Hello, With all your support, we were able to have a successful Athletics school year. Attached is an updated Coach's contact list for 2024-25. We added two new Head Coaches Boys Cross Country Coach Antonia Canongo and a Softball coach Oscar Placencia. I want to send out a special thank you for Coach Greg Guerrero. Coach Guerrero has decided to Retire after several years of coaching Softball for Santa Maria High School. Coach is a man of great character, and it was an honor to work with him. I also want to thank Angie, his daughter, for her hard work and loyalty. Coaching at Santa Maria High School does not come without its challenges and both Greg and Angie gave us their best and we are very grateful. I will miss Coach's professionalism. I hope my other coaches were taking notes. Coach, thank you! Below is a statement about our Athletic program for those who are interested. If not, take care and we will see you in August. The State of Santa Maria Athletics The Santa Maria Athletic Program had 43 Teams, 70 Coaching positions, 649 students on teams, an Athletic Trainer and several student helpers, Assistant Athletic Director, and an Equipment Manager. In our bracket Sports 7 Teams made it to the Central Section Playoffs. Both Baseball and Softball made it to the 1st round. 4 of those teams made it to the Quarter Finals, football, Boys basketball, Boys Soccer and Girls Soccer. The Girls basketball team made it to the Semifinals. Qualifying Sport Teams had 7 girl wrestlers, 7 went to Masters and we had 1 State qualifier. 14 boys qualified for CIF, 2 qualified for Masters, Track and Field had 22 Div 2 CIF qualifiers and 1 Finalist. All together we had 77 All League selections and two League MVP’s Surray McNutt Wrestling and Johnathan Lupercio Boy Basketball. As an Athletic Department we hosted a Water Polo League finals, Swim League Finals, Boys and Girls Wrestling League finals, Cross Country league finals and two other Wrestling tournaments, a Girls basketball, and boys basketball tournament. The Athletic Program added for the first time in Santa Maria school History a Santa Maria Athletics Hall of Fame. We hosted a Hall of Fame Game, we held a ribbon cutting ceremony for new Softball facility, we held an Athletic Signing, Future Saints Night, and a free on campus Physical Night. We had some outstanding Individual accomplishments. We had a Central Section Male Scholar Athlete selected by our CCAA who represented Santa Maria in Tulare (Jacob Andree.) We had a Joni Grey Northern Santa Barbara County Roundtable winner the 3rd Saint to win this award in a row (Josue Elena.) We had an Athletic College Signing ceremony who signed with William Jewell to Wrestle (Alanis Cedeno). For the first time we recognized our Athletes of the year during the Senior Honors Night, (Julissa Jimenez, Jacob Andree, Surray McNutt, and Josue Elena.) A quarterback broke the all-time passing school record (Josue Elena) We had a boys basketball player make more 3 pointers than anyone in the Nation (Johnathan Lupercio). Facility upgrades: A new Softball facility. We added new Sound systems in the Stadium and softball facility. We added a tent cover for our Soccer teams. We added new banners to Wilson Gym. We improved the Baseball infield which many visitors made the comment “it was the best in the area.” Future facility upgrades: In the plans are a new Wilson Gym scoreboard and scorer's table, a new weight room, on-campus Tennis Courts, a new baseball outfield with a true baseball fence and dimensions, and a Hall of Fame Wall. We will also touch up the Swimming facilities with new Swim ladder steps and touchpads. Take care and have a wonderful Summer!

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Hello A few highlights: Our boy's golf team is performing well, and they have a chance to finish second in league play. Dominating Pioneer Valley this year makes it even more special. Their highest finish in several years. Track and Field girl's relay teams (4X1 and 4X4) swept the city meet on Wednesday. Our Swim team will host this year's Ocean League finals. Next week (Tues, Wed, and Thurs) as you walk near the pool expect to see students from around the area competing in the swim meet. The Softball team earned a nice victory last Tuesday vs. Morro Bay in our new Softball Field facility. Santa Maria High School has elected 10 more Athletic Hall of Famers. Names will be announced in the near future. We have added 37 Hall of Fame members in the past two years. This is not Athletic related, but I want to give a shout out to Mrs. Okie-Golden and all of her crew for a great job on testing this week. Lastly, I can't say enough good things about our Maintenance/Grounds crews for all their efforts with working with Athletics. We certainly don't always make it easy fo

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