Category Archives: football
Jax Leatherwood: Grid-Hoop State POY
It’s just too hard to beat a grid-hooper like the junior quarterback-power forward from Scripps Ranch of San Diego, who played key roles on football and basketball teams that both won CIF state titles. Leatherwood adds this statewide honor to already being named as the San Diego Union-Tribune Male Athlete of the Year. Note: We’ve […]
2021-22 Grid-Hoop All-State Team
To kick off our end-of-school year content of honoring the best multi-sport and overall athletes of the year (boys and girls), we begin with a look at the state’s 15 best football-basketball combo athletes on our 36th annual Cal-Hi Sports Grid-Hoop All-State team. Leading the group is player of the year Jax Leatherwood of San […]
FB Team Records: All-Time Wins & More
While still working on several major honors still to come for the 2022 baseball and softball seasons plus athletes of the year and Grid-Hoop all-state teams, we’re also getting all of our exclusive state records in football updated before the start of the 2022 fall season. Here’s a look at two big ones: schools with […]
State School of Year: St. Francis (MV)
What began with a historic win on the football field is ending with St. Francis of Mountain View collecting the 2021-22 State School of the Year selection. This is just the Lancers’ second time getting onto the all-time state list, but it’s been 29 years. They finished strong in softball, baseball and boys volleyball to […]
More State Schools of the Year
For boys sports only, De La Salle of Concord is considered tops for the state for 2021-22 thanks to a No. 1 finish in baseball coming a few days after winning a CIF state title in golf. For the girls, St. Francis of Mountain View is going to be listed alongside its overall State School […]
Class of 23 FB: NEW Hot 100
Here’s a new, updated look at the top 100 ranked football recruits from California for the Class of 2023. We’ll be ramping up preseason 2022 football coverage in upcoming weeks, and will start by updating the 2023 class with a first look at 2024 coming next week. There’s not much debate about which player is...
QBs From Top Teams Ready To Roll
Southern California Elite 11 Regional Camp last Sunday in Manhattan Beach offered a glimpse at many of the leading quarterbacks who will be leading many of the state’s top teams next season. We were able to talk to almost all of them and saw a few other younger quarterbacks who had a good showing in […]
Class of 22 FB: FINAL Hot 100
Here’s one final look at the top 100 ranked football recruits from California for the Class of 2022. We’ll be ramping up preseason 2022 football coverage in upcoming weeks, but always need to finalize player rankings for each graduating class first. After all, there are archives to maintain. Injuries caused some changes for the final...
