{"id":75343,"date":"2022-03-09T21:05:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T04:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=75343"},"modified":"2022-03-09T21:05:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T04:05:33","slug":"gonzalez-jr-leaving-montebello-for-mckendree-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=75343","title":{"rendered":"Gonzalez Jr. Leaving Montebello for McKendree University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"268\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pete-jr.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pete-jr.jpg 268w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pete-jr-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pete-jr-47x70.jpg 47w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pete-jr-101x150.jpg 101w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><figcaption>Pete Gonzalez Jr. is heading for McKendree University to join their coaching staff <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Tim Peterson <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Montebello) &#8211; Pete Gonzalez Jr. who has been the offensive coordinator at Montebello for the last 13 years, is leaving the school to become the running backs coach at McKendree University, a Division 2 college in Lebanon, Illinois. <\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Gonzalez Jr. coached under his dad, Pete Gonzalez, at St. Paul for three years before they both moved on to Montebello with Gonzalez Jr. as OC and Gonzalez as HC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m excited. I sent my resume over there after I found out they were looking through a contact my dad had,&#8221; Gonzalez said. &#8220;The coach interviewed me over the phone, the OC interviewed me a couple of days later and now I&#8217;m coaching there. Pretty crazy and fast.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gonzalez will leave next week for McKendree and will be there for Spring practice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I spent a lot of years at Montebello but I&#8217;m excited to get there,&#8221; Gonzalez added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (Montebello) &#8211; Pete Gonzalez Jr. who has been the offensive coordinator at Montebello for the last 13 years, is leaving the school to become the running backs coach at McKendree University, a Division 2 college in Lebanon, Illinois.<\/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":[871,12816,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","category-hsfootball","category-high-school-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75343","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=75343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75345,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75343\/revisions\/75345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}