{"id":450387,"date":"2026-09-01T22:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T22:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450387\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T22:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T22:50:11","slug":"ron-hamamoto-highlights-2026-san-diego-high-school-coaching-legends-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450387\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Hamamoto highlights 2026 San Diego High School Coaching Legends class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Hamamoto, Tom Tarantino and Monique Lamphiere-Tamayoshi headline next month\u2019s 10-person Hall of Fame induction class of the San Diego High School Coaching Legends.<\/p>\n<p>Hamamoto coached varsity football for 39 years at USDHS (now Cathedral Catholic), Rancho Bernardo, Lincoln and Monte Vista, finishing with a 246-194-1 record. He is in his first year as Francis Parker\u2019s defensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Tarantino coached varsity boys basketball for 35 years, starting in New York, then coaching locally at Carlsbad, Bishop\u2019s, Army-Navy Academy and El Camino, compiling a 630-330 record.<\/p>\n<p>Lamphiere-Tamayoshi coached gymnastics for 37 years at Mt. Carmel, wrapping up her career with a 260-20 record.<\/p>\n<p>The annual awards dinner is scheduled for Oct. 18 at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the Hall of Fame coaching class includes the late Ed Johnson, who coached baseball for 29 years, starting at Marian, which is now Mater Dei Catholic.<\/p>\n<p>He is joined by Tod Mattox, who spent 39 years coaching girls volleyball, primarily at Bishop\u2019s; Scott Sanders, who spent 25 years coaching cross country at La Jolla Country Day; and Nabil Noujaim, who coached boys soccer for 11 years and girls soccer for eight seasons at Central Union.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, there are three Bob Breitbard Meritorious Achievement Award winners.<\/p>\n<p>They are Stan Bickley, who coached boys and girls basketball at Tri-City Christian in addition to being the school\u2019s athletic director; Ron Lardizabal, a longtime coach and administrator who spent 19 years at Hoover and is now the athletic director at Mira Mesa; and Tim Lindley, a swimming and water polo coach in the Grossmont District who has served as an administrator at Mount Miguel, Monte Vista, El Capitan and Grossmont.<\/p>\n<p>The awards dinner is open to the public. For details, email legendsbanquet@cox.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ron Hamamoto, Tom Tarantino and Monique Lamphiere-Tamayoshi headline next month\u2019s 10-person Hall of Fame induction class of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2044,181,74,76,75,127],"class_list":["post-450387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-high-school-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450387","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=450387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}