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The California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section (CIF-SS) is the governing body for high school athletics in most of Southern California and is the largest of the ten sections that comprise the
California Interscholastic Federation The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) is the governing body for high school sports in the U.S. state of California. CIF membership includes both public and private high schools. Unlike most other state organizations, it does not have s ...
(CIF). Its membership includes most public and private high schools in
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, Riverside,
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, Ventura, and central and southern Santa Barbara counties. Teams from the
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(LAUSD) and surrounding areas have competed in the
CIF Los Angeles City Section The CIF Los Angeles City Section (CIF-LA) is the governing body of high school athletics for public schools in the city of Los Angeles and some surrounding communities. All of these schools were once associated with the Los Angeles Unified Schoo ...
since 1935. CIF-SS's offices are located in Los Alamitos. Founded in 1913, the CIF Southern Section includes over 560 member public and private high schools and is by far the largest CIF section. Three of the ten CIF sections are individual current or former public school districts (Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland). The Southern Section's membership includes all private schools located within the service area of the LAUSD, which includes almost all of the city of
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plus some adjacent areas outside the city limits. If the CIF Southern Section were a state association, it would be the 10th largest in the United States. For its first year of operation, the organization was called the Southern California Interscholastic Athletic Council (SCIAC). That acronym was taken over by the
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in 1915 after the Southern Section name was established. CIF was officially formed in 1914 and became statewide in 1917. The service area was larger, encompassing what is now the CIF Los Angeles City Section, which broke off in 1935, and the
CIF San Diego Section The CIF San Diego Section (CIF-SDS) is the governing body of high school athletics for most of the two southernmost counties of California (San Diego and Imperial Counties), one of ten such sections that comprise the California Interscholastic Fed ...
which broke off in 1960.
Imperial County Imperial County is a county located on the southeast border of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 179,702, ranking as the least populous county in Southern California. The county seat and largest city is ...
was once part of the section as well, but broke off in 2000 to join the San Diego Section. At various points in time, schools in
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, were part of the section.


Commissioners

* Seth F. Van Patten (1913–1951) * William W. Russell (1951–1954) * J. Kenneth Fagans (1954–1975) * Thomas E. Byrnes (1975–1980) * Ray J. Plutko (1980–1986) * Stan Thomas (1986–1993) * Dean Crowley (1993–1999) * James Staunton, Ed.D. (1999–2011) * Rob Wigod (2011–2023) * Mike West (2023–present)


History

The Southern Section was the outgrowth of a track and field meet. The Southern Section was founded on March 29, 1913, when a group of high school officials joined forces to conduct a track championship meet. Seth F. Van Patten, who served as Track Manager for the Southern Section in 1913 and is recognized as the founding father of the CIF-SS, served in that post until 1928 when he was officially named Secretary of the organization. He served as Commissioner until his retirement in 1951. On March 28, 1914, the Southern Section came under the administrative wing of the newly founded California Interscholastic Federation, and has since grown into one of the most progressive and respected organizations of its kind in the world. CIF-SS archives date back over 100 years! Despite its lengthy history, the Southern Section lists just 10 Commissioners (the term Secretary dropped) with William Russell holding the post from 1951 to 1954, J. Kenneth Fagans being the administrative head from 1954 until his retirement in early 1975, Thomas E. Byrnes accepting the Commissioner's post in 1975, while Ray Plutko served from 1980 to 1986. Stan Thomas served as Commissioner from July, 1986 to October, 1993 when Dean Crowley was appointed Acting Commissioner and was Commissioner of Athletics from July, 1994 until his retirement in September, 1999. James Staunton Ed.D., served as Commissioner from September 1, 1999, until his retirement on July 31, 2011. Rob Wigod began his service as Commissioner on August 1, 2011, after having served as Assistant Commissioner for 11 years, before retiring on August 1, 2023. The “home” of the Southern Section has a varied history. At the outset, basements, surplus school rooms and even the homes of secretaries served as the official office.
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graciously permitted the use of one of its rooms during the 1930s, with Oneonta School and South Pasadena High School serving as the home office from 1942 until 1949. There was a period of time the office was in the home of Commissioner Seth Van Patten. Still without an official office, the Southern Section moved its supplies to Helms Hall, a bakery in Culver City in 1949 and remained at the Venice Blvd. site until 1959. It was in February of that year that the Southern Section built its first ever administration office, located on the corners of Carmona and West Washington in Los Angeles. As membership grew and the Sections’ population center moved, so did the CIF-SS office. In 1965, the Section office built and moved into its third home and second devoted strictly to the CIF-SS day-to-day operations. That space was located next to
Gahr High School Richard Gahr High School, often simply known as Gahr High School, is a public, STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) magnet high school in Cerritos, California, serving grades 9- 12. Gahr High is one of three comprehensive high ...
on Artesia Blvd. in the city of Cerritos. That remained the home base of the section until October 2003 when the ever-expanding membership required a larger facility. Thus, the new and current administrative home became the Pine Street location in Los Alamitos. The California Interscholastic Federation, Southern Section, is a non-profit corporation organized to direct and control both boys and girls athletics in the secondary schools within the Section. The Southern Section is administered on a day-to-day basis by the Commissioner, five Assistant Commissioners, a chief Financial Officer, a Marketing Manager and a staff of eight support personnel. The Southern Section is not only the oldest, but the largest of 10 such sections in the state—its membership has grown from an original 30 schools to over 560+ schools and from 5 leagues to almost 90 leagues.


