Category Archives: CIF State Championships
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 […]
More State Schools of the Year
For boys sports only, St. John Bosco of Bellflower is considered tops for the state for 2019-20 and has captured that honor for the first time in school history. On the girls side, it was as difficult as ever to break up a close group but the nod has gone to Cathedral Catholic of San […]
State Super 65: No. 1 to No. 10
It still has to be a De La Salle team at the top and our pick as the Spartans’ best in a close call continues to be from 2001. The big news for this year’s update is Mater Dei of 2017 being elevated all the way to No. 3. Others in this top group include...
State Super 65: No. 11 to No. 20
This group of teams is now led by 2001 Long Beach Poly, which won its third straight CIFSS top division title and lost its only game to perhaps the greatest team in state history. Others in this group of teams include one more new team each from Mater Dei (2018) and St. John Bosco (2019)...
State Super 65: No. 21 to No. 30
The mighty 1927 state champs from Bakersfield and two teams from 2014, De La Salle and Folsom, are featured in this group. Others include Pico Rivera El Rancho 1966 (a mythical national champ) plus the top team on our board from the CIF Central Section. Note: All of the writeups, grid logs, photos and more...
