This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. More than lists and numbers, we can provide historical context since we’ve maintained state records in California for more than 40 years. We begin this week with softball player Cynthia Arellano of San Jose Silver Creek tying a state record...
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All Indian Nicknames May Be Prohibited
As Hart High of Newhall voted this week to change next year to Hawks, other schools in the state still using Indians’ nicknames may have to change by 2026 due to a new assembly bill published this week and under review. Apaches, Braves, Chiefs and Comanches are also specifically mentioned in the new version of […]
Hitting Every School In Our County
San Joaquin County is part of the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section and is big enough to have two CIF state football title teams from last season. It’s also small enough so that we attempted to drive by, get some photos and check out what’s going on at every school in that county during a single day. […]
All-State FB 2019: Small Schools
League rivals Ripon and Escalon both won CIF state titles and in the highest divisions for small schools this season. It shouldn’t be a surprise then that the Indians and Cougars both lead the way with four honorees for this year’s Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams for schools in our small schools classification. These teams also […]
FINAL State Ranks By Five Divisions
We’re still not done with final state football rankings. Here are the No. 1 teams for the 2019 season according to our traditional five-division state breakdowns: St. John Bosco (D1), Clayton Valley of Concord (D2), Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa (D3), Ripon (D4) and Caruthers (D5). The No. 1 choice for D5 was the most...
More State Football Coaches of Year
Here are the honorees from among those schools considered medium or small schools for the 2019 season. Our medium schools honoree directed one of the highest scoring teams in state history. Our small schools honoree also did something as a player in the 1980s that only a handful of players from Northern California over the […]
FINAL Medium/Small School Ranks
We’ve already announced Clayton Valley of Concord (medium) and Ripon (small) as the final No. 1 teams in these classifications. Here are the final top 15 teams for each plus five more expanded teams in order and a few more added on as honorable mention. Medium school teams moving up at the end include Camarillo...
State Football Teams of the Year
It’s a little different this year since previously we just coronated the CIF Open Division state champion. We still have that for St. John Bosco, which is State Team of the Year for the third time, but we also are adding three more that are not simple coronations but in which two of the three […]
More CIF State Football Crownings
Here’s our annual one-stop home for every CIF state football title game played for the 2019 season. Check here for links to our Friday/Saturday coverage of games played at Cerritos College. We also have recaps for all of the games played elsewhere in the state up to Crescent City in the far north. We also […]
NEW Medium/Small School FB Ranks
We have it all broken down with which teams will end No. 1 in the state for these categories depending on what happens in this week’s CIF state championships. Heading into those games, sitting in the No. 1 positions are Aquinas of San Bernardino (medium) and Ripon (small). Newcomers this week are Oxnard and Palos...
