Category Archives: CIF State Championships
Preseason All-Central Sec FB Team
Wow, what a great group of QBs there are this year in the CIF Central Section and that’s even with the highest-ranked recruit of them all reported to be out for the year with an injury. The other main takeaway after looking through all the players is how good will Tulare be this season? The...
Football State Team Records Updated
All state football team records, some that date back more than 100 years, have now been updated prior to the start of the 2017 season. To see all of the record lists requires a Gold Club membership, but here is a look at some of the highlights in some of the various categories. Note: There […]
Preseason FB Ranks Taking Shape
As practices for the 2017 football season get underway in the state, we have a first draft of what the Cal-Hi Sports preseason state rankings may look like with teams that would be in our top 10 as of the beginning of August. We can say for sure the top four won’t change when the […]
State Athlete of Year: Javelin Guidry
For the second straight year, Vista Murrieta can claim the State Boys Athlete of the Year. It’s another member of the Broncos’ track team who gets the nod, but this time sprinter Javelin Guidry also happened to have been one of the top football defensive backs in Southern California last fall as well. For the […]
More State Boys Athletes of the Year
Among others being selected for top state honors is one of the most dominating wrestlers in the nation — Seth Nevills of Clovis (juniors) and one of the best distance runners in the last 20 years — Cooper Teare of Alameda St. Joseph Notre Dame (Division IV). And when learning of his background, how could […]
State School: Cathedral Catholic
It’s not just that this school was the only one in the state during the 2016-17 school year to win CIF state titles in three different sports. The other reasons that the Dons end up with their first-ever overall state sports excellence honor is how well they did in a myriad of other sports and […]
More State Schools of the Year
Snakebit School of the Year had to be Mater Dei of Santa Ana because with just a couple of wins in big games at the end in a couple of sports and the Monarchs would have been tops in the overall quite easily. They’re still getting recognition as Division I State School of the Year. […]
Preseason FB: 10 Burning Questions
With players and coaches in the second week of a three-week dead period before they get started practicing officially for the 2017 football season, we’ll kick-start more of our statewide preview with 10 key questions that have piqued our curiosity the most. Go inside for first indications about preseason rankings of top teams, impact of […]
St. Mary’s duo back on the field
The last time that these two players from St. Mary’s of Stockton were on a football field it was for one of the most intense CIF state title games ever played. QB Jake Dunniway and DE Jordan Stinhilver will both be playing for the North in this Saturday’s Lions All-Star Game in Tracy. Note: We […]
What If CIF State Softball Playoffs?
There’s been discussion about the future addition of CIF state playoffs in both softball and baseball. We went through all of the teams in our final divisional state softball rankings and came up with a proposed format with an Open Division and then six divisions after that. We set up brackets for each division as...
