Category Archives: player rankings
State’s All-Time 100 Greatest Athletes (Men)
After Tom Brady of Serra High (San Mateo) earned a seventh Super Bowl title last week, we were inspired to write up our own rankings of the all-time greatest 100 athletes from California high schools. Based on CIF sanctioned sports only, we have Brady at No. 3 behind only Jackie Robinson and Bill Russell. McClymonds...
Class of 22 FB: Updated Hot 100
No reason to change anything for the top few positions, but there has been one major transfer and some others who’ve had to be added and/or moved up for doing well in showcase events. Two of the top three remain Mater Dei of Santa Ana teammates Domani Jackson and Raleek Brown. RELATED: How Class of...
Class of 21: Hot 100 On Signing Day
Football players this December weren’t able to be part of the usual signing ceremonies at their schools due to the Coronavirus pandemic, but they made the best of it virtually and still were able to be with their families. Since there were two prominent players from the last Hot 100 for this class we compiled...
All-Time All-Section/All-County Teams (Part 2)
Based on how these players did after high school, here is a look at three more of these teams in another short series we’re doing as we wait for the next football season to hopefully begin in the state. For this group of teams, we have the CIF San Diego Section, CIF Central Coast Section...
All-Time All-Section/All-County Teams (Part 1)
Based on how these players did after high school, here is a look at three of these teams in another short series we’re doing as we wait for the next football season to hopefully begin in the state. For this group of teams, we have the CIF Central Section, CIF Sac-Joaquin Section and Orange County....
Top 25 Girls Hoop Players We’ve Seen
Just like the boys, this list is different than the top 50 we just did of the best football players we’ve seen in our more than 40 years of doing Cal-Hi Sports in various platforms. It’s different because it’s the top 25 of our longtime girls basketball analyst and California girls hoops evaluator Harold Abend […]
Top 25 Boys Hoops Players We’ve Seen
This list is different than the top 50 we just did of the best football players we’ve seen in our more than 40 years of doing Cal-Hi Sports in various platforms. It’s different because it’s the top 25 of our longtime boys basketball analyst and Southern California grassroots regular Ronnie Flores and also a different […]
Top 50 Football Players We’ve Seen
Since this list comprises all of the years of the Concord De La Salle dynasty since the early 1980s, the Spartans are well-represented on this list, beginning with the top spot. Physically dominant linebacker-running back D.J. Williams from 1999 is still the best player we’ve ever seen in person from a California high school. We...
Class of 21 FB: NEW Hot 100
There remains no doubt about Corona Centennial’s Korey Foreman being the No. 1 player in California based on his national recruiting rankings. We just don’t know for sure yet whether he or how many of the other top recruits in the state are going to be playing for their high school teams once the 2021...
