Category Archives: Gold Club Content
State Records, Stat Stars & More
Here’s where to go for updates to the exclusive Cal-Hi Sports state records, where we’ll post individual stat star highlights plus perhaps some comments or two on the hottest topics sweeping through social media. This week, we talk about the school with the best football record so far in the 2020s, several QBs with 400...
Preseason All-CCS Football Teams
This is the final one of these preseason teams in our annual series. It’s still preseason for a good many teams in the state since their seasons haven’t begun. Defending Open Division champion Archbishop Riordan has five players on our preseason All-CCS first team. That is not as many, though as last year’s D1 winners...
Preseason All-NCS Football Teams
De La Salle, Pittsburg and Cardinal Newman lead the way in a section that gets going a week later than most schools in Southern California. There’s a few other schools — San Ramon Valley and Acalanes — that have more than one player written up as well. This is the next-to-last installment in our annual...
These Schools Know How to Win
All of our state football records for categories such as schools with the most all-time wins, schools with the best all-time records, schools with multiple CIF state championships and other categories have been updated prior to the start of the 2026 season. Bakersfield and Long Beach Poly finally got another school to join them with...
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...
