Harold Abend’s Girls of Summer kicks off its 15th year of the Caravan roaming throughout California, and in years past outside the Golden State, in search of the state’s top girls high school basketball talent. Abend profiles Te-hina Paopao of La Jolla Country Day and profiles other early standouts on the summer circuit. Note: We […]
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Girls BB: All-State Best of Best 2019
The six finalists for Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year are joined by 24 others on the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams regardless of CIF division or class. This year’s first team has six seniors, three juniors and a lone sophomore. Two are from the same team. For the all-time archive of every […]
Girls BB: All-State Underclass 2019
Several days after starting the boys all-state team selections, we’re going to begin with the girls. This is the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Girls Basketball Teams and it starts with a look at the best of the best among juniors, sophomore and freshmen. It’s not a recruiting list so keep that in mind while...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
The old expression “the cream rises to the top” could not be more appropriate than in describing the CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs because after all the grousing and social media complaints about the pool play format, the teams that were seeded No. 1 in each pool went 3-0, although each of their wins...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
For the first time in this honors’ program history, we’ve chosen two players from great games played on a Saturday who then had their teams play against each other on a Monday. That can only happen on MLK weekend. For the boys, we were more normal going with hair-raising scoring outputs from players representing regions […]
Girls BB: St. Mary’s MLK Day 2 Statement Wins For Cards, Lions
Four State Top 20 teams were in action on MLK Day in the second day of action in Stockton at the St. Mary’s MLK Showcase and two won and two lost, one to a nationally-ranked team, and one team on the bubble squad making its case to join the next rankings. Also, four San Diego […]
St. Mary’s MLK Day 1 Highlights
Four of the six State Top 20 teams that played on Saturday at the St. Mary’s of Stockton Martin Luther King Girls Basketball Showcase were not able to get into the win column, but none of the results could really be called all that surprising.
Girls BB: Paopao Ready To Break Out
Before she went down with a knee injury last fall, La Jolla Country Day incoming phenomenal sophomore Te-Hina Paopao was poised to have what many analysts believed would be a phenomenal freshman season. Instead, Paopao rehabbed and although at only around 50-60-percent she actually made a return for the final four games of the season […]
Why no Cali girls on U.S. U16 bb team?
After four days of trials that began on May 25 with 133 hopefuls at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, two California girls were among the 18 finalists, but when the 12-member 2017 USA Basketball Women’s U16 National Team was announced on Wednesday there were no girls from the Golden State […]
Girls BB: San Diego Updates
Destiny Littleton of La Jolla Bishop’s sets a state record for most points scored in a season while La Jolla Country Day gets set to perhaps make a run at a D1 state title with big-time freshman guard now playing for the first time this season.
