{"id":50366,"date":"2025-11-13T00:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T00:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/50366\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T00:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T00:10:07","slug":"anaheim-girls-basketball-coach-vince-gomez-resigns-after-nine-seasons-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/50366\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaheim girls basketball coach Vince Gomez resigns after nine seasons \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.<a href=\"https:\/\/checkout.ocregister.com\/subscriptionpanel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anaheim girls basketball coach Vince Gomez, a former O.C. coach of the year who built a consistently winning program, has resigned days before the start of the season, he and athletic director Lanny Booher confirmed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez said he remains Anaheim\u2019s girls flag football coach and a campus safety employee.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, he guided the Colonists\u2019 girls flag football team to the CIF-SS Division 5 title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking to enjoy the CIF championship I got and I\u2019m just looking to go in a slightly new direction,\u201d Gomez said.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2019\/03\/26\/anaheims-vince-gomez-is-the-orange-county-girls-basketball-coach-of-the-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County coach of the year in 2019<\/a> after leading the Colonists to a Division 5 runner-up finish to Ramona in the CIF Southern California Regional.<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim posted six 20-win seasons under Gomez and claimed seven league titles.<\/p>\n<p>During one stretch of league play, Anaheim won 67 consecutive games under Gomez until Savanna swept the Colonists last season to win the Coast League.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez, an alumnus of Anaheim, built the success after winning two games his first season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI changed the culture,\u201d he said. \u201cI didn\u2019t like the feeling of losing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim is scheduled to open the season against Warren on Nov. 19.<\/p>\n<p>Booher said on Tuesday that he wasn\u2019t sure who would coach the team. \u201cNot yet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.\u00a0Subscribe now Anaheim girls basketball coach Vince Gomez,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,6916,5479,17227,7636,2044,611,127],"class_list":["post-50366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-dan-albano","tag-high-school-all-sports","tag-high-school-basketball","tag-high-school-news","tag-high-school-sports","tag-orange-county","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50366","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=50366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}