{"id":79197,"date":"2023-03-07T19:28:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T02:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=79197"},"modified":"2023-03-07T19:46:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T02:46:41","slug":"monrovia-makes-it-official-names-casagran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=79197","title":{"rendered":"Monrovia Makes it Official; Names Casagran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"374\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Monrovia-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Monrovia-logo.jpg 474w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Monrovia-logo-380x300.jpg 380w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Monrovia-logo-70x55.jpg 70w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Monrovia-logo-150x118.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Tim Peterson <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(Monrovia) &#8211; Monrovia has named Jose Casagran as its new head football coach Athletic Director Randy Bell confirmed Tuesday. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Casagran was the head coach at Roosevelt from 1998 through 2002. In five years he compiled a record of 43-14 and won three Eastern League championships. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He then took several years off before taking over as the head coach at South Gate before the 2012 season. Casagran coached South Gate for seven years and led the Rams to the playoffs every season except 2016 when they finished 3-7 overall that included five losses by forfeit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Gate lost to San Fernando in the Division II Finals in 2013 34-32 and also reached the D-II Semi-Finals in 2014 before falling to Hamilton 42-23. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Casagran led the Rams to the D-I Semis in 2017 and 2018 where they lost to Dorsey and San Pedro successively. He stepped down after the 2018 season with an overall record at South Gate of 51-35 with one CIF Finals appearance and three Semis appearances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Casagran takes over for Chris Williams who resigned after five years. Monrovia went 8-3 last season and lost in the first round of the CIF Division 8 playoffs to Northwood 63-56.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (Monrovia) &#8211; Monrovia has named Jose Casagran as its new head football coach Athletic Director Randy Bell confirmed Tuesday.<\/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-79197","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\/79197","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=79197"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79203,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79197\/revisions\/79203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}