Category Archives: Players of the Week
State Football Players of the Week
This week’s journey begins at Baldwin Park in the San Gabriel Valley with a record-breaking rushing performance from a sophomore. That’s followed by stops at two schools in Orange County at Dana Point and Fullerton. In the north, after leading off with Los Gatos last week, it’s next for this week at nearby school Saratoga. […]
State Football Players of the Week
We begin this week stopping at the current No. 1 team in the CIF San Diego Section at Carlsbad High, then it’s up to Riverside on the 1-15 and then it’s westward to Woodland Hills in the CIF L.A. City Section. For Northern California, the places landed this week are in Fresno, Loomis and finally […]
State Football Players of the Week
Our first stop this week is to the small town in Butte County in Northern California that was in the news to start the season for a trip it made to Maui to play another school known for once being devastated by a wildfire. We then head to another small town in the CIF Central […]
State Football Players of the Week
Thanks to Harold Abend and Ronnie Flores for handling this feature for us while we were out of country for two weeks. We return and have six more top-flight players to be put in the spotlight. For Southern California, the honorees are from San Juan Capistrano, Agoura and Chino Hills. For Northern California, they’re from […]
State Football Players of the Week
For the second straight week, we’re subbing for executive editor Mark Tennis who is frolicking in Scandinavia by posting the Cal-Hi Sports State Football Players of the Week. We didn’t get as many nominations this week with a lot of top teams with byes, and that means we didn’t have a big number of performances […]
State Football Players of the Week
This week we return to doing the Cal-Hi Sports State Football Players of the Week with executive editor Mark Tennis on Holiday. We asked for help from statewide media sources and others on X and got several nominations. We also saw one of the award winners live on our trip to Northern California last week. […]
State Football Players of the Week
We begin in Huntington Beach for a player who would have tied a state record if all three of his kick return touchdowns in one game were all on punts or all on kickoffs. Our other SoCal honorees this week are from San Diego and Baldwin Park. For Northern California, we have our first-ever winner […]
State Football Players of the Week
We had two QBs in Southern California that threw for seven touchdowns in a game last week, so we had to pick one of them for the SoCal Offensive Player of the Week honor. That’s the way it goes sometimes when there are no ties in team rankings or individual honors and haven’t been in […]
State Football Players of the Week
After the first full week of games for schools all across the state, our first honorees for 2026 season come from Culver City, West Hills and San Diego for Southern California. For Northern California, we have winners from Sutter, Antioch (a freshman) and Morgan Hill. Go inside for a free look at what these players […]
