It’s taken a few weeks of research in between all of the usual weekly features we do, but we’re ready to go with an expanded version of our All-Time All-State Small Schools Football Teams. This is a celebration of all of those small schools everywhere from Weed and Ferndale to the north and to those...
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State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports and is now in its fifth week as part of the 2021-22 school year. There were three QBs who hit 400 passing yards or more, two sophomores and a senior who has been State Junior and State Sophomore of the...
State’s All-Time NFL Starting QBs (Updated)
There were three starting quarterbacks from California high schools among the four that started in last week’s AFC and NFC championship games and it was another strong season for the state in the league in general. The most remarkable story among all of them, of course, was the return of Helix of La Mesa grad...
All-Time All-State Small Schools Teams
Inspired by the phenomenal success this season of Firebaugh’s Josh Allen with the Buffalo Bills, we’ve come up with an all-time all-state small schools football team. It’s been done based on what’s happened by players after high school and it’s filled with many more stories of those who were under-recruited and mostly unknown in high...
State’s All-Time NFL Starting QBs (Updated)
There were nine quarterbacks from California high schools who started at least once in the NFL during the 2019 season. Our favorite for 2019 might not be obvious, but just loved it when Matt Moore went from being semi-retired and helping coach at alma-mater Hart of Newhall to filling in as the starter for two […]
Starting NFL QBs: More To Know
As a companion Gold Club special column for this week’s updated release of our massive list containing the name of every quarterback from a California high school who has started a game in the NFL since 1945 (and everyone from the AFL before the merger), we go over those schools with more than one, the...
Super Six For State In NFL Draft
It’s not a record, but the six players selected in Thursday’s first round of the 2018 NFL Draft is the most from California high schools since 1997. Five of the six also went in the first 15 picks, which also caused a look into the draft history books. The only downer was that none of […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Two of our six honorees this week also are going into the state record book: Jeshua Gutierrez of Firebaugh (with four interceptions) and Austin Osborne of Mission Viejo (five touchdown catches). Others selected are from Sierra Canyon, Pacifica of Oxnard, Whitney of Rocklin and St. Francis of Mountain View.
All-State Baseball: Small, Medium
One of the reasons that the Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams are so highly regarded is a continuing commitment to honor players not just from the big-school, major divisions. That continues with this year’s best in baseball from medium-size and small-size schools (based on section playoff divisions).