Sports

CIF-SS sponsors the following sports:


Fall Season

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American Football American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at e ...
(11-person) (divided into 14 divisions) * 8-person football (2 divisions) * Competitive Traditional Cheer * Cross country (5 divisions) *
Field Hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...
*Girls
Flag Football Flag football is a variant of gridiron football (American football or Canadian football depending on location) where, instead of Tackle (football move)#Gridiron football, tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or ...
*Girls
Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
(9 divisions) *Girls
Tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...
(6 divisions) *Boys
Water Polo Water polo is a competitive sport, competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the water polo ball, ball into the oppo ...
(7 divisions) *Girls
Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...
(4 divisions)


Winter Season

* Boys
Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...
(10 divisions) * Girls Basketball (10 Divisions) *
Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
(Boys and Girls) (7 divisions) *Girls
Water Polo Water polo is a competitive sport, competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the water polo ball, ball into the oppo ...
(7 divisions) *Boys
Wrestling Wrestling is a martial art, combat sport, and form of entertainment that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset. Wrestling involves di ...
(7 Divisions) * Girls Wrestling (7 divisions)


Spring Season

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Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...
(9 Divisions) *
Badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...
*Boys
Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...
(7 Divisions) *
Gymnastics Gymnastics is a group of sport that includes physical exercises requiring Balance (ability), balance, Strength training, strength, Flexibility (anatomy), flexibility, agility, Motor coordination, coordination, artistry and endurance. The movem ...
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Lacrosse Lacrosse is a contact team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game w ...
(Boys and Girls) (3 Divisions) *
Softball Softball is a Variations of baseball, variation of baseball, the difference being that it is played with a larger ball, on a smaller field, and with only underhand pitches (where the ball is released while the hand is primarily below the ball) ...
(7 Divisions) *
Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Swimmers achieve locomotion by coordinating limb and body movements to achieve hydrody ...
(Boys and Girls - 4 Divisions) *Boys
Tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...
(6 Divisions) *
Track and Field Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...
(Boys and Girls - 4 Divisions) *Boys
Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
(6 Divisions) *Girls
Beach Volleyball Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two to four players each on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side o ...
(2 Divisions) *Girls
Stunt Cheer A stunt is an unusual, difficult, dramatic physical feat that may require a special skill, performed for artistic purposes usually for a public audience, as on television or in theaters or cinema. Stunts are a feature of many action films. Befo ...
(1 Divisions)


