Coalinga High School varsity boys basketball head coach reaches 300 career wins

COALINGA, Calif. (KFSN) -- The hardwood astatine Coalinga High has felt devastating losses and triumphant wins.

Teams person travel and gone, but 1 happening has remained the same.

"I walk a ton of clip here, obviously," Coalinga High Varsity boys hoops caput manager Jason McFarlin said.

He's spent a full of 20 years astatine the varsity level. His archetypal twelvemonth astatine the helm was backmost successful 2001.

He's got the yearbooks to beryllium it.

McFarlin says what made him privation the presumption successful the archetypal spot is the aforesaid happening that brings him backmost twelvemonth aft year.

"Trying to marque a difference," McFarlin said.

He's coached hundreds of players and respective sets of siblings, years apart, similar Jay and Jasmit Briana and Brett and Troy Arce.

He whitethorn travel disconnected arsenic easy-going and even-keeled amongst his memorabilia, but conscionable inquire immoderate of his existent oregon erstwhile players astir his demeanor connected the court.

"Once the crippled starts, helium flips that switch," erstwhile subordinate and existent adjunct manager Santiago Melendez said.

It doesn't substance what twelvemonth they played, galore of them picture him with the aforesaid word: passionate.

But conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic the players speech astir Coach McFarlin's strength connected the court, they besides speech astir the memorable moments he's created.

Like erstwhile Garrett Price got injured and was going to beryllium retired the remainder of the season.

"He made maine a captain, helium made it benignant of a large woody that it was my past game," Price, a subordinate of the Class of 2020 said.

Or erstwhile having to beryllium connected the schoolhouse autobus to and from his location successful Huron would've prevented Val Ibarra from playing.

"He would thrust to prime america up and bring america to practice," Ibarra, a subordinate of the people of 2002, said.

Or erstwhile Blake Wong played the champion fractional of his beingness and deed aggregate threes.

"Like, that's much hyped up than I've ever seen anyone similar get for maine successful my life," Wong, a subordinate of the people of 2017 said.

But, past month, the tables turned, making a memorable infinitesimal for manager himself -- a solemnisation marking his 300th vocation triumph arsenic varsity boys hoops coach.

"You speech astir the fig of wins oregon whatever, and past it's astir apt mode much important is however galore relationships I've built," McFarlin said.

Those relationships casual to spot arsenic we reached retired to much than a twelve of his existent and erstwhile players, asking if they had thing they wanted to accidental astir the peculiar occasion.

And past showed Coach McFarlin their responses.

Through tears, McFarlin said proceeding from his players brings him a consciousness of validation.

"You don't cognize if you're accomplishing your goals oregon not, but that - that truly benignant of says I am," McFarlin said.

He doesn't cognize however galore years helium has near arsenic caput coach, but helium knows however helium plans to walk them.

"Being respectful to people, being disciplined, being aggravated and past you tin execute excellence if you bash those happening connected everything you do. I deliberation we did that, person done that and volition proceed to bash it," McFarlin said.

The existent boy's hoops squad is headed into the semi-final rounds of the playoffs.

They are the fig 1 effect successful Division V.

Coach McFarlin says helium would emotion to bring location a conception championship.

It would beryllium the archetypal 1 successful Coalinga High School past for varsity boys basketball.

You tin ticker them play against Rosamond connected Tuesday, February 20, astatine Coalinga High School.

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