{"id":82528,"date":"2023-12-27T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=82528"},"modified":"2023-12-27T14:31:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T21:31:37","slug":"mid-valley-sports-2023-coach-of-the-year-mark-carson-rio-hondo-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=82528","title":{"rendered":"Mid Valley Sports 2023 Coach of the Year: Mark Carson-Rio Hondo Prep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/mark-carson.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82530\" width=\"202\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/mark-carson.jpg 208w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/mark-carson-99x300.jpg 99w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/mark-carson-23x70.jpg 23w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><figcaption>Mark Carson, shown here after winning the CIF Division 9 Championship, is the Mid Valley Sports 2023 Coach of the Year. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rio Hondo Prep has won CIF championships in football before. But that was in lower divisions. The Kares had previously competed in divisions like 12 or 13 but this year the Kares were placed in Division 9. They won&#8217;t be able to win at this level right? I mean Rio Hondo Prep only has 150 students. The Kares are in over their heads right? Wrong! <\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p>With Mark Carson at the helm, the Kares, after a 9-1 regular season record, marched through Division 9 and indeed did win the CIF Championship. And even more remarkable, they won the last three games, including the championship game, on the road. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rio Hondo Prep beat St. Margaret&#8217;s at Kare Park in Irwindale in the first round, and then had to hit the road to knock off Orange, Vista Del Lago and Santa Monica to capture the CIF Crown. Against Santa Monica the Kares had to rally from a one-point halftime deficit and then hold on at the end to stop Santa Monica on a two-point conversion attempt to win 29-27.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rio Hondo Prep had a hard road to the Finals, maybe the toughest of any of the other 2023 CIF Champions. But Mark Carson coached, guided and navigated his troops through all of the adversity and strife and was there to lift the CIF championship hardware with his team at the end of the journey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark Carson is the 2023 Mid Valley Sports Coach of the Year.        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rio Hondo Prep has won CIF championships in football before. But that was in lower divisions. The Kares had previously competed in divisions like 12 or 13 but this year the Kares were placed in Division 9. They won&#8217;t be able to win at this level right? I mean Rio Hondo Prep only has 150 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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-82528","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\/82528","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82528"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82539,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82528\/revisions\/82539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}