Category Archives: softball
Asterisk Talley: State Athlete of the Year
Since she competed as a Chowchilla High girls golfer during the 2025-26 school year, golfing phenom Asterisk Talley is eligible to be the Girls State Athlete of the Year. Who knows what’s in store for the current senior for the 2026-27 year, but if she’s eligible why wouldn’t the top-ranked amateur female golfer in the […]
More State Girls Athletes of Year
To go with overall honoree Asterisk Talley of Chowchilla (a D3 junior), we have others selected as the best among girls athletes for seniors, sophomores, freshmen and those from divisions (D1, D2, D4 and D5) for the 2025-26 school year. We have two-sport athletes for seniors/D1 and for D2 and a four-sport athlete for D4. […]
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 Softball: 2nd & 3rd Teams
In addition to first team overall, the 43rd Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams for softball also has 30 more players who have been honored with second team overall selections. Any player from any school regardless of class or school size can be on first or second team so that is a lot of players from a...
Softball: All-State Medium, Small 2026
After the juniors and sophomores from earlier this week, the 43rd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Softball teams moves to the top players from what we deem medium & small schools. We’re sure some will be confused about some medium & small placements, but we do our best in this age of competitive equity playoff divisions. […]
Softball: All-State Underclass 2026
We begin the 43rd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Softball Teams with the honors for the top juniors and sophomores. This is just the third year that the juniors and sophomores have been selected separately. Before, all non-seniors were bunched together. A separate all-state freshman watch list will be coming at the end of the cycle....
Baseball/Softball Coach Milestones 2026
State record coaching lists for baseball and softball have now all been updated through the 2026 season and there were a number significant milestone wins and section titles that took place. For baseball, Lakewood’s Spud O’Neil wrapped up his career with 985 wins, the second-most in state history. We also had milestone wins for John […]
FINAL All-State Softball Noms (SoCal)
We’re going to begin picking the 43rd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Softball Teams in a matter days. First, we’re providing the updated lists of nominees from every CIF section. We already did the updated list in softball for Northern California. Now, here’s the same for SoCal, specifically the CIF San Diego, L.A. City and Southern...
Ms. Softball 2026: Ayla Tuua
Graduated senior leader of Sacramento Destiny Christian team that finished 31-0, won the CIF NorCal D1 title and was State Team of the Year caps a magical high school career by landing state’s longest-running individual honor. There was no mystery about the strength of Ayla Tuua’s candidacy to be state player of the year. She […]
