murrieta Valley)
Phillip Bell (Christian Brothers, Sac)
Garrison Blank (Rocklin)
Cory Butler (Centennial, Corona)
Trestin Castro (Upland)
Karson Cox (Oak Hills, Hesperia)
Jordon Davison (Mater Dei, Santa Ana)
Daryus Dixson (Mater Dei, Santa Ana)
Ben Drewry (Bishop Montgomery)
Dane Dunn (Sierra Canyon, Chatsworth)
Kaleb Edwards (Oak Ridge, El Dorado Hills)
Toa Faavae (De La Salle)
Aseli Fangupo (Sacred Heart Prep)
Madden Faraimo (Cathedral Catholic, SD)
Kourdey Glass (Hanford)
Theo Gruele (Folsom)
Joseph Gutierrez (Northview)
Jacob Higgs (Sultana, Hesperia)
Jadyn Hudson (Pittsburg)
Devin Hyde (Menlo-Atherton)
Carter Jackson (Granite Bay)
Isaiah Jackson (Granite Hills)
Jaylen “JJ” Johnson (Enterprise)
C.J. Jones (Sunnyside, Fresno)
Marco Jones (San Ramon Valley)
Christian Knoos (Oaks Christian)
Brody Krupp (Woodcreek)
T.J. Lateef (Lutheran, Orange)
Nick Lavizzo (Pacifica, Oxnard)
Chris Lawson (Foothill, Pleasanton)
Husan Longstreet (Inglewood)
Losipini Tupou (Archbishop Riordan)
McKay Madsen (Clovis North, Fresno)
Kapono Mao (Los Alamitos)
Jared Martin (Central, El Centro)
Eddy Medina (Mira Mesa, San Diego)
Noah Mikhail (Bonita, La Verna)
Jireh Moe (Lutheran, Orange)
Jaylen Moore (Monrovia)
Jesse Myers (Cardinal Newman)
Kyler Peters (Apple Valley)
Weston Port (San Juan Hills)
Tyler Prasuhn (Carlsbad)
Jadyn Robinson (Long Beach Poly)
Shane Rosenthal (Newbury Park)
Darrell Stanley (Granada Hills Charter)
Champ Taulealea (Valley Christian, SJ)
Jett Thomas (La Jolla)
Sione Tohi (Mater Dei, Santa Ana)
Jordan Tonga (Leuzinger)
Sione Vailea (McClymonds)
LaMason Waller (Sultana, Hesperia)
Jewelous Walls (Pittsburg)
Luke Webb (JSerra, SJ Capistrano)
Nazarus Williams (Carson)
Tanner Wilson (Sunnyside)
Venilaite Wolfgramm (Inglewood)
Nasir Wyatt (Mater Dei, Santa Ana)
Jonathan Ybarra (Sanger)
Jaeon Young (Sierra Canyon, Chatsworth)
We take a look back at the high school career of San Fernando High School great Charles White, who died this week at age 64 from liver cancer. White was a legend in the San Fernando Valley, and reached iconic status around the state when he captured the 1979 Heisman Trophy at USC as part of the Trojans’ great tailback tradition. In addition to his exploits on the football field, White was also a state champion hurdler and city and state champ on both the gridiron and track.
