We’re going to begin picking the 43rd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Softball Teams in a matter days. First, we’re providing the updated lists of nominees from every CIF section. We already did the updated list in softball for Northern California. Now, here’s the same for SoCal, specifically the CIF San Diego, L.A. City and Southern...
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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 […]
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 […]
More State Softball Coaches of Year
In addition to overall State Coach of the Year Katie Stith from JSerra, we have additional state coaching honors for the 2026 season going to Toby Thompson from Las Plumas of Oroville (medium schools) and Ramon Lara of Woodlake (small schools).
All-State Softball Nominees (SoCal)
It’s been since May 29 when we posted these same lists for Northern California, but we were not able to get the SoCal version completed until the season ended, which for us was Saturday, June 6 and then we had state teams of the year and final state rankings to get done first. Here’s the […]
Softball: FINAL Ranks By Divisions
All five of the No. 1 teams have already been announced, but three of them were not No. 1 in these divisions at the start of the CIF regional playoffs. A few of the CIF regional winners also made giant moves at the end, including Hanford West in D3 and Escalon in D4. We have...
FINAL Softball State TOP 40 Rankings
The first changes for these expanded, final rankings compared to the previous State TOP 25 start at No. 6 with La Habra moving up and staying in front of the Murrieta Mesa and Orange Lutheran teams it beat in the CIFSS D1 playoffs. CIF NorCal D1 runner-up Whitney of Rocklin also moves up five spots...
Destiny Christian: State Team of Year
Everything had to fall into place for the Destiny Christian of Sacramento softball team to be able to finish in the rarified air of being an undefeated State Team of the Year. But that’s what happened plus there was a CIF NorCal D1 championship that had to be won, which was completed last Saturday with […]
