Top high school coaches of the decade from each sport

Coaches of the Decade
Football
Jason Negro, St. John Bosco (Bellflower, Calif.)
Prior to Negro taking over at St. John Bosco in 2010, the Braves rarely won 10 games, let alone a Trinity League title, a state championship or a national No. 1 ranking. Since Negro has been at the helm, St. John Bosco has won three CIF Open Division Bowl Games and has been ranked No. 1 in the nation twice.

Girls Volleyball
Barbara Campbell, Brentwood (Tenn.)
Campbell has led Brentwood to seven straight Tennessee Class AAA state championships and a total of 15 in her 32-year career. She ranks third all-time in volleyball match wins with 1,728 and has reached the state finals 22 times.

Boys Volleyball
Craig Pazanti, Huntington Beach (Calif.)
No boys volleyball coach has had a more successful run during the decade, or ever for that matter, than Pazanti had from 2013 to 2016. His team won a national record 121 consecutive matches, won three Southern Section Division 1 championships and posted back-to-back 40-0 seasons.

Boys Swimming
Todd Larkin, St. Xavier (Louisville, Ky.)
Larkin has never finished lower than state champion in his 10 years as head coach of one of the nation's greatest high school sports dynasties. The Tigers have won 31 straight state championships in boys swimming and last year they won the crown by nearly 200 points.

Girls Swimming
Chris Plumb, Carmel (Ind.)
Carmel has won 33 straight Indiana state championships in girls swimming and Plumb has been the coach for the past 13. His teams still hold the national record for 400-yard and 200-yard freestyle relay races and once also held the 200-yard medley relay race mark.

Girls Tennis
Jeff Holman, Haddonfield (N.J.)
There isn't much Holman hasn't won during his time as the boys and girls tennis coach at Haddonfield. The girls program has won 1,169 matches, 41 conference championships, 38 section crowns, 19 state championships and three TOC titles, according to his school bio. He's also been inducted into seven different halls of fame during his illustrious career.

Boys Tennis
Ray Jaramillo, Albuquerque Academy (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Jaramillo has guided one of the most consistent winners in the nation at Albuquerque Academy. His boys tennis team has won 17 straight state championships, with the latest one coming in May. That streak is the longest active streak among boys tennis teams in the nation and the third longest of all-time.



Michler has been coaching soccer for 50 years, 48 of them at Christian Brothers. The last decade has been particularly good to Michler, however, as he has won four of his nine state titles in the past 10 seasons including two in the past three years. Last year, Michler was the USA Today national boys soccer coach of the year. He's also closing in on 1,000 wins as he enters the 2020 season with 990 - the most of any boys soccer coach in national history.

Girls Soccer
John Burke, Catholic Memorial (Waukesha, Wis.)
It's been quite a decade for Burke, who led Catholic Memorial to eight state championships during the 10-year stretch to give him a state best 14 state titles all-time. He also won six straight championships from 2012 to 2017 and his .873 winning percentage (540-59-45) is the best in state history, according to the Wisconsin Soccer Coaches Association record book.

Girls Golf
Sister Lynn Winsor, Xavier College Prep (Phoenix)
No coach has won more than Sister Winsor. In the past 40 years as the head coach at Xavier College Prep, Winsor has won a national record 36 state titles and finished second four times. She won eight times during the decade and had a national record 204 unbeaten match streak.

Boys Golf
Chris Drake, Torrey Pines (San Diego)
Torrey Pines won three California state championships during the decade and what makes that achievement even more impressive is that California, with well over 1,200 schools, crowns only one state champion in golf. Torrey Pines also won eight San Diego Section championships under Drake.

Boys Cross Country
Rick Baker, Hopi (Keams Canyon, Ariz.)
Baker led Hopi to an incredible run, guiding the boys team to 27 straight state championships before finishing second the past three seasons. The 27 consecutive state titles is a national record.

Girls Cross Country
Doug Soles, Great Oak (Temecula, Calif.)
During the past decade, no California school won more girls cross country championships than Great Oak with eight. Even more impressive, all of Great Oak's championships came at the Division 1 level. Under Soles, Great Oak has become one of the top cross country programs in the nation.



