Citrus Belt League (C.B.L.) is a

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sports league in the

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region within the

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. The Citrus Belt League was one of the first leagues in 1913 when the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) was established under a different name. The league dates back to the 1890s, with founding members Chaffey High School of Ontario, Redlands High School, Riverside High School (now known as Riverside Poly) and San Bernardino High School. It was the only Division I league in the

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area since its inception, until 2006, when CIF Southern Section releagued it to Division II. The league also organizes an

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competition.

History

The original CBL included Pomona High School, Riverside High School,

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, Redlands High, Colton High, and Ontario's

Chaffey High School Chaffey High School is a public high school in Ontario, California, United States. It is part of the Chaffey Joint Union High School District and rests on approximately , making it one of the largest high schools by area in California. The schoo ...

. The league dates back to the 1890's. When the

athletics was established, CBL was a founding member. During this tenure, Redlands High and Chaffey High played in football 68 times between 1903 and 1986, making it one of the state's longest running and oldest rivalries in the sport. The early 1990s saw a four-year stint in which high desert schools

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, and

Victor Valley High School Victor Valley High School is located in Victorville, California, United States. It is the oldest high school in the Victor Valley Union High School District (VVUHSD). The original campus was located at the former Victor Valley Junior High and Un ...

combined in a six-team league with Redlands High School and Fontana High School. Beginning the 2012-13 season, Fontana High school left for the Sunkist league ending its sixty year membership. In the 2014–15 season, the league expanded to an eight-team realignment, adding Rialto's Carter High School, and the newly built Redlands Citrus High. When the Citrus Belt area leagues realigned for the 2018-2020 period, Eisenhower left for the San Andreas League, ending a 45-year membership in the CBL. Other past members include Colton High School,

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Palm Springs High School Palm Springs High School is a public high school for grades 9 through 12 located in Palm Springs, California as part of the Palm Springs Unified School District. It was built in 1938 in an effort led by city pioneer Nellie Coffman. Athletics P ...

, Moreno Valley High School, Riverside's

Rubidoux High School Rubidoux High School is a four-year public high school in Jurupa Valley, California. It is part of the Jurupa Unified School District, and it opened in 1959. It is one of four high schools in the district, the others being Jurupa Valley High Sch ...

, Ramona High School and Poly High, San Bernardino's

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, Pacific High School, Rialto's Eisenhower High and

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, Fontana's FoHi and A.B. Miller High School.

Members

Cajon High School Cajon High School is located in the University District of San Bernardino, California, and is part of the San Bernardino City Unified School District. Academics Cajon High School is part of the International Baccalaureate Organization (IB) incl ...

Cowboys (

) **Member since: 2013 * Beaumont High School Cougars (

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) **Member since: 2020 * Redlands Citrus Valley High School Blackhawks ( Redlands) **Member since: 2013 *

Redlands East Valley High School Redlands East Valley High School is a public English medium co-educational high school in Redlands, California, United States, near the San Bernardino Mountains. The school opened in the 1997-1998 school year as part of the Redlands Unified Scho ...

Wildcats ( Redlands) **Member since: 1997 *

Redlands High School Redlands High School is a high school located in Redlands, California, alongside Redlands East Valley High School and Citrus Valley High School. It is the oldest Californian public high school still functioning on its original site. History T ...

Terriers ( Redlands) **Member since: 1906 *

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Thunderbirds ( Yucaipa) **Member since: 2007

Sports

Fall Season (September–November)

Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

*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 ...

*Girls

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

Cross Country Running Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open coun ...

*Girls

Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

*Boys

Water Polo Water polo is a 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 ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the ...

Winter Season (December–February)

*Girls

*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 (appr ...

*Girls

*Boys

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

*Girls

Wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

Spring Season (March–May)

*Boys

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

Softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

Badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ...

*Boys

Track and Field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

*Girls

*Boys

Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

*Girls

*Boys

References

CIF Southern Section leagues {{California-sport-stub