{"id":94486,"date":"2026-02-07T00:16:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=94486"},"modified":"2026-02-07T00:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:16:55","slug":"ficklin-steps-down-at-cantwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=94486","title":{"rendered":"Ficklin Steps Down at Cantwell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Tim Peterson <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Montebello) &#8211; Eddie Ficklin Jr. has stepped down as the head football coach after three seasons it was confirmed Friday. The position for an opening for a head coach is posted on the CIF Southern Section website.  <\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Cantwell went 1-9 last season and 0-5 in the Del Rey League. The Cardinals&#8217; best year under Ficklin was his first season in 2023 when they went 9-3 overall including 5-1 in the Del Rey League. They advanced to the second round of the CIF playoffs before falling to Westminster 3-0. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cantwell was 13-19 overall (1-1 in the playoffs) during Ficklin&#8217;s three-year run. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cantwell will begin the search for a new head coach effective immediately. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (Montebello) &#8211; Eddie Ficklin Jr. has stepped down as the head football coach after three seasons it was confirmed Friday. The position for an opening for a head coach is posted on the CIF Southern Section website.<\/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-94486","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\/94486","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=94486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94487,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94486\/revisions\/94487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}