From attending the football practices his father coached and anxiously waiting this season for his own opportunity to put on the pads due to a pulled hamstring, Eli Dukes from Palma High of Salinas has built his career on competition, hard work and the support of his family. Dukes entered his senior season with 5,683 […]
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Preseason All-CCS Football Teams
This is the final one of these preseason teams in our annual series. It’s still preseason for a good many teams in the state since their seasons haven’t begun. Defending Open Division champion Archbishop Riordan has five players on our preseason All-CCS first team. That is not as many, though as last year’s D1 winners...
Girls BB: FINAL Division State Ranks
From a divisional standpoint, two of the final No. 1 teams — Centennial of Corona in D1 and Sierra Pacific in D2 — have moved up after winning CIF state title games over the previous No. 1 team. The other four final No. 1 teams — Ontario Christian (Open), El Dorado of Placentia (D3), Faith...
Boys BB All-State Nominees (NorCal)
This will be the 47th year of the annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams for boys basketball. We always begin with an initial list of nominees on our board for teams that will be chosen. This list covers the CIF sections in Northern California (including the Central Section). We welcome all input and additional nominations. We […]
All-State Football 2025: Juniors
The 48th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams roll on with the top honors for juniors. It’s an interesting group of QBs with two of the very best from the same Orange County-based league. We also have four players on first or second team from Tustin High (also Orange County), which is the same number...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
We begin with a look at a 121-game league losing streak on the boys side that was snapped last week in Livermore. We also have more details on the 25 steals for Westlake’s Olivia Elsokary in one game from before Christmas. This time we also have honor roll mentions for grid-hoop standouts like Luke Lemke...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
There a lot of changes within this group for this week due to the various top teams already playing each other in the first round of the CIF Southern Section D2 and D3 playoffs. Big movers include Vista Murrieta of Murrieta (up eight spots), Bishop Amat of La Puente (up 11 spots) and Edison of...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
CIF section records often can be determined thanks to our Cal-Hi Sports all-time state record lists because of the insistence many years ago by our founder that these lists be kept with as many names as possible. We had to check them this week for L.A. City Section rushing yards (single game), Sac-Joaquin Section rushing...
All-State Football 2024: Sophomores
Welcome to the first selections for the 47th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. These are the longest running all-state teams in California by a wide margin. We start as always with a look at those getting first, second and third team honors among sophomores. Perennial powerhouse St. John Bosco had a very young team...
State Football Players of the Week
As the section playoffs narrow the funnel of those that can be selected, there are still some rather incredible performances from last weekend that deserve major props. One of them will be good enough to go into the state record all-time list for single-game rushing. All of them helped their teams collect playoff wins. The […]
