Girls’ coach of the year: Stan Delus of Etiwanda

Stan Delus misplaced one in all his finest gamers to a season-ending damage in January. It didn’t forestall him from maintaining Etiwanda Excessive’s women’ basketball workforce on a path to profitable 29 consecutive video games and the Southern Part Open Division championship.

The Eagles have been a younger workforce that confronted repeated challenges as a result of each opponent needed to finish the profitable streak. It wasn’t till the Southern California regional last that Chatsworth Sierra Canyon was in a position to hand Etiwanda its solely defeat.

Delus remained happy with what his workforce completed.

“It was such a pleasure to educate all of them yr,” mentioned The Instances’ women’ basketball coach of the yr. “They performed so many robust video games and nearly obtained there. I’ve to provide them credit score for being so younger and to do the most effective they might. They labored their tails off each apply. We got here up brief towards a extremely gifted workforce.”

Etiwanda and Sierra Canyon are simply starting their rivalry.

“We’re disenchanted, however the good factor is we now have everybody again,” he mentioned.