Category Archives: softball
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 […]
More Softball Players of the Year
One of these honorees — Dailynn Battee of Etiwanda for the sophomores — is a winner in her class for the second year. We have a new winner compared to last season for the juniors while our freshman honoree is from the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section. This year’s medium schools and small schools winners are from […]
FINAL All-State Softball Noms (NorCal)
The 43rd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Softball Teams will be selected after all of our state players of the year are announced in both softball and baseball and after all final all-state nominations lists are posted. Here is an updated list of nominees who had strong seasons this year from the CIF Central Coast, Central,...
State Coach of the Year: Katie Stith
Daughter of legendary travel ball coach Mike Stith of OC Batbusters fame has been the head coach at JSerra of San Juan Capistrano for eight years and now gains the highest California high school coaching honor. Her team has been setting school records the past two seasons, including a victory over Norco in this year’s […]
