Author Archives: CalHiSports.com Staff
Mr. Basketball/Ms. Basketball Finalists
The Cal-Hi Sports State Players of the Year honors have been selected for more than 40 years and the winners go onto all-time state lists that go back for more than 120 years. Here are the finalists for this year’s boys & girls top honors (four boys & six girls). Note: We hope you enjoy […]
Boys & Girls BB: CIF Friday Finals
The theme of the CIF state championships in Division 1 on Friday at the Golden Center for both boys & girls was about longtime successful coaches winning their first state crowns. The Damien of La Verne boys also broke a streak of five straight wins for Northern California teams and showed the gap between the […]
CIF Champs in National Title Events?
The creation today of the State Champions Invitational, a boys and girls basketball tournament for selected championship teams, was announced by Skokie, Ill.-based Paragon Marketing Group. The inaugural event will take place April 7-9 in Florida. The event is a spin-off of GEICO Nationals, an end-of-season hoops tournament which combined both eligible state champions and highly-ranked independent […]
CA Schools With Most NBA Players
There’s still less than 500 players ever from California high schools to play in the NBA, which shows how hard it is to do it, but we have updated this list through the 2021-22 season so far. With nine players, Mater Dei of Santa Ana still has the most who have logged NBA minutes, but...
Boys State Athletes of the Year
For this final boys sports honor roll for the 2020-21 school year, the headline announcement centers on a track-football standout who already has begun the 2021-22 school year with a bang. Meet Domani Jackson from Mater Dei of Santa Ana, who has been named State Athlete of the Year for his junior year accomplishments. His […]
Boys BB: Divisional All-State 2021
Despite the extreme circumstances of a much later than usual 2021 boys basketball season in the state, we have selected 144 players for our annual all-state teams according to five divisions. This is the 42nd straight year of Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams. Several schools that won CIF SoCal regional titles have more than one player […]
Boys BB: All-State Underclass 2021
It’s obviously a strange time compared to every other season, but we begin releasing the 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Boys Basketball Teams with a look at the best of the best among juniors, sophomores and freshmen. State Team of the Year Centennial of Corona had four sophomore starters and all four have landed either...
More Girls BB State Players of Year
Two of these honorees were among those written up after the 2020 season as Isuneh “Ice” Brady of San Diego Cathedral Catholic and Jazmine Soto of Strathmore were given the accolades for sophomores and for CIF Division V, respectively. Brady is now on top for juniors while Soto has repeated for her division. Both the […]
More State Football Coaches of Year
Here are the honorees from among those schools considered medium or small schools for the 2020-21 season. Our medium schools honoree has had the No. 1 draft pick in the NFL plus many highly-ranked teams. Our small schools honoree is in his 25th year at his school (13th as head coach) with a 133-29 record. […]
