What\u2019s more impressive: Dylan O\u2019Leary, the 25-year-old rookie football coach at San Dimas High, or Dylan O\u2019Leary, the math teacher who graduated from UCLA and got his master\u2019s at La Verne?<\/p>\n
He\u2019s good in both roles. San Dimas has started 2-0, with wins over Glendora (24-21) and Chaffey (44-8). His father, Tim, was a longtime baseball coach at Covina. Dylan spent four years as an assistant coach at South Hills.<\/p>\n
He used to be a three-sport athlete at San Dimas, which has long used the Wing-T offense in football. When O\u2019Leary was interviewed for the job, one of the first questions was, \u201cAre you going to run the same offense?\u201d <\/p>\n
He was truthful in saying no.<\/p>\n
San Dimas has switched to a spread offense. O\u2019Leary has helped himself by adding lots of experienced assistant coaches and former head coaches. <\/p>\n
Even though O\u2019Leary is young, he\u2019s earned respect in the classroom and on the field. He\u2019s a full-time math teacher with a teaching credential. Even when he was 22 and teaching math to 17- and 18-year-olds at Chino Hills, few were skeptical about his youth.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never really had an issue with my age,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
In a time when it\u2019s tough getting a full-time teaching job at such a young age and when coaches are mostly walk-ons, O\u2019Leary is in position to make himself very valuable. <\/p>\n
And, if the wins keep piling up, San Dimas might need to put a fence around his classroom so no one steals him away.<\/p>\n
This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What\u2019s more impressive: Dylan O\u2019Leary, the 25-year-old rookie football coach at San Dimas High, or Dylan O\u2019Leary, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[177148,35376,9557,29213,23157,6159,7538,177146,48,52,51,177149,47,50,49,177147,116814,6310,89508,43543,1543],"class_list":["post-447311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-177148","tag-18-year-old","tag-age","tag-assistant-coach","tag-chino-hills","tag-classroom","tag-covina","tag-dylan-oleary","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-longtime-baseball-coach","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-math-teacher","tag-oleary","tag-prep-talk","tag-san-dimas","tag-south-hills","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447311","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=447311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}