Category Archives: CalHiSports Players of the Year
Jax Leatherwood: Grid-Hoop State POY
It’s just too hard to beat a grid-hooper like the junior quarterback-power forward from Scripps Ranch of San Diego, who played key roles on football and basketball teams that both won CIF state titles. Leatherwood adds this statewide honor to already being named as the San Diego Union-Tribune Male Athlete of the Year. Note: We’ve […]
2021-22 Grid-Hoop All-State Team
To kick off our end-of-school year content of honoring the best multi-sport and overall athletes of the year (boys and girls), we begin with a look at the state’s 15 best football-basketball combo athletes on our 36th annual Cal-Hi Sports Grid-Hoop All-State team. Leading the group is player of the year Jax Leatherwood of San […]
Ms. Softball 2022: Jessica Oakland
Hitting a state-best 21 homers for the No. 1 team in the state helps St. Francis of Mountain View standout to get over the top in this year’s Ms. Softball State Player of the Year honors. The daughter of head coach Mike Oakland also had 40 homers in the last two seasons and gained several […]
More Softball Players of the Year
Two big-time pitchers who also did some hitting grab the top honors among juniors and sophomores while a player who wowed many with her leadoff hitting skills gains the same honor among freshmen. We also are proud to announce our state medium schools and state small schools players of the year.
Mr. Baseball 2022: Malcolm Moore
The 2021 State Junior of the Year had an outstanding season behind the plate and at the plate as his team from McClatchy of Sacramento had one of its best seasons in school history. Moore is only the fourth player ever from the Capital City region to gain baseball’s state player of the year honor […]
More Baseball State Players of the Year
It’s a smooth move upward for Junior Player of the Year Gavin Grahovac of Villa Park and Sophomore Player of the Year Bryce Rainer from Harvard-Westlake of Studio City as those two were the leaders last season for sophomores and freshmen. A junior also has been chosen as State Medium Schools Player of the Year, […]
All-State Boys BB: Best of the Best 2022
Mr. Basketball State Player of the Year Donovan Dent plus State Junior of the Year Jared McCain of CIF Open Division state champion Corona Centennial and NorCal Player of the Year Aidan Mahaney of Moraga Campolindo headline the 43rd annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state boys basketball teams. Go inside to see why these 10 have finished […]
Ms. Basketball 2022: Jumping for Juju
For the 51st year in which there has been a Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year in the Golden State, we have a true Golden girl of talent as the honoree. It could only be the multi-faceted junior Juju Watkins from CIF Open Division state champion Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth. She may take even […]
More Girls BB Players of the Year
Since Ms. Basketball this year for California was won by a junior, we had to choose a Senior of the Year to go with the usual State Sophomore and State Freshman of the Year. All three are from the Inland Empire with the sophomore and freshman coming from the same team. Three of the four […]
