To go with overall honoree Ryder Dodd, there are others featured as the best among boys athletes for juniors, sophomores, freshmen and those from divisions (D1, D2, D3, D4 and D5) for the 2023-24 school year. Football-track combo athletes have taken it in four of the categories outside of D1 and seniors, but there is […]
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All-State Baseball 2024: First Team
We conclude the release of our 42nd annual All-State Baseball Teams. State Team of the Year Corona has three on first team, but you’ll have to read the post to see which three (there’s also two on second team). We also got creative with a couple of the outfield positions instead of using even more […]
Game-Winning All-Star Game TD At 0:04
The 48th annual Lions All-Star Football Game played Saturday night in Tracy was what everyone who is part of any all-star high school event craves the most and that’s a close game decided in the closing seconds. The South won with four seconds left over the North and has now won five of the last […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. More than lists and numbers, we can provide historical context since we’ve maintained state records in California for more than 40 years. For baseball this week, player of the year candidates T.P. Wentworth (Modesto Central Catholic) and Boston Bateman (Camarillo)...
2023 Football Coaching Highlights
Before we begin with the first of our many state season honors, which will be the 2023 state coaches of the year, we like to update the all-time state coaching leaders list. This is the one that has the names of just more than 140 through all the years of state history who have won […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
CIFSS D3 champion St. Bonaventure just misses first group, but leads off this next 25 and moved up four spots. Section champions Los Gatos, La Serna and St. Augustine also move up this week. A group of three newcomers includes CIF North Coast Section D2 champion El Cerrito for the first time this season. The...
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
(Saturday score added) There were a lot of teams that lost on Thursday and Friday, but the only ones who did to lower ranked teams were No. 7 Carlsbad, No. 12 Long Beach Poly and No. 22 Rancho Cucamonga. The CIF San Diego Section Open Division semifinals (one played Thursday, the other Friday) were about […]
All-Time All-State Small Schools Team (Defense)
Here’s the players selected for defense on our expanded version of our All-Time All-State Small Schools Football Teams. Verbum Dei of Los Angeles has the most players named for both offense and defense, but all four of the Eagles are on defense. We also have one DB who once led the NFL in interceptions and...
Preseason State TOP 50 Ranks (31-50)
A team that lost in a CIF state final in overtime last season starts out this group of ranked squads. There’s also two teams written up that have been in the news this week for different reasons — Edison of Huntington Beach and Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills — plus teams that went 13-1, […]
