{"id":47396,"date":"2015-03-30T21:46:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T04:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=47396"},"modified":"2017-06-10T10:50:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:50:22","slug":"morrison-leaves-la-puente-takes-over-at-corona-santiago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=47396","title":{"rendered":"Morrison Leaves La Puente; Takes over at Corona Santiago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_47397\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=47397\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47397\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47397\" class=\"wp-image-47397\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SCOTT-MORRISON.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Morrison leaves La Puente for Corona Santiago \" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Morrison leaves La Puente for Corona Santiago<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p>(La Puente) &#8211; Scott Morrison has stepped down as the head coach and Athletic Director at La Puente\u00a0to take the head coach\u00a0position at Corona Santiago.\u00a0Morrison resigned\u00a0Thursday morning and\u00a0was named HC at Corona Santiago\u00a0Friday.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;This is\u00a0just a great opportunity for me and my family. Sometimes it&#8217;s just right and\u00a0sometimes it&#8217;s not. This was just right,&#8221;\u00a0Morrison said. &#8220;This is an opportunity\u00a0that was hard to say no to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Morrison spent the last two years at La Puente going 7-4\u00a0each year. The Warriors lost in the playoffs\u00a0in the first round in both years.<\/p>\n<p>Morrison has also had head coaching\u00a0jobs at Damien and Workman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I valued\u00a0my time at La Puente. It was a real growth experience and I learned an awful lot overall.\u00a0It was just a great experience,&#8221;\u00a0Morrison said.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Corona\u00a0Santiago job opened up when Jeff Steinberg moved to Rancho Verde.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m\u00a0competitive\u00a0and this is a great challenge for me, and I always love a great challenge.\u00a0It&#8217;s an opportunity to compete at the highest level and I&#8217;m looking forward to it,&#8221;\u00a0Morrison added.<\/p>\n<p>La Puente will begin the search for a new coach immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (La Puente) &#8211; Scott Morrison has stepped down as the head coach and Athletic Director at La Puente\u00a0to take the head coach\u00a0position at Corona Santiago.\u00a0Morrison resigned\u00a0Thursday morning and\u00a0was named HC at Corona Santiago\u00a0Friday.<\/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":[10328,11105,7673,3434,8015],"class_list":["post-47396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball","tag-corona-santiago-football","tag-damien-football","tag-la-puente-football","tag-scott-morrison","tag-workman-football"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47396","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=47396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47398,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47396\/revisions\/47398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}