{"id":293539,"date":"2016-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/plhs-hires-new-basketball-coach-2\/"},"modified":"2016-10-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T07:00:00","slug":"plhs-hires-new-basketball-coach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/plhs-hires-new-basketball-coach-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PLHS hires new basketball coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Peninsula Beacon has learned Point Loma High administrators have quietly hired a new varsity basketball head coach.<br \/>\nJosh Aros, a veteran coach in the Pointer program, was selected over a field of five candidates according to sources. He replaces Chris Brisco, who spent eight years at the helm.<br \/>\nAros, 28, has been coaching basketball at PLHS since he was just 18, including two years heading the freshman team, seven as junior varsity head coach and last year as a varsity assistant to Brisco. Aros is also a varsity assistant in football.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m very excited to take over the program,&#8221; Aros said, &#8220;And continue the legacy started by my dad and coach Brisco.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe Aros name is familiar to Pointer sports fans. Dave Aros, Josh&#8217;s father, has coached several boys and girls varsity teams and is a current varsity football assistant and teacher whose tenure at the school dates back to the days of legendary football coach Bennie Edens. And Mark Aros, Josh&#8217;s brother, currently coaches the Pointers girls basketball team, junior varsity softball and freshman football.<br \/>\nBrisco, an off-campus coach, inherited the varsity basketball team from Dave Aros in 2008. He went 102-103 overall (.498 winning percentage) and 56-41 (.577) in Central League play. His Pointers won one league title (2012-13) but were beaten 65-40 by Westview in the opening round of CIF playoffs that year.<br \/>\nIn his other years, the Pointers have finished in second place once, third once, fourth three times and fifth (last) twice.<br \/>\n&#8220;I want to give the community a program it can be proud of,&#8221; Josh Aros said. &#8220;I want to teach kids about basketball, but also about life, how to grow up and be a man.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peninsula Beacon has learned Point Loma High administrators have quietly hired a new varsity basketball head coach. Josh Aros, a veteran coach in the Pointer program, was selected over a field of five candidates according to sources. He replaces Chris Brisco, who spent eight years at the helm. Aros, 28, has been coaching basketball [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":293538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11561","_seopress_titles_title":"PLHS hires new basketball coach","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[12360,11561,11553],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-duplicate","category-peninsula-beacon","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}