The school year for 2024-25 has begun in many places, but the final honor for the 2023-24 school year just had to wait until the final day of the Paris Olympics since we knew our winner for the Class of 2024 was still playing for the USA national men’s water polo team. The Americans, with […]
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More State Boys Athletes of Year
To go with overall honoree Ryder Dodd, there are others featured as the best among boys athletes for juniors, sophomores, freshmen and those from divisions (D1, D2, D3, D4 and D5) for the 2023-24 school year. Football-track combo athletes have taken it in four of the categories outside of D1 and seniors, but there is […]
Preseason Sac-Joaquin Sec FB Team
For this next stop in our series of preseason all-section or all-area football teams from around the state we travel back up north for a look at the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section. This has been the domain of Folsom and the Bulldogs have a couple of big transfers added into their mix of stellar returnees off...
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 […]
Preseason L.A. City Section FB Team
After San Diego, we go back up the road for our series of preseason all-section or all-area teams around the state with a look at the CIF L.A. City Section. At its strongest, L.A. City Section football was dominated by long-time Marine League powers Carson and Banning of Wilmington, and this year it looks like...
RBs in the All-Time State Records
There are only a handful of returning runningbacks in the state this season who already have their names in the state record lists that were started and have been maintained by Cal-Hi Sports for four decades. Will the CIF Central Section have most of the record-breakers once again? All major categories are now updated and […]
Preseason All-San Diego Sec FB Team
We head even further south than Long Beach in the next stop in our annual tour of the state through the selection of preseason football honor squads. This is for the CIF San Diego Section, which had three unbeaten teams plus another that had its only loss in overtime in last season’s Open Division playoffs....
Preseason All-Long Beach/South Bay
After hitting the CIF Central Section, the next stop in our annual tour of the state through the selection of preseason football honor squads is the area of the CIF Southern Section that contains schools in the Long Beach/South Bay region. It’s also the home of national power St. John Bosco, not to mention Long...
2023-24 Grid-Hoop All-State Team
To continue our end-of-school year content of honoring the best multi-sport and overall athletes of the year (boys and girls), we take a deep look at the state’s 15 best football-basketball combo athletes on our 38th annual Cal-Hi Sports Grid-Hoop All-State team. Leading the 15-man group is player of the year Caden Pinnick from Del […]