South San Francisco, CA   March 29, 2016   Submitted by Coach Jake Jacobson, ECHS Sports Director

ECHS Coaches Lou Zuardo & Carlos Roman
Photo: Coach Jake

Attention all former EC Baseball Players and Community Members

UPDATED April 8 2016 By Coach Jake

Attention all EC Alumni and family and friends of Lou Zuardo & Carlos Roman. We are postponing the ceremony for the two coaches until next Saturday April 16th at a new time of 10:30. The Varsity has a game with Jefferson that day first pitch 11:00. I’m extremely sorry but it looks like mother nature would rain on our parade. Any questions please e-mail me at ecjake66@hotmail.com.–COLT PRIDE

We have a wonderful tribute planed for former Coaches Lou Zuardo & Carlos Roman in April. We are going to display their retired number’s #23 & #16 at Colt diamond. This tribute will be a permanent one which shall stand as long as they play Baseball at El Camino. This tribute will take place on Saturday, April 9th at 11:30 at Colt Diamond on the campus of El Camino. I have been in contact with both men and they are excited, and looking forward to seeing their old ballplayer’s. The Varsity will be playing a game vs. San Mateo at 12:00 noon. We would love to see you all out there to honor Lou and Los one last time. Any questions please e-mail Jake at ecjake66@hotmail.com. I look forward to seeing you on Saturday April 9th 2016 at 11:30 at Colt Diamond–COLT PRIDE

South San Francisco, CA  November 6, 2016  by John Baker

The Bell Trophy

What defines a classic?

Art? Universal appeal? Something that stands the test of time and influences what comes after it?

If those are the definitions, then Saturday’s 55th edition of the Bell Game between South San Francisco and El Camino highs was truly a classic.

The game featured art in the skillful execution of trick plays. It featured universal appeal in the grit of its competitors grinding it out in the face of shifting odds. Finally, its back and forth nature will stick forever with those who played in it, teaching lessons that will influence major decisions in their lives about dealing with pressure and not taking things for granted.

So, it that regard, South City’s 28-27 victory over El Camino at Clifford Field will go down as a classic.

“I’ve been at every Bell Game since 1983,” said El Camino head coach Eric Jacobson. “I’ve seen scoreboards blow up, streakers, a couple nice wins by El Camino, but this was a heart-breaker.”

The game wasn’t decided until time expired and a tackle was made on El Camino’s last-gasp pass play at midfield. The fact that the Colts had even gotten to that point was an achievement.

South City had taken a 28-14 lead with just under 10 minutes left in the game on Jeremiah Lupe’s third touchdown of the game, a 42-yard run up the left side.

“It feels great man, we finally showed up and did our thing,” Lupe said. “I want to give credit to my line. Without them, I wouldn’t have had those touchdowns — they opened some big gaps.”

Fourth quarter action during the Bell Game, Nov. 5, 2016. South San Francisco High beat El Camino, 28-27. Photo: John Baker

Lupe’s score had seemed initially to take the wind out of El Camino’s sails. In fact, the Colts looked done after a fourth down passing pass went incomplete at midfield with 8:55 left in the game. But as EC quarterback Jimmy Bakshi got back up on his feet after being knocked down, he was happily surprised to be the beneficiary of a roughing the passer penalty. El Camino then capitalized a few plays later when Bakshi stretched over the goal line on a one-yard keeper to get the Colts within a touchdown with 5:12 left.

Then a little art: El Camino dribbled the ensuing kickoff just a few yards upfield and masterfully recovered. A handful of plays later, Bakshi connected with Ian Dugas for the latter’s third receiving touchdown of the day — a 25-yard lob into a crowd in the right side of the end zone. The Colts were within a point.

At that point the Colts lined up for two. Bakshi rolled left on the snap and threw a line drive. At that point, South City linebacker David Alapati burst threw and intercepted the PAT try, all but giving the Warriors the victory.

“I knew I had to go and get that interception,” Alapati said. “My eyes went hella big when I saw him roll him (my way).”

