{"id":47342,"date":"2015-03-23T21:06:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T04:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=47342"},"modified":"2017-06-10T00:51:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T07:51:05","slug":"oberlander-returns-to-whittier-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=47342","title":{"rendered":"Oberlander Returns to Whittier Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_47343\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=47343\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47343\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47343\" class=\"wp-image-47343\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/KEVIN-OBERLANDER.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Oberlander returns to Whittier Christian as DC \" width=\"280\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Oberlander returns to Whittier Christian as DC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p>(La Habra) &#8211; Kevin Oberlander,\u00a0who was previously on the Whittier Christian staff, and\u00a0the head coach at Western Christian for the\u00a0last\u00a0four years, has returned to Whittier Christian\u00a0as the defensive coordinator Herald Head Coach\u00a0Sergio Gradilla\u00a0confirmed Monday.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Oberlander went 3-7 in 2011 and then 7-3 in 2012 as the HC\u00a0at Western Christian.\u00a0He led the Fighting Lancers to the semi finals in 2013 going 12-1 overall. He then resigned from Western Christian\u00a0after the 2013 season when he was offered the head coaching job at\u00a0Marina in Huntington Beach.\u00a0But when\u00a0the offer didn&#8217;t pan out he\u00a0returned to Western and went 2-8 last season.<\/p>\n<p>Oberlander was the quarterbacks coach and the special teams coach\u00a0at Whittier Christian in 2009 and 2010 when the Heralds went to the Semis and then the Finals\u00a0against Monrovia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will be our DC\u00a0and\u00a0doing our strength and conditioning as well,&#8221; Gradilla said. &#8220;We are excited that he is back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last year the Heralds went\u00a01-3 in the Olympic League and 1-9 overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (La Habra) &#8211; Kevin Oberlander,\u00a0who was previously on the Whittier Christian staff, and\u00a0the head coach at Western Christian for the\u00a0last\u00a0four years, has returned to Whittier Christian\u00a0as the defensive coordinator Herald Head Coach\u00a0Sergio Gradilla\u00a0confirmed Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12816],"tags":[6802,11063,5301,3629,2789,6801,7063],"class_list":["post-47342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball","tag-kevin-oberlander","tag-marina-football","tag-monrovia-football","tag-olympic-league","tag-sergio-gradilla","tag-western-christian-football","tag-whittier-christian-football"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47342","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47345,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47342\/revisions\/47345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}