Category Archives: CalHiSports Players of the Year
Mr. Basketball 2025: Brayden Burries
There was plenty of competition, but it’s not a surprising choice for Mr. Basketball, as Brayden Burries’ accomplishments for CIF Open Division state champ Eastvale Roosevelt were incredible and deserve individual recognition. Today, one of the nation’s best guards headed to Arizona is awarded California’s most prestigious, long-running individual honor. For this season’s State Players […]
Boys BB: More State Players of the Year
Congratulations to all of the Cal-Hi Sports 2025 top honorees for juniors, sophomores and freshmen and for each CIF division with Open & D1 combined. The CIF Southern Section captures all four of the class-by-class honors, but only has one winner for the CIF divisions....
Ms. Basketball 2025: Power of Puff
Following a path in which she was State Freshman of Year, State Sophomore of Year and State Junior of Year, Aliyahna “Puff” Morris of Etiwanda completes the cycle by earning California Ms. Basketball honors as a senior. It was not an easy selection, but being the star point guard of a team that made history […]
Mr. Football 2024: Brady Smigiel
Much improved rushing totals plus only three interceptions compared to 49 TD passes all helped Newbury Park junior Brady Smigiel to capture the state’s longest running and perhaps most prestigious high school football honor. It was a very difficult selection and we spell it all out. Smigiel, who led the Panthers to the CIF Southern […]
FB: Rectroactive All-State Primer
All-State football teams from Cal-Hi Sports have now been extended back to the 1960 season with new teams added from the 1979 season going backward based on research. Many of the players are well-known and there is a plethora of future NFL greats. A deeper look reveals plenty of players who were standouts at other […]
More State Boys Athletes of Year
To go with overall honoree Ryder Dodd, there are others featured as the best among boys athletes for juniors, sophomores, freshmen and those from divisions (D1, D2, D3, D4 and D5) for the 2023-24 school year. Football-track combo athletes have taken it in four of the categories outside of D1 and seniors, but there is […]
Mr. Baseball 2024: Seth Hernandez
It’s rare for a junior to get the state’s top individual honor and it was going to be really hard this year for one senior in particular to be topped, but Corona’s big-time pitcher who also led the State Team of the Year in home runs and RBI just had too much to be denied. […]
More Baseball State Players of the Year
Since the Mr. Baseball State POY honor went to a junior, there’s a Senior of the Year for this season and it’s the same player who led the Class of 2024 as a freshman, sophomore and junior. Corona also has landed the State Sophomore of the Year, which makes history for having the top junior […]
Ms. Softball 2024: Kate Munnerlyn
It’s never easy and it wasn’t again and while she already has the major honor from Gatorade, it ended up that the state’s most long-running softball player of the year honor has gone to Kate Munnerlyn from St. Francis of Mountain View. She’s the second honoree from St. Francis in three years following Jessica Oakland […]
More Softball Players of the Year
One of these honorees finished 25-0 as a pitcher while another led the state in runs scored with 59. The five players written up here are considered best of the best among juniors, sophomores, freshmen, medium schools players and small schools players. For more on Ms. Softball State Player of the Year Kate Munnerlyn, CLICK […]
