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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...

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Wes Burford: State Athlete of Year

Oakdale’s Wes Burford topped them all for the 2025-26 school year for breaking CIF Sac-Joaquin Section rushing records in football, for going all the way to a CIF state final in his weight class in wrestling and for shining as a hurdler in track. The Air Force Academy cadet is the first three-sport winner of […]

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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 […]

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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...

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Preseason All-Sac-Joaquin Sec Team

Folsom may be the big favorite to win another SJS D1 title and has five players on this 30-man squad, but Grant of Sacramento also had to have five and may have seven to eight D1 bound players by the time the season is over. Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills (beat Grant in the...

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2025-26 Grid-Hoop All-State Team

This year’s Grid-Hoop All-State Team is a big one for us as it marks 40 years in which we’ve been doing these honors. The idea always has been to take a special look at those best football-basketball combo athletes, some of them who also shine in a third sport. Leading the 15-man group of top […]

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More 2025-26 Grid-Hoopers We Loved

In addition to the first 15 all-state grid-hoop athletes announced this week, there were many others uncovered in our research that we found who embodied the best of grid-hoop success. We will have two more posts with honors for the 205-26 school year, which will be our State Athletes of the Year. Several of those...

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CIF champs add Lions All-Star honors

Two players who were key players on teams that won CIF state football titles last December — Mason Eagel from St. Mary’s of Stockton and Cash Byington of Sonora — led the North team to a big win over the South in Saturday’s 50th Lions All-Star Football Game played in Tracy. There also was a […]

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Lions All-Star FB Hits 50th Year

The Stockton-Modesto area local all-star football game, which we provide support for as a way of giving back to the community in which we live, will be celebrating its 50th year on Saturday night at Wayne Schneider Stadium in Tracy. And this year, for the first time, girls flag football all-stars will get to play […]

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NFL Draft: Mater Dei’s Bailey Goes No. 2

One year after Servite of Anaheim had teammates get picked inside the top eight in the first round of the NFL Draft, Trinity League rival Mater Dei of Santa Ana sees one of its own go at No. 2 in the 2026 draft. Rush end David Bailey also was on the same team as a […]

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