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Juju Watkins: Girls State Athlete of Year

Recent Sierra Canyon grad (now at USC) gains one last big honor for high school as she’s selected as the 2022-23 State Athlete of the Year. Juju has been compared to many of the state’s all-time greats for basketball and now the national player of the year joins them on another all-time list. She’s also […]

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Ms. Basketball 2023: 2nd Jump for Juju

If there was any doubt that Sierra Canyon’s multi-talented Juju Watkins shouldn’t be considered one of California’s all-time great players, her now being a repeat winner as Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year ends that doubt. The accomplishment puts her in a group with some of the best players in women’s hoops history, especially […]

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Ms. Basketball 2022: Jumping for Juju

For the 51st year in which there has been a Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year in the Golden State, we have a true Golden girl of talent as the honoree. It could only be the multi-faceted junior Juju Watkins from CIF Open Division state champion Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth. She may take even […]

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Ms. Basketball 2021: Calling Ms. Curry

It goes down to the last game, but that’s the difference for Centennial of Corona guard Jayda Curry in gaining this year’s most prestigious and longest running girls basketball individual honor in California. Choosing a Ms. Basketball with no state championships for a second straight year was made even more complicated by the fact there […]

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101 Pts One Half: Super Effort or Stunt?

Super Bowl Sunday this year also marked the same day 31 years ago that an All-American girls basketball player from California went for an unbelievable 101 points in a single half of one game. Lisa Leslie from Morningside of Inglewood would go on to become one the best in the history of the women’s game,...

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Girls: State 30 Greatest Teams (16-30)

One of the two teams at Inglewood Morningside led by the great Lisa Leslie headlines this group of teams. We also have unbeaten No. 1 teams from Peninsula 1992, Lynwood 1993 and Buena of Ventura 1984 included in this post along with the 2020 mythical national champs from La Jolla Country Day. Go inside as...

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The Good, The Bad & The Unseen

At the suggestion of longtime managing editor Ronnie Flores, he thought we should scour the memory banks over the last 40-plus years for the top five moments in Cal-Hi Sports history, the top five games we wish we’d seen (but didn’t go to for different reasons) and the top five decisions we’d most want to...

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Top 25 Girls Hoop Players We’ve Seen

Just like the boys, this list is different than the top 50 we just did of the best football players we’ve seen in our more than 40 years of doing Cal-Hi Sports in various platforms. It’s different because it’s the top 25 of our longtime girls basketball analyst and California girls hoops evaluator Harold Abend […]

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Girls BB: Public School State TOYs

As is our longstanding tradition for basketball, whenever there is an addition to our boys all-time lists there must be the same for the girls. The private schools tending to win the highest classes of the CIF state championships on the girls side are not as prevalent and we actually didn’t start to have them...

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State Athlete of Year: Haley Jones

Turns out that the recent Archbishop Mitty of San Jose graduate isn’t quite done with high school honors as she’s getting ready for her freshman basketball season at Stanford. She now joins a list of State Girls Athletes of the Year that includes two previous honorees from Mitty and others from women’s hoops such as […]

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