Bee’s Best prep football poll: Quarterback ace Garcia wins ‘Best Senior’ poll

Anthony Garcia enters this 2021 high school football season as the Sac-Joaquin Section’s top-rated quarterback prospect.

He’s a 3-star recruit for Capital Christian, and he has a lot of backing. In generating just over 28,000 votes for a poll that had 63,204 votes total, Garcia won The Bee Best voting on who is the area’s top senior player.

The 6-foot-3 Garcia is the son of assistant coach Aaron Garcia, The Bee’s Player of the Year in 1987 who played at Sacramento State and 20 seasons in Arena Football and tossed a remarkable 1,336 touchdowns. Garcia is a 4.0 student who dazzled in spring games and leads the No. 10 Cougars into a season opener tonight against Atwater.

This story was originally published August 20, 2021 at 11:59 AM.

Joe Davidson

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Joe Davidson has covered sports for The Sacramento Bee since 1989: preps, colleges, Kings and features. He was in early 2024 named the National Sports Media Association Sports Writer of the Year for California and he was in the fall of 2024 inducted into the California High School Football Hall of Fame. He is a 14-time award winner from the California Prep Sports Writer Association. In 2021, he was honored with the CIF Distinguished Service award. He is a member of the California Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Davidson participated in football and track in Oregon.