Category Archives: Featured Article
Girls of Summer: Recap of all events
Cal Stars goes 51-1 in showing it was the best club team in the nation. Three of the five starters will be at St. Mary’s (Stockton) for the 2017-18 season, but it was a deep, talented roster for head coach Kelly Sopak. Go inside this report for more of how California’s top girls hoopers and […]
The day Tyron Smith got launched
While going through 2006 Cal-Hi Sports newsletters for a different project, we came across our report in April of 2006 about a big discovery at the Southern California Nike combine that had been held on the weekend of April 16-18 at USC. The player many were talking about after the day was not known when […]
One Team, Two in First Round
Speaking to Folsom grad Jake Browning of Washington on Wednesday got us wondering about two players from the same high school team who’ve been first-round picks in the NFL Draft. Take a guess at the two who did that from Galileo of San Francisco’s 1964 squad? That’s still the only time it’s ever happened for […]
State Athlete of the Year: Tara Davis
After winning two gold medals and a silver medal in this week’s Pan Am Junior Games, Agoura’s multi-event track and field standout adds Girls State Athlete of the Year honor. She now joins all-time list that includes some of track and field’s other all-time greats who are from the Golden State. For the rundown on […]
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 […]
State Coaching Highlights for 2016-17
We have now updated all of our state coaching leader lists through the 2017 seasons for both baseball and softball. Here is a snapshot look at some of the major coaching accomplishments achieved during the 2016-17 school year in all five of the sports we primarily cover. We wrote up this post with thoughts of […]
What If CIF State Baseball Playoffs?
Just like softball, there’s also been talk about the future addition of CIF state playoffs in baseball. We went through all of the teams in our final divisional state baseball 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...
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...
Norco & Dockins easy to root for
Just 10 Months Removed From Battling A Rare Liver Cancer, Norco’s Taylor Dockins Is Leading The Nation’s No. 1 Softball Team. She and everyone else connected to the Cougars, however, all know that winning the CIF Southern Section Division I title is not going to be easy. Go inside to read this story we did […]
Ms. Basketball 2017: Destiny Littleton
As injuries were mounting at the end of the season, Destiny Littleton powered on and although that game vs. Clovis West was ugly she still did more than enough during a record-breaking season to earn California’s highest individual and longest-running girls hoops accolade. Littleton is just the fifth winner from the CIF San Diego Section, […]
