{"id":1077,"date":"2009-05-22T00:11:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T07:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2009-05-22T08:15:46","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T15:15:46","slug":"zavala-takes-charge-at-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1077","title":{"rendered":"Zavala Takes Charge at Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1078\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1078\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1078\" title=\"dsc_0021\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_0021-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Zavala is bringing the &quot;Darkside&quot; to Wilson\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><p id=\"caption-attachment-1078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Zavala is bringing the &quot;Darkside&quot; to Wilson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;Hey we have a lot of ground to cover, but we&#8217;re going to be okay,&#8221; said new Wilson head coach Brian Zavala.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The longtime assistant from El Rancho, Rosemead, and Northview is getting his first crack at HC as he rebuilds\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>the Wilson football program.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;Right now we&#8217;re trying to get the players to understand how we do things, it takes time to create the new attitude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0The Wildcats were 1-9 on the field in 2008, 0-10 after their lone victory was forfeited to Glenn. The Tim Gilmore era is over, Zavala is the third coach<\/p>\n<p>in three years, and they reside in none too friendly Miramonte featuring Charter Oak, Diamond Ranch, Bonita, and Los Altos.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;Right now we have about 45, we&#8217;re young but our future is bright.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0One player Zavala has warmed to immediately is soon-to-be senior Ray Garcia, because of his work ethic and desire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The administration has been positive, people are feeling upbeat,&#8221; said Zavala. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got great equipment, an excellent weight room, and outstanding practice fields.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zavala, a TC Alum, will bring the tradition of Wednesday night practices under the lights to Wilson this fall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to establish tradition and build, they really want us to do well here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1079\" title=\"dsc_0008\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_0008-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_0008\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1080\" title=\"dsc_0012\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_0012-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_0012\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1081\" title=\"dsc_0010\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_0010-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_0010\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(See Tim Peterson&#8217;s story on Monrovia at <a href=\"http:\/\/\">www.midvalleynewsonline.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1082\" title=\"dsc_0009\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_0009-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_0009\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1083\" title=\"dsc_0015\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_0015-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_0015\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0&#8220;Hey we have a lot of ground to cover, but we&#8217;re going to be okay,&#8221; said new Wilson head coach Brian Zavala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}