{"id":30809,"date":"2013-01-14T13:58:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T20:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=30809"},"modified":"2017-06-10T10:48:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:48:39","slug":"mid-valley-division-mvp-el-monte-quarterback-brandon-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=30809","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Valley Division MVP: El Monte Quarterback Brandon Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A quarterback for the ages; El Monte’s Brandon Martinez<\/p><\/div>\n

Everything was contentious for the Mid Valley Sports staff when it came to post-honors and who should get them. We fought over everything and nearly everyone. And every complaint we\u2019ve heard up to this point has some merit (except the \u201cpolitical\u201d argument)…<\/p>\n

However when it came to Brandon Martinez. We put his name on the big board and it was done. No debate, no discussion, no consideration, no dissension. It was almost like ten years ago when we could have made Temple City\u2019s Desmond Reed anything and nobody would have complained. That\u2019s how good Martinez was in 2012.<\/p>\n

The Lions Show began with him, hinged on him, depended on him. This is why he is the MVP. With all of that attention, pressure, he showed tremendous leadership and poise, especially in the moments when games were on the line.<\/p>\n

By the Numbers: 266 completions, 4,286 yards passing, 44 touchdown passes, 723 yards rushing, 8 rushing touchdowns, 52 touchdowns total. Greatest passing season in El Monte school history. Share of first league title since 1979. First playoff win since 1979. First on campus playoff victory since 1937. First victory over Arroyo since 1990<\/p>\n

Just by looking at the numbers posted on MaxPreps you can get a concept of how big Martinez\u2019s career was. Between 2004 and 2010 Lions quarterbacks threw 67 touchdown passes. In 2011 and 2012 Martinez threw for 71.<\/p>\n

Note* Considering what Martinez accomplished and what Steven Rivera did at Arroyo, we would prefer not be involved when the quarterback debate for the all-decade team comes up in 2019.<\/p>\n

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Northwest Newcomer of the Year: Nordhoff\u2019s Taylor Livingston<\/strong><\/p>\n

Southeast Newcomer of the Year: Downey\u2019s Justin Huff<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mid-Valley Newcomer of the Year: Sierra Canyon\u2019s Isaiah Renfro<\/strong><\/p>\n

Northwest DC of the Year: Nordhoff\u2019s Cliff Farrar<\/strong><\/p>\n

Southeast DC of the Year: La Serna\u2019s Margarito Beltran<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mid-Valley DC of the Year: Northview\u2019s Marcel Perez<\/strong><\/p>\n

Northwest OC of the Year: La Salle\u2019s Russell Gordon<\/strong><\/p>\n

Southeast OC of the Year: Norwalk\u2019s Jessie Ceniceros<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mid-Valley OC of the Year: El Monte\u2019s Brian Tabatabai<\/strong><\/p>\n

Northwest Coach of the Year: North Torrance\u2019s Todd Croce<\/strong><\/p>\n

Southeast Coach of the Year: Downey\u2019s Jack Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mid-Valley Coach of the Year: Monrovia\u2019s Ryan Maddox<\/strong><\/p>\n

Northwest Player of the Year: North Torrance\u2019s Jorge Hernandez<\/strong><\/p>\n

Southeast Player of the Year: Norwalk\u2019s Rashaad Penny<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mid-Valley Player of the Year: San Dimas\u2019s Jake Payton<\/strong><\/p>\n

Northwest Most Valuable Player: Gladstone\u2019s Kevin Amezquita<\/strong><\/p>\n

Southeast Most Valuable Player: Downey\u2019s Justin Huff<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mid-Valley Most Valuable Player: El Monte\u2019s Brandon Martinez<\/strong><\/p>\n

***<\/strong><\/p>\n

Other release Dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n

All Northwest Team\u2014January 15<\/p>\n

All Southeast Team\u2014January 16<\/p>\n

All Mid-Valley Team\u2014January 17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everything was contentious for the Mid Valley Sports staff when it came to post-honors and who should get them. We fought over everything and nearly everyone. And every complaint we\u2019ve heard up to this point has some merit (except the \u201cpolitical\u201d argument)…<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-30809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30809","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30809"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59269,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30809\/revisions\/59269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}