Nice job

[WOW Freddy]

Great job MR Paye and your girls

 

[colhenrylives]

For those with extremely long memories, John's first three Menlo girls' titles revolved around the devastating duo of his point guard sister, Kate, and their tall, physical, athletic center, Laurie Stucker. That Paye/Stucker combo caused havoc throughout CCS and beyond in the very early 1990s just as the private/parochials began to muscle up their total control of CCS girls' hoops. Defending them was no bargain. Stucker matriculated to Dartmouth; Kate took a two-mile jaunt south to Stanford. When they left Menlo, the sighs of relief from opponents were audible.

 

[colhenrylives]

Come to think about it, those early Menlo CIF champions were part of a CCS private/parochial revolution. Along with Menlo in the vanguard of change, the surge by the non-publics was fueled by a confluence of fortuitous factors in the 1990s. Among them:

The decision by SI and SH(C) to go coed. (Brian Harrigan was the SHC girls' coach.)
The hiring of Sue Phillps at Mitty.
The hiring of Mike Ciardella at SH Prep.
The eventual hiring of Doc Scheppler at Pinewood.

The coaching quintet of Paye, Harrigan, Phillips, Ciardella and Scheppler vaulted those five programs into the top reaches of California girls' prep hoops. Once Valley Christian joined the WCAL near the turn of the century, it was determined to add female sports to that league, creating what has become the strongest girls' athletic circuit in Northern California. Today, the WCAL and the WBAL (Pinewood, Menlo, SHP, Woodside Priory, etc.) stand out in stark contrast to everything else in the CCS firmament. In all, CCS private/parochials have captured more than 30 CIF girls' basketball crowns. CCS publics have a grand total of one.

 

[Norcal_Fan]

Come to think about it, those early Menlo CIF champions were part of a CCS private/parochial revolution. Along with Menlo in the vanguard of change, the surge by the non-publics was fueled by a confluence of fortuitous factors in the 1990s. Among them:

The decision by SI and SH(C) to go coed. (Brian Harrigan was the SHC girls' coach.)
The hiring of Sue Phillps at Mitty.
The hiring of Mike Ciardella at SH Prep.
The eventual hiring of Doc Scheppler at Pinewood.

The coaching quintet of Paye, Harrigan, Phillips, Ciardella and Scheppler vaulted those five programs into the top reaches of California girls' prep hoops. Once Valley Christian joined the WCAL near the turn of the century, it was determined to add female sports to that league, creating what has become the strongest girls' athletic circuit in Northern California. Today, the WCAL and the WBAL (Pinewood, Menlo, SHP, Woodside Priory, etc.) stand out in stark contrast to everything else in the CCS firmament. In all, CCS private/parochials have captured more than 30 CIF girls' basketball crowns. CCS publics have a grand total of one.

Those are impressive numbers but aside from a few public schools winning here and there, the PS’s in CCS aren’t highly competitive. Also Quattlebaum won when he was at SHP.

 

[colhenrylives]

Those are impressive numbers but aside from a few public schools winning here and there, the PS’s in CCS aren’t highly competitive. Also Quattlebaum won when he was at SHP.

He has one. Eastside Prep and (back in the day) Redwood Christian have several too.

 

[Norcal_Fan]

He has one. Eastside Prep and (back in the day) Redwood Christian have several too.

That's right...Joe Hendron (SP?). I remember they took out Pinewood when they were invincible in D5. 99/2000ish.

 

[colhenrylives]

That's right...Joe Hendron (SP?). I remember they took out Pinewood when they were invincible in D5. 99/2000ish.

Yes. RC won a D5 title in 2000. Runner-up in 2001.