Here at the early stages of the 2024 football season and for the 2024-25 school year seemed to be a good time to remind everyone about all of the content that has been researched on California high school football, boys basketball, girls basketball, baseball and softball that is on this site. It’s there so people […]
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Section By Section Football Greats
With the first class of 100 inductees going into the new California High School Football Hall of Fame in mind (opening next month), here’s a look at lists of the all-time top players from each of the 10 sections within the California Interscholastic Federation. These are based on the first votes for the Hall of […]
Inside new Calif HS FB Hall of Fame list
On Monday, the CIF and the Rose Bowl announced the names of the 100 players and 13 coaches who will be part of the first inaugural class of the new California High School Football Hall of Fame. At Cal-Hi Sports, we were a key part of the voting process and were worried about a lack […]
Jax Leatherwood: Grid-Hoop State POY
It’s just too hard to beat a grid-hooper like the junior quarterback-power forward from Scripps Ranch of San Diego, who played key roles on football and basketball teams that both won CIF state titles. Leatherwood adds this statewide honor to already being named as the San Diego Union-Tribune Male Athlete of the Year. Note: We’ve […]
State’s All-Time 100 Greatest Athletes (Men)
After Tom Brady of Serra High (San Mateo) earned a seventh Super Bowl title last week, we were inspired to write up our own rankings of the all-time greatest 100 athletes from California high schools. Based on CIF sanctioned sports only, we have Brady at No. 3 behind only Jackie Robinson and Bill Russell. McClymonds...
All-Time All-Section/All-County Teams (Part 2)
Based on how these players did after high school, here is a look at three more of these teams in another short series we’re doing as we wait for the next football season to hopefully begin in the state. For this group of teams, we have the CIF San Diego Section, CIF Central Coast Section...
All-Decade Football: 1980s
CalHiSports.com has been covering the best of California prep sports for over 40 years and in that time we’ve seen some great players on football fields in every corner of the state. Some lived up to all the hype surrounding them as prep players, while others never were able to duplicate their high school production...
Jaxen Turner: Grid-Hoop State POY
As we’ve known for a year, there isn’t more than a handful of legit all-state level Grid-Hoop athletes in both sports in California this year and two that clearly stood out above the rest — Jaxen Turner of Rancho Verde and Drake London of Moorpark. We break down how we came up with the tough […]
All-Time State Player Rankings (LBs)
Here’s the latest in this series that was begun last year with QBs, RBs and WRs and picked back up again recently with offensive linemen and defensive linemen. The DBs will be done soon as well. All of these lists will be included in the back of our upcoming book “High School Football in California”...
Cali adds one to NFL Hall of Fame
On the same weekend in which the ninth player from a California high school ever inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame died, the late Junior Seau of Oceanside was enshrined during ceremonies in Canton, Ohio.
