When you watch a Ventura High girls’ basketball game, then check the roster, it’s like going back in time. There’s so much history to tell.
The head coach, Ann Larson, has been there for 25 years. Her husband, Dan, is the quiet assistant coach who coached the boys’ team for 32 years. And the star junior player is Kailee Staniland, whose father, Jeff, was Ventura’s all-time scoring leader and a standout at Azusa Pacific. He’s now the boys’ basketball coach at Oxnard.
Kailee has her trademark head band, and since her father was a surfer growing up, there’s a little flash in the family. Ventura is 7-1 and Kailee is averaging 22 points a game.
The big question that needs to be answered is who wins a game H-O-R-S-E between father and daughter?
“I’ll still win,” Dad says. …
This is the final catch in the illustrious career of Newbury Park receiver Shane Rosenthal. Committed to Princeton. More than 5,100 yards receiving. A salute. pic.twitter.com/A5tt7ws30l
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