Category Archives: Gold Club Content
Preseason All-Southern Section Teams
Since the CIFSS is so massive and loaded with talent at schools in the Trinity League plus at other schools like Corona Centennial, Sierra Canyon, Mission Viejo, Tustin, Crean Lutheran and more, we have a first team and a second team of players who are written up for this feature plus a third team list...
Preseason All-Central Section FB Team
Transfers help Garces of Bakersfield land the most players on this squad, but defending D1-AA section champion Central East has a bunch of top returnees as well and still looks like a strong favorite to three-peat. Buchanan of Clovis, Clovis West of Fresno and Liberty of Bakersfield also among those teams with more than one...
All-State Softball Frosh Watch List
Right along with baseball, we also have our look at top freshman softball players around the state from the 2026 season who have great promise to be an all-state player very soon. There certainly are more freshmen in softball to check through for big varsity success than baseball, but worth the effort to get a...
All-State Baseball Frosh Watch List
Here’s a look at top freshman baseball players around the state from the 2026 season who have great promise to be an all-state player very soon. Some are completing the summer at showcase events. We don’t offer an all-state freshman team, but as usual from the best baseball state in the nation there are many...
Girls of Summer Player Rankings (Pt 1)
For the 21st year of doing this feature, our girls hoops lead analyst provides the names of more than 100 California high school girls basketball players who have received a dot system ranking of 7.0 or higher, led by returning Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year Kaleena Smith with a 9.6. Her former teammate,...
Preseason All-Sac-Joaquin Sec Team
Folsom may be the big favorite to win another SJS D1 title and has five players on this 30-man squad, but Grant of Sacramento also had to have five and may have seven to eight D1 bound players by the time the season is over. Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills (beat Grant in the...
Preseason L.A. City Section FB Team
We head to greater Los Angeles County to begin our series of preseason all-section football teams around the state with a look at the CIF L.A. City Section. The section has shown some positive strides after some rough post-COVID seasons, but two coaching giants within the section won’t be roaming the sidelines this fall. Will...
More 2025-26 Grid-Hoopers We Loved
In addition to the first 15 all-state grid-hoop athletes announced this week, there were many others uncovered in our research that we found who embodied the best of grid-hoop success. We will have two more posts with honors for the 205-26 school year, which will be our State Athletes of the Year. Several of those...
All-State Baseball: 2nd & 3rd Teams
This last part of the 44th edition of the Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams for baseball also has 30 more players here who have been selected second team. Any player from any school regardless of class or school size can be on first or second team. The third team, however, is only for seniors and only...
Baseball: All-State Underclass 2026
It’s only one day after we wrapped up the all-state softball teams for 2026, so now we’re starting up with the release of the various teams for the 44th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball honors. We have separate teams for juniors and sophomores with a first and second team for juniors and just one team...
