Category Archives: CIF State Championships
All Football State Records Updated
All of the exclusive state football records on this site have now been completely updated with the final categories done including team defense, team offensive yards, league and section records plus decade-by-decade leaders for best records. We have a new leader for best record since 1970, we have 36 teams now listed for best records...
Reopening First Before Football (Part 2)
It’s looking much more unlikely there will be a 2020 high school football season in California this fall based on growing numbers of school districts across the state that will be starting up the school year in a few weeks with distance learning only. Those going with a hybrid model may find it almost impossible […]
100 Winningest FB Teams in CA History
We’re now going through all team categories in the exclusive Cal-Hi Sports state football record book files. For this post, it’s a monstrous expansion of our category for most wins by a school in its history. We’re also updating many other state football records for team categories in the next few days that will be […]
Top 100 Highest Scoring Football Teams In State History
We’re now going through all team categories in the exclusive Cal-Hi Sports state football record book files. For this post, it’s scoring, scoring and more scoring. We’re posting the top 100 teams for most points scored in a season in this free post, but we have more than that in our actual Gold Club list. […]
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 […]
More Boys State Athletes of the Year
We have two repeaters among this year’s state athletes of the year as wrestler Richard Figueroa of Selma and golfer Luke Potter (now at Classical Academy of Escondido) gain the top honors for juniors and sophomores after taking the same as a sophomore and freshman, respectively. We also have swimming represented for D1 with Sacramento […]
What’s Next for CIF Fall Sports?
As schools across the state have begun to conduct conditioning workouts this week for football players, the CIF on Friday issued a statement that it won’t be known for sure what might happen for the fall sports schedule until July 20. No one knows for sure because the pandemic itself is only three months into […]
Ben Yurosek: Grid-Hoop State POY
The 6-foot-5, 220-pound senior from Bakersfield Christian wasn’t able to add a CIF Division IV state title in basketball to the one he celebrated in December in D3-A in football, but he led the Eagles to a SoCal regional title and he was the Bakersfield Californian Player of the Year in both sports. Ben also […]
Q&A: CIFSS Commissioner Rob Wigod
Entering a summer unlike any other in his nine previous years as the commissioner of the CIF Southern Section (one of the largest high school sports organizations in the nation), we went over a myriad of topics during a Monday afternoon discussion. He talked about the opening of the 2020-21 school year, the start of […]
State School of Year: Buchanan Repeats
With boys wrestling rolling to fifth straight CIF state team title plus girls cross country winning one in D1 gives Buchanan of Clovis the edge in collecting its second straight State School of the Year honor. There was also a NorCal regional title in a third sport and plenty of depth for a program that […]