Boys Basketball
Kevin Boyle, Montverde Academy (Montverde, Fla.)
After leading St. Patrick (N.J.) to a decade of dominance in the 2000s, Boyle has done the same at Montverde Academy during the 2010s. In nine seasons as head coach, Boyle has lost just 19 games while winning 207 games. His teams earned the No. 1 ranking in the MaxPreps computer ranking in 2017-18, 2014-15 and 2013-14.

Girls Basketball
Joe Lombard, Canyon (Texas)
Lombard is closing in on the national all-time wins record for girls basketball as he has 1,344 and needs just 72 to top all-time leader Leta Andrews. Lombard made big strides during the 2010s as he won five state championships, including four in a row between 2014 to 2017.

Boys Wrestling
Steve Tirapelle, Clovis (Calif.)
The Tirapelle family dominated wrestling in California during the 2010s with father Steve Tirapelle leading Clovis to five straight state championships (California crowns only one state champion in wrestling) and his son Troy led Buchanan to four titles in a row. Clovis finished second two other times and third place in another year.

Girls Wrestling
Anthony Carter, Hanks (El Paso, Texas)
Girls wrestling has been an up-and-coming sport during the 2010s, but Carter has already put together an impressive career as a girls wrestling coach as he led Hanks to six state championships during the 2010s.

Baseball
Chan Brown, Parkview (Lilburn, Ga.)
Parkview was successful before Brown became the head coach in 2005, but he has taken them to another level in the past decade. Besides winning nine region championships during the 2010s, Parkview also won five state championships and have been ranked No. 1 in the nation in various ranking services in 2012, 2015 and 2018.

Softball
Richard Robinson, Norco (Calif.)
Robinson's clubs at Norco have consistently been ranked among the top 25 in the nation throughout the 2010s, finishing No. 1 in the nation in 2012, 2018 and 2019. The 2017 team also finished No. 3 in the nation.

Boys Lacrosse
Bryan Kelly, Calvert Hall (Baltimore)
Playing in the most competitive boys lacrosse league in the country, Kelly's Calvert Hall team dominated in the 2010s, winning four conference titles. They've won three in a row to close out the decade, becoming the first school to ever win three straight MIAA championships in lacrosse.



Girls Lacrosse
Chris Robinson, McDonogh (Owings Mills, Md.), Lake Highland Prep (Orlando, Fla.)
For nine seasons, Robinson's McDonogh team dominated the IAAM conference and was also regarded as one of the top teams in the nation. Robinson showed that he could take his show on the road as he resigned at McDonogh after the 2018 season and moved to Florida, where he led Lake Highland Prep to its first state championship.

Boys Ice Hockey
Bill Belisle, Mount St. Charles Academy (Woonsocket, R.I.)
Mount St. Charles Academy has won a national record 44 ice hockey state championships and Belisle has led them to 32 of them, including four in the 2010s. He retired at the conclusion of the 2019 seasons as the all-time winningest hockey coach in national history with over 1,000 wins.

Girls Ice Hockey
Eric Johnson, Minnetonka (Minn.)
Johnson retired after the 2019 season, completing an outstanding 14-year career at Minnetonka. He led the Skippers to three straight state championships from 2011 to 2013, making Johnson the first Minnesota girls coach to lead a team to three straight state girls hockey titles.

Boys Track
Lloyd Banks, Fort Bend Marshall (Missouri City, Texas)
Banks has been a big reason Fort Bend Marshall has become a powerhouse, not only in Texas but nationwide. Marshall has won four state championships in the past five seasons at the 5A level and their relay teams have been among the best in the nation during that time as well. Banks was also named the Texas track and field coach of the year in 2019.

Girls Track
Tom Esslinger, Homewood (Ala.)
The national high school girls track coach of the year in 2017, Esslinger has led Homewood to six straight state championships in outdoor track and field. He's also won the last three Class 6A girls indoor track and field state championships.