With plenty of time to spare before first games are played in the 2025 football season, we have everything updated and ready to go in our exclusive Cal-Hi Sports state records in all team categories. As a fun way to connect these record updates with the various all-area, all-section and/or all-county preseason teams that are […]
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More State Girls Athletes of Year
To go with overall honoree Teagan O’Dell, we have others selected as the best among girls athletes for juniors, sophomores, freshmen and those from divisions (D1, D2, D3, D4 and D5) for the 2024-25 school year. Last year’s top honoree, Ventura’s Sadie Engelhardt, is picked again, this time for D2. We also have a flag […]
Softball: All-State Underclass 2025
It’s finally time to begin getting out the 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Softball Teams. We start with a look at the best of the best for juniors and sophomores (now done separately for the second year). We have a first and second team all-state for juniors and first team for sophomores. A separate all-state...
Class of 27 FB: DBs At Top of Hot 100
It could be argued that the three players who would have been at the top of the state’s Class of 2027 to start the upcoming football season are three who reclassed to the Class of 2026. That doesn’t mean that the ones now near the top, led by Gardena Serra DB Duvay Williams, are not...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
We begin with another look at boys state career scoring leaders as junior Jason Crowe Jr. of Inglewood has his season end in a tough loss in the CIF Southern Section playoffs. New record holder Tounde Yessofou still likely has three to four games left. We also have a new state freshman record for three-pointers...
Raul Lara: State Football Coach of Year
First-year head coaches hardly ever get consideration for this honor, but Mater Dei’s Raul Lara isn’t just any first-year head coach. He joined the Monarchs after many years coaching at other schools, including a run of 13 seasons at Long Beach Poly in which he was almost State Coach of the Year before. Lara received […]
Girls BB Records Ready for 2024-25
All of the Cal-Hi Sports state records in girls basketball are updated and ready to go before teams begin playing games later this month to start the 2024-25 season. Here’s a recap of the new additions, led by Class of 2027 phenom Kaleena Smith of Ontario Christian, and a look at those schools moving up […]
Tough Night For Being 10-0
We were not able to get out to a Friday night game this week, and with many of the state’s top-ranked teams on first round section playoff byes, our focus became the plight of teams that were 10-0 in the regular season that did play in the CIF Southern Section, CIF L.A. City Section and...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
There are two new teams in this week’s breakdowns of the state’s top 50 teams, one of them that got in for beating a previously ranked team and the other going in based on previous that was on a bye last Friday. Teams that are showing with modest gains this week include St. Mary’s of...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
Bakersfield has started 4-0 and has moved back to within two wins of Long Beach Poly’s all-time state leading win total. Ramona of Riverside also now has longest win streak in the state after Strathmore falls. For stat stars, Drew Washington of San Pedro Mary Star will go into the state records for catching five...
