Christopher High School in Gilroy

Re: Christopher High School in Gilroy

feeds@yuku.com (SJSU SAV) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:33:34 GMT

I have always been an advocate of a super league structure for this area, so that is good news to hear. maybe the gilroy schools not wanting to play in the tcal and marina high opening will push the schools down here to form a super league (or two). there are several ways you could do it. one would be to combine the sccal, mbl, and rls pg carmel and marina into one league, than take the current tcal plus the gilroy schools and the south county schools into another league. or you could...

Re: Christopher High School in Gilroy

feeds@yuku.com (uthinkuno5) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:24:42 GMT

I believe the powers that be think the Gilroy schools will be 1600 or so and that matches up well with the others schools plus No. Monterey Co. These are just ideas, they are not written in stone. They have also talked about a super league that would include MBL with two divisions, again just ideas. What I do know is that the Gilroy schools will not be a part of the T-CAL when they fully split in two years. It will take some time to make the final decision, but they are looking to go...

Re: Christopher High School in Gilroy

feeds@yuku.com (SJSU SAV) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:51:01 GMT

watsonville is the same size as most of the TCAL schools, pajaro has 1600 students and will probably grow some more, so its not like they are small (or even medium) sized schools. if travel is such a big deal why would gilroy want to be in a league where they would have to drive over a mountain to play watsonville and mvc? and on the flip side, why in the world would any watsonville school want to leave the MBL for that league? seems to me like it makes even less sense for them.

Re: Christopher High School in Gilroy

feeds@yuku.com (uthinkuno5) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:38:29 GMT

The San Jose schools do not want to come down to this area for financial reasons. Live Oak and Sobroto had to fight way to hard to be in the league they are in and do not want to change at this time. The T-CAL will be too large for the Gilroy schools to be able to compete and the population of the schools in Watsonville will match those of the Gilroy area. Travel will be less for this league than that of the T-CAL for the schools. San Benito is out of the question until they decide to...

Re: Christopher High School in Gilroy

feeds@yuku.com (luni21) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:58:57 GMT

any word who've been named to the coaching staff?

Re: Christopher High School in Gilroy

feeds@yuku.com (SJSU SAV) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:44:19 GMT

that league sounds really random to me. if anything i could see sobrato, live oak, gilroy, christopher, and san benito starting a league, if they could find one more team to join the league (pretty sure CCS requires leagues to have at least 6 teams). im sure live oak and sobrato would jump at a chance to form that league, just look at all the natural rivalries that already exist and new ones that would emerge. maye they could convince a southern high school in san jose to join. well this is...

Re: Christopher High School in Gilroy

feeds@yuku.com (uthinkuno5) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:32:43 GMT

Kids will not need to go anywhere farther than the corner of Santa Teresa and Day road to find a quality education and a great sports experience when Christopher High opens. The new administration is putting together an outstanding faculty and coaching staff for all sports programs. It will take a little while for these teams to become a force, but there is no doubt that the Cougars will do well on field as well as the classroom (the most important part of the this new school).

Re: Christopher High School in Gilroy

feeds@yuku.com (VCHS fan) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:59:57 GMT

I'm kind of hoping that with the football talent pool being watered down as the Gilroy area players get split between the two schools that more parents won't want their star players playing for a medicore team and send their sons to VC. Did I mention that VC has a shuttle bus that makes the rounds every day to Gilroy and Morgan Hill?

On a serious note, it will be sad to see the...

Re: Christopher High School in Gilroy

feeds@yuku.com (uthinkuno5) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:37:28 GMT

I believe the new league will be Gilroy, Christopher, Watsonville, MVC, St. Francis, and a school that I can't recall.

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feeds@yuku.com (nutpower) — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:26:52 GMT

Christopher, Gilroy, Live Oak Sobrato MVC and another school should make a league of their own once Christopher has a varsity program. It would be a B league at first but would develop a lot of excellent rivalries. I think this is a great idea. They will all be about the same size in population. Would LO and Gilroy be willing to drop from an A to a B?

