Author Archives: Erik Boal
More State Boys Athletes of Year
To go with overall honoree Ryder Dodd, there are others featured as the best among boys athletes for juniors, sophomores, freshmen and those from divisions (D1, D2, D3, D4 and D5) for the 2023-24 school year. Football-track combo athletes have taken it in four of the categories outside of D1 and seniors, but there is […]
Sadie Engelhardt: State Athlete of Year
Still with a year to go at Ventura High, she’s become a state and national sensation with her record-breaking running in cross country and track. Engelhardt now becomes only the fourth highest honored girls athlete in California from Ventura County in 100 years. The last one just won a gold medal at the Paris Olympics. […]
Nike TOC Title Goes To Mitty
Girls from San Jose win the elite division in nation’s most prestigious tournament over the defending champion, the team they lost to in the quarterfinals last year, and now in line to take over No. 1 national ranking. Sophomore McKenna Woliczko named MVP. Ontario Christian also gets win over Mater Dei in top division. Windward […]
Rodrick Pleasant: State Athlete of Year
This one is a no-brainer on many levels. Rodrick not only is moving up from being the State Sophomore and State Junior Athlete of the Year, but he was arguably even better than expected in football and track as a senior. He also joins an impressive list of State Athletes of the Year from the […]
Nike TOC wrap: LJCD falls in final
State’s No. 3 girls team can’t survive second surge vs New York’s Long Island Lutheran in the top division at nationally prestigious Nike Tournament of Champions in Arizona. Seven other State TOP 25 squads were in the tourney in different divisions and 34 overall, but the only one to win a title was young, talented […]
Colin Sahlman: State Athlete of Year
Add another big honor for the phenom runner from Newbury Park. It’s not just that he already was crowned Gatorade National Male Athlete of the Year. This one also adds something extra for him since he’s done it just two years after his former teammate at Newbury Park, Nico Young, was honored in the same […]
Dalia Frias: State Girls Athlete of Year
She didn’t win a CIF state track title, but everything else from an all-time record-breaking standpoint for runner Dalia Frias from Mira Costa High of Manhattan Beach was so great that it has carried her to the selection of State Girls Athlete of the Year for 2021-22 school year. The last State Girls Athlete of […]
Nike TOC wrap: Etiwanda on top
State’s No. 1 girls team wins in the top division at nationally prestigious Nike Tournament of Champions in Arizona with come-from-behind win over first-ever Oklahoma finalist. The Eagles also set up potential No. 1 vs. No. 2 clash vs. Sierra Canyon at end of next week. Cathedral Catholic of San Diego won the title in […]
Girls State Athletes of the Year
This is the final 2020-21 state honor to be completed and it’s the girls version of the boys that was announced yesterday. By our evaluations, there were three girls that stood above all others with one who was a senior, the other a junior and the other a sophomore. The top honoree is national record-breaking […]
State Athlete of Year: Nico Young
Newbury Park standout becomes the first distance runner since German Fernandez of Riverbank from 2007-08 to gain overall State Athlete of the Year recognition. There was no CIF state track meet for Young to cap his prep career, but he was a national champion in cross country and shattered a long-standing state record in track-and-field […]
