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 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.
“I’m very excited to take over the program,” Aros said, “And continue the legacy started by my dad and coach Brisco.”
The Aros name is familiar to Pointer sports fans. Dave Aros, Josh’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’s brother, currently coaches the Pointers girls basketball team, junior varsity softball and freshman football.
Brisco, 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.
In his other years, the Pointers have finished in second place once, third once, fourth three times and fifth (last) twice.
“I want to give the community a program it can be proud of,” Josh Aros said. “I want to teach kids about basketball, but also about life, how to grow up and be a man.”