Mike Brown has coached multiple sports at multiple levels during a 29-year time period at Napa High. He began his Napa High coaching career in 1980 as a junior varsity football assistant coach before transitioning to the varsity level where…
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John Colledge*
John Colledge was an all time great athlete at Corning High School and Chico State College. In high school, Colledge had an incredible record as a four year star in all four major sports – football, basketball, baseball and track.…
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Jerry Dunlap
As the son of a football coach and college athletic director, it is no surprise that Jerry Dunlap would follow in his dad’s footsteps, and it was Napa High’s good fortune that landed Dunlap in Napa. Dunlap grew up in…
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Barbara Franco
Barbara Franco was the women’s volleyball coach at Napa High School for 17 seasons, two years as frosh-soph coach in 1980 and ’81, and 15 years as women’s varsity coach from 1982-96. She established an incomparable record of success, whether…
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Bob Herlocker
Bob Herlocker has been a teacher and a coach for 39 years, 25 of which have been at Napa High. Herlocker began his coaching career at Hiram Johnson High School in 1970. Herlocker made several stops along the way to…
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Denny Lewis
Denny Lewis was the Napa High School men’s basketball coach from 1974 to 2002, 28 years of directing the Blue and Gold program. His teams won 376 games during his coaching tenure and he has had a positive influence on…
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Basketball (Boys)|Track & Field (Boys)|Track & Field (Girls)
Tim Mulligan
Tim Mulligan retired from teaching after 37 years. After starting at Redwood Middle School, where he served as both teacher and coach, most of his teaching career was spent coaching Napa High teams in various capacities. He was the assistant…
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Football|Track & Field (Boys)|Track & Field (Girls)|Wrestling (Boys)
John O’Connor
After 14 seasons of remarkable success at Justin-Siena (1990-2003), O’Connor’s retirement from coaching lasted just one season when Napa High contacted him about its vacant softball head coaching position. Known as “Coach O,” Napa compiled an overall record of 189-89…
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Keith Orr*
Keith Orr was a coach in the Napa system for over 40 years, over 34 of which were at Napa High School. He coached football, basketball and track at the high school level, baseball and basketball at the junior high…
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Basketball (Boys)|Basketball (Girls)|Football|Track & Field (Boys)|Track & Field (Girls)
Joe Richmond*
Joe Richmond has a passion for two things, which when blended together, made the Napa High experience even better for students. Devoted to shaping student athletes and the game of soccer, Richmond used these passions to motivate and educate students…
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Pete Rivers*
Pete Rivers came to the Napa Valley in 1950 from Oklahoma, where he was a living legend as a high school and college athlete and a high school coach. The Napa High School Athletic Hall of Fame is the fifth…
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Clint Smith*
Clint Smith was active on the school coaching scene in Napa from 1957 to 1987 as a baseball coach at Napa College, a football and basketball coach at Ridgeview Junior High School in addition to the Napa High School freshman,…