SIERRA CANYON STATE CHAMPS
The 2021-22 athletic season might go down as one of the most memorable in Sierra Canyon’s proud history.
It was the return from the pandemic. It was the final hurrah in the Gold Coast League before moving next season to the Mission League.
And it was Sierra Canyon continuing to assert itself as an athletic juggernaut.
The banner season came from the girls basketball team, which captured the program’s fourth CIF state crown while re-establishing itself as one of the nation’s premier programs.
The girls basketball team produced a sparkling 30-2 campaign behind Juju Watkins, Mackenly Randolph and Leia Edwards.
Sierra Canyon, under venerable coach Alicia Komaki, avenged its loss to Etiwanda in the CIF Southern Section Open Division semifinals with a 60-51 victory in the Southern California Regionals, providing a culmination to an impressive story arc.
Sierra Canyon routed Archbishop Mitty in the state final 85-61.