{"id":30676,"date":"2013-01-03T14:50:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T21:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=30676"},"modified":"2017-06-10T00:58:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T07:58:54","slug":"northwest-division-coach-of-the-year-north-torrance-hc-todd-croce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=30676","title":{"rendered":"Northwest Division Coach of The Year: North Torrance HC Todd Croce"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Longtime North Torrance HC Todd Croce<\/p><\/div>\n

Croce in many aspects as seen it all in the decade plus he\u2019s been leading the Saxons\u2019 program. First glance and you believe its been nothing but a gravy train for him with three CIF titles appearances since 2001.<\/p>\n

Closer scrutiny also reflects the hard times a 2-8 record in 2011. A 2-8 record in 2002. A 1-9 record in 2006.<\/p>\n

Deeper examination shows his ability to adapt in going from a powerful running team a decade ago to creating the only offensive attack in 2012 deadlier than the El Monte Air Circus.<\/p>\n

This was not expected, but it happened. He didn\u2019t just get a great season out of quarterback Jorge Hernandez (57 touchdown passes) and receivers Devante Jenkins and Mikey Jurado, but coaxed all-century type seasons out of them.<\/p>\n

North Torrance won its first playoff games since 2005, and went to the finals for a third time under Croce. An argument could be made that better weather might have brought about a different outcome, but there is no argument that the Saxon\u2019s 11-3 record was a result of Croce doing the finest job of any HC in the Northwest.<\/p>\n

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Northeast Newcomer of the Year: Nordhoff\u2019s Taylor Livingston<\/strong><\/p>\n

Southeast Newcomer of the Year: Downey\u2019s Justin Huff<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mid-Valley Newcomer of the Year: Sierra Canyon\u2019s Isaiah Renfro<\/strong><\/p>\n

Northwest DC of the Year: Nordhoff\u2019s Cliff Farrar<\/strong><\/p>\n

Southeast DC of the Year: La Serna\u2019s Margarito Beltran<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mid-Valley DC of the Year: Northview\u2019s Marcel Perez<\/strong><\/p>\n

Northwest OC of the Year: La Salle\u2019s Russell Gordon<\/strong><\/p>\n

Southeast OC of the Year: Norwalk\u2019s Jessie Ceniceros<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mid-Valley OC of the Year: El Monte\u2019s Brian Tabatabai<\/strong><\/p>\n

Northwest Coach of the Year: North Torrance\u2019s Todd Croce<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Other release Dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Southeast Coach of the Year\u2014January 4<\/p>\n

Mid-Valley Coach of the Year\u2014January 6<\/p>\n

Northwest Player of the Year\u2014January 7<\/p>\n

Southeast Player of the Year\u2014January 8<\/p>\n

Mid-Valley Player of the Year\u2014January 9<\/p>\n

Northwest Most Valuable Player\u2014January 10<\/p>\n

Southeast Most Valuable Player\u2014January 11<\/p>\n

Mid-Valley Most Valuable Player\u2014January 12<\/p>\n

All Northwest Team\u2014January 13<\/p>\n

All Southeast Team\u2014January 14<\/p>\n

All Mid-Valley Team\u2014January 15<\/p>\n

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Croce in many aspects as seen it all in the decade plus he\u2019s been leading the Saxons\u2019 program. First glance and you believe its been nothing but a gravy train for him with three CIF titles appearances since 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12816],"tags":[8063,8638,5761,8639,8062,7858],"class_list":["post-30676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball","tag-devante-jenkins","tag-jorge-hernandez","tag-mid-valley-sports","tag-mikey-jurado","tag-north-torrance-saxons-football","tag-todd-croce"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30676","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58816,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30676\/revisions\/58816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}