Jacobson said he decided to put everything on the line and go for two under the assumption that El Camino would never have as good a chance.

“I was always going to go for two,” Jacobson said. “We know there’s overtime, but I didn’t like our chances going in there because we were getting beaten up on the defensive side of the ball. When you get a chance to win the Bell, you’re going to take that shot.”

Victorious South City players perform a haka-like ceremonial dance after their victory. Photo: John Baker

With the win, South City finishes the season 3-7, while El Camino finishes 1-9. The Colts’ last win in the series remains a 35-19 upset in 2003.

The game’s first score came about five minutes into the contest on a 38-yard left run by Lupe. Just two plays later, a wide-open Dugas scored his first touchdown on a 60-yard pass from Bakshi. After a quarter, it was 7-7.

Dugas (four receptions for 161 yards) put El Camino up 14-7 34 seconds before halftime with a 49-yard score set up by a successful fake punt. Lupe tied the game with a 40-yard run with 3:47 left in the third quarter, then quarterback Tyson Alapati scored on a one-yard keeper with 14 seconds left in the third, setting up the momentous fourth.

El Camino’s Ian Dugas (No. 3, right) runs away on a 60-yard scoring pass in the first quarter of Saturday’s 55th Bell Game at South San Francisco High. Photo John Baker

“Ian made some incredible catches today,” Jacobson said. “He singlehandedly kept us in the game today.”

Lupe led all rushers with 186 yards on 13 carries, followed by teammate Kolson Pua, who carried 20 times for 90 yards. The Warriors generated 349 combined yards of offense.

El Camino was led by Bakshi, who completed seven of 12 passes for 161 yards. El Camino only tallied 61 yards total on the ground, spread amongst seven rushers. The Colts tallied exactly 100 fewer total yards than South City.

Defensively, RJ Aquino tallied a fumble recovery and an interception for El Camino. For South City David Alapati had another interception beyond the one on the PAT, and Jacob Martinez recovered a fumble.

“There was a lot of pressure,” Lupe said. “Both teams came out to play. We played to our fullest potential and I have to give props to El Camino — they really came out.”

In other words, it was a classic.

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John Baker

John Baker, is a South City resident and SSFUSD Trustee, and onetime journalist turned low-level government bureaucrat / Transit advocate / Recent SFSU MPA grad / also CVHS & HSU alum / Former public safety dispatcher. He maintains a blog on multiple subjects, all interesting reads with his wit and insights. To read more CLICK HERE. To follow John on Twitter CLICK HERE for his Facebook outreach CLICK HERE. To follow his school based Twitter CLICK HERE where you fill also find the blow by blow action from the Bell Game.

South San Francisco, CA    November 29, 2016  Submitted by Coach Jake, ECHS 

History will be made at El Camino this Friday Night December 2nd 2016. The first ever night Soccer game will be played vs.The South City Warriors. It is a quad game so JV Girls will kickoff at 3:00, JV boys at 4:30, Varsity Girls 6:00, & the Varsity Boys at 7:30. Be there or be square at this historic event sponsored by Opterra Energy.–COLT PRIDE

South San Francisco, CA   January 13, 2017   Submitted by Coach Jake

We are in the process of organizing a citizens committee to take the necessary steps to ask SSFUSD School Board for permission to name El Camino’s Big Gym after Owen Kashevaroff. We will be having a meeting in the El Camino Library in early March. The purpose of this meeting will be held to make sure that there is no opposition in the community for naming the gym after Kash. If you would like to write a letter of recommendation that we can present to the school board on Owen Kashevaroff behalf that would wonderful. Please send all letters to my email, ecjake66@hotmail.com. Hopefully if all goes well we can have a ceremony in the Big Gym this May.–COLT PRIDE

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UPDATE: Some were inquiring who was Owen Kashevaroff so we share more info.  HERE is a link to Coach Jake’s personal story

“Many years ago (1970’s), my family was vacationing in Boulder Creek. My brother was attempting to jump off the high dive, got scared and started to turn around. He slipped and fell into the water. He hit his shoulder on the diving board on the way down and broke it… the shoulder, not the board! While struggling in the water, someone jumped in and saved him… yes, it was Kash who was our hero:-) What a small world… as students at El Camino, we knew who he was:-) ” – Pat Murray SSFUSD School Board Trustee

