Category Archives: Girls Basketball Blog
Girls BB: San Diego Classic Day 1
Girls that were expected to perform came through with flying colors on the opening day of the 28th Annual San Diego Classic. When St. Mary’s (Stockton) head coach Tom Gonsalves said the 10th Annual Girls of Summer caravan wouldn’t be disappointed with the performance of incoming freshman Aquira DeCosta, he was right on the mark.
Girls of Summer: SD Classic starts
NCAA dark period means time for San Diego Classic to shine. EBO Black and Cal Stars Nike Elite come home for the break but mostly Bishop’s (La Jolla) girls to compete in San Diego.
Sport-By-Sport State Girls Honorees
Since the Cal-Hi Sports state record book lists players and performers of the year in various sports going back through the years, we’ve gone ahead and compiled a list of each State Player of the Year or State Athlete of the Year in each particular sport for the 2013-14 school year. Some of the picks […]
Girls of Summer: Tune Up Toppers
The Summer Tune Up, hosted last weekend by Stockton Lincoln head coach and respected girls basketball analyst Chris Roemer, saw an upstart Team Mariani come away with the championship.
Katie Lou & Kennedy too on USA team
Cal-Hi Sports State Junior of the Year Katie Lou Samuelson from Mater Dei of Santa Ana will be joined by Sierra Canyon’s Kennedy Burke at this summer’s U17 team from the USA that will play in the U17 World Championship in the Czech Republic. The team will be coached by Archbishop Mitty’s Sue Phillips, who […]
Coaching State Record Updates
The Cal-Hi Sports state coaching record lists for boys and girls basketball have both been updated for all games played during the 2013-14 season. The football coaching records already had been updated in March.
Girls BB: Top players at NorCal All Star event
Two McDonald’s All Americans, several of California’s top stars and national level talent grace Fourth Annual PassThaBall Senior All Star game The Fourth Annual PassThaBall All Star game at Chabot College in Hayward featured two games. The second and marquee game at 1:30 may very well have had the best talent ever assembled in California […]
McDonald’s Girls: California factor
Brianna Turner from Texas wins the MVP but California girls make a statement in West victory Despite only one of the four California girls on the West roster starting, and even though the MVP was Notre Dame-bound Brianna Turner from Manvel, Texas, it was California girls, and one in particular, that came up huge in […]
Redwood Empire sends two to state
For the last two years many of us in the California prep sports writing community have waxed on about faults in the Open Division format, and the need for changes after the two-year period of using this system will now be over. While there may be faults and things needing correcting, the one thing that […]
CIF Basketball State Final Picks
Our Cal-Hi Sports predictions for the 12 CIF state championship games for boys and girls basketball this weekend at Sleep Train Arena sees the south winning a bulk of the plaques.