Here’s our first look this season breaking down teams from around the state into medium and small divisions. The first No. 1 team slots go to Crean Lutheran of Irvine (medium) and Sonora (small). These will be weekly starting on Oct. 8 through the end of the regular season and then one week into the […]
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State Football Players of the Week
With the CIF North Coast Section and CIF Central Coast Section in action this past week for the first time this season we had one NorCal winner each from those two sections. Those two stops were in Lafayette and Soquel, while in Southern California we visited Orange, La Jolla and a stone’s throw away from […]
Preseason All-CCS Football Team
It’s a parade of Archbishop Riordan players on this squad (especially on offense), but St. Francis of Mountain View has the most on defense. Valley Christian linemen and three from Sacred Heart Cathedral also have cracked the lineup. The CCS is dominated by the West Catholic Athletic League, but some other players from schools like...
FINAL Divisional State FB Rankings
When the very first Cal-Hi Sports state football rankings were compiled in the late 1970s by founder Nelson Tennis, they were done in five divisions (Class AAAA, etc.). We don’t do these anymore during the season, but to keep the archives going so that we have a version of them for every season we have...
Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
It’s been a couple of weeks since we were able to do these rankings due to travels in Europe, but we’re back and will be ranking teams now for the rest of 2024 season. There were changes for medium schools based on teams that had to go up into the overall State TOP 50, but...
FINAL Medium/Small School Rankings
As previously announced, the final top spots in these rankings went to La Serna of Whittier and Escalon. Biggest risers at the end for medium are Central Valley Christian, Tustin, Acalanes, Yorba Linda and Soquel. For small schools, Woodland Christian (15-0) jumps five spots, but Hughson came up even more. Rio Hondo Prep also goes...
NEW All-State FB Noms (NorCal)
This is the updated, new list of nominees for the 43rd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. These are the lists we’ll start with for players from the CIF Central Coast, CIF North Coast, SF-Oakland, CIF Northern & CIF Sac-Joaquin Sections. It’s still not too late to nominate someone who is not listed. It’s only...
CIF Scholar-Athletes of the Year 2019
Grace Bailey from Soquel High School and Parker Boswell from El Diamante High School (Visalia) were selected Monday as the 2019 CIF Scholar-Athletes of the Year. Since 1982, the scholarship award identifies student-athletes who excel in the classroom, athletics, and are strong contributors to their schools and communities.
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Just like we did during the football season, we are going to do our best to spread around these honors as much as possible with one boy and one girl chosen from each region. This week’s best are from Las Flores, Porterville, Pacific Palisades and Soquel.