From SF Gate Feb 16, 1996 by Merv Harris, Examiner Staff:

The late Owen Kashevaroff will posthumously become a member of the new Peninsula Basketball Officials Association Hall of Fame along with equally esteemed colleagues Ray Wagner, John Noce, Jim Witt and Homer Zugelder when the PBOA holds its annual dinner Monday at Bella Mangiotta restaurant in San Mateo.
When Mr. Kashevaroff died 13 years ago, two men particularly close to him were asked to talk about how he had influenced them. They spoke freely and lovingly about their mentor. And the influence continues today as Bruce Grantham and Mark Avelar serve as principals, respectively, at Alta Loma Middle School in South San Francisco and Aragon High in San Mateo.
We think that what these two community leaders said in 1983 continues to be moving and pertinent in 1996. Their tribute:
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO – A man is measured by the lives he touches and the lives he makes better. By that measure, the Peninsula sports community is diminished grievously this week by the loss of a giant, Owen Kashevaroff.At age 53, he had been a star athlete at Balboa High and San Francisco State University, a recreation leader, a high school coach, a physical education teacher, a school district driver education coordinator, for a time in the mid-1960s commissioner of the North Peninsula League, a leading basketball official at San Francisco and Peninsula high school and collegiate levels, a devoted family man (father of four) . . . and more.
Thus, a summary of a man’s life in just 68 words. Twelve score that many could not convey what he had meant to so many of his contemporaries and students through the years, so moved were they and so compelled to speak about him were they at his death of cancer last week.
Bruce Grantham and Mark Avelar are vice principals, respectively, at South San Francisco and El Camino Highs. They are two sophisticated men in their mid-30s, men who have risen through the multilayered bureaucracy of professional education. They deal with serious problems daily, manage considerable sums of money, make tough judgments.Asked to meet with a sportswriter to talk about their late mentor, friend and co-worker, Grantham and Avelar became – for that time of remembering – no longer the serious, dapper professionals who are two rising stars in the South San Francisco Unified School District pantheon.
Instead, they became again their earlier selves, mischievous, impressionable 10-year-olds on a South City playground, literally idolizing the young adult who was their recreation leader . . . and, they said, their inspiration. Their reminiscences are recorded here as just two stories of lives touched by Owen Kashevaroff, and let these two testimonies stand as representative of the many that could be given.
AVELAR BECAME one of “Owen’s kids” when he was a fifth-grader and Kashevaroff was a playground leader for the South San Francisco Recreation Dept. A recreation major in college, he joined the faculty of Spruce Junior High two years later in 1959.
“I was in his first period physical education class and I was the first kid he ever took roll on,” Avelar recalled.
“First period, first day. Owen and I would reminisce since then and he’d say, “It was all down hill after that. All the rest of them were easy after you.’
“Owen had interesting ways of kind of keeping you in line. He had what I call a high risk teaching approach in that he got to some really good levels of communication with kids because he was willing to take a risk and really get to know them as people and he risked himself in that he kidded with kids and he’d kind of take them beyond the normal student-teacher relationship. He had nicknames for everybody, but he took it when the kids had nicknames for him.
“He had the ability to get along with all different types of kids. I think because of his personality, a lot of the kids who were not real serious students liked his approach. Owen had the ability to kid with students and do that high risk stuff, but, when it was time to get down to business he was able to get them to get on with the instruction. He developed trust relationships with kids.”
