{"id":1920,"date":"2009-07-15T23:29:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T06:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2009-07-16T10:42:33","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T17:42:33","slug":"breaking-news-monrovia-girls-basketball-coach-is-basil-woodruff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1920","title":{"rendered":"Update: Breaking News!  Basil Woodruff Named Monrovia Girls Basketball Head Coach."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has now been confirmed that Basil Woodruff is the new head coach for the girls basketball team at Monrovia.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Woodruff comes with a impressive resume as he was head coach of Alhambra (Martinez, Ca.) for 10 games prior to being relieved for unspecified reasons.\u00a0 He led the Bulldogs to a 4-6 record prior to his dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his stint in Northern California, Woodruff was a assistant for the Boys Varsity team at Redondo Union High School for eight seasons and was the freshman&#8217;s head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Woodruff\u00a0 graduated from George Mason University.\u00a0 He has ties to Hall of Fame coach John Thompson Sr and current Georgetown head coach John Thompson Jr.<\/p>\n<p>He has had stints as a basketball coach and Herndon and Mount Vernon in the Washington, D.C area.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year old head coach is a former Air Force veteran, and former Presidential Honor Guard.\u00a0 He currently works as a systems engineer for a aerospace company.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Woodruff inherits a Lady Wildcat that was one game away from the CIF Division III-A championship game, when they dropped a semi-final game to Foothill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has now been confirmed that Basil Woodruff is the new head coach for the girls basketball team at Monrovia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[100,376,382,381,50,377],"class_list":["post-1920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-alhambra","tag-basil-woodruff","tag-john-thompson-jr","tag-john-thompson-sr","tag-monrovia","tag-redondo-union"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1933,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions\/1933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}