State No. 1 Etiwanda girls crank up the defense to win Platinum Division title at 21st annual La Jolla Country Day Sweet 16 early season tournament. Host school reaches the title game and its longtime head coach, Terri Bamford, won the 700th game of her career to join an illustrious all-time state list. We hope […]
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Insider Report: La Jolla Country Day
We are continuing with a series of girls basketball preseason-style features on some of the state’s most prominent programs and players for the 2020-21 school year. It’s almost been one year since any of them have played, but after last week’s developments teams are starting to prepare for an upcoming spring season. For this report, […]
Ms. Basketball 2020: Paopao Steps Up
Being Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year is one thing, but for La Jolla Country Day’s Te-hina Paopao the announcement of her getting the honor for this season carries additional meaning since she’s stepping up onto a prestigious platform in which two previous winners from the same school have already reached. Her journey to […]
Girls BB State Team of Year 2020
With no final state championship as a crowning moment, we revert back to the entirety of the season to name the 2020 State Team of the Year for girls basketball and for only the fourth time ever it goes to a school from the CIF San Diego Section. We have State Teams of the Year […]
LB Poly girls starting 2020s like 2010s
After two sub-par seasons in 2018 and 2019, the Long Beach Poly girls basketball team is squarely back among the very best in California. If an earlier overtime win in December over Mater Dei of Santa Ana didn’t show that, the Jackrabbits surely did Monday night with a win over unbeaten No. 1 in the […]
Girls BB: Nike TOC title for LJCD
It’s a coming out party for freshman center Breya Cunningham plus a feel-good triumph for senior guard Te-Hina Paopao, but it took a layup with six seconds left by Jazzy Anousinh to give state No. 2 La Jolla Country Day a one-point win over state No. 1 Sierra Canyon in the championship game of the […]
Preseason Girls BB State Ranks (1-15)
There’s been a handful of squads that have already hit the court, but we’re still calling it preseason for the rankings and writeups that are below. Just like the boys, Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth has a CIF Open Division defending state champion that has a loaded roster on the girls side and starts out at […]
Girls BB: It’s a wrap at St. Mary’s MLK
Big winners on the final day of the St. Mary’s MLK Showcase in Stockton include the host and state No. 2 Rams, state No. 13 La Jolla Country and bubble team McClatchy of Sacramento, which upset state No. 11 Sierra Canyon. State No. 5 Salesian of Richmond lost again and so did state No. 7 […]
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 […]
