Category Archives: CIF State Championships
State School of Year: Santa Margarita
It’s a different mix of highly successful sports, but the Eagles have repeated as the Cal-Hi Sports State School of the Year for the 2025-26 school year. They’ve also now made it three State School of the Year honors in the last four years. It was not an easy selection since two schools — Mater […]
More State Schools of the Year
For boys sports only, St. John Bosco of Bellflower tops the group with baseball, wrestling, football and boys basketball success. For the girls, overall winner Santa Margarita had to be the winner in that category this time as well. Other schools gaining overall state sports excellence honors for 2025-26 are San Ramon Valley of Danville […]
Destiny Christian: State Team of Year
Everything had to fall into place for the Destiny Christian of Sacramento softball team to be able to finish in the rarified air of being an undefeated State Team of the Year. But that’s what happened plus there was a CIF NorCal D1 championship that had to be won, which was completed last Saturday with […]
More Softball State Teams of Year
State Team of the Year honors for the 2026 softball season also are going out this week for the four other CIF based playoff divisions. We have done teams of the year in five divisions for many years and these mythical honors considered all teams that played in CIF section playoffs (including those that opted […]
St. John Bosco: State Team of Year
No, this isn’t a repost of last season. The Bellflower school has indeed repeated as the No. 1 team in the state for the second straight season despite losing in last week’s CIF SoCal D1 playoffs. The Braves’ accomplishment of repeating as CIF Southern Section D1 champions was too much, especially compared to what happened […]
MD Catholic gets SoCal D1 repeat
Coaches at Chula Vista school tell their players “not to bother” trying out for their team if they can’t commit to playing as late as the CIF SoCal regional playoffs. On Saturday, with University of Arizona commit Arri Romero leading the way, the Crusaders won the CIF SoCal D1 regional title for the second straight […]
Destiny Christian: One inning does it
A three-run homer and a two-run homer within a few swings of one half-inning gives Destiny Christian of Sacramento all it needed in a 6-3 win over Whitney of Rocklin in Saturday’s CIF NorCal D1 softball championship. The Lions completed one of the most historically significant seasons in state history at 31-0 and are expected […]
Ms. Basketball 2026: Kaleena Smith
Choosing a junior for the state’s longest-running and perhaps most prestigious individual honor can create some problems, but it was no problem at all that Ontario Christian’s very special point guard who averaged 31.5 ppg for the CIF Open Division state champions has to be Ms. Basketball for 2026. Kaleena will now look to become […]
More Girls BB Players of the Year
In addition to Ms. Basketball, Ontario Christian grabs another state player of the year honor with Tati Griffin among the sophomores leading the way. The toughest selection by far was for seniors, which had to be done this year with a junior in the overall top spot. For the CIF divisional winners, presented by new […]
Girls BB: More State Coaches of Year
Congratulations to all of the 2025-26 Cal-Hi Sports State Coaches of the year for girls basketball. Presented by our partners from CalGamesWanted.com, these are the ones for each of the five CIF state divisions. The overall State Coach of the Year also is one of the five. Of the other four honorees, two are from […]
