{"id":388150,"date":"2024-04-26T01:33:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T01:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=388150"},"modified":"2024-04-26T02:03:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T02:03:02","slug":"raul-lara-is-in-as-the-new-head-coach-at-mater-dei-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=388150","title":{"rendered":"Raul Lara is in as the new head coach at Mater Dei football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the top football coaches in California is on his way to one of the nation&#8217;s premier prep coaching job. On Thursday, Mater Dei (Santa Ana, California) announced the hiring of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2024\/04\/25\/mater-dei-hires-former-long-beach-poly-coach-raul-lara-as-its-new-football-coach\/\">Raul Lara<\/a> as their next head football coach.<\/p>\n<p>Lara is an accomplished head coach in California, who is perhaps best known for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/news\/0GCbnV6pJUq6iNL_AbhmJw\/high-school-football-mater-dei-hiring-raul-lara-to-replace-frank-mcmanus-as-head-coach.htm\">13 years spent at Long Beach Poly<\/a> (Long Beach, California) where he won five Southern Section championships while compiling a record of 142-30.<\/p>\n<p>Last fall, Mater Dei finished third in the nation in the final USA TODAY Sports Super 25. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/santa-ana\/mater-dei-monarchs\/football\/staff\/\">Mater Dei went 13-1<\/a> under head coach Frank McManus.<\/p>\n<p>The school has produced three winners of the Heisman Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>There is a connection to Mater Dei for Lara through the school&#8217;s president, Michael Brennan. As noted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2024\/04\/25\/mater-dei-hires-former-long-beach-poly-coach-raul-lara-as-its-new-football-coach\/\">Ocean County Register<\/a>, beginning in 2014, Lara spent five years as head coach at St. Anthony (Long Beach, California) where Brennan was then the president.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Raul Lara is the new head coach at Mater Dei.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388151,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388150\/revisions\/388151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}