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State Girls Athlete of Year: Kyla Ross

Since the prerequisite for this honor is for the athlete to simply attend a California high school (not compete for one of its teams), the all-around silver medalist from last October’s World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and a leader of USA national team becomes too much for any other girl to beat.

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More State Girls Athletes of Year

We are doing one change this year and that’s making it a requirement for each divisional state athlete of the year to have competed for their school. Among those earning top state honors are Arianna Washington of Long Beach Poly, Abbey Weitzeil of Saugus and Courtney Corrin of Harvard-Westlake. We also are starting a new […]

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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 […]

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Multi-Sport State Coaching Leaders

For the first time, we present an anchor home for instant access to the Cal-Hi Sports state record lists for coaching wins in football, boys basketball, girls basketball, baseball and softball. All records have now been updated through the 2022 football season. Go inside for all the details.

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State School of the Year: Mater Dei

It’s not really close this time as Monarchs repeat as state’s No. 1 overall sports school. They also collect top honor for the fifth time in school history. First-ever CIF state title in boys track followed by top five finish in boys golf two days later turned race into a rout.

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More State Schools of the Year

Archbishop Mitty and Torrey Pines continue back-and-forth duel in girls sports with Mitty getting the nod this time. Other schools ending with special honors include St. John Bosco (D2), Chaminade (D3), Central Catholic of Modesto (D4) and St. Joseph Notre Dame of Alameda (D5). Fifteen more schools also gain special mention for overall athletic excellence.

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Honorable Mention Schools of Year

To go with our massive State Schools of the Year salute, here are some additional schools that were on our board in the various CIF state divisions that we would consider to be honorable mention.

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All Coaching Records Updated

Since the end of the spring baseball and softball seasons, several top coaches have announced their retirements, which is always helpful for our state record compiling because when they do their totals are usually mentioned as well.

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It’s been 10 years….

It’s hard to believe, but it’s been 10 years since we lost the founder of Cal-Hi Sports. In case anyone has forgotten, we’d like to remind everyone what Nelson Tennis did to chronicle the history of California high school athletics.

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Highlights of May 7 CIF press briefing

On Wednesday, May 7, CIF executive director Roger Blake and other CIF staff met with members of the state’s media corps, including Cal-Hi Sports, in a conference call to answer questions from topics such as the 2015 basketball championships heading to Cal’s Haas Pavilion, more on the new CIF swimming and diving state championships, mandated […]

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