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Rachel Matakas
Girls Basketball

Rachel Matakas has been coaching in the State of Arizona for 20 years. She is currently coaching at Valley Vista High School where her current record is 326-106 for an 87% winning average. Coach Matakas’s teams have had the opportunity to attend the state playoffs the...Read more

Kim Ulrich-Suss
Volleyball

Kim began coaching girls volleyball at Deer Valley High School as an assistant in 1984, was named head coach in 1986 and served for ten years in that position. In 2002, she launched he boys volleyball program at Deer Valley and was instrumental in the DVUSD decision to implement boys...Read more

Jeep Ray
Softball

Jeep served as an assistant softball coach for two years before accepting the head coaching position at Corona Del Sol High School in 1997. In her 22 year tenure as Corona’s head coach, her teams established a 70% winning percentage, were State Titlists in 2003, State Runner-up in 2006...Read more

Sue Hysong
Track

Sue has been a head track and field coach for 38 years, eight years at Tolleson Union High and 30 years at Westview High, and remains an active coach today. Her teams have won the State Title four times, been Runner-up once, captured Region Titles on 10 occasions and posted a 75% winning...Read more

Tom Hurt
Football

Tom’s unique football coaching career featured seven Arizona high schools and one Texas high school. He was renown for taking schools that had experienced little, if any, success in football and turning the program around. He accepted jobs at Bowie, Ray, Mohave and Yuma, all schools that...Read more

Mike Fenton
Boys Soccer

Soccer /Softball

Mike began his storied 26 year three sport coaching career at Sunnyslope High in the spring 1995 and remains coaching three sports annually today. As a 25 year head soccer coach his teams have won 291 games, finished as State Runner-up in 2016 and...Read more

William Farrell
Boys Basketball

Bill started his high school coaching career not in basketball but as the freshman football coach at St. Mary’s High School where his teams went 30 - 0. He also initiated the first competitive boys golf team at St. Mary’s. In 1975, Bill was named head basketball coach at Paradise Valley...Read more

James Merrick
Baseball

Jim’s roots in baseball as a player began in little league and his college experience culminated in 1965 with him being the winning pitcher for ASU in the College World Series championship game. He accepted the head baseball coaching job at McClintock High School in 1968 and remained...Read more

Roy Muller
Baseball

Roy began his high school coaching career in football and baseball at Paradise Valley High School in 1972. He was named head baseball coach in 1976. He remained in that position until 2014, interrupted only by a one year stint as assistant coach at Phoenix College in 1982. He retired...Read more

John Walter Edge
Track

After an outstanding high school career as hurdler and 440 yarder at Camp Verde and ASU, Walter began teaching and coaching at Bisbee High School in 1966, first as an assistant track coach from 1969 through 1982 and then as head coach from 1983 through today. During his amazing 47 year...Read more

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