It’s been two seasons since Santa Ana Mater Dei’s Kevin Kiernan became the winningest coach in California girls basketball history. Up next will be 900 wins and perhaps 1,000 — counting wins he had in boys basketball earlier in his career. Go inside to see what career Kiernan began doing, what prominent prep sportswriter used […]
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Boys/Girls BB: More Section Finals
This isn’t a recap of all of them, but several of Friday’s CIF Sac-Joaquin Section title games and the showdown between state No. 2 Mater Dei and No. 4 Windward (Los Angeles) for the CIF Southern Section Open Division girls championship were witnessed by Cal-Hi Sports editors. Boys state No. 4 Sheldon (Sacramento) was nearly […]
NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings
While the teams in the CIF Southern Section Open Division were beating each other in what is arguably the toughest non-state championship playoff bracket in the nation, we still have to find out if the favorites will prevail in the new CIF North Coast Section Open Division. State top-ranked La Jolla Country Day still looks...
NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings
There is some movement in the top six of this week’s rankings thanks to Windward’s victory over previous No. 3 Long Beach Poly, but the top two stay the same as we head into the home stretch for league play and the beginning of league and section playoffs. From seven through 12, we also had...
Mater Dei girls win at Jamboree
The 20th annual West Coast Jamboree concluded in the Platinum Division on Monday night at College Park High in Pleasant Hill where it was a matchup between two of the state’s top five ranked teams. The most historical moment of the night, though, occurred in the third-place game when Archbishop Mitty of San Jose head […]
All-Decade Girls BB 2010s: Honors
We’ll have a separate post coming on Tuesday after all of the big tournament finals on Monday that will reveal the actual all-decade all-state girls basketball teams for the 2010s, but for this first announcement we’re taking care of the major awards: State Player of the Decade, State Coach of the Decade, State School of […]
State Coaching Records Updated
State record updating in all five of the major sports we cover at CalHiSports.com goes on all the time. As is our custom during the weeks we’re still wrapping up what happened during the most recent boys and girls basketball seasons, we’re now done with all of the state coaching record updates. Those actual lists […]
State Coach of Year: Alicia Komaki
It’s a first in the 47 years of the Cal-Hi Sports State Coach of the Year honor as a former player of a previous State Coach of the Year has now captured the honor as well. This year’s choice, Alicia Komaki, of 33-1 CIF Open Division state champion Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth, once played for […]
Girls BB State Team of Year 2019
Sierra Canyon goes atop the all-time list of State Teams of the Year that extends back to 1972 season. The Trailblazers also may still be able to get a mythical national title. Even if that doesn’t happen after all of the final rankings are out and all games played, we say they should consider claiming […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
As the funnel narrows to its slimmest of margins, the head to head results of the CIF regional playoffs don’t exactly coincide with the seedings or the rankings. The result is we are sticking with the formula we’ve used successfully for nearly 40-years of ranking girls basketball and the result is the top spots are...
