The era of Mater Dei and St. John Bosco dominating the state ended last season, but that’s only because another Trinity League team stepped up to win the CIF Open Division state title. The state still looks like it will be led again by the top six to seven teams in the CIF Southern Section, […]
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Preseason State 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Here’s the place to go to find our breakdowns of the teams we’re going with that also are inside our preseason state rankings to begin the 2026 football season. We start out with the final team from the Trinity League, we have the CIF D2-AA state champs from last season and we have a team […]
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. […]
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...
More State Boys Athletes of Year
To go with overall honoree Wes Burford of Oakdale, others have been honored this week as the best among boys athletes for juniors, sophomores, freshmen and those from divisions (D1, D2, D3, D4 and D5) for the 2025-26 school year. For the full story on our 2025-26 Boys State Athlete of the Year, CLICK HERE. […]
Single Game State FB Record Returnees
We’ve also begun to update all of our exclusive state football record files prior to the start of the 2026 season. Here’s a group of players coming back for this season who already have had their names added to our all-time lists in various single-game categories. We have maintained state football records in California for […]
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...
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...
