Goodman named A.D. at Oak Hills
Darren Goodman is the new athletic director at Oak Hills High School, Goodman told the Prep-dog today.
Oak Hills is a new school in the Hesperia area, set to open in 2009-2010.
Goodman is the second A.D. to be named recently. As previously reported, Dan Williams is the new A.D. at Rialto, replacing Frank Camacho, who is now an assistant principal at Rialto.
Goodman, 39, will move over from Hesperia in 2009-2010. Until then, he will serve double duty, acting as A.D. at both schools (setting up Oak Hills' schedules, ordering equipment, etc).
"A main reason is Mr. (Larry) Porras is moving over to Oak Hills as principal and he asked me to come over too. He's a big supporter of athletics, although the guy getting the principal's job at Hesperia, Bob Schnebeck, also is. It will be interesting to start a program from the ground up."
A native of England, Goodman was reared in San Bernardino and graduated from Cajon High School, Riverside Community College and Idaho State, where he played football.
He was an assistant football coach at Pacific High School under Chuck Pettersen and also coached boys soccer there. At Hesperia, he has been the A.D. as well as the girls soccer coach.
Goodman's father, Robin Goodman, coached soccer at Cajon.
Oak Hills will have a lighted football field with an all-weather track; the venue is almost completed. It will also have a triple-gymnasium, similar to Great Oak and Temecula Valley's.
No mascot or colors have been selected for the school yet and no coaches have been lined up.
Wow he will take this school to new height.Any word on what coaches he will take with him over there.Word up here is that Football job will be Kistner and Coleman going for softball,Rocky from Sultana to coach wrestling.
He did not say who will go with him. I doubt these coaches would like to make it known, even if they were contemplating a move. Nobody wants to be seen as a "lame-duck" coach.