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Carroll Hired as Simi Valley Football Coach

By MIKE BRESNAHAN
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Simi Valley High has hired well-traveled Steve Carroll as football coach.

Carroll, who guided Riverside San Gorgonio to an 8-4 record last season, takes over a program that has a 18-51-1 record since 1993, including 1-9 last season.

Carroll, a former player at Kansas, has coached at Torrance Bishop Montgomery, Culver City and Rice High in Texas.

He also served as defensive backs coach at the University of Nevada.

“We’re extremely excited to get this guy,” said Roger McCamy, Simi Valley’s athletic director. “[He’s] very impressive.

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“Very charismatic. Very confident. He really knows what he wants to do. The kids are going to love him.”

Carroll played for Kansas from 1978-82, where he was awarded the Jack Wolfe Memorial Scholarship for academic achievement.

Carroll replaces Ron Veres, who was fired after last season.

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Mike Bresnahan

Mike Bresnahan previously covered the Lakers for the Los Angeles Times. He started the beat in 2004, a month after Shaquille O’Neal was traded, and covered several seasons of mediocrity before the Lakers won back-to-back championships in 2009 and 2010. Now they’re back to mediocrity. Bresnahan is from Los Angeles, started with The Times after graduating the University of Wisconsin in 1994, and has also covered the L.A. Kings, pro beach volleyball and numerous colleges and high schools. He left The Times in 2016.

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