Leagues

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605 League The 605 League is a high school athletic conference in southeastern Los Angeles County, California affiliated with the CIF Southern Section. It was created in 2019, with 3 members of from the Suburban League (California), Suburban League; Artesia ...
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Academy League The Academy League is a defunct high school athletic league in Orange County that is part of the CIF Southern Section The California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section (CIF-SS) is the governing body for high school athletics in most ...
* Agape/Cross Valley Conference * Agape League * Almont League *
Ambassador League The Ambassador League is a high school athletic league that is part of the CIF Southern Section. Members are independent Christian schools located in Riverside County and San Bernardino County. Members As of the 2019–2020 season: * Aquinas Hig ...
* Angelus League (football only) * Arrowhead League * Arrowhead Athletic Conference * Baseline League *
Bay League The Bay League is a high school athletic conference in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County, California affiliated with the CIF Southern Section. Member schools *Culver City High School *Mira Costa High School *Palos Verdes High School * Pen ...
* Big VIII League * Camino Del Rey Association *
Camino Real League The Camino Real League is a high school athletic league that is part of the CIF Southern Section. Member schools * Bishop Montgomery High School (Torrance) * Don Bosco Technical Institute, Bosco Tech (Rosemead) * Cantwell-Sacred Heart of Mary High ...
* Century Conference *
Channel League The Channel League is a high school athletic conference in California affiliated with the CIF Southern Section. Schools * Buena High School *Dos Pueblos High School * Oxnard High School * Pacifica High School *Rio Mesa High School * San Marcos Hig ...
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Citrus Belt League Citrus Belt League (CBL) is a high school sports league in the Inland Empire region within the Greater Los Angeles area of California's CIF Southern Section. The Citrus Belt League is one of the five founding leagues of the California Interschol ...
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Citrus Coast League The Citrus Coast League (CCL) is a high school athletic conference in California that is affiliated with the CIF Southern Section. Established in 2018, the league consists primarily of small public high schools in Ventura County, with one member e ...
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Coast Valley League The Coast Valley League is a high school athletic conference that is affiliated with the CIF Southern Section (CIF-SS). As of the 2020–21 school year, members are small schools located in San Luis Obispo County, California, San Luis Obispo, Santa ...
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Coast View Conference The Coast View Athletic Association is a high school athletic league that is part of the CIF Southern Section. It is an amalgamation of the Sea View League and the South Coast Leagues. Members * Aliso Niguel High School * Beckman High School *C ...
* Coastal League *
Coastal Canyon League The Coastal Canyon League (CCL) is a high school athletic conference that is affiliated with the CIF Southern Section (CIF-SS). The league was established in 2014 during the CIF-SS Northern Area's biennial releaguing process, drawing several memb ...
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Condor League The Condor League is a secondary school athletic conference that is affiliated with the CIF Southern Section. The members are preparatory schools located along the Central Coast of California. References