Re: Christopher High School in Gilroy

feeds@yuku.com (uthinkuno5) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:41:36 GMT

I don't think you are looking at the whole picture when you look back on Coach Yafia's impact on GHS's program. When he took over Gilroy had not made the playoffs for years and the program was a peranial loser. Coach Yafia's teams made the playoffs 3 out of 6 years during his time there and had one of the best offensive teams in the section during that time. When he left the program had come a long way and Coach Hammond was able to bring the program along even farther...

Re: Christopher High School in Gilroy

feeds@yuku.com (DownandDistance) — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:08:05 GMT

The biggest impact that CHS will have is that the rivalry between San Benito and GHS will no longer be as important as GHS vs CHS for city braggin rights. Im not saying that the prune bowl will not be important, it will be, but im guessing that San Benito will have a better chance to win because it will only play GHS with athletes being shared between 2 schools-ghs/chs. The playing field will not be the same.

Re: Christopher High School in Gilroy

feeds@yuku.com (4bagger) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:24:34 GMT

he must have been your english teacher too!

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feeds@yuku.com (robert) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:22:52 GMT

Lets hope that Daren Yafai is not the A.D. He proved when the Gilroy head coach that he will not be a good leader of a new program. His football team was the most undisplan team in the league. He has know class to be a leader. In otherwords he cannot lead a horse to water.

Re: Christopher High School in Gilroy

feeds@yuku.com (Martigan) — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:37:48 GMT

SJSU SAV, there is no immediate plan to build a new high school in Hollister. Anzar will be the initial high school for the new Rancho San Benito development, so their growth will come from there. A previous superintendant had a brand new campus built in Hollister, meant for 9th graders only, but when he quit before it could be completed, the new superintendant just folded it into the regular high school. Don't expect Hollister to have any type of new high school in the next ten years.

Re: Christopher High School in Gilroy

feeds@yuku.com (yingyang99) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:47:48 GMT

Christopher High also looks to have the negative effect of the boundaries being drawn with the more affluent, middle class students attending the new school and kids in the poorer neighborhoods attending GHS.

There is zero discussion of another school being built in San Benito County and Anzar was built to only house around 700 students. The politics that be do not want to rock the apple cart of SBHS.

Re: Christopher High School in Gilroy

feeds@yuku.com (SJSU SAV) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:49:58 GMT

the opening of CHS should greatly impact Gilroy. i mean look what happened to live oaks enrollment after sobrato opened, it went from over 2000 to around 1300 (while sobrato has 1500 students). so in 3 to 5 years gilroy will likely go from the 2nd biggest school in the TCAL (after hollister) to the smallest public school in the league. how negatively it will affect gilroy remains to be seen.

speaking of all these new schools, when is there going to be a new school opened in San...

Re: Christopher High School in Gilroy

feeds@yuku.com (carmelkyd) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:27:31 GMT

Seems to me that CHS...and Marina High...will have a pretty large impact over the next few years on both their school sytems and their league. Imagine if CHS had been open five years ago and Jensen ended up going there instead of Gilroy High. Or what if Marina High had been around for five years and both Avila and Foster had ended up going there? I think CHS and Marina could have a pretty big impact five years from now. Maybe even more so at Marina because the peninsula isn't growing...

Re: Christopher High School in Gilroy

feeds@yuku.com (DownandDistance) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:58:39 GMT

Doors are slated to be open 2009-2010 school year, John Perales is the principal. Daren Yafai is the Athletic Director, Coach Yafai was the head coach at gilroy a while back. impact on GHs will be the number of students reduced. CHS will open with about 700 students (9th and 10th graders). I dont think CHS will have an impact on TCAL because CHS will start as independent for 2 years, then be placed somewhere..TCAL, MBL, etc...

Christopher High School in Gilroy

feeds@yuku.com (mbaypreps) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:32:56 GMT

When does this new high school in Gilroy open its doors? What will the impact be to both Gilroy High and the TCAL?