Simi Valley’s Quina Widens Search for Coaching/Teaching Position

Stan Quina, Simi Valley High’s football coach, said Tuesday he has applied for the vacant coaching positions at Crescenta Valley and St. Francis.

Quina, who has spent the past three seasons as a walk-on coach at Simi Valley, said he is looking for a job that includes a teaching position.

Quina said he also has applied for openings at Ocean View in Huntington Beach, where he has an interview this week, Dana Hills and Rancho Alamitos. In the past two seasons, Quina led Simi Valley to back-to-back playoff berths for the only time in school history.

Donte Scarbrough, a junior running back who was sent to Granada Hills High for disciplinary reasons last fall, has enrolled at Kennedy.

Scarbrough rushed for a team-high 704 yards for Kennedy last fall before he was sent to Granada Hills on an opportunity transfer. Scarbrough allegedly took a jacket from another Kennedy student, precipitating the transfer.

Chaminade High running back Justin Giovannettone, the MVP of the Mission League, said he plans to play football at UC Davis, a Division II school that does not offer scholarships.

Giovannettone rushed for 1,474 yards and 22 touchdowns last year.