Category Archives: girls basketball
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
This is the week when we start adding top outings for boys and girls hoops to go with the end of the season in football. The end also is near for the state career scoring record set just last February by Santa Maria St. Joseph’s Tounde Yessoufou as Inglewood’s Jason Crowe Jr. is averaging 40...
Ontario Chr leads in 1st Girls BB Ranks
We know another group has ranked Archbishop Mitty No. 1 in the nation, but we’re going to be more cautious with the return of All-American McKenna Wolitczko from injury and we think the Monarchs should be behind Etiwanda to start as well. Ontario Christian should have its big two of Kaleena Smith & Tati Griffin […]
Our Take: Woliczko chooses Iowa
In case you missed the news from early last week, Archbishop Mitty of San Jose 6-foot-2 senior wing McKenna Woliczko has committed to the University of Iowa. The big-time national recruit coming off of an ACL knee injury from last January that caused her to miss the rest of the season. While our report isn’t […]
Girls of Summer 2025: Player Rankings
For the 21st time since 2005, here’s a chart of the top players from California high school girls basketball viewed by the Girls of Summer Caravan during all events attended in person starting in June and extending into August. This time, it’s a list with more than 250 names. This isn’t a ranking of the...
Girls of Summer: A Swoosh & A Dance
San Jose Cagers squad dominates at Hype Her Hoops Big Dance event last Sunday and Monday in Anaheim while one of the stories at the EOT Summer Swoosh last Saturday in Thousand Oaks was improved play from a pair of girls from Cardinal Newman (Santa Rosa). We also have incoming freshmen to watch at both...
Girls of Summer: Tati’s tale & more
We started our annual Girls of Summer tour after the Cali Live 2025 event last month in Roseville with a stop last Saturday at the OGP Hype Her Hoops Cali Cup, but what happened the next day as we were driving north likely changed the course of the 2025-26 season in the state as big-time […]
Girls BB: CaliLive 25 Player/Team Ranks
Here’s a more in-depth look at the recent Girls California Live 2025 held on June 12-14 in Roseville. We have the top 13 teams ranked in order — starting with Archbishop Mitty, South Medford, Clovis West and Stockton St. Mary’s — and then top players from those teams are listed. We also have player highlights...
Girls BB: Cali Live 25 Top Teams
There were some teams from Southern California on hand, but three-time NorCal Open Division champion Archbishop Mitty (San Jose) was the class of the field at the Girls California Live 2025 held last weekend in Roseville. Players from South Medford (Oregon), St. Mary’s of Stockton, Clovis West of Fresno, Brentwood of Los Angeles and Villa […]
All-State Girls BB 2025: First Team
Out of the thousands who played girls basketball during the 2024-25 season, here’s where the 46th annual all-state teams gets broken down to just 10 players. This includes Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year Aliyahna “Puff” Morris plus State Junior of the Year Jerzy Robinson plus two freshmen. Both Etiwanda and Ontario Christian have […]
