Longtime VC Coach Gary Anglin to Enter CCCFCA Hall of Fame
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.
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.
Anglin will be inducted as a player/alumni/coach and will take his place beside CCC football greats Pete Carroll, Bill Walsh, Dick Vermeil, John Madden, Jackie Robinson,Hugh McEllhenny, Ollie Matson, Keith Calkins, Joe Perry, Tom Dempsey, Steve Smith, Larry Allan,Aaron Rodgers, and Herman Edwards.
Anglin's coaching career for the orange and black was preceded by an exemplary career as a student-athlete at Ventura College. He earned All-WSC recognition in football, and All-American and Western State Conference Player of the Year recognition in baseball. He was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in 1970, the Kansas City Royals in 1971, and the Oakland Athletics in 1972. He chose not to play professional baseball so that he could pursue his dream of playing football at UCLA in the Rose Bowl. An injury forced him to focus solely on baseball, where he was a standout for the Bruins in Westwood.
As the Head Baseball Coach, Anglin tutored eight future major leaguers, including Brook Jacoby, Robert Fick, Derron Reed, David Patterson, Brent Cookson, Brandon Knight, and Tom Levasseur. During his seventeen-year run as the baseball coach, Anglin sent 87% of his student-athletes to professional baseball organizations or four-year universities. Coach Anglin was honored as the Western State Conference Coach of the Year on multiple occasions.
During his 36-year tenure with the football program, Anglin has mentored the linebackers and produced a plethora of all-conference, all-state, and all-American linebackers. He helped lead the Pirates to 11 post-season bowl appearances and six conference championships.
See Letter from CCCFCA with specific details for the induction ceremony.