Palisades junior QB Jack Thomas (left) passed for 3,369 yards and 46 TDs this season for the Dolphins. We were sorry to hear according to the Los Angeles Times that he and his family were among the many that lost their home in the Palisades fire earlier this week. At right is another junior QB to watch, Lincoln Adame of Bakersfield Christian. He helped team win the CIF Central Section D2 title and he passed for 2,772 yards and 24 scores. Photos: X.com & Bakersfield Christian Athletics / MaxPreps.com.
We continue toward selection of the players for the 47th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state football teams by updating lists of nominees based on input received from the first lists. More info also has come in from other sources. These players are all from the CIF Central, L.A. City & San Diego Section. Final nominees from NorCal sections have already been done and all of the CIF Southern Section will be in another. It’s still not too late to get in a nomination.
FOR THE FIRST FREE LIST OF CENTRAL-LA CITY-SAN DIEGO NOMINEES, CLICK HERE.
FOR FINAL ALL-STATE NOMINEES FROM NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, CLICK HERE.
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Please send any nomination with each athlete’s height, weight, position, year in school, significant statistics. Comparing a player not on the board yet to one who already is also can be very important toward eventual selection. Limit each nomination to one page please. Send to: markjtennis@gmail.com or text/call (209) 608-1317. Don’t assume we know all there is to know about a player on the list, either. Send us info to make sure all pertinent information is turned in and placed into our files.
All-State teams will be selected separately for sophomores and juniors. There also is an all-state honor roll for freshmen, but it’s not a team. Before the all-state first team overall, second team overall and third team is selected, there also will be separate teams for medium schools and small schools. All of these teams over the years are available to scan at any time for our Gold Club members. These now go back for more than 70 years. CLICK HERE.
Each team is comprised of 30 players — 11 on offense with a kicker and 11 on defense with a punter plus six that we call multi-purpose (allows QBs with rushing yards & those with offense & defense stats to get on). These are not recruiting lists (high school stats are considered) but college commitments are checked and of course can make a difference. For the nomination lists, injuries for a player listed after last season or a transfer can easily be missed. Those will be caught later on in the process or can be fixed for our updated, final list of nominees.
All-State Football patches will again be handled this year by our friends at BillyTees.com. For more information about Cal-Hi Sports merchandise at BillyTees.com, CLICK HERE. The patches from this year are in and recent years are still available now.
Special thanks for the work done on these nomination lists to Northern California correspondent Daniel Poulter. He’s a great follow on Twitter. Check him out at @DanielJPoulter.
