High School Teams with Highest GPA in the State Honored

SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) today announced 34 State Academic Team Champions for the 2022-23 school year. The CIF State Academic Team Champions program was initiated in 1996 as a way to reward teams with the highest collective grade point averages, based on an unweighted 4.0 scale, in their respective sport.

CIF State Academic Team Champions will receive a banner, suitable for display in their school gym, to recognize this accomplishment. All nominees were their respective CIF Section Academic Team Champions. Section offices forwarded their winners to the state office for consideration.

The North Coast and San Diego Sections had 10 teams represented, followed by eight teams from the Southern Section. The Sac-Joaquin Section had four teams, followed by Central Coast with two teams.

Branson (NCS) had three teams accomplish a state-high team GPA, the most of any school.

In total, 10 teams achieved a 4.00 GPA. Two girls wrestling teams (Rio Vista and St. Bernard’s, Eureka) and two basketball teams (Academy Our Lady of Peace and Stone Ridge Christian) each accomplished a 4.00 GPA. Mater Dei Catholic had the boys cross country team and girls tennis team each accomplishing a 4.00 GPA. While the girls golf team from River Valley, the girls track & field team from South Fork and the girls cross country team from Borrego Springs also each achieved a 4.00 GPA, as well as the boys swim and dive team from Branson.

Below is a list of the top team GPAs in each CIF-approved sport (listed by GPA):

Sport / School / Section / GPA

Girls Basketball/ Academy Our Lady of Peace/ San Diego/ 4.00

Girls Basketball/ Stone Ridge Christian/ Sac-Joaquin/ 4.00

Boys Cross Country/ Mater Dei Catholic/ San Diego/ 4.00

Girls Cross Country/ Borrego Springs/ San Diego/ 4.00

Girls Golf/ River Valley/ Sac-Joaquin/ 4.00

Boys Swim & Dive/ Branson/ North Coast/ 4.00

Girls Tennis/ Mater Dei Catholic/ San Diego/ 4.00

Girls Track & Field/ South Fork/ North Coast/ 4.00

Girls Wrestling/ Rio Vista/ Sac-Joaquin/ 4.00

Girls Wrestling/ St. Bernard’s/ North Coast/ 4.00

Gymnastics/ Canyon Crest/ San Diego/ 3.98

Girls Soccer/ Sonoma Academy/ North Coast/ 3.98

Girls Swim & Dive/ Del Norte/ San Diego/ 3.98

Badminton (co-ed)/ Kearny/ San Diego/ 3.96

Boys Golf/ Webb/ Southern/ 3.96

Boys Tennis/ Inderkum/ Sac-Joaquin/ 3.96

Beach Volleyball/ Branson/ North Coast/ 3.96

Girls Water Polo/ Wilson, Long Beach/ Southern/ 3.96

Girls Lacrosse/ Castilleja/ Central Coast/ 3.94

Boys Basketball/ Poway/ San Diego/ 3.93

Boys Track & Field/ Crystal Springs Uplands/ Central Coast/ 3.93

Girls Volleyball/ Marin Academy/ North Coast/ 3.93

Girls Volleyball/ Oxford Academy/ Southern/ 3.93

Boys Water Polo/ Dos Pueblos/ Southern/ 3.93

Baseball/ Marin Academy/ North Coast/ 3.91

Field Hockey/ Rancho Bernardo/ San Diego/ 3.89

Softball/ Flintridge Prep/ Southern/ 3.89

Boys Volleyball/ Branson/ North Coast/ 3.87

Boys Soccer/ Poly Pasadena/ Southern/ 3.83

Boys Lacrosse/ Palos Verdes/ Southern/ 3.76

Boys Wrestling/ Athenian/ North Coast/ 3.75

Traditional Competitive Cheer/ San Clemente/ Southern/ 3.74

Football/ Santa Fe Christian/ San Diego/ 3.72

Competitive Sport Cheer/ California School for the Deaf/ North Coast/ 3.46