For our first week of basketball for this longtime feature, we hit big-time schools for one of our boys and girls honorees and then much smaller schools for the other two. We also have found state record book entries at our stop in San Jose and in the small CIF Northern Section town of Arbuckle. […]
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Combined State Coaching Records
Here’s a salute to the greatest high school coaches in California history. We’re doing it by compiling updated state records in numerous combined coaching categories, such as most CIF state team titles, most CIF section team titles, most all-time varsity coaching wins and most varsity head coaching seasons. All-time leaders in those categories are Don […]
40 Greatest Baseball Teams (25-40)
This group features the most newcomers since we have expanded by 10 teams since the last time this feature was done. Last year’s team at Cypress is included along with two other very recent State Teams of the Year. Based on additional research, we also have added squads from 2013, 1995, 1986 and 1962 (all...
State Athlete of Year: Sarah Willis
Even though her senior season in softball was cut way short by the Coronavirus pandemic, Norco’s Sarah Willis did more than enough in her two sports of softball and basketball to earn overall girls state athlete of the year honors. She’s the first from the Inland Empire to be named in nearly 30 years and […]
Softball: All-Time 30 Greatest Teams (1)
Here’s an updated and expanded version of our ranking of the all-time greatest teams in California high school softball history. This one includes two teams from last season placed fairly high — one in the top five and the other in the top 15. We also have added three more teams from the first 25...
Torkelson: State’s Latest No. 1 MLB Pick
Graduate from Casa Grande of Petaluma who was at Arizona State named as the No. 1 pick in this year’s MLB Draft on Wednesday by the Detroit Tigers. He’s the seventh No. 1 selection in the MLB Draft from a California high school in the last 12 years and he goes at the top one […]
State’s All-Time NBA 1st Round Picks
At some point there will be an NBA Draft this summer and there’s growing consensus that two of the very top choices will be former Chino Hills High teammates Onyeka Okongwu and LaMelo Ball. As a prelude to that draft and to match a list we did a few weeks ago that featured every first-round...
All-State Girls BB: 2nd & 3rd Team
Here’s where to go to check out all of the writeups for those who are second team overall and third team overall on the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Girls Basketball Teams. The second team features two players from NorCal Open Division champion Archbishop Mitty, various area & region players of the year and we...