COACHING MOVES: SILVA MAKES MOVE.Byline: Heather Gripp Daily News Staff Writer SIMI VALLEY Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. - When Andy Silva took over the Royal High girls' soccer team, he gave himself five years to turn the program into a contender or else he would resign. Silva maintains the same drive for success that prompted him to step down from the girls' team in 1999, but he shouldn't have to use his five-year plan Five-Year Plan, Soviet economic practice of planning to augment agricultural and industrial output by designated quotas for a limited period of usually five years. to get a dominant team in his new position as Royal's boys' soccer coach. When Silva was appointed coach last week, he became the latest in a series of offseason coaching newcomers to inherit a winning program. At least six varsity teams In the United States and Canada and UK, varsity sports teams are the principal athletic teams representing a college, university, or high school or other secondary school. Such teams compete against the principal athletic teams at other colleges/universities, or in the case of at the Simi Valley school will have new coaches for the upcoming school year. The softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' team will also likely get a new coach. Silva said he was asked to step down from coaching the softball team if he accepted the soccer position but would like to coach both. Silva replaces Kevin Corley, who guided the Highlanders to two Southern Section Division I titles (1995 and 1997) in his 10 years at the helm. Corley is moving to Colorado because of his wife's job, leaving Silva with a team that returns several starters from last season's 20-8-3 team which reached the quarterfinals. ``I hope to continue the success the program has had at Royal,'' Silva said. ``Kevin did a very nice job. I'm hoping I can carry that out.'' Silva guided his teams to nine Marmonte League The Marmonte League is a high school sports league primarily made up of schools from Ventura County. The Marmonte Leauge is part of the CIF Southern Section. Click here to view the league schedule. titles while coaching boys' soccer at Simi Valley High from 1979 to 1993. He is already familiar with many of the Highlanders since he coached the boys' junior varsity team For the American rock band, see . In sports, usually at the high school and college levels, members of a team who are not the main players in a competition (such as a football or basketball game) are called junior varsity players. this past season. Some of the players are also helping Silva run his summer soccer camps. Silva is entering his 29th year of coaching. Most of those years have entailed coaching more than one sport, so he is hoping Royal administrators will allow him to remain with the softball team, at least as an assistant. ``I really would like to do both,'' said Silva, who coached the Highlanders softball team since 1993. ``I'm hoping there'll be a door open for me to stay involved. ``We've been building and the program's on the rise. We feel we'll have a very, very good season next year and I don't want to miss on the final product. I'm not ready to get out of softball yet.'' Other programs changing hands include the boys' basketball, girls' volleyball, boys' track, girls' track and girls' water polo water polo, swimming game encompassing features of soccer, football, basketball, and hockey. The object of the game is to maneuver, by head, feet, or hand, a leather-covered ball 27 to 28 in. teams. Cross country coach John Clarke John Clarke may be:
Among the other new head coaches is Eddie Gutierrez, who was recently named boys' basketball coach in place of Larry Wiksell, who stepped down to spend more time with his family. Gutierrez was the junior varsity junior varsity n. Abbr. JV A high-school or college team that competes in interschool sports on the level below varsity. Noun 1. coach at Moorpark High the past 15 years. His teams won league titles three of the past four years and went 24-1 last season. He will try to find similar success with a Royal team that went 14-12 last season and qualified for the playoffs for the third time in four years but graduated all its starters. After spending recent years as an assistant, Travis Ferguson replaces his father Bob Ferguson as the girls' volleyball coach. There is speculation that Travis will soon take over the boys' program, too. |
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