{"id":46193,"date":"2015-01-13T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T19:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=46193"},"modified":"2017-06-10T00:03:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T07:03:21","slug":"central-division-head-coach-of-the-year-2014-los-altos-dale-ziola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=46193","title":{"rendered":"Central Division Head Coach of the Year 2014: Los Altos&#8217; Dale Ziola"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_45405\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=45405\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45405\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45405\" class=\"wp-image-45405\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DALE-ZIOLA.jpg\" alt=\"Los Altos HC Dale Ziola \" width=\"380\" height=\"503\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Altos HC Dale Ziola<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Los Altos was dead in the water. They were cooked, finished.\u00a0After a\u00a021-0 loss to West Covina on October 24, the Conquerors were 3-5 overall and 1-2 in the Hacienda League. Everybody wrote them off. CIF Finals? At this point all Los Altos\u00a0and head coach Dale Ziola wanted was one win.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Well they got that one win the next week against\u00a0Diamond Ranch and they just kept on winning. Los Altos proceeded to win five straight\u00a0advancing all the way to the Central Division title game against\u00a0Colony. What changed? Part of it\u00a0was the Los Altos defense making big plays and another part was the running of\u00a0Tyler Nevens who finished with\u00a0over 1600 yards on the ground.\u00a0But the main part, the overriding factor, was the coaching of Ziola and his staff.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of panicking, Ziola stayed\u00a0the course.\u00a0He continued to encourage, teach and guide his team\u00a0out of the valley, over the hill and nearly to the pinnacle\u00a0before falling short in the championship.<\/p>\n<p>With schools\u00a0like Charter Oak, Kaiser,\u00a0Monrovia and eventual champ Colony nobody expected Los Altos to be a contender. And especially not after losing two of its first three league games.\u00a0But Ziola made it happen and\u00a0has turned Los Altos back into a\u00a0great program. Dale Ziola is our\u00a0Central Division Head Coach of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Altos was dead in the water. They were cooked, finished.\u00a0After a\u00a021-0 loss to West Covina on October 24, the Conquerors were 3-5 overall and 1-2 in the Hacienda League. Everybody wrote them off. CIF Finals? At this point all Los Altos\u00a0and head coach Dale Ziola wanted was one win.<\/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":[11550,10265,4596,7642,10766],"class_list":["post-46193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball","tag-central-division","tag-colony-football","tag-dale-ziola","tag-los-altos-football","tag-tyler-nevens"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46193","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=46193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46196,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46193\/revisions\/46196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}