Category Archives: Annual all-state teams
All-State Football Nominees (NorCal)
We are underway toward the choosing the players for the 48th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state football teams. This is just the first step in a process and players will be added for a second, updated list. This is the first of three lists of players considered as nominees for the various 2025 season squads. These […]
FB: All-State Medium/Small Primer
All-State Football Medium and Small teams from Cal-Hi Sports have now been extended back to the 1950 season with new honor squads added from the 1984 season going backward based on research. Unlike the retroactive overall all-state teams, not as many of these players are well-known figures and figuring out what classification each belong to […]
TOP 25 For First 25 Years (1-10)
Instead of doing a new set of state rankings this week while traveling, we are presenting our picks for the top 25 players from California high school football for the first 25 years of the current century. Many of them we’ve seen play in person. The No. 1 spot has gone to a current NFL […]
Preseason All-State Football Teams
This is the 42nd consecutive year of Cal-Hi Sports compiling a preseason all-state football team. We have first team, second team, and third team. Most of the players already have been written up within our annual tour of the state through preseason teams from CIF sections plus more than one from the Southern Section. Note: […]
Rohan Hartigan: Most Inspirational
In the midst of our end-of-school-year honors, we have added one for a baseball player as the 2024-25 Most Inspirational Player of the Year. The graduated senior from University High of San Francisco came back from a near-death medical emergency from two years ago to go 7-0 with a 1.28 ERA. No one would have […]
2024-25 Grid-Hoop All-State Team
To continue our end-of-school year content of honoring the best multi-sport and overall athletes of the year (boys and girls), we take our annual look at the state’s 15 best football-basketball combo athletes. They will comprise our 39th annual Cal-Hi Sports Grid-Hoop All-State team. Leading the 15-man group is player of the year Kaleb Edwards […]
More 2024-25 Grid-Hoopers We Loved
In addition to the first 15 all-state grid-hoop players, there were many others uncovered in our research that we found who embodied the best of grid-hoop success. Several of those mentioned in this honor roll helped their teams at Carmel, Arcata and St. Vincent de Paul win CIF state football titles. FOR THIS YEAR’S ALL-STATE...
All-State Softball Frosh Watch List
Just like baseball, we’ve found in softball that there’s just too many top prospects/players from top programs that have not yet done that much on the high school level for there to be an actual all-state team for freshmen. We still like to provide a look at top freshman softball players around the state from...
All-State Baseball Frosh Watch List
While a State Freshman Player of the Year is now named each year, there is not an all-state team for ninth graders. We’ve found there’s just too many top prospects/players from top programs that have not yet done that much on the high school level and these teams are based mostly on high school production/accomplishment....
All-State Softball 2025: First Team
Final state No. 1 and No. 2 teams Norco and Del Oro (Loomis) both land two players on this elite first team that wraps up our 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Softball teams. Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills and Poway also both have two first teamers. Go inside this free post for a look […]
