As a companion list to a group of those considered more near the top of the state to be the first-ever State Freshman Player of the Year, here’s a more comprehensive list of those now on our radar screen as ninth graders we’ll likely be following for the next few years. FOR INTRO ABOUT FIRST-EVER...
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Colin Sahlman: State Athlete of Year
Add another big honor for the phenom runner from Newbury Park. It’s not just that he already was crowned Gatorade National Male Athlete of the Year. This one also adds something extra for him since he’s done it just two years after his former teammate at Newbury Park, Nico Young, was honored in the same […]
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
Orange Lutheran stays on top after winning 2-of-3 against JSerra while No. 2 Servite was idle, no doubt getting ready to play the Lancers in a three-game series this week. Santa Margarita and Mater Dei from the Trinity League also made big upward moves this week after going 4-0 at the PG West Coast Showdown....
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
This week for our Northern California boys honoree from Modesto, and the Southern California girls award winner from La Jolla, we have two players that both recently achieved career scoring milestones. For the other two stops we hit Half Moon Bay in NorCal and Newbury Park in Southern California. We hope you enjoy this free […]
All-State Softball: 2nd & 3rd Teams
The 38th installment of the Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams selections for softball concludes with 30 players named second team overall and approximately 30 more who are third team. Any player from any school regardless of class or school size can be on second team. The third team, however, is only for seniors and only for...
State Athlete of Year: Nico Young
Newbury Park standout becomes the first distance runner since German Fernandez of Riverbank from 2007-08 to gain overall State Athlete of the Year recognition. There was no CIF state track meet for Young to cap his prep career, but he was a national champion in cross country and shattered a long-standing state record in track-and-field […]
More Boys State Athletes of the Year
We have two repeaters among this year’s state athletes of the year as wrestler Richard Figueroa of Selma and golfer Luke Potter (now at Classical Academy of Escondido) gain the top honors for juniors and sophomores after taking the same as a sophomore and freshman, respectively. We also have swimming represented for D1 with Sacramento […]
State Stat Stars of Week
As we collected info for the six SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week in football, here’s a few others from last week’s games that put up totals that caught our attention. Note: Prep Notes With a Twist column just taking this week off. Cooper Barkate (St. Margaret’s, SJ Capistrano) Had one of the best all-around outings […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
We’ve got all of the details this week on Jarod Lucas of Los Altos (Hacienda Heights) joining the 3,000-point club for career scoring. We have all of them correct too, since we’ve been doing state records for 40 years. Lucas wasn’t the only big-time California player to have a big week. San Joaquin Memorial’s Jalen...