In his own life, Avelar said, the primary reason he became an educator was his relationship with Kashevaroff. “I was a sophomore at USF and I was planning to go to law school. I thought people that had known of my aspirations might be disappointed that I was not going to go to law school and instead would go into education. I went back to El Camino and talked to Owen about it. He said it was a great profession and he thought I would be excellent in it. He thought I had the human qualities to become a good teacher and I saw those things in Owen. That really influenced me to go into teaching.”
GRANTHAM esteems his relationship with Kashevaroff not just for a teaching career, but also for his companion life as one of the Bay Area’s leading basketball officials. “I was about 11 or 12 years old on the playground when I first met him,” Grantham said. “The impressions when you’re a young boy are really important – you’re looking for models all the time. You don’t realize what a strong influence somebody has on your life.
“He was my first P.E. teacher. I was never much of an athlete, but, because of his encouragement about participation and having fun I wound up playing basketball and baseball in high school. Never would have if he hadn’t encouraged me. He got me my first job on the playground when I was a rec leader when I was 15-1/4 when the supervisor didn’t want to hire me because I was a precocious, big-mouthed little kid. I worked for the rec department for about 13 years after that.
“I started officiating basketball, which is a great part of my life now. Nineteen years of officiating, and I started on the playgrounds where Owen was the rec leader and I was refereeing games for him when I was 14 and 15, working playground games. He was teaching me at the time, how to officiate. So I started officiating when I was 18, right out of high school.
“Mark and I had him in junior high school,” Grantham went on. “He is one of the top two people that I had in education that made me decide to be an educator. I had family that wanted me to go into law or medicine or one of the high-faluting professions, but the bottom line was that I wanted to affect kids the way Owen had affected and influenced me. He made teaching a really important profession to me. I modeled myself after him in everything that I’ve done.
“Owen was really a self-effacing man. He had the idea that everybody was like him – that teachers were supposed to do those things for kids and that all teachers had the effect on students that he had. But that’s not true.”
THE REMEMBERING went on, the two of them returning to the vocabularies of their youth, the easy laughter of boys, the occasional giggle even – an uncanny regression in their lives as contrast to their stern demeanors as vice principals coping with campus problems. It took little discernment for the writer, taking his notes, to realize what deep and abiding impact and affection they were sharing with each other and with their interviewer.
“There was a teacher strike in South San Francisco (in 1975), a pretty ugly one,” Grantham said. “Mark and I were on the teaching staff at El Camino then and it was very tough because the P.E. staff was very close there. Most of us went out on strike, but Owen didn’t. From the very beginning he said he wouldn’t and he said why. There was never any hard feelings.
“We played cards together the first night of the strike. There were four guys that struck, four guys that didn’t strike. We talked about the political aspects of the situation and everything and Owen said, “I became a teacher because I didn’t believe in unions, I didn’t believe in striking. I cannot go out on strike, I owe it to the kids who go to school.’ That said a lot about Owen.
“He got along with every kind of kid. When the school district went to P.E. as an 11th and 12th grade elective,” Grantham further recalled, “all the punk kids signed up for Owen’s classes. Owen had the lowest absentee rate and tardy rate of all the P.E. teachers, and he had the worst kids in terms of their normal attendance in their other classes. He got along with the kids who were scholars and not good in P.E., but he got them to participate. . .he got along with the truants and problem kids who normally wouldn’t go to school.
“THE KIDS really identified with him. He accepted everybody. He gave unconditional acceptance and he got unconditional acceptance back. The shame is that the kids are no longer going to experience him.
“Bottom line,” Grantham added, once again the somber adult rather than the giggling boy, “I really loved that man.” http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/A-great-man-s-continuing-good-works-3158362.php

