{"id":46224,"date":"2015-01-15T21:40:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T04:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=46224"},"modified":"2017-06-10T10:48:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:48:39","slug":"mid-valley-division-coach-of-the-year-2014-northviews-marcel-perez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=46224","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Valley Division Head Coach of the Year 2014: Northview&#8217;s Marcel Perez"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30532\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=30532\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30532\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30532\" class=\"size-large wp-image-30532\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_0246-753x768.jpg\" alt=\"Northview HC Marcel Perez: Mid-Valley Division Coach of the Year   \" width=\"520\" height=\"530\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northview HC Marcel Perez: Mid-Valley Division Coach of the Year<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Back in August everybody knew about Paraclete, Pomona, Sierra Canyon and San Dimas. Even schools such as\u00a0Montebello, Baldwin Park and\u00a0Arroyo were being tossed around as serious contenders.\u00a0Nobody was hearing much about Northview.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Vikings had a freshman quarterback, lost some key defensive starters and\u00a0had to compete with\u00a0San Dimas and Covina in the Valle Vista League. Championship? Some thought this team would be grateful just to make the playoffs.\u00a0Well Marcel Perez led them to the playoffs all right. In fact\u00a0he nearly led them to the Mid-Valley Division Finals.\u00a0Northview\u00a0was up on Paraclete\u00a0late in the fourth quarter\u00a0in the semi finals before falling 15-12.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings won the Valle Vista League with a perfect 5-0 record after rolling through\u00a0Mid-Valley\u00a0Playoff teams Rosemead, Montebello and Baldwin Park in the non league schedule.\u00a0San Dimas?\u00a0They beat them 44-26.\u00a0Northview finished 11-2 overall.<\/p>\n<p>How did they do it? The freshman Steven\u00a0Comstock\u00a0grew up in a hurry and managed his team\u00a0effectively while throwing for over\u00a01400 yards in the process.\u00a0Running backs Eli Grijalva, Alex Camacho\u00a0and Andres Hooper combined for over 2900 yards on the ground. Defensively Northview\u00a0was one of the most physical teams in the division and proved it by trading\u00a0punches with legendary\u00a0Paraclete throughout the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Perez oversaw the entire operation, moving the pieces,\u00a0calling the shots and putting the Vikings in a position to win the title.\u00a0Perez might\u00a0not be the most vocal guy in the world but he coaches the way he used to play &#8211; with a toughness that is hard to match.\u00a0He shows up every day\u00a0and works hard at improving\u00a0each and every facet of his team&#8217;s game.\u00a0San Dimas HC Bill Zernickow called him one of the\u00a0toughest, best\u00a0players he ever\u00a0coached.\u00a0Coaching\u00a0with the same\u00a0toughness\u00a0Perez was the best coach in the Mid-Valley Division in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>He is our Coach of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in August everybody knew about Paraclete, Pomona, Sierra Canyon and San Dimas. Even schools such as\u00a0Montebello, Baldwin Park and\u00a0Arroyo were being tossed around as serious contenders.\u00a0Nobody was hearing much about Northview.<\/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":[2533,1169,7643],"class_list":["post-46224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball","tag-marcel-perez","tag-mid-valley-division","tag-northview-football"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46224","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=46224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46226,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46224\/revisions\/46226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}