{"id":184514,"date":"2026-02-19T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184514\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:19:08","slug":"stephen-barbee-named-football-coach-at-northwood-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184514\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Barbee named football coach at Northwood \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northwood has hired former St. Margaret\u2019s and Long Beach Poly coach Stephen Barbee as its football head coach, Northwood announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Barbee, 51, coached at St. Margaret\u2019s for eight seasons (2010-17) and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/2024\/12\/10\/stephen-barbee-resigns-as-long-beach-poly-football-coach-after-seven-seasons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at Long Beach Poly for seven seasons<\/a> (2018-24). He led both teams to CIF-SS championships.<\/p>\n<p>He coached Poly to the Division 4 championship in 2021. The Jackrabbits went 57-20 during Barbee\u2019s seven seasons. He coached St. Margaret\u2019s to a CIF-SS championship in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Barbee spent the 2025 football season as an assistant coach at Northwood under then-head coach Erik Terry, who resigned at the end of the season. It was Terry\u2019s only season as Timberwolves head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Barbee has a son, who is a freshman, in the Northwood football program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Terry stepped down, I essentially applied for the job right away,\u201d Barbee said.<\/p>\n<p>Terry said he pursued Barbee as his replacement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the season was winding down, I told (Barbee), \u2018Hey, I\u2019m thinking about resigning and I\u2019d like you to take the job,\u2019\u201d Terry said.<\/p>\n<p>Northwood finished 4-6 overall and 1-4 in the Foxtrot League in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northwood has hired former St. Margaret\u2019s and Long Beach Poly coach Stephen Barbee as its football head coach,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,5479,2043,7636,2044,2462,131,133,132,137,611,6736,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-184514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-high-school-all-sports","10":"tag-high-school-football","11":"tag-high-school-news","12":"tag-high-school-sports","13":"tag-irvine","14":"tag-long-beach","15":"tag-long-beach-headlines","16":"tag-long-beach-news","17":"tag-los-angeles-county","18":"tag-orange-county","19":"tag-san-juan-capistrano","20":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}