Starting this week, it will be time to begin selecting the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams for girls basketball. We already posted a first run-through of names on our virtual board of all-state girls basketball nominees nearly three weeks ago, and now we’re doing a second, updated list. More players were added and some...
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Ms. Basketball 2020: Paopao Steps Up
Being Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year is one thing, but for La Jolla Country Day’s Te-hina Paopao the announcement of her getting the honor for this season carries additional meaning since she’s stepping up onto a prestigious platform in which two previous winners from the same school have already reached. Her journey to […]
More Girls BB State Players of Year
No one can ever say again that we won’t pick San Diego area players at the top if the evidence points to that as the section also has nabbed the state’s top sophomore and freshman honors along with Ms. Basketball. Northern California girls, meanwhile, did the best for the CIF divisional honors but one of […]
State Coach of Year: Vanessa Nygaard
Hopefully there will never be another high school basketball season like the one the Coronavirus ended prematurely, but nonetheless the awards go on, and despite falling just short of qualifying for the CIF Open Division state championship, this year’s State Coach of the Year is unquestionably one of the top coaches in the state and […]
Girls BB: More State Coaches of Year
Congratulations to all of the 2020 Cal-Hi Sports State Coaches of the year for girls basketball. These are the ones for each CIF division, although we do combine the Open and Division I. This is a group that includes a former NFL running back plus two coaches who have both been educators and have had […]
Girls BB: FINAL Division State Ranks
Go through this post for the final rankings for every CIF state division for the 2020 season. Declaring co-champions for each of the cancelled state finals could still be done by the CIF, but we will continue to not have ties in any of our state rankings. With respect to the teams that may have...
Girls BB All-State Nominations Part 1
Here’s the girls version of our first run-through of nominees on our board to get us going toward eventual selection for the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams for girls basketball. These Class of 2020 seniors really deserve the recognition in light of things they may be missing in coming weeks due to the Coronavirus […]
Ms. Basketball State POY Finalists
These five players can be considered finalists to be considered for the Ms. Basketball honoree for California for 2020. Look for the winner to be announced several days after we have honored the annual State Coach of the Year. We like to write up finalists before doing the actual Ms. Basketball feature since it can […]
Girls BB State Team of Year 2020
With no final state championship as a crowning moment, we revert back to the entirety of the season to name the 2020 State Team of the Year for girls basketball and for only the fourth time ever it goes to a school from the CIF San Diego Section. We have State Teams of the Year […]