CIF Southern Section leagues S ...
* Crestview League * Cross Valley League *
Del Rey League The Del Rey League is a high school athletic conference that is part of the CIF Southern Section. Members are mostly private, parochial schools in the South Bay affiliated the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Member schools * Bishop Ama ...
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Del Rio League The Del Rio League is a high school athletic league that is part of the CIF Southern Section. Members are located around Whittier in Los Angeles County Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles and sometimes abbreviated as LA ...
* Desert Empire League * Desert Sky League *
Desert Valley League The Desert Valley League is an American high school sports league primarily within the Coachella Valley of Riverside County, California, with some schools from surrounding areas. The league is affiliated with the CIF Southern Section. As of the 2 ...
* Empire League * Express League *
Foothill League The Foothill League is a high school athletic conference in the Santa Clarita Valley area of Los Angeles County, California that is affiliated with the CIF Southern Section. All current members are part of the William S. Hart Union High School Dist ...
* Freeway League *
Frontier League The Frontier League (FL; French: ''Ligue Frontière'', LF) is a professional baseball league in North America composed of 18 teams – 15 in the United States and 3 in Canada. The FL is one of the eight independent baseball leagues in North Ame ...
* Gateway League *
Garden Grove League The Garden Grove League is a high school athletic league that is part of the CIF Southern Section. Members are located in and around Garden Grove, Orange County. Schools * Bolsa Grande High School * La Quinta High School * Loara High School * ...
* Gold Coast League * Golden League *
Golden West League The Golden West League is a high school athletic league that is part of the CIF Southern Section. Member schools are public schools in Orange County. The league began play in 1994. Servite, Saddleback, and Tustin High School were founding members ...
* Hacienda League * Heritage League * Independence League * Inland Valley League * International Conference * International League * Ivy League *
Liberty League The Liberty League is an intercollegiate athletic conference which competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. Member schools are all located in the state of New York. History It was founded in 1995 as the ...
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Liberty Conference Liberty is the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views. The concept of liberty can vary depending on perspective and context. In the Constitutional ...
* Los Angeles Athletic Association * Majestic League *
Marmonte League The Marmonte League is a high school athletic conference in California affiliated with the CIF Southern Section (CIF-SS). The league is composed of schools located in Ventura and Los Angeles counties. Member schools Current As of the 2020–21 s ...
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Mid-Cities League The Mid-Cities is a suburban region filling the 30-mile (48 km) span between Dallas, Texas, Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth. These communities include the cities of Arlington, Texas, Arlington, Bedford, Texas, Bedford, Colleyville, Texas ...
* Miramonte League * Mission League *
Mission Valley League The Mission Valley League is a high school athletic league that is part of the CIF Southern Section. Member schools are all in the west side of the San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County It was created in 1972 with eight schools: El Monte ...
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Mojave River League The Mojave River League is a high school athletic league that is part of the CIF Southern Section. Members are located in the Hesperia and Apple Valley area of San Bernardino County, California, north of Cajon Pass in the San Gabriel Mountains. ...
* Montview League *
Moore League The Moore League is a high school sports league in Southern California. It comprises seven schools: public traditional high schools of the Long Beach Unified School District plus Compton High School. The league is administered by the California ...
* Mountain Pass League * Mountain Valley League * Mt. Baldy League *
Mulholland League The Mulholland League is a high school athletic league that is part of the CIF Southern Section. Members are charter and independent schools located in and around Los Angeles. Members * Ambassador Christian * Ánimo Leadership Charter High Schoo ...
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National League National League often refers to: *National League (baseball), one of the two baseball leagues constituting Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada *National League (division), the fifth division of the English football (soccer) system ...
* North Hills League *
Ocean League The Ocean League is a high school athletic conference in Los Angeles County, California affiliated with the CIF Southern Section. Member schools *Beverly Hills High School * Centennial High School * Hawthorne High School * Inglewood High School * ...
* Olympic League * Omega League * Orange League * Orange Coast League *
Pacific League The , or , or the , due to sponsorship reasons, is one of the two professional baseball leagues constituting Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. The winner of the league championship competes against the winner in the Central League for the a ...
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Pacific Coast Conference The Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) was a collegiate athletic conference in the United States which existed from 1915 to 1959. Though the Pac-12 Conference claims the PCC's history as part of its own, with eight of the ten PCC members (includin ...
* Pacific Hills League * Pacific Valley League *
Pacific View League The Pacific View League (PVL) was a high school athletic conference in California affiliated with the CIF Southern Section. The league was formed in 1998, pulling Camarillo and Channel Islands high schools from the Marmonte League to join Hueneme, ...
* Pioneer League * Palomares League * Prep League * Raincross Conference *
Rio Hondo League The Rio Hondo League is a high school athletic league that is part of the CIF Southern Section. Members are located in the Pasadena area in the western San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County. The league was created in 1962. Members * B ...
* River Valley League * San Andreas League * San Joaquin League * Santa Fe League *
Sea View League The Sea View League, along with the South Coast League in Orange County, California, make up the nine member high schools of the Coast View Athletic Association, which is part of the California Interscholastic Federation's Southern Section. For ...
* Serra League * Skyline League *
Soledad League Soledad, Spanish for "solitude", often refers to María de la Soledad (Our Lady of Solitude), a title of Mary the mother of Jesus in Roman Catholic tradition and a form of devotion. Soledad may refer to: People * Chalon people or Soledad, a Nativ ...
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South Coast League The South Coast League of Professional Baseball (SCL), based in Conyers, Georgia, was a professional, Independent league baseball, independent baseball organization located in the Southeastern United States. It operated in cities not served by ...
* South Valley League *
Southwestern League The Southwestern League was the name of four former minor league baseball leagues that operated in the Southwestern United States. The second league, also known as the ''Oklahoma State League'', was in operation for the 1904 season. The third ...
* Sunbelt League *
Suburban Valley Conference A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area. They are oftentimes where most of a metropolitan areas jobs are located with some being predominantly residential. They can either be denser or less densely populated ...
* Sunkist League *
Sunset Conference Sunset (or sundown) is the disappearance of the Sun at the end of the Sun path, below the horizon of the Earth (or any other astronomical object in the Solar System) due to its rotation. As viewed from everywhere on Earth, it is a phenomenon th ...
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Sunset League The Sunset League was a minor league baseball circuit that operated from 1947 through 1950. The Sunset League was a Class C level league, with franchises based in the United States and Mexico. The league expanded from six to eight teams from 1 ...
* Sunshine League *
Surf League Surf is the region of breaking waves on a shoaling area of water such as a shoreline or reef. Surf or SURF may also refer to: Commercial products * Surf (detergent), a brand of laundry detergent made by Unilever Computers and software * "S ...
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Trinity League The Trinity League is a high school athletic conference in Southern California, part of the CIF Southern Section. The League is regarded as one of the most competitive high school leagues in the United States. Most famous for football, the Trinity ...
* Tri-County Athletic Association * Tri-County Premier * Tri-Valley League *
Valle Vista League The Valle Vista League is a high school athletic league that is part of the CIF Southern Section. Members are located in east San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County. Members * Charter Oak High School * Covina High School * Diamond Ranc ...
* Victory League * Wave League *
Western Athletic Conference The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is an NCAA Division I conference. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the Western United States with member institutions located in Arizona, California, Texas, Utah and Washington (state), Washington. Due to ...
* Western League Source


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External links

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