{"id":78701,"date":"2023-01-11T22:23:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T05:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=78701"},"modified":"2023-01-11T23:24:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T06:24:04","slug":"leonardis-steps-down-at-arroyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=78701","title":{"rendered":"Leonardis Steps Down at Arroyo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"539\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/leonardis-resigns.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/leonardis-resigns.jpg 720w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/leonardis-resigns-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/leonardis-resigns-70x52.jpg 70w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/leonardis-resigns-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption>Chuck Leonardis has stepped down as the head coach at Arroyo. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(El Monte) &#8211; Chuck Leonardis has stepped down as the head football coach at Arroyo he confirmed Wednesday. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Leonardis cited being able to spend more time with his kids as the reason for his resignation after two seasons.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My son has played 20 college football games and I&#8217;ve seen one. I wasn&#8217;t able to attend my daughter&#8217;s volleyball games. This had absolutely nothing to do with the school or my players at Arroyo. I love Arroyo and the program but I need to be a better father and I need to be there for my kids,&#8221; Leonardis said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It was a very hard decision but it&#8217;s the right decision for me at this time. I love coaching football and may return but not right now. This is the best decision for me right now.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leonardis took over for Jim Singiser before the 2020 season but Arroyo&#8217;s football season was canceled due to COVID-19. The Knights then went 10-1 in 2021 and fell in the first round of the CIF Division 9 playoffs to Claremont. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year Arroyo went 9-4 overall and advanced to the Division 12 Semi Finals before coming up short to Lancaster 20-17. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arroyo won two Mission Valley League titles under Leonardis and were 19-5 overall in the two-year run. The Knights were 10-0 in league during that span.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arroyo will begin the search for a new head coach immediately. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (El Monte) &#8211; Chuck Leonardis has stepped down as the head football coach at Arroyo he confirmed Wednesday.<\/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-78701","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\/78701","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=78701"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78709,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78701\/revisions\/78709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}