Coaches Corner
- Yuba City's Davis named area's top coach
- By Ryan Klocke/Appeal-Democrat
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The conditioning was brutal: Running, running, and more running. Runs up stadium stairs in weight vests, runs with elastic jump bands, 40-yard dashes on the football field.
One player threw up three times on the first day of this regimen.
T... Full story
- Indians great returns to Marysville as head coach
- By Jimmy Graben/Appeal-Democrat
- A banner hanging on the north wall at Lesta Joubert Gymnasium serves as a daily reminder for Mark Wright.
It represents Marysville High's 1993 Sac-Joaquin Section championship team that made it to the final four of the state championship.
In white ... Full story
- One last goodbye for coach
- By Ryan Klocke/Appeal-Democrat
- Before this season, Jim Stassi told his players to "build a fire." It was just one of his many speeches, with topics ranging from baseball to the everyday facets of teenage life. But when it mattered most, with a four-peat on the line, the coach recy... Full story
- Luevano takes over for Stassi at Yuba City
- By Ryan Klocke/Appeal-Democrat
- Vicente Luevano remembers playing on the perfectly trimmed grass. He remembers the shimmering white bases, cleanly chalked lines and the light standards that illuminated it all, giving he and his Yuba City High teammates the chance to play once the s... Full story
- East Nic's Deniz turns losses into gains
- By Ryan Klocke/Appeal-Democrat
- Dave Deniz was cruising along as an assistant softball coach for East Nicolaus High when the offer came to coach the boys. It was a no-brainer, no-trepidation, no-second thought type-situation for the baseball buff.
He said, "no."
And with good rea... Full story
- Bigg man on campus
- Lindhurst skipper named Coach of the Year
- By Andy Arrenquin/Appeal-Democrat
- When Bill Biggs took over as coach at Lindhurst High four years ago, he inherited a softball program in shambles.
The Blazers had just wrapped up an 0-11 campaign in a season cut short due to a loss of players for academic reasons. Biggs was the jun... Full story
- Final farewell
- Jim Stassi makes it official and steps down as head coach
- By Bryan DeMain/Appeal-Democrat
- Still difficult to imagine himself off the field, Jim Stassi muttered the simple words, "Yeah ... yeah."
After 18 seasons of success at the helm of the Yuba City High baseball team, the skipper confirmed on Tuesday that he's stepping down from the p... Full story
- Watt takes over Colusa football
- By Todd R. Hansen/Tri-County Newspapers
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Four points separated Bob Miller and the Colusa High football team from a Northern Section Div. III championship last fall.
Ten years had separated the last time the Redskins had even gone to the playoffs.
Now the future of the program falls to... Full story
- Live Oak’s Walton earns coaching honor
- By Ryan Klocke/Appeal-Democrat
- Average to astounding.
It's what has happened to the Live Oak softball team in the course of a season, and its no coincidence that Erin Walton was at the helm.
When she took over this season as the head coach of the Lions, she inherited a team that... Full story
- Live Oak High seeks coach
- Live Oak High school is accepting applications for a JV volleyball coach.
Contact Matt Weinrich at 695-5415, ext. 210 for more information.... Full story
- Lindhurst coach Mason stepping down
- Won two section titles in six years with Blazers
- By Todd R. Hansen/Appeal-Democrat
- The man who revitalized the Lindhurst High football program, and who many say instilled pride in the athletic program, in the student body and in the community at-large, is stepping down as head coach.
Mike Mason made the announcement official today... Full story
- Football coaching shuffle under way
- EN’s Ray moving on to new, bigger school; Cox out at Gridley
- By Richard Myers/Appeal-Democrat
- Two Mid-Valley high schools are looking for head football coaches, just two months after the 2007 season ended.
Matt Ray, who guided East Nicolaus to back-to-back Northern Section Div. IV championships, and Tim Cox, who took an unbeaten Gridley squa... Full story
- Baseball, softball clinics offered
- The following baseball and softball clinics are being offered:
• BASEBALL
Winter camp at Yuba City High
Yuba City High baseball coach Jim Stassi and Scott Golby, the director of scouting on the West Coast for the Florida Marlins, will be ins... Full story
- River Valley coach fired
- Junior varsity coach steps in for now
- Appeal-Democrat
- Just four weeks before River Valley High is going to play its first true home football game, the program has been shaken by the firing of popular head coach John Scott.
There have been reports that Scott may have been involved in practices prior to ... Full story
