{"id":93860,"date":"2025-12-24T13:15:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=93860"},"modified":"2025-12-24T18:20:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T01:20:42","slug":"st-francis-names-mitchell-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=93860","title":{"rendered":"St. Francis Names Mitchell Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1394\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/MITCHELL-MUIRHC-BP-TOURN-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/MITCHELL-MUIRHC-BP-TOURN-.jpg 683w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/MITCHELL-MUIRHC-BP-TOURN--147x300.jpg 147w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/MITCHELL-MUIRHC-BP-TOURN--34x70.jpg 34w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/MITCHELL-MUIRHC-BP-TOURN--73x150.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lance Mitchell has left Muir to become the new head football coach at St. Francis.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Tim Peterson <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(La Canada) &#8211; Lance Mitchell has been named the new head football coach at St. Francis the school announced Wednesday.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Mitchell, who has spent the last four years as the head coach at Muir, his alma mater, led the Mustangs to an overall record of 9-2 last year and a Pacific League title. Muir fell to Charter Oak in the first round of the CIF Division 4 playoffs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Muir compiled an overall record of 36-16 during Mitchell&#8217;s four-year run including 8-4 in the playoffs and won three Pacific League titles. The Mustangs won a CIF Division 10 title in 2022 and after winning a regional state playoff game, advanced to the State Finals before falling to Hughson 9-6. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mitchell continued his education and his football career after high school at Oregon State where he earned a scholarship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mitchell takes over at St. Francis for Dean Herrington, who was let go after last season. St. Francis went 2-8 last season and missed the playoffs.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Release from St. Francis:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"373\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-93862\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-3.png 373w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-3-216x300.png 216w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-3-50x70.png 50w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-3-108x150.png 108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Mitchell has left Muir to become the new head football coach at St. Francis. By Tim Peterson (La Canada) &#8211; Lance Mitchell has been named the new head football coach at St. Francis the school announced 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-93860","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\/93860","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=93860"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93869,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93860\/revisions\/93869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}