Category Archives: State Record Book
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
We begin with a look at a 121-game league losing streak on the boys side that was snapped last week in Livermore. We also have more details on the 25 steals for Westlake’s Olivia Elsokary in one game from before Christmas. This time we also have honor roll mentions for grid-hoop standouts like Luke Lemke...
Harvey Kitani: Record Updates
Year-by-year results kept by Cal-Hi Sports via the historian Bruce McIntosh, and records kept by the coach himself, shows current San Pedro Rolling Hills Prep and former L.A. Fairfax mentor Harvey Kitani seven wins short of becoming the third coach in state history with 1,000 career wins (counting forfeits/defaults). Below is a tale of the […]
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
This is a combination of highlights mostly from tournaments that ended before Christmas plus others that just ended earlier this week before New Year’s Eve. We begin with the 68-point outing by Santa Fe Springs St. Paul’s Will Bryson III. It’s a record for large schools in the San Gabriel Valley. Other boys include a...
Tony Franks: State FB Coach of Year
St. Mary’s of Stockton program leader for 27 years had a team in 2025 that knew how to come from behind to win playoff games and capped it off with its first CIF state title. He’s the first State Coach of the Year from Stockton since 1943 and he’s the sixth from the CIF Sac-Joaquin […]
More State Football Coaches of Year
La Habra’s Frank Mazzotta captured his eighth CIFSS title to tie some legends on an Orange County all-time list and now has been named the state medium schools honoree. For small schools, Rio Hondo Prep’s Mark Carson gets the nod for winning three straight CIFSS titles despite the team having to play in higher and […]
2025 Football Coaching Milestones
For this year, we are going to compile the annual feature on football coaching highlights before we announce the annual state coaches of the year instead of afterwards. We also produce this feature after all of our state coaching record lists have been updated. We’re now getting close to 150 who have won 200 games […]
Santa Margarita State Team of Year 2025
While the Mater Dei-St. John Bosco era of dominance in California has ended at nine years, the Trinity League that those two teams play in has just produced a different parochial school to rule at the top of the state for another season. And the way that Santa Margarita played on both sides of the […]
More State FB Teams of Year
Centennial earns top public school recognition for the third straight year. Bakersfield Christian may have lost in D2-AA state final, but it is medium schools and did enough in its last two games to be Medium Schools and D2 State Team of the Year. For small schools and D4, as expected, it’s 15-0 Sonora. We […]
