2023

Jerry Mullin

Jerry began his remarkable 34 year career at Seton Catholic High School in 1985 and coached various sports at both the JV and varsity levels. In the words of his athletics director, “The one constant has been his head coaching of our softball team.” His teams have played over 750 games, have a winning percentage in excess of 70%, won fourteen Regional Titles and eleven State Championships. He has been named All Region Coach of the Year eight times, was twice named ‘Small Coach of the Year’ of the Year by the Arizona Republic and has been an All-Star head coach three times.

David Hines

David began coaching as a Track and Football coach as an assistant coach at Tempe High School
in 1977 and finished with a 14-year career as the head Track coach at Mesa and Red Mountain
High Schools. Over that time his teams won 81% of their meets. His teams won four Region
Championships, was State Runner-up four times and was the State Champion in 1988. David
also won a State Cross Country championship while at Red Mountain High School. He has been
a speaker at the National Coaches Association Conference, Arizona Track Coaches Conference

Wolfgang Weber

Born February 2, 1947 in a Coal mining town near Aachen Germany  Played youth soccer for Viktoria Alsdorf for 10 years and another 8 years for several amateur teams in Frankfurt, Germany and Geneva, Switzerland.  Immigrated to the United States in 1973 and started coaching youth soccer in 1975 for the Pima County Junior Soccer League.  1977 Co-founder of Southern Arizona’s first year around Soccer Club “Tucson United” which evolved into Tucson Soccer Academy and FC Tucson Youth Soccer today.  Was the first coach in Southern Arizona to receive “United States Soccer Federation” Nation

Walter "Reedy" David Jr.

Reedy began his 23 year storied career as head basketball coach at Alchesay High School in 1977. Highlights of his tenure at Alchesay include; five consecutive years as 2A Regional Champions from 1990 through 1994, four appearances in the state finals and a State Championship in 1993. He was the head coach of the 2A North All-Star team and named State Coach of the year in 1993. He has also been named Region Coach of the Year three times. He was especially proud of his team’s consistent behavior off the floor.

Garye LaFevers

Garye LaFevers, as been involved in baseball in Arizona for 40 years. A 6-time
region coach of the year, he was selected as both the 2A Coach of the Year and the
Arizona Coaches Association’s “Arizona Coach of the Year” in 1997.” In 2008,
LaFevers was named the American Baseball Coaches Association’s High School
Division 1 “National Coach of the Year.” While serving as the head coach at 3 different
programs, his teams appeared in 2 state championships, Buckeye Union (the 3A State

Richard Taylor

Coach Taylor began his football coaching career in Ohio in 1972. He moved to Phoenix in 1986 and in 1990 accepted the head football coaching position when Centennial High School opened. He remains as Centennial’s head coach at this writing. He was named State Coach of the Year by the Arizona Republic in 2015. His overall record is 322 wins and 124 losses and his record at Centennial is 247 wins, 85 losses and three ties. His Centennial teams have made the playoffs 21 times, have been region Champions 24 times, State Runners-up four times and State Champions seven times.