Category Archives: girls basketball
Preseason Girls BB Ranks (1-15)
We continue to roll out our preseason winter basketball content on CalHiSports.com and we’re doing that today with our annual preseason girls basketball state rankings. Etiwanda has already won two straight CIF Open Division state titles and is loaded for a shot at number three. The Eagles don’t have to look far — about 15 […]
Preseason Girls BB Ranks (16-40)
Here’s the rest of the preseason Top 40 of the best girls basketball teams from all across California. This group is led by the legendary sharpshooters from Pinewood of Los Altos Hills at No. 16 and goes on to No. 40 Lynwood, which has a legendary head coach. We also have added a list of […]
Girls BB Records Ready for 2024-25
All of the Cal-Hi Sports state records in girls basketball are updated and ready to go before teams begin playing games later this month to start the 2024-25 season. Here’s a recap of the new additions, led by Class of 2027 phenom Kaleena Smith of Ontario Christian, and a look at those schools moving up […]
SJS Hall of Fame Inducts Nine
The CIF Sac-Joaquin Section inducted nine individuals on Sunday night at the Kimpton Sawyer Hotel in Sacramento to maintain a tradition of doing a ceremony every other year that began in 2010. Athletes going in were former NFL receiver Austin Collie, former Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year Jacki Gemelos and former Ms. Softball […]
Girls of Summer: Player Rankings
For the 20th time since 2005, here’s a chart of the top players from California high school girls basketball viewed by the Girls of Summer Caravan during all events attended in person starting in June and extending into August. This time, it’s a list with 180 names. It starts with the only two players to...
What We Do, What We Have
Here at the early stages of the 2024 football season and for the 2024-25 school year seemed to be a good time to remind everyone about all of the content that has been researched on California high school football, boys basketball, girls basketball, baseball and softball that is on this site. It’s there so people […]
Sadie Engelhardt: State Athlete of Year
Still with a year to go at Ventura High, she’s become a state and national sensation with her record-breaking running in cross country and track. Engelhardt now becomes only the fourth highest honored girls athlete in California from Ventura County in 100 years. The last one just won a gold medal at the Paris Olympics. […]
More State Girls Athletes of Year
To go with overall honoree Sadie Engelhardt, since she was a junior during 2023-24, we have others selected as the best among girls athletes for seniors, sophomores, freshmen and those from divisions (D1, D2, D3, D4 and D5) for the school year. We thought three were clearly at the top and picked these in a […]
Girls BB: NorCal Stop Ends Live Period
The Chico Tarheels, made up mostly of girls from Pleasant Valley of Chico with twin sisters from Sacramento mixed in, went 6-0 in their division to make a big impression at the End of the Trail (EOT) Summer Showcase last weekend in Roseville. Longtime girls hoops analyst Harold Abend also has more younger players to...
Website Updates For 2024-25
It’s been more than 10 years now since this website has been the home of Cal-Hi Sports, but our history of course goes back to the days of weekly newsletters that began during the 1979-80 school year. We’re not stopping any time soon, but there are some changes coming for the 2024-25 school year. Note: […]