Schools

Lady Sea Hawks No. 6 in Basketball Poll

The Redondo Union High School girls basketball team hits the No. 6 spot in the preseason coaches' poll. The boys basketball team is also ranked.

The season hasn't even officially started, but the CIF Southern Section released its pre-season coaches' polls for boys and girls basketball Monday, and both teams of Redondo Union High School Sea Hawks are ranked.

The coaches poll put the Redondo boys at No. 13 in Division 2AA.

The girls basketball team, which comes into the season with all-new starters, is ranked No. 6 in the Division 2AA poll. Last season, the Lady Sea Hawks won their first playoff game in four years and produced a 12-game winning streak.

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See below for the official rankings for both boys and girls basketball.

The boys and girls soccer teams and the girls water polo team were not ranked in this week's coaches' polls.

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Here are the official rankings:

Boys basketball
Division 2AA

  1. Thousand Oaks
  2. Tesoro
  3. Villa Park
  4. Cypress
  5. Canyon/Anaheim
  6. Canyon/Canyon Country
  7. North, J.W.
  8. Ocean View / Summit (tie)
  9. none
  10. Sunny Hills
  11. Ayala
  12. Inglewood
  13. Redondo Union
  14. Moreno Valley
  15. Lynwood
  16. Royal

Girls basketball
Division 2AA

  1. Canyon/Canyon Country
  2. JW North
  3. Ventura
  4. Lynwood
  5. Mark Keppel
  6. Redondo Union
  7. Sunny Hills
  8. Segerstrom
  9. Canyon/Anaheim
  10. Whitier
  11. Cathedral City
  12. Cypress
  13. Godinez
  14. Thousand Oaks
  15. West Covina
  16. Royal

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