If these honors were decided after the regular season (like the NFL, NBA & MLB), then every single one of the winners would be different. They are not in high school, however, since the playoffs are so important. We have additional honorees for juniors, sophs and frosh plus large schools and small schools. A large […]
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State Coach of Year: Jim Bennet
Winning the CIF SoCal D1 championship just two weeks after winning his 400th career game is all that’s needed for Poway’s Jim Bennet to earn State Coach of the Year honors for the 2023 season. Despite many successful seasons from 2003 to 2019, Bennet had to guide the program to major success after the COVID […]
NEW Softball State TOP 25 Rankings
St. Francis of Mountain View goes back to No. 1 while Norco moves up to No. 2 with the CIF Southern Section D1 final coming up Friday vs new No. 7 Pacifica of Garden Grove. Central of Fresno also gains 12 spots after its big win over previous No. 1 Clovis North. This week’s newcomers...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
This week is one in which two criteria for this feature have been met. First, we are looking for diamonds in the rough type players that don’t always get a lot of props outside their local communities, and the second thing we do is track additions to the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, and this […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. We still have some from basketball since one of the winningest head coaches ever has retired and we begin to think about where Ontario Christian’s Chloe Briggs will finish on the all-time career scoring list with one year to go....
Girls BB: Trousdale Joins 700 Club
Poway girls basketball coach Jay Trousdale has become just the sixth coach to reach 700 career wins. When that happened depends on whether forfeit wins are counted, but it’s definitely happened since his team this year has started 6-0 and he only needed three wins this season (with forfeits not counted) for the magic number. […]
Girls BB All-State Nominations Part 1
Here’s the girls version of our first run-through of nominees on our board to get us going toward eventual selection for the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams for girls basketball. These Class of 2020 seniors really deserve the recognition in light of things they may be missing in coming weeks due to the Coronavirus […]
Preseason State Baseball Top 25
A few games have already started, but for the 2020 season in California it’s going to start where it left off with De La Salle of Concord in the No. 1 position. The Spartans will have a 28-game win streak heading into their first game and have plenty of returning top players to earn the […]
All-State Softball: 2nd & 3rd Teams
The 37th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams selections for softball concludes with 30 players named second team overall and nearly 40 more who are third team. Any player from any school regardless of class or school size can be on second team. The third team, however, is only for seniors and only for large schools....
NEW Baseball State Top 25 Rankings
Thunderstorms and rain throughout Northern California cause a disruption in section playoffs (some games rescheduled to Monday), but we decided to stay on our usual Monday schedule of doing a State Top 25 update. This will be the next-to-last rankings of the season since we will wait until all games in the state are done...
