Category Archives: CIF State Championships
State Athlete of Year: Gracie Figueroa
For the first time, we have an overall state girls athlete of the year who is mostly single-sport with that sport being wrestling. Selma’s Gracie Figueroa is not just a four-time CIF state champion, either. She can literally can call herself the best “pound-for-pound” athlete in the nation in her sport. And if you haven’t […]
More State Girls Athletes of the Year
Some of those selected to represent CIF divisions from D1 to D5 also were considered to be State Athlete of the Year, including quite rare softball-track standout Kelli Godin of Santa Ana Mater Dei (D1) and barrier-breaking football kicker and multi-sport athlete Emma Baker of Temecula Rancho Christian. Others landing top recognition include Simone Overbeck […]
State Athlete of Year: Kazmeir Allen
With a national record of 72 touchdowns scored during the football season, Tulare High’s Kazmeir Allen followed that up by winning the CIF state title in the 100-meter dash. Some may still argue that wasn’t enough to even be the Boys Athlete of the Year in the CIF Central Section, but it was enough for […]
State School of Year: Mater Dei
The Monarchs built up a huge lead with their success in fall sports, led by football going 15-0 and ending No. 1 in the nation, and they did more than enough for the rest of the year to hold off Buchanan of Clovis and the school that earned this honor for two of the previous […]
Boys BB: Divisional All-State 2018
It took us a couple of years to adjust our annual divisional all-state teams in basketball to the CIF having an Open Division. Now they’ve changed things again with competitive equity based divisions and team placements. If competitive equity means that the Open Division and Division I is that much stronger than the other divisions, […]
Boys BB: More State Coaches of Year
Congratulations to all of the Cal-Hi Sports State Coaches of the year for boys basketball. Two of the five honorees based on CIF state playoff divisions were from state title teams, one was from a Open Division team, one was from a team that won its second straight section title and one was to recognize […]
State Coach of Year: McKinsey Hadley
Serra of Gardena two-time CIF state champion coach was mentored early in his life as an athlete and then later as an up-and-coming coach by the late Dwan Hurt. While Hurt was a boys basketball coach at Serra for 28 years, Hadley has built up the school’s girls program since he took it over in […]
Girls BB: More State Coaches of Year
Congratulations to all of the Cal-Hi Sports State Coaches of the year for girls basketball. These are the ones for each CIF division and it’s a group that includes a coach who’s won back-to-back CIF state titles plus a coach who earned her 100th career win in a CIF state final.
