Mark Tennis, Author at SportStars Magazine

Mark Tennis: CIF, Sections, Districts Face Tough Decisions In Turbulent Times

CalHiSports Insights Football June 17, 2020 0

In A Notes-Style Column, Cal-Hi Sports’ Editor Writes On The CIF Facing Tough Calls On Fall Sports, And Looks At Black Lives Matter Protests Through A California HS Sports Lens • High school sports can seem insignificant during turbulent times, but it does play a role in the many... Read more

Public School Football No. 1’s: Cal-Hi Sports Looks Back

CalHiSports Insights High School Football Sac-Joaquin Section Southern Section September 18, 2019 1

Cal-Hi Sports Builds A List Of Its Top-Ranked Public School Football Team For Each Season Dating Back To 1970; Folsom Appears Twice Since 2010 • Although competitive equity seeding and the continuous adding of divisions does give more public schools the opportunity to enjoy CIF section and state playoff... Read more

State of Baseball Playoffs

CalHiSports Insights Central Coast Section Central Section High School Baseball/Softball Los Angeles City Section More Sports North Coast Section Northern Section Oakland Section Sac-Joaquin Section San Diego Section San Francisco Section Southern Section April 30, 2019 1

CIF Could Be On the Cusp of State Championship Event For Baseball • The last official CIF state baseball championship was in 1922 in Los Angeles as Sacramento High blanked Franklin-Los Angeles 3-0. San Diego High won the year before over host Chico and also won titles in 1918... Read more

Boras Baseball Classic: Mitty Mastery

Central Coast Section High School Baseball/Softball April 29, 2019 0

Monarchs Earned Trip To Boras Baseball Classic Championship After Outlasting WCAL Rival Bellarmine In The NorCal Title Game • Pity the poor Archbishop Mitty-San Jose baseball players. They didn’t get a one-week spring break that was showing on their schedule since the beginning of the 2019 season. Instead, the... Read more

Treven Crowley: Hilmar’s Double Impact Star

High School Baseball/Softball High School Football High School Sports Features Sac-Joaquin Section April 8, 2019 0

Born At Half The Size Of His Twin Brother, Hilmar Junior Treven Crowley Has Grown Up To Become A Star On Both Football And Baseball Field • As with any athlete, digging into statistics can reveal a lot of reasons why Hilmar High’s Treven Crowley is one of the... Read more

Max Nyrop: Nothing But Zeroes

CalHiSports Insights High School Baseball/Softball High School Sports Features North Coast Section March 1, 2019 0

Alameda Senior Max Nyrop Finishes Just Two Innings Shy Of State Record For Consecutive Scoreless Innings Pitched • When a pitcher in baseball doesn’t give up a run and posts a shutout, the manager or coach is never questioned about poor sportsmanship. A run is a run and any... Read more

Modesto Christian Basketball: Bring It On

High School Basketball High School Sports Features Sac-Joaquin Section November 20, 2018 0

Owning Perhaps The Strongest Schedule Of Any NorCal Boys Basketball Program, The Supremely Talented Modesto Christian Crusaders Hope It Paves The Road To A State Title • There are a lot of intriguing sub-plots to the 2018-19 boys basketball season at Modesto Christian. Can the Crusaders emerge as the... Read more

Pleasant Grove’s Bright Lights

High School Sports Features Sac-Joaquin Section VOLLEYBALL — Served by NCVA October 17, 2018 0

Youngest Light Sisters Are Helping Pleasant Grove Volleyball Illuminate A Path Toward Sac-Joaquin Section Glory • It is the middle of an era of sorts for the Pleasant Grove volleyball program. It’s an era of Light, as in the Light sisters. And while the two youngest Light sisters, Vivian and... Read more

What’s In A High School Nickname?

CalHiSports Insights October 15, 2018 0

Every once in a while, in an effort to attract perhaps more casual fans to the CalHiSports.com website, we engage in what we like to call the nickname game. This is an exercise in going over some of the most unique, most appropriate and favorite high school nicknames (or... Read more

Golden State Gridiron: NEW “High School Football In California” Book

CalHiSports Insights CalHiSports.com High School Football September 13, 2018 0

Writing Book On State’s Football History A Labor Of Love It wasn’t exactly a blank canvass, but writing the book “High School Football In California” was a task that quickly became pleasurable. Especially when talking to some of the subjects who were targeted to be centerpieces of most chapters.... Read more

Giles Jackson: Slot Machine

High School Football High School Sports Features North Coast Section August 2, 2018 0

Freedom-Oakley’s Dynamic Running Back Turned Coaches Comments Into A Quick Decision — Now Giles Jackson Is NorCal’s Most Coveted Slot Receiver Recruit • It wasn’t a questionable gamble when Giles Jackson chose to run routes as a slot receiver during various spring and early summer football showcase events. The... Read more

Transfer Of Power: SoCal High School Football Superteams

High School Football High School Sports Features Uncategorized August 2, 2018 0

Athletically Motivated Transfers Have Birthed SoCal Football Superteams While NorCal Has Remained Largely Unaffected If there is one massive difference between Northern California high school football and Southern California in the last few years, you can say it in one word: transfers. As a reaction to the CIF changing... Read more