PARIS: El Camino's Johnson merges teaching, coaches

El Camino High coach Ray Johnson will enter La Costa Canyon's gym for Wednesday's Avocado West League showdown as the exclusive member of the 700-victory club.

Regional road rough for Knoxville girls

Knoxville High School girls basketball coach Matt Gibson glanced at the regional championship banners hanging high on the Jensen Gym wall and said, “We’’ve won it every other year, we’d like to win two in a row.” The Blue Bullets are gunning for their fourth regional title in the last six years — the banners read 2007, 2009, 2011 — and begin that quest on Wednesday when they play the winner of ...

STATE: SCHOOLS: At Arbor Preparatory High School, college is the end game (video)

Approaching Arbor Preparatory High School (6800 Hitchingham Road, Ypsilanti) near the end of lunch, one sees a sight that would make Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich smile: High school students, their teachers, even the principal, Matt Hudson, rolling up their sleeves to clean the common space that, for 25 minutes each day, doubles as the school cafeteria. (To the former Speaker ...

Parker named Coach of the Year

What defines greatness? What earns a football coach “coach of the year” honors? Wins and losses? Championship rings and banners? What if someone said that a high school football coach was awarded the title after posting a losing record?Would you believe it?

KMB sponsoring two anti-litter art contests for students

In an effort to reach out to school-aged students and educate them on the importance of not littering, Keep Mandeville Beautiful is kicking off two litter contests. One is the Anti-Litter Poster Contest aimed at students from kindergarten to third grade and the second contest is the Litter Monster Banner Contest, aimed at students in grades four through 12. Artwork is due March 2, and winners ...