South San Francisco, CA   January 14, 2017  By Coach Jake 

PREFACE: When someone you know has been larger than life, it’s hard to realize that perhaps not everyone has the same memories or experiences. To that end Coach Jake (Eric Jacobson, Coach at El Camino High School) has given a snap shot of who Owen Kashevaroff was and why he, along with other coaches, are working to have him memorialized at ECHS Gym. More can be found HERE

Even after his death, Coach Owen Kashevaroff aka Kash, remains larger than life.

Who was Owen Kashevaroff you ask, and why do we want to name the Big Gym after him. Well if you went to El Camino after 1983 he is just a name. To those who worked with this man they respected him for his leadership, skill as a tremendous teacher, and his sense of humor. To his students & players of he was an unforgettable man who made things fun, and he inspired young adults to do their very best.

Owen was affectionately known by his friends and students as “Kash”. He was the Physical Education Department Chair as well as the N.P.L. Commissioner from the mid 1960’s to the early 1970’s. He was a very knowledgeable man as well as a respected leader. According to Coach Lonnie Beckenhauer who worked with Kash from 1970-1982 said that Kash’s real love was working with the kids as a teacher & a coach. Sweat was a by-product of his teaching, but his students and athletes alike learned the basic values to life, a respect for everyone and everything, doing their best and doing what was right. His students often referred to themselves as “Kash’s Kids” because of the close comradery they achieved through their work and play together. According to Coach Beck, Kash believed that no student should be left behind, and he excelled at teaching Adaptive Physical Education.

He was a master of developing new games or adapting activities so that his adaptive students could enjoy the fruits of competition and motivate those students so much that often times he would have to keep them from over-doing it. He had a teacher-student bond with the students that was to be envied by all those who knew him. Coach Beck said as a young teacher in 1970 Kash was a mentor and an example of the type of teacher and coach that he wanted to be. Kash was a tremendous coach . He coached C & D lightweight Basketball, Soccer, Tennis,& Badminton. He was a LEGENDARY Badminton player. The guy never lost to a student, and he played for push-up’s. Hundreds of kids did hundreds of push-up’s cause Kash was an incredible Badminton player, and legend grows and grows.

Kash’s teams competed fiercely but always showed tremendous respect for their opponents. Coach Beck said that Kash was deeply competitive, however he was always conscious of those social values he instilled in his players and believed that they would remember those values during their competitions as he always did.

There are many stories about Kash’s sense of humor. He got the best of both Lou Zuardo, & Steve Simondi one time. Zuardo & Simondi shared lockers. Well for a week Kash would throw a dirty towel in there one day, a smelly jock strap another day. Random garbage he threw in there as well. Well Mr. Simondi being the kind gentle soul that we all know got pissed and stormed up to Zuardo who was at baseball practice. There hollering at one another, & then they realize Kash had got the best of them. This picture of Kash is still in our coaching office down at EC. Lonnie asked me to keep it up there after he retired so that Ole Kash would be smiling over us having a good time doing the job that he loved.

So if you are like me and went to EC after 1984 we were not fortunate enough to be one of “Kash’s Kids”. When Kash passed away right after he retired many teacher’s like Coach Beck, Lou Zuardo, Coach Simondi, Rich Arias, Bob Nicolopulos asked the powers that be to name the Gym after him. It was not something they did back then. Our Principal Mr. Dan Lunt & Jeff Cosico , and myself as co-Athletic Directors want to celebrate, & honor our EC history. Our Weight Room is named after Lonnie Beckenhauer. Carlos Roman & Lou Zuardo baseball numbers have been retired and on display at Colt Diamond. All the wonderful teachers & coaches we had in the 1980’s & 1990’s all looked up to, & admired Owen Kashevaroff as a teacher/coach & as a man.

It is all together fitting that our Big Gym should be named after Kash, for he surly made an impact not only on his students, but the men and women that he worked with. If you wish to write an e-mail to recommend to the SSFUSD Board that we honor Owen Kashevaroff by naming our Gym after his you can email your letter to me at ecjake66@hotmail.com.–COLT PRIDE

South San Francisco, CA   January 21, 2017  Submitted by Coach Jake  

To read the latest update FEB 2, 2017  on the ground breaking ceremony by Coach Jake CLICK HERE

UPDATE FEB 1, 2017: 

