Finally some good news about Santa Ana – or rather two of the people who have left their mark in this downtrodden city. One of them, Santa Ana High School Wrestling Coach Scott Glabb, was profiled in Reader’s Digest in a series of columns about people who have “made their mark.”
“Coming from a school of upper-middle class students, Glabb was unsure of how disciplined the wrestlers at Santa Ana would be — he soon found out that the commitment level he was used to from athletes was not the norm at Santa Ana High School. The first season, Glabb dealt with wrestlers not being eligible to compete because of grades, and students in gangs and on drugs. His team of 20 wrestlers had a losing season of 11 wins and 16 losses — once even getting beat by a score of 72 to zero.” (Reader’s Digest)
This story has a happy ending Glabb got involved with his students and became a role model for them. “Since Scott started coaching in 1991, the Santa Ana High School wrestling team has had a record of 294 wins and 53 losses, 48 state qualifiers, and two high school national champion wrestlers. ”
Great job Coach Glabb! If you would like to learn more about the Santa Ana High School Wrestling Team please visit: Santa Ana Wrestling Team.
(Photo of Candice Price courtesy of the O.C. Register)
The O.C. Register profiled another winner from a local high school, 17 year old Candice Price, of Segerstrom High School. Price befriended a little girl who died of cancer at the abe of 3. Price then was inspired to start a club named after the little girl, “Karlie’s Angels.” “Dozens of Segerstrom students have participated in the club since it started last year. They sent more than 100 handmade cards to the children’s hospital for the holidays, and they’re beginning to raise money for the next batch,” according to the O.C. Register.
Price was recognized as the recipient of the first Santa Ana “Youth of the Year” award by the Santa Ana Youth Commission last month. Kudos to Price for spreading hope and dedication amongst her peers.
It’s nice to see good people recognized for good works – particularly when they both do their good works in Santa Ana.
Art, this ain’t no downtrodden city, and Santa Ana High ain’t no downtrodden school. Drive around Santa Ana streets and you’ll see well-kept homes and yards — those are people with pride and hope for the future. Then do the same in Pomona or Compton, and you’ll see a difference. You need more good news ’bout SAHS? Luis Tenorio ’03 grad, just graduated from MIT as a Nuclear Engineer – check it out: http://web.mit.edu/stem/institute/staff.html . Edgar Sanchez, SAHS ’03 is a second year grad student at MIT in biomed engineering : http://engineering.ucdavis.edu/pages/about/news/2007/baskin_award.html . Gloria Montiel will start her senior year at Harvard this fall, plans to come back and teach at SAHS. Fact is, nearly 1 of 5 teachers at SAHS graduated from there; these are acts of love. Scott Glabb’s national wrestling champion? He’s now a 3d year teacher at SAHS – that’s Jose Leon, and exemplary teacher and individual, and one of my former students.
Fact is, any city this big is going to have good news and bad news. The worse news is: this city is a California treasure whose enormous potential is being trodden down by poor leadership – and I’m going to guess this is really what you meant by “down-trodden”.
Art, this ain’t no downtrodden city, and Santa Ana High ain’t no downtrodden school. Drive around Santa Ana streets and you’ll see well-kept homes and yards — those are people with pride and hope for the future. Then do the same in Pomona or Compton, and you’ll see a difference. You need more good news ’bout SAHS? Luis Tenorio ’03 grad, just graduated from MIT as a Nuclear Engineer – check it out: http://web.mit.edu/stem/institute/staff.html . Edgar Sanchez, SAHS ’03 is a second year grad student at MIT in biomed engineering : http://engineering.ucdavis.edu/pages/about/news/2007/baskin_award.html . Gloria Montiel will start her senior year at Harvard this fall, plans to come back and teach at SAHS. Fact is, nearly 1 of 5 teachers at SAHS graduated from SAHS. Scott Glabb’s national wrestling champion? He’s now a 3d year teacher at SAHS – that’s Jose Leon, and exemplary teacher and individual, and one of my former students.
Fact is, any city this big is going to have good news and bad news. The worse news is: this city is a California treasure whose enormous potential is being trodden down by poor leadership – and I’m going to guess this is really what you meant by “down-trodden”.
SAHS Teacher, it seems that SAUSD attracts the best kind of adult – one who is grateful and wants to give back to his community. I am so impressed with the comments on the SAUSD pages and the actions of the school employees who spoke at the SAUSD School Board Meeting last night that its easy to see that Santa Ana isnt a place where poor people are being down-trodden its a place where people rise up because some try to trod them down and they more often than not rise up to victory. I hope that the parents and employees over at SAUSD dont give up. There will be more opportunities to fight against this injustice and ‘si se puede’ we can win!!
Candice is not Youth of the Year, it’s a Youth of Excellence award that is given out twice a year. The idiot at the Register couldn’t even read the words on the award itself. And her having nominated herself AND being the only one on the nomination list makes this a bogus award to have won.
Now the Coach story was inspiring. A person who really cares about the kids and not someone who is going to milk a bogus award for everything they can get for it.