To go with overall honoree Wes Burford of Oakdale, others have been honored this week as the best among boys athletes for juniors, sophomores, freshmen and those from divisions (D1, D2, D3, D4 and D5) for the 2025-26 school year. For the full story on our 2025-26 Boys State Athlete of the Year, CLICK HERE. […]
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State School of Year: Santa Margarita
It’s a different mix of highly successful sports, but the Eagles have repeated as the Cal-Hi Sports State School of the Year for the 2025-26 school year. They’ve also now made it three State School of the Year honors in the last four years. It was not an easy selection since two schools — Mater […]
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More State Schools of the Year
For boys sports only, St. John Bosco of Bellflower tops the group with baseball, wrestling, football and boys basketball success. For the girls, overall winner Santa Margarita had to be the winner in that category this time as well. Other schools gaining overall state sports excellence honors for 2025-26 are San Ramon Valley of Danville […]
Cal-Hi Sports Changes For 2026-27
This isn’t a retirement announcement and we’re looking forward to our 50th year of covering California high school sports in the 2028-29 school year, but as a mostly one-person operation over the past 10 to 15 years there are going to some changes to how things are going to be covered and posted on this […]
Teagan O’Dell: State Athlete of Year
Record-breaking, multi-event swimmer Teagan O’Dell from Santa Margarita takes the honor of being the top overall athlete on the girls side for the 2024-25 school year. There have been single-sport swimmers selected for this honor in the past, but Teagan is the first one from Orange County since multi-gold medal winner Janet Evans in 1989. […]
McKay Madsen: State Athlete of Year
Clovis North of Fresno’s McKay Madsen completed one of the most rare double-doubles in CIF state track history after enjoying an all-state first team season at running back/linebacker. This year’s State Athlete of the Year for the boys also is a very cool one since he was named for a previous winner. For a look […]
SJS Hall of Fame Inducts Nine
The CIF Sac-Joaquin Section inducted nine individuals on Sunday night at the Kimpton Sawyer Hotel in Sacramento to maintain a tradition of doing a ceremony every other year that began in 2010. Athletes going in were former NFL receiver Austin Collie, former Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year Jacki Gemelos and former Ms. Softball […]
Ryder Dodd: State Athlete of Year
The school year for 2024-25 has begun in many places, but the final honor for the 2023-24 school year just had to wait until the final day of the Paris Olympics since we knew our winner for the Class of 2024 was still playing for the USA national men’s water polo team. The Americans, with […]
More State Boys Athletes of Year
To go with overall honoree Ryder Dodd, there are others featured as the best among boys athletes for juniors, sophomores, freshmen and those from divisions (D1, D2, D3, D4 and D5) for the 2023-24 school year. Football-track combo athletes have taken it in four of the categories outside of D1 and seniors, but there is […]
Sadie Engelhardt: State Athlete of Year
Still with a year to go at Ventura High, she’s become a state and national sensation with her record-breaking running in cross country and track. Engelhardt now becomes only the fourth highest honored girls athlete in California from Ventura County in 100 years. The last one just won a gold medal at the Paris Olympics. […]
