By Tim Peterson
(El Monte) – Jim Singiser, who stepped down after the 2019 season after 17 seasons, has returned as the head football coach at Arroyo he confirmed Monday.
Singiser won 138 games in his first 17-year stint winning 10 Mission Valley League titles along the way. He guided Arroyo to a CIF Division 12 Championship in 2016 with a dramatic 35-34 overtime win over Rancho Mirage at B.L. Bergstrom Stadium.
Arroyo has had three head coaches since Singiser resigned after the 2019 season. The last being Pete Moye who resigned after one season.
The Knights were 5-6 overall last year and finished third in the MVL at 3-2. The Knights fell in the first round of the CIF Division 14 playoffs to Century 30-29.
A lot of familiar faces are returning with Singiser as well. Longtime offensive coordinator Chris MacMillan will return as OC and Chuck Leonardis, who took over as head coach when Singiser resigned, is back on staff as well.
“The opportunity came up to return where I started. A bunch of the old staff was onboard…it just kind of all fit,” Singiser said.
Singiser had helped out on the Arroyo coaching staff for a couple of years after stepping down as head coach but spent last year at Arcadia as the defensive coordinator.
But now he’s back to where it all started along with the rest of the staff. The Boys are back in town.
Arroyo Full Staff:
HC/ DC- Jim Singiser, OC – Chris MacMillan, QB- Ernesto Camacho, ST/OL – Chuck Leonardis, OL – Steve Singiser, WR-Hunter Duran, RB- Oscar Lopez, DL – Carlos Plasencia, LB- Dylan Leonardis, DB – Martin Garcia
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I think you just substantiated my point in your own unique style . The defense has never been there for this staff , and it gets dismantled by ordinary teams in playoffs whether at Bassett or EM. SEM crushed them in league championship game and that’s the only decent offense in league last year. So why would would it get better this year ? Spat is offensive guy
MVL Blues agree EM must get a decent defense, but possibly this staff being together for a heck of a long time (Bassett , then great things at Workman’s first championship in over 25 years with very quality QB and his one quality Wide Receiver , and a good RB, then back to Bassett I think and now at EM! And this staff’s defense has consistently had terrible defensive statistics. Even lost a CIF game , when coaching Workman, when they scored ?? 60 points or more. Defensive coordinators are possibly more important than a head coach ? In this situation; but only my opinion
Anonymous The man should have his opportunity to stop head coaching at one school, no matter the reason, and couple years later assist at another school. How many years did he head coach Arroyo? Plenty of years! I suggest that ‘he did not just ‘walk out on his players’. Is it at all possible , in your process of thought, that he wanted a break? Oh well maybe you have plenty of years of head coaching at one school and you never walked out?
Say what ?????
Winning one game in D14 , then D13 is not a deep run . I understand your glee in Arroyo demise (Tosemead even more severe decline) as this opens up spot in depleted MVL playoff race, but doesn’t mean Lions are good .
El Monte better find a defense because allowing 40+ isn’t going to win games of any portent.
Arroyo doesn’t have to rebound much to get back to the top.
@just the facts
Happy days are old and they show nothing but reruns. El Monte Cheers to back to back appearances deep into CIF, Arroyo deep into the bottom.
Arroyo was tanked when the hired Moyé. He took everything that arroyo had, and threw it out the window. Didn’t care about tradition, didn’t care about history. When you have 15 year old tantrums on field during games, try to fight the other teams, and go nuts on the AD in front of a HOME crowd. You deserve to get fired. He isn’t head coach material at all, he needs to take a hard look at himself. He may be an ok position coach. But that is it. Now that a new staff has been installed, they need to play clean up from everything that Moyé set flames to and bring back AHS to what it used to be. The knights have a a lot of clean up, but they will come back strong from the mess that Moyé made.
I don’t know if one year of Moye can erode program into Keppeldom, particularly with MVL so weak ( even with Mountain View hire).
I see Rosemead and Gab at bottom. Can’t believe acceptance of Panther faithful to this regime of disorganization that has taken Rosemead to Keppel- like levels.
I see Arroyo and SEM battling for title next whole MV will be improved and vie with El Monte for final
Playoff birth . You don’t have to be good to do well in this league , and I expect new coaching horses to move their squads back towards respectability.
That is the troublesome part. He is actually one of the few high school coaches who is well compensated. He does radio commercials, etc on top of that .
Anonymous
Facts
Singiser stepped down replaced by Leonardis. He also resigned as AD
Singiser offered his services to all the head coaches since.
The last one wanted a complete break from any coach that had coached at Arroyo. He even dismissed the freshman coach who had been coaching the freshman for 25 years
they will go 3-7 at best
@just the facts
… for El Monte. Back and forth with no loyalty its really a bad sign. If I was an athlete there I would not like a coach that turned his back for another possible success then finds out that the grass is not greener at Arcadia, then he gets to come back with open arms, that is a good recipe for failure or a bunch of favoritism. Arroyo is now the new Keppel.
Other boys are in the news. The Del Negro brothers of SJB are accused of stealing unknown sums and paying teenagers to play for them. I guess they thought they deserved more than 200k a year.
Doubt they can get placed in a division 4 divisions lower than they belonged this time around. Wont be as easy as in 2016.
Just hand another CIF title to them!
Didn’t know he left.
I couldn’t be happier about this news. The bit about MacMillan and Leonardis joining the action is, simply put, fantastic. Go Knights!
Happy days are here again!