2014 Ventura College Football News
(Originally released Feb 4, 2015) Ventura College football and head coach Steve Mooshagian are proud to update that an additional seven Pirates from 2014 inked scholarships or committed to play at the four-year level this summer. Combined with the 14 student athletes who signed on National Signing Day in February and nine mid-year transfers, 30 Pirates from the 2014 team will be moving on to four-year schools.
Daniel Algattas has joined the Ventura College football coaching staff as a full time faculty member, replacing the position held by longtime Pirate football and baseball coach Gary Anglin. He will serve the Pirates as Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks coach in 2015 under sixth-year head coach Steve Mooshagian.
VC football assistant coach Ron Jenkins was featured in the Spring 2015 edition of the Fresno State Magazine. Jenkins, who is a volunteer coach for the Pirates who will begin his third year as a Player Development/Wide Receiver coach with the Pirates in 2015, works as a Youth Correctional Officer at the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility. He was recruited to Fresno State by current VC head coach Steve Mooshagian.
In the list just released by the Southern California Football Association, the Pirate football team had 12 players named to the SCFA Scholar Athlete team for the 2014 season. Ventura's 12 honorees tops all football schools in the region. Offensive lineman Robert Lane leads the Pirates academically with a 3.54 grade point average for the fall semester.
Ventura College football and head coach Steve Mooshagian are proud to announce 14 Pirates from 2014 inked scholarships or committed to play at the four-year level on National Signing Day on Wednesday. Combined with nine mid-year transfers, 23 Pirates from the 2014 team will be moving on to four-year schools.
Longtime Pirate football coach Gary Anglin will be inducted into the California Community Colleges Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame at their annual induction dinner on March 14 in Visalia, it was announced Monday. Anglin spent 36 years on the sidelines for VC with both baseball and football before retiring from coaching last year. He will retire from his teaching position this spring.
Ventura College football coach Steve Mooshagian has announced that nine student athletes from the 2014 Northern Conference champion Pirates have transferred to four-year schools at mid-year. This will make them eligible to participate in spring workouts in preparation for the season next fall.
Pirate sophomore Paul Harris has been named an All-American kick returner by the JC Athletic Bureau and the California Community College Football Coaches Association. Additionally, VC had four players named to the Region III All-California first-team.
Sophomore running back Aaron Stanton has been named the Southern California Football Association Northern Conference Offensive Player of the Year in voting by conference coaches while head coach Steve Mooshagian was named coach of the year.
Proving they belonged with the "big boys" in the four-team Southern California Football Association playoffs, the No. 8-ranked Pirates pushed No. 1 Riverside before falling late 51-37 i the National Bowl and SCFA semifinals Saturday. Riverside scored the game-sealing touchdown with 2:22 remaining in the game to end VC's second banner season in the past three years.
For a school-record fourth year in a row, the Pirate football team is going bowling. And for the fourth time in school-history, the second in the past three years, the Pirates are going to the playoffs. The match-ups were announced Sunday, as SoCal No. 4-seed Ventura will travel to No. 1 Riverside to play in the National Bowl in a Southern California football Association semifinal contest on Saturday Nov. 22.
With the Northern Conference title sewn up, all that remained for the Pirate football team was to run the table on the conference schedule. Those hopes were dashed Saturday night as VC once again found Bakersfield College a difficult place to play in their 25-19 loss to the Renegades.
Isaiah Jackson and Paul Harris have earned Southern California Football Association Northern Conference Player of the Week honors for their performances last Saturday in VC's title-clinching 48-20 win over Allan Hancock College.
For the second time in three seasons, the Pirate football team has claimed the Southern California Football Association Northern Conference championship and a spot in the SCFA Playoffs. Ventura (6-3, 5-0) soundly defeated Allan Hancock College 48-20 Saturday at the VC Sportsplex to clinch the title with one game remaining in the regular season.
Aaron Stanton and Aaron Davis were double trouble for the College of the Canyons football team on Saturday, and the two Pirates were rewarded Tuesday, earning Northern Conference Player of the Week honors from the Southern California Football Association. Stanton was named the Offensive Player of the Week while Davis earned the nod for Special Teams/All-Purpose.
The Pirate football team hung 64 points on the board Saturday night in their 64-35 win over College of the Canyons at the VC Sportsplex, the best total since scoring 66 points in the inaugural Citrus Cup game in 1968 against Moorpark. With the win, Ventura (5-3, 4-0) clinches at least a share of its second Northern Conference championship.
