Category Archives: girls basketball
Ms. Basketball 2025: Power of Puff
Following a path in which she was State Freshman of Year, State Sophomore of Year and State Junior of Year, Aliyahna “Puff” Morris of Etiwanda completes the cycle by earning California Ms. Basketball honors as a senior. It was not an easy selection, but being the star point guard of a team that made history […]
More Girls BB Players of the Year
Ontario Christian lands two state player of the year honors with Kaleena Smith (sophomores) and Tati Griffin (freshmen) leading the way. Jerzy Robinson also becomes the third State Junior of the Year from Sierra Canyon in the last seven years. For the CIF divisional winners, there’s a mother-daughter storyline and someone who did so much […]
2025 Boys/Girls BB Coach Milestones
Both of the boys and girls all-time state coaching records lists have now been updated for everyone through the 2024-25 season. Bishop Montgomery’s Doug Mitchell earned his 800th career win early in the season and we had two more reach 500. For the girls, Oak Ridge’s Steve White won the 700th game of his career […]
State Coach of Year: Kelly Sopak
The head coach of CIF Division I state champion Carondelet of Concord has been named the 2025 Cal-Hi Sports State Coach of the Year for girls basketball. However, Kelly Sopak’s ascension to joining a group of coaches honored by Cal-Hi Sports dating back to 1972 for the top honor for girls high school coaches in […]
FINAL Girls BB State TOP 40 Rankings
We can’t argue with the fact that our rankings are not totally in line with some state and national rankings. However, the one thing we have in our favor is in traversing up and down the state in the past five months, and covering dozens of teams and games, we have personally seen the first...
Girls BB: FINAL Division State Ranks
As many coaches love to say, it’s the final rankings that only matter. Here they are for each CIF state championship division. The state champion is first in each division, but the final No. 2 team could be a team from the same league (which happened in one of the divisions this year). Others getting...
Girls BB All-State Nominees (SoCal)
Here’s another set of first-draft nominees for the 46th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams for girls basketball. The first lists of nominees on our board for teams that will be selected covered Northern California (with the CIF Central Section in the north). These are for L.A. City, San Diego & Southern sections. We welcome all […]
Girls BB All-State Nominees (NorCal)
It’s time to get started working on the 46th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams for girls basketball. And yes, we have had gender equal coverage for all-state teams in basketball for all this time. This is the first list of nominees on our board for teams that will be selected. These cover the CIF sections […]
Boys/Girls BB State Teams of Year 2025
We’re doing a combo post for the final State Teams of the Year honors since both teams — Roosevelt of Eastvale boys and Etiwanda girls — are from the Inland Empire and are only about 16 miles apart. It’s not the first time that the Inland Empire has swept the two big final No. 1 […]
CIF Saturday Girls BB State Finals
Etiwanda completes its third straight run to the CIF Open Division state title with a win on Saturday over Archbishop Mitty. It’s not the first three-peat or four-peat in state history, but it’s the first since the CIF went to an Open Division in 2013. Caruthers also repeats as a CIF state champ (this time […]
