With all of our players and coaches of the year for boys and girls basketball now out, next up will be for us to finalize all of our nominees for all of our various girls all-state teams. The final boys list already was completed. Here’s the girls. We’ll now start picking all of the all-state...
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Ms. Basketball 2026: Kaleena Smith
Choosing a junior for the state’s longest-running and perhaps most prestigious individual honor can create some problems, but it was no problem at all that Ontario Christian’s very special point guard who averaged 31.5 ppg for the CIF Open Division state champions has to be Ms. Basketball for 2026. Kaleena will now look to become […]
More Girls BB Players of the Year
In addition to Ms. Basketball, Ontario Christian grabs another state player of the year honor with Tati Griffin among the sophomores leading the way. The toughest selection by far was for seniors, which had to be done this year with a junior in the overall top spot. For the CIF divisional winners, presented by new […]
State Coach of Year: Marlon Wells
For the third time in six years, the state’s most prestigious and long-running girls basketball coaching honor goes to someone from the Inland Empire. But Rancho Christian’s Marlon Wells hasn’t won that many of his more than 600 career wins at the school located in Temecula. He’s gained success at two schools in the CIF […]
Girls BB: More State Coaches of Year
Congratulations to all of the 2025-26 Cal-Hi Sports State Coaches of the year for girls basketball. Presented by our partners from CalGamesWanted.com, these are the ones for each of the five CIF state divisions. The overall State Coach of the Year also is one of the five. Of the other four honorees, two are from […]
Girls BB: FINAL Division State Ranks
From a divisional standpoint, two of the final No. 1 teams — Centennial of Corona in D1 and Sierra Pacific in D2 — have moved up after winning CIF state title games over the previous No. 1 team. The other four final No. 1 teams — Ontario Christian (Open), El Dorado of Placentia (D3), Faith...
Girls BB All-State Nominees (SoCal)
We still have our first draft list of all-state girls hoops nominees to get out into the space. This list covers the CIF sections in Southern California (not including the Central Section). This will be the 47th year of the annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams for girls basketball. Yes, we started doing the girls with […]
Sopak leaves Carondelet for UNR
Last season’s State Coach of the Year in girls basketball is going to take the plunge into college coaching as Carondelet of Concord’s Kelly Sopak (also the former head coach at Miramonte of Orinda when Sabrina Ionescu was there) is going to take over the program at the University of Nevada. It is a bit […]
