Category Archives: CalHiSports Updates
Carlos Arias: Getting Stronger Daily
A former Orange County Register high school sports journalist and current writer for the ExtraInningSoftball.com national web site, Carlos Arias continues to work every day and hopes to be out at games sometime in the future. That he’s even alive is really a miracle. This article, in fact, was begun as an obituary in May […]
More State Schools of the Year
For boys sports only, De La Salle of Concord is considered tops for the state for 2021-22 thanks to a No. 1 finish in baseball coming a few days after winning a CIF state title in golf. For the girls, St. Francis of Mountain View is going to be listed alongside its overall State School […]
State School of Year: Harvard-Westlake
For the first time in its history, the San Fernando Valley private school has piled up enough championships and high national/state rankings in various sports to top all schools in California for the 2020-21 school year. It all started with an unbeaten football team and ended with a celebration on a baseball field at Cal […]
More State Schools of the Year
For boys sports only, Mater Dei of Santa Ana is considered tops for the state for 2020-21 despite year of transition in the athletic department. For the girls, Harvard-Westlake is going to be listed alongside its overall State School of the Year selection. Other schools topping the list for overall state sports excellence honors for […]
Boys BB: 2021 Preseason Primer
The boys basketball season in California is now getting underway, thanks to a lawsuit that made protocols for indoor sports feasible with restrictions a bit tougher than outdoor sports. We’re glad there is a season, but it will still be fragmented with NorCal sections already cancelling post-seasons and for the second straight year, no CIF […]
Hoops Gets Green Light For Reopening
According to coaches we’ve talked to, there are still questions about how testing will work and how all of these high school competitions can be held at the same time but now there is optimism that there will be a basketball season in California for boys and girls this spring. That came on Thursday and […]
Counting Counties & More Updates
As of Tuesday of this week, only four counties in the state have not reached a case rate of 14 or lower per 100,000. That’s the total as announced nearly two weeks ago that would allow high school football practices to begin in those counties. Schools and school districts are now looking to get to […]
Section by Section COVID Updates
The CIF Southern Section got Tuesday going with an announcement that it was canceling its fall sports playoffs and championships to give its leagues and its schools more time to get games in. The CIF Central Section and CIF L.A. City Section made the same moves in the morning as well. The San Diego and […]
Next Weeks Crucial for #LetThemPlay
Thousands of people gathered at more than 130 different sites located just outside of school campuses throughout the state on Friday to advocate for a safe return to high school sports. It wasn’t promoted or presented as rallies specifically for football, but there was a decided prevalence of football players in jerseys at most of […]
Top Takeaways From Latest CIF Moves
This post is more of an opinion about what could come next regarding the latest delay in California high school sports, and what to look for as it impacts state rankings, all-state teams and this web site in the coming weeks. We also reveal the results of a recent football coaches survey we did which […]
