{"id":75528,"date":"2022-04-07T08:17:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T15:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=75528"},"modified":"2022-04-07T19:31:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T02:31:29","slug":"spathias-takes-over-at-el-monte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=75528","title":{"rendered":"Spathias Takes Over at El Monte"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/spathias.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75534\" width=\"211\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/spathias.jpg 180w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/spathias-70x54.jpg 70w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/spathias-150x116.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><figcaption>Hector Spathias is the new head football coach at El Monte  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Tim Peterson <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(El Monte) &#8211; Former Bassett AD\/Head Coach Hector Spathias has been named the new head football coach at El Monte. Spathias takes over for Victor Romero who stepped down after last season. <\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Spathias, who has had previous head coaching stops at Workman and Los Altos, last season led the Olympians to an overall record of 5-5 and a spot in the CIF Division 13 playoffs where they fell in the first round to Heritage Christian 30-28. Bassett won the Miramonte League with a 4-1 record. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El Monte, under Romero, went 4-6 least year but 3-2 in the Mission Valley League. The Lions fell in the first round of the Division 14 playoffs to Pomona 40-16.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spathias indicated it was a tough decision to leave Bassett but ultimately decided it was a great opportunity at El Monte.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I grew up in El Monte so I&#8217;m excited for the opportunity,&#8221; Spathias said.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (El Monte) &#8211; Former Bassett AD\/Head Coach Hector Spathias has been named the new head football coach at El Monte. Spathias takes over for Victor Romero who stepped down after last season.<\/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":[12816,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball","category-high-school-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75528","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=75528"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75535,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75528\/revisions\/75535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}