Category Archives: CalHiSports Players of the Year

Ms. Softball 2025: Taelyn Holley

Being the exclusive compilers of state softball records in California can make a difference at times for player of the year consideration. So with Murrieta Mesa’s Taelyn Holley putting her name on all sorts of all-time offensive categories, that was the difference for her in another close call for the state’s most long-running softball player […]

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More Softball Players of the Year

Two of these honorees — Ayla Tuua for juniors and Coral Williams for sophomores — also were both close to being the Ms. Softball State Player of the Year. The freshman winner is another one coming up from the Inland Empire while the medium schools and small schools top honors are going to the Northern […]

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Mr. Baseball 2025: Seth Hernandez

It may be one of the no-brainer picks of all-time for Corona High’s Seth Hernandez to be the 2025 Mr. Baseball State Player of the Year, but going back-to-back as the player of the year in the greatest state in the nation for baseball is a remarkable achievement. It’s only the third time ever that […]

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More Baseball State Players of the Year

Norco lands the State Freshman of the Year honor for the second straight year, but the winner from last year was edged out as the State Sophomore of the Year. We also had to make a difficult call for State Junior of the Year among three strong candidates. In addition, we have State Medium Schools […]

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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 […]

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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....

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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