Category Archives: Girls of Summer
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
No changes for the top eight this week despite Santa Margarita falling to 5-3 with a loss to No. 1 St. John Bosco. We do move up unbeaten Los Alamitos to No. 10 with a matchup looming in two weeks with No. 4 Mission Viejo. Tustin also moves up from the 26-50 group into this...
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 […]
Girls of Summer: Player Rankings
For the 20th 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 180 names. It starts with the only two players to...
Girls BB: NorCal Stop Ends Live Period
The Chico Tarheels, made up mostly of girls from Pleasant Valley of Chico with twin sisters from Sacramento mixed in, went 6-0 in their division to make a big impression at the End of the Trail (EOT) Summer Showcase last weekend in Roseville. Longtime girls hoops analyst Harold Abend also has more younger players to...
State’s All-Time MLB 1st Round Picks
After 2024 when there were only two players from the state who heard their names called at the MLB Draft in Texas, the 2025 draft held in Atlanta was back to normal with five. Here’s as complete a list as possible of high school players and former high school players in college from California who...
Girls of Summer: Return to Oregon City
Bay Area teams show strength at End of the Trail tourney, but much has changed in the girls basketball summer recruiting season since the last time our girls hoops lead analyst went there in 2005. North Bay Elite & San Jose Cagers shined most, but Bulldawgs Basketball Black of Daly City also did well. FOR […]
