The CIF Football Advisory Committee met recently and made several recommendations for how to choose teams and divisions for postseason play.

The meeting, which usually takes 30-45 minutes, went for more than 90 minutes before San Diego Section Commissioner Joe Heinz decided to convene the group at a later date.

“The committee members were very prepared,” Heinz said. “They brought up some very good points, but we were getting into our time to choose our All-CIF teams.

“So we’ll meet again soon when we have more time to discuss and digest recommendations and suggestions.

“Nothing was decided, but there was a lot of food for thought.”

Winter playoffs

In the fall, the football playoffs were seeded by CalPreps. San Diego’s flag football, girls volleyball, boys water polo and field hockey team used the CIF Power Rankings for playoff seeding. Girls golf used the USGA, cross country used athletic.net and tennis used Universal Tennis.

The winter will be slightly different. MaxPreps will be used to seed boys and girls basketball playoffs. Boys and girls soccer and girls water polo will use the CIF Power Rankings, while Track Wrestling will be used to seed boys and girls wrestling brackets.

More winter playoffs

There are 24 schools in Division 1 for both boys and girls basketball playoffs.

Eight will break out to form the Open Division, leaving a 16-team bracket for Division 1. Divisions No. 2, 3 and 4 will take 16 of 21 available teams. Divisions 5 and 5-AA will take 12 of 19.

Boys and girls soccer will use much the same format as basketball. But since there are fewer girls teams in Divisions 5 and 5-AA, those brackets will be eight teams apiece.

Boys and girls wrestling divisions will be based on school enrollment, with four divisions in the boys and two girls.

There will be four divisions for girls water polo — eight in the Open Division and 12 each in Divisions 1, 2 and 3.

Jocks Luncheon upcoming

Regional Supervisor of NFL Officials Garth DeFelice will be the guest speaker at the 28th annual San Diego Jocks Luncheon, scheduled for Feb. 3 at Tom Ham’s Lighthouse.

In addition, Lincoln High School football coach David Dunn, Poway High wrestling coach John Meyers, San Diego High School grad and former big-leaguer Deron Johnson, former San Diego High School and NFL player Art Powell and former San Pasqual High School, San Diego State and USD volleyball player and coach Sue Hegerle-Snyder will be honored.

DeFelice played at Patrick Henry High School before spending two seasons (1975 and ’76) at San Diego State. He was an on-field NFL umpire  from 1993-2013. He worked Super Bowl 40.

Registration starts at 9 a.m., with the program set to begin at 10:30.

Cost for the program, buffet lunch and raffles is $55 in advance, $60 at the door.

For more information, call Joe Dini at 949-280-8616.

Jackson honored

Madison High School senior Ryan Jackson receive the 2024 Dr. Pepper Most Inspirational Player Award.

A receiver/quarterback in football and outfielder in baseball, Jackson is a team leader and carries a 4.46 GPA.

He was honored Dec. 27 before the Holiday Bowl at Snapdragon Stadium.

Chargers acknowledge coaches

Kellan Cobbs of Granite Hills and Ryland Wickman of Torrey Pines were honored San Diego Section football and flag football coaches of the year by the Los Angeles Chargers.

Cobbs led Granite Hills to an 11-3 record. The Eagles were the San Diego Section Division 1 champions.

Wickman led Torrey Pines’ girls to the Avocado League flag football championship and a 17-8 record.

New hires at El Cap

El Capitan High School announced Alan Strong has been hired as baseball coach and that Sahil Alami was promoted from assistant boys basketball coach to head job.

Strong played at Santana, Grossmont College and UNLV and was drafted in the 10th round by the Tampa Bay Rays. He played six years in the minor leagues becoming the pitching coach at Point Loma High School. He is a special education teacher at El Capitan.

Alami graduated from West Hills High School and earned a degree in Sports Management from Southern New Hampshire University. He has been part of the El Capitan basketball program for four years. He works as a PE Facilitator at Barona Indian Charter School.