Category Archives: Recruiting
Eli Dukes: Hazardous to Palma’s foes
From attending the football practices his father coached and anxiously waiting this season for his own opportunity to put on the pads due to a pulled hamstring, Eli Dukes from Palma High of Salinas has built his career on competition, hard work and the support of his family. Dukes entered his senior season with 5,683 […]
Girls of Summer Player Rankings (Pt 2)
Nearly 200 girls now have a ranking after more than 80 have been added to the first part of this feature. The ranking system and numbers have always been a way that our longtime girls hoops editor can honor those many girls he has seen in person or through a trusted friend at many of...
Preseason All-State FB Teams
A lot of teams have played a game and injuries are already happening but we have reached 43 straight years of doing a preseason all-state team and we wanted to wait until finishing all of the section teams before doing those all-state teams this year. Each player already has been written up within our annual […]
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...
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...
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...
Folsom’s Larson leads NorCal WRs
The school known for having prolific quarterbacks over the years also has had huge success with those who are catching the passes. This year’s WR leader for the Bulldogs, Rob Larson, will have the unique experience of catching balls from a big-time prospect one year ago in Ryder Lyons and this year will be doing […]
