Family ties are a big angle for this week’s honorees with one of them being the grandson of the head coach and another who’s got a twin brother who also is a standout on the same team. The six recipients this week are from Elk Grove, Tulare, Atherton, San Marino, Mission Viejo and Goleta.
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More State Boys Athletes of Year
Among others earning top state honors are Najee Harris of Antioch (juniors), U.S. Olympian Ben Hallock of Harvard-Westlake (Division III) and Andrew Daschbach of Sacred Heart Prep (Division IV). Alexander Mattison of San Bernardino also is third-ever State Three-Sport Athlete of the Year. Finally, what would a State Athlete of the Year package be without […]
2015-16 All-State Grid Hoopers
To kick off our summer season of honoring the best multi-sport and overall athletes of the year, we begin with a look at the state’s best football-basketball combo athletes on our annual Cal-Hi Sports Grid-Hoop All-State team. We have even more listed as Grid-Hoop athletes of distinction and some of these players are sure to […]
SportStars Mag Ranks Bay’s Best
Welcome to the fourth annual Bay Area 75 — SportStars’ countdown of the top 75 Bay Area athletes from the 2015-16 school year. The only criteria used in generating the list were that the athletes must be from one of the nine Bay Area counties, and they must have played in a sport which culminated […]
A Saturday: Clayton, ‘Bonne Roadies
On Single A Saturday in the CIF Northern California & Southern California regional football bowl games, state No. 11 Clayton Valley of Concord gets defensive in 21-3 win at No. 25 Oak Grove of San Jose while state No. 12 Narbonne also hits the road and beats No. 20 Ridgeview of Bakersfield to set up […]
NEW State FB Rankings (Divisions)
De La Salle (D1), Clayton Valley (D2), Camarillo (D3), Sierra Canyon (D4) and Grace Brethren (D5) remain on top, but there are two new No. 2s this week with St. Augustine forcing its way up in D2 after big win over Mission Hills while San Marino goes back to that position in D4. Also on...
Preseason State Rankings (Divisions)
With the CIF bowl games now in 13 divisions and with it basically impossible to place teams into those divisions in a weekly format, we are resurrecting our traditional five-division state rankings first done in 1975. No. 1 teams to start are De La Salle (D1), Grant of Sacramento (D2), Cathedral Catholic of San Diego […]
Preseason Football Top 50 (Part 3)
As these rankings go deeper, the more difficult they become and they’re also more influenced by key early matchups, such as Great Oak vs. Heritage of Menifee, Chaminade vs. St. Bonaventure and Cathedral Catholic vs. Oaks Christian. All of those teams are included in this group of ranked teams, along with Westlake of Westlake Village,...
More State Schools of the Year
Football leads the way for another boys sports honor for De La Salle while it’s the same for volleyball and another girls selection for Archbishop Mitty. Other schools collecting overall sports excellence accolades include La Costa Canyon (D2), Campolindo of Moraga (D3), Sacred Heart Prep of Atherton (D4) and Capital Christian of Sacramento (D5). Ten […]
