Category Archives: CalHiSports Players of the Year
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 […]
Ms. Basketball 2024: Kennedy Smith
It’s now being called the quad and that’s being a state player of the year for California among freshmen, sophomores and juniors and then finishing it off by being named Ms. Basketball. Etiwanda’s Kennedy Smith has now completed the quad and has been selected as the Ms. Basketball for California girls hoops. She’ll now join […]
More Girls BB Players of the Year
Puff Morris & McKenna Woliczko are repeat winners at the top of their junior and sophomore classes while high-scoring phenom Kaleena Smith of Ontario Christian had to be on top among freshmen. Two of this year’s CIF divisional honorees are from the state title teams, but two were from regional championship runner-up squads. For official […]
Mr. Basketball 2024: Trent Perry
In another close race for Mr. Basketball, what Trent Perry did for CIF Open Division state champ Harvard-Westlake is just too hard to ignore. Today, the two-time state champion edges another San Fernando Valley standout who played in the same league for California’s most prestigious, long-running individual honor. For this season’s State Players of the […]
Boys BB: More State Players of the Year
Here’s where to go to see the Cal-Hi Sports 2024 top honorees for juniors, sophomores and freshmen and for each CIF division with Open & D1 combined. Three different sophomores have collected a player of the year honor since two of them have been chosen for their CIF divisions.
Preseason Boys/Girls Basketball Hub
Here’s the place to go for all of the preseason boys/girls basketball content that has been completed on CalHiSports.com over recent weeks and months. Plus, we’ve added an additional list: the Top 10 Mr. Basketball & Ms. Basketball Player of the Year candidates. Some teams have already begun their seasons this week. Others will be […]
Boys BB: Rectroactive All-State Primer
All-State boys basketball teams from Cal-Hi Sports have now been extended back to the 1954-55 season with new teams added from the 1978-79 season going backward based on research. Some of the players are well-known such as longtime NBA referee Leon Wood, former Laker Byron Scott, an MLB Hall of Famer, a recently retired longtime […]