Looks like rain tomorrow, if it does indeed rain the ceremony will take place in the Big Gym. The show must go on.–COLT PRIDE
Ceremonial Groundbreaking
for the SSFUSD Sustainability and Field Lighting Program
Please join us at
El Camino High School – Colt Field
Thursday, February 2nd, at 10:30 AM
1320 Mission Rd, South San Francisco, CA 94080
Join us for a Ceremonial Groundbreaking to Kick Off South San Francisco USD’s Sustainability and Field Lighting Program!
Please join SSFUSD Leaders, Board Members, principals, teachers, student-athletes, and the local OpTerra team for a ceremonial groundbreaking to kick off a project that will bring ‘Friday Night Lights’ to the South City community. The new project work will expand the District’s sustainability initiatives and provide unparalleled opportunities for hands-on, project-based STEM learning in the classroom!
All told, the project will save the District over $2 Million for the General Fund and create over 30 construction jobs for the skilled local workforce. As the program gets under way, we will continue to provide unique opportunities for students across the community to actively engage with these advanced, sustainable technologies in their we look forward to seeing you there for what promises to be a memorable, special celebration!
Organized by South San Francisco Unified School District
and OpTerra Energy Services

I went down to El Camino High School today for a meeting about the Thursday, February 2nd ground breaking. God I’m so excited I cannot sleep. Just think what was once a Duck Farm, was transformed into a beautiful field, & soon we will have Stadium LED lights. I never thought I would see that day come, but come it will. Please take time out of your day and be a part of this historic day for EC Athletics.

Please join us at;

Ceremonial Groundbreaking for the SSFUSD Sustainability and Field Lighting Program

El Camino High School – Colt Field
Thursday, February 2nd, at 10:30 AM
1320 Mission Rd, South San Francisco, CA 94080

Join us for a Ceremonial Groundbreaking to Kick Off South San Francisco USD’s Sustainability and Field Lighting Program!
Please join SSFUSD Leaders, Board Members, principals, teachers, student-athletes, and the local OpTerra team for a ceremonial groundbreaking to kick off a project that will bring ‘Friday Night Lights’ to the South City community. The new project work will expand the District’s sustainability initiatives and provide unparalleled opportunities for hands-on, project-based STEM learning in the classroom!
All told, the project will save the District over $2 Million for the General Fund and create over 30 construction jobs for the skilled local workforce. As the program gets under way, we will continue to provide unique opportunities for students across the community to actively engage with these advanced, sustainable technologies in their we look forward to seeing you there for what promises to be a memorable, special celebration!
Organized by South San Francisco Unified School District and OpTerra Energy Services

Let there be light – on ECHS field!

“If you can dream it, and you are persistent, no matter how many people tell you your wasting your time, it can be done. Never Quit” – Coach Jake

South San Francisco, CA   February 2, 2017  Submitted by Coach Jake Jacobson 

Today’s groundbreaking ceremony at El Camino High School

I thought I was on the list to speak today at the ground breaking ceremony, but plans change. I’m posting this because I wanted to thank all those who made this day possible.

I would like to thank the past school board members Judy Bush / Philip Weise / Maurice Goodman / Liza Normandy / Shirley Hoch / & former cabinet member & current Superintendent Ms. Moore for their part in the reason why we are today. If they did not take the steps to turn to renewable energy none of us would be here today, and I’ll tell you why in a minute. I like to say thanks to all of the citizens of SSF for supporting Measure J.

When Measure J came about back on November 2nd 2010 I did not know much about it. I remember driving past El Camino in the summer of 2011 and it looked like they were building a Sonic Burger joint in the parking lot. I drove home with my wife saying what a waste of dough, Solar Power?? Why don’t they put in a field or something useful?
Well in the end both High schools in the district now have brand new beautiful fields thanks to measure J, and El Camino got a modern Science building along with the field.

Now I get to why we’re here today. One Wednesday Night in May I could not sleep and the movie Hoffa was on. Well if you don’t know the movie this guy he stood up for the working man against some pretty tough opposition, and was not afraid to speak out. I went to work and My very good friend and co-Athletic Director Jeff Cosico were sitting in the office our desk face opposite directions. I said Cos, I’m going to the school board tonight and ask them to pay for portable lights for 3 games a year until we get our permanent lights. I think it’s only fair right Clifford field had lights when JFK was in office. What’s the worst they could say right? Cos kind of said good luck with that one Jake. Well I did that and the Board didn’t say much and that was that.

