{"id":540,"date":"2009-03-25T00:04:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T07:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=540"},"modified":"2009-03-27T20:39:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T03:39:45","slug":"mccullough-steps-down-at-arroyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"McCullough Steps Down at Arroyo (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_543\" style=\"width: 388px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-543\" class=\"size-full wp-image-543\" title=\"arroyo-lydell-005\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/arroyo-lydell-005.jpg\" alt=\"Lydell McCullough\" width=\"378\" height=\"336\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lydell McCullough<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Arroyo&#8217;s\u00a0Lydell\u00a0McCullough\u00a0stepped down as basketball Coach\u00a0Tuesday after three years\u00a0at the helm.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 McCullough took over the Knight program in\u00a02006 and was an immediate success\u00a0winning the Mission Valley League\u00a0title\u00a0in his inaugural season of 2006-&#8217;07. The\u00a0Knights went 9-1 on their way to the crown\u00a0and finished\u00a015-13 overall. Arroyo lost to St. Margaret&#8217;s\u00a0in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Arroyo missed the playoffs\u00a0the last two seasons\u00a0going 4-6 in league both years.\u00a0McCullough\u00a0played\u00a0his high school\u00a0ball at Los Altos and was an assistant\u00a0for the Conquerors before\u00a0assuming coaching duties at Arroyo.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 McCullough\u00a0cited a couple different\u00a0reasons led to his decision to step down- family and\u00a0another coaching opportunity.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 &#8220;I can now spend more time with my six month old daughter, Emma, &#8221; McCullough said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 McCullough\u00a0is going to back\u00a0to Los Altos\u00a0as an assistant\u00a0basketball coach and is also heading the\u00a0softball program. But\u00a0for\u00a0McCullough, who lives near Los Altos,\u00a0the time commitment won&#8217;t be nearly as great as Arroyo.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 A replacement has yet to be named.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","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\/540","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}