Here’s the updated, edited list of nominees for the 44th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams from the CIF Central Coast, Central, North Coast, SF/Oakland, Northern and Sac-Joaquin Sections. Thanks to everyone who sent in nominations and info in support of those already on the list from the previous version of these lists. It’s still...
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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 […]
CaliLive 26 in NorCal: SoCal teams win
While a lot of top level programs from Southern California skipped out on this year’s boys basketball CaliLive event held in Northern California last weekend for a competitive event set up in Las Vegas, there were still enough top squads from the region who were there at venues in the Rocklin community and several of...
Mr. Baseball 2026: Jared Grindlinger
Leading Huntington Beach to the CIF SoCal D1 regional championship and ranking as the top two-way player in the nation for the upcoming MLB Draft helps last year’s State Sophomore of the Year gain the highest overall state honor for this season. It was not an easy decision, but Jared has become the second ever […]
More Baseball State Players of the Year
Just like with Mr. Baseball, the State Junior of the Year honor also is claimed by a player who has reclassified and in the case of Norco’s Jordan Ayala he reclassified into the same class as a teammate who perhaps would have been Junior of the Year if he was still a sophomore. Highly ranked […]
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 […]
State Coach of the Year: Gary Parcell
The 34th season for longtime Norco High baseball coach Gary Parcell didn’t end with a CIF Southern Section D1 title, but reaching the final in the toughest playoff bracket in the nation was enough for him to land top California coaching honors for the 2026 season. He’s just the second-ever State Coach of the Year […]
MLB Draft Booms & Busts
With annual selection of high school players for the MLB Draft now proposed to be stopped by the league itself, we thought about all of the high schoolers from California who’ve been selected in the first round since the draft began in 1965. Here’s a ranking of the top 12 of those players plus a...