 
The next day Cos goes Hey Jake Mr. Goodman looking for ya. I thought man I’ve been pretty good what did I do wrong. Well Mr Maurice Goodman found me and he followed me down on my lunch break I used to play dominoes with one of my students. He said the district has some money for going green and solar but it can only be used for projects dealing with Lighting. He then said the two people I need to see were Mr. Michael Kruase & a Lady by the name of Courtney Jenkins. Our first meeting was at Royal Pin Doughnuts. That was almost 3 years ago. Since then Courtney & Steve of Opterra Energy paid for 7 night football games and this year’s EC vs SSF Soccer game. Courtney & Mr. Krause both have done countless hours of work, and Courtney attended many board meetings. She is very well respected in the district and the Current Board because she is a first class human being.

 
I want to thank our current School board Mr. Patrick Lucy, Mr. John Baker, Mrs. Rosa G. Acosta, Ms. Daina R. Lujan, Mrs. Pat Murray for making this great day possible. Special thanks to our Superintendent Ms. Moore & Cabinet member’s Michale Krause as well as our Administration Mr. Lunt / Ms. Smith / Ms. Jackson, & Mr. Briano for their support. Just think in 1959 the area you now know as Colt field was a Duck Farm, now In my humble opinion the most beautiful field on Earth, and next Fall let there be Lights. Thanks to all of you for making this happen, it just shows what a group of people can do by working together, and pulling in the same direction. In the end why did we do this? for the most important people of all are the kids who get to play and learn life lessons thru sport on a safe beautiful field. Now El Camino High School can finally say I’ll see you under the FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS.

To read the previous article on this please CLICK HERE

South San Francisco, CA     May 26, 2017    by ECHS Coach Jake 

EDITORS NOTE: We were not able to have this published in time for today’s event so we will be updating with photos and information so please check back. To view the short video clip tribute CLICK HERE

Photo credit: John Baker SSFUSD Board Trustee

OWEN KASHEVAROFF MEMORIAL GYMNASIUM CEREMONY is tomorrow. We look forward to seeing many EC coaches/teachers and Colts from the past. The ceremony will begin at or around 5:00 in Kash’s Gym. We will have some scheduled speakers, followed by an open microphone for any who would like to say a few words for Owen Kashevaroff. We will have sandwiches from Lydias Deli along with coffee/ H20 & cookies. The blacktop gate will be open AT 4:00 so save yourself some shoe leather. For our handicapped guest please walk in through the small gym into Kash’s Gym. For all of our other guest please walk through the foyer/lobby of Kash’s Gym. I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.–COLT PRIDE

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OWEN KASHEVAROFF

UPDATE from SSFUSD Trustee John Baker with photo credits going to Mr Baker as well:

Honored today to be at the ceremony dedicating the Owen Kashevaroff Memorial Gymnasium at El Camino High. “Kash” taught at ECHS for 18 years before his untimely passing, and left a legacy for his teaching colleagues in the District that included Adaptive Physical Education.

Kudos to Eric Jacobson for helping spur the effort to rename the gym in Kash’s honor.

Photo credit: SSFUSD Trustee John Baker

SSFUSD Trustee John Baker with Coach Jeke

Coach Jake once again successfully navigated benefits for ECHS that will last for generations of students, pictured with SSFUSD Boardmember Patrica Murray

South San Francisco, CA    July 25, 2017  Submitted by Coach Jake aka Eric Jacobson, Head Coach 

ELCO Jr. Varsity Schedule 2017

ELCO Varsity Schedule 2017

South San Francisco, CA   October 27, 2017  by ECHS Coach Jake

Tennis Courts Update: Last night the School Board approved a bid for construction of New Tennis Courts. They should be finished in early 2018. In other EC Tennis news:-

-Congratulations to the El Camino Girls’ Tennis team for taking 1st place in the PAL Ocean Division.
They went 13 -0 for the season. Way to go Lady Colts!!!

ECHS Girls Tennis Team
Photo: Coach Jake

We are proud and excited to support our girls next week in the Individual PAL Tennis Tournament matches which will be held at San Mateo and Burlingame High Schools.