State’s second winningest girls hoops coach on the all-time list announced on Monday she will be joining the winningest head coach on the sidelines starting this season. We hope you enjoy this free post on CalHiSports.com. The first of our annual Girls of Summer posts was for free, but the rest of them plus the […]
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Girls BB: More State Coaches of Year
Congratulations to all of the 2023-24 Cal-Hi Sports State Coaches of the year for girls basketball. These are the ones for each of the five state divisions, although we do combine the Open and Division I.
Girls BB Saturday CIF State Finals
State No. 2 Etiwanda puts itself into the all-time conversation with a one-sided win over previously unbeaten national No. 1 Archbishop Mitty in the CIF Open Division state championship. It is also a second straight Open Division title for the Eagles. Other big winners at the Golden 1 Center were Harvard-Westlake of Studio City (Girls […]
2022 Boys/Girls BB Coaching Updates
With all of our state honors for the 2021-22 basketball season complete, the next step for us is to begin doing state record updates in all categories. We begin with new lists of the all-time state coaching leaders for both boys and girls. For boys, Mike LeDuc from Damien of La Verne getting to 1,000 […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. For the girls, congrats are in order for Harvard-Westlake head coach Melissa Hearlihy for becoming just the second in state history to win 800 career games. We also have girls with 43 pts & 30 rebounds in one game and...
Ms. BB Candidate: Crazy for Kiki
This is one of two inside looks at the leading seniors from the Class of 2021 who would have to be the top senior contenders to be Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year. They will be teammates soon at Stanford, which will be playing in the Final Four on Friday in San Antonio. Go […]
NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings
Despite our wholehearted support of the state CIF and the difficulty of seeding so many teams in so many divisions with competitive equity looking over the shoulders of the seeding committees, we can’t help but think a different format may be needed for the Open Division going forward. Are five or six teams (and in...
NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings
We had a hunch there could be some movement with all the MLK weekend events and that’s exactly what has happened with the biggest change coming at the top of the heap and with four of the five top teams playing musical chairs. This past week also saw two coaches in the top five reach...
Girls BB: New No. 1 For Coach K
Santa Ana Mater Dei’s Kevin Kiernan notches the 762nd win of his girls basketball coaching career Wednesday night at tourney opener in San Diego, which sets new state record. By luck, we happened to have someone there who could provide details about the historical milestone. We also have updated our exclusive all-time state coaching record […]
Record Updates: Basketball Coaching
In between our announcement of the 2018 State Coach of the Year for girls basketball (which came on Friday) and the 2018 State Coach of the Year for boys basketball (coming Monday), we have updated all of the state coaching records in our exclusive files that include some of the best ever for both genders. […]
