Two of these honorees — Ayla Tuua for juniors and Coral Williams for sophomores — also were both close to being the Ms. Softball State Player of the Year. The freshman winner is another one coming up from the Inland Empire while the medium schools and small schools top honors are going to the Northern […]
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State Coach of Year: Sean Erickson
Back in January, a 30-day break from social media helped the Del Oro of Loomis softball team come together for the 2025 season. The school’s longtime head coach, Sean Erickson, is now the 2025 State Coach of the Year after the Golden Eagles went 31-2 and won the CIF NorCal D1 championship. FOR THIS YEAR’S […]
More State Softball Coaches of the Year
In addition to overall State Coach of the Year Sean Erickson from Del Oro of Loomis, we have additional state coaching honors for the 2025 season going to Bill Hunyady of San Diego Point Loma (medium schools) and Michelle Felkins of Biggs (small schools).
FINAL State Softball TOP 40 Rankings
As is our custom, we expand the final rankings at the end of the season and unlike a computer we explain why each move is made. These also are the rankings that go into our archives that include final rankings in California high school softball for more than 40 years. Big moves had to be...
FINAL State Softball Division Rankings
We only had one No. 1 team from the next-to-last division state rankings that lost and had to drop. There are two new No. 2 teams — Hillsdale of San Mateo in D3 and Orcutt Academy in D5 — and there were others that were given solid bumps for the final rankings. That list includes...
All-State Softball Nominees (SoCal)
With the players from CIF sections in Northern California already listed, here’s the list of nominees so far for the 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams in softball from Southern California. These are ones from the CIF L.A. City, San Diego & Southern Sections. We encourage all coaches, parents and others to send us info...
Norco: State Softball Team of Year
For the third time since 2012, the Norco High softball team has been officially added to the all-time list of State Teams of the Year that extends back to 1974. The Cougars didn’t play in the CIF regional championships, but already had put together a strong enough resume to finish No. 1 after winning the […]
More Softball State Teams of Year
State Team of the Year honors for the 2025 softball season also are going out for the four other CIF based playoff divisions. We have done teams of the year in five divisions for many years and these mythical honors considered all teams that played in CIF section playoffs (including those that opted out of […]
All-State Softball Nominees (NorCal)
Apologies for the delay in getting out the softball all-state nominees, but we are now getting started for the process to honor the 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Softball Teams. These are top players who had strong seasons this year from the CIF Central Coast, Central, North Coast, SF/Oakland, Northern and Sac-Joaquin Sections. We encourage […]
State Rankings By Divisions (Part 2)
Since there were first round CIF regional playoff games in baseball and softball that were halted or not played on Tuesday due to lighting and thunderstorms in Southern California, we had to do the first run-through of our state rankings by divisions in two parts. This is Part 2 and it’s for D1 softball, D2 […]
