Coach-of-the-year candidates in highschool soccer preserve increasing

With two weeks left within the common season for highschool soccer, it’s grow to be clear there’s a big and rising listing of candidates for coach of the yr. They’re thought of primarily based on exceeding expectations, profitable championships or serving to to engineer a program turnaround when nobody noticed it coming.

Let’s assessment the good teaching performances up to now this season:

• Ray Fenton, Los Alamitos: The person seems to be so match he might run round any stadium with out breaking a sweat. Few anticipated the Griffins to be 8-0 at this level, not to mention be within the working for a Southern Part Division 1 playoff berth. He’s molded a workforce of greatest buddies into believing in themselves regardless of the opponent. San Clemente and Mission Viejo are the one groups standing in the way in which of a 10-0 common season.

• Terrance Whitehead, Crenshaw: When head coach Robert Garrett was positioned on administrative depart earlier than the season started, the Crenshaw grad and longtime assistant took over. Garrett helped prepare him, and Crenshaw is 7-1 going right into a Coliseum League title decider towards King/Drew on Friday. The Cougars have self-discipline, resiliency and are enjoying to make Garrett and his assistants proud.

  

  Crenshaw interim coach Terrance Whitehead talking with quarterback Danniel Flowers.

  (Robert H. Helfman)

• Brad Vonnahme, Crespi: Who predicted the Celts can be 8-0 and headed to the Del Rey League championship in Vonnahme’s third season of an enormous rebuilding job? He hasn’t introduced in transfers, reasonably counting on gamers who begin out as freshmen studying the sport and transfer up. There’s a bunch of sophomores being developed who could possibly be excellent within the coming seasons.

• Jason Negro, St. John Bosco: The Braves have established themselves because the No. 1 workforce in California, if not the nation, whereas counting on an enhancing sophomore quarterback and 4 receivers headed to varsity success. He is aware of championships are received with the assistance of the offensive and defensive strains, and people are the areas to look at because the playoffs method.

  

  St. John Bosco coach Jason Negro has his workforce ranked No. 1 within the nation.

  (Craig Weston)

• Jon Ellinghouse, Sierra Canyon: The Trailblazers are 8-0 and nobody has come near beating them. The season shall be primarily based on whether or not they can break via and disrupt the St. John Bosco-Mater Dei domination. Their protection is clearly the perfect in Southern California.
• Dylen Smith, Palisades: He misplaced his subject, misplaced his weight room and almost misplaced his workforce to the Palisades hearth. And but, the Dolphins have persevered and are 8-0 with gamers who stayed and a pair new ones who needed to expertise an journey with no assure of success.
• Chad Johnson, Mission Viejo: With the Diablos (7-1) having wins over Santa Margarita, Folsom and San Diego Lincoln, Johnson challenged his workforce with a troublesome nonleague schedule and so they’ve met that problem. He positioned his belief in quarterback Luke Fahey, and don’t doubt how far this workforce can advance.
• Rick Clausen, Westlake: An assistant coach all his life, Clausen determined to simply accept the top teaching place regardless that his spouse died of most cancers. He’s by some means managed to steadiness parenting duties and training duties, serving to a Westlake workforce go from 0-10 final season to 8-0 this season in his rookie yr.
• Tony Henney, Dana Hills: Wherever Henney goes, he succeeds. He’s been head coach at Nordhoff, Trabuco Hills, St. Bonaventure and Westlake. He has Dana Hills at 8-0 going right into a sport on Friday towards 8-0 Laguna Seashore, whose personal coach, John Shanahan, surrounded himself with an elite group of assistants, together with former JSerra head coach Scott McKnight. The winner of the battle of the unbeatens won’t be stopped the remainder of the way in which.

• Kevin Hettig, Corona del Mar: Along with his workforce 8-0 and difficult video games forward, Hettig has quietly and competently ready the Sea Kings to remain targeted and preserve enhancing every week.

  

  Corona del Mar head coach Kevin Hettig, quarterback Brady Annett, and NMUSD superintendent Dr. Wesley Smith.

  (Don Leach/Employees Photographer)

• Jason Miller, Leuzinger: Who loses his solely quarterback who can move and nonetheless retains the workforce profitable? Miller and the Olympians (6-1) are on the verge of ending Inglewood’s reign as a league champion through the use of 5-foot-8 Journee Tonga as his versatile offensive weapon and substitute quarterback.

• Mike Moon, Oxnard Pacifica: Moon is attempting to get his at all times underrated 8-0 workforce to run the desk within the Marmonte League. He’s helped develop junior quarterback Taylor Lee whereas managing rising expectations and profitable shut video games.

  

  Mike Moon of Oxnard Pacifica has his workforce at 8-0.

  (Eric Sondheimer / Los Angeles Instances)

• Raymond Carter, Torrance: The previous All-Metropolis working again at Crenshaw has his workforce at 8-0, beating native workforce after native workforce led by junior quarterback Gibson Turner, who has 20 landing passes.
• Mark Carson, Rio Hondo Prep: 12 months after yr, Carson has Rio Hondo Prep able to succeed. This yr’s 8-0 begin is not any completely different. A problem forward shall be enjoying in a more durable playoff division.
• Darryl Goree, Palm Springs: An 8-0 begin has the Indians being the discuss of city. Senior linebacker Koa Rapolla has been turned unfastened and is averaging 13 tackles a sport.
• Rick Curtis, Crean Lutheran: Curtis found out greatest use the most effective athletes within the Southland, quarterback/level guard Caden Jones, and it has led to an 8-0 report.