{"id":11390,"date":"2026-06-01T19:01:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=11390"},"modified":"2026-06-01T19:01:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:01:56","slug":"garden-grove-hires-kevin-nichols-as-football-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=11390","title":{"rendered":"Garden Grove hires Kevin Nichols as football coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.\u00a0Subscribe now<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=11388\">US to drastically slash the number of embassies in Africa that can process visas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Garden Grove has hired Century offensive coordinator Kevin Nichols as its football coach, Argonauts athletic director Ricardo Cepeda announced.<\/p>\n<p>Nichols served as the offensive coordinator the past three seasons at Century under coach Lance Neal.<\/p>\n<p>Century has made impressive progress the past few years. The Centurions went 4-5-1 last season and 7-5 in 2024 after going winless in 2021 and 2022. Century\u2019s postseason appearance in 2024 was its first since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Nichols also served as the offensive coordinator under Neal at Loara in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Nichols has mostly run a hybrid version of the spread offense.<\/p>\n<p>He earned first-team All-Orange League honors as Magnolia\u2019s quarterback in 2004. He was nominated to play the Orange County all-star football game after that season.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=11386\">Drones a security concern of LA county officials preparing for FIFA World Cup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nichols played football at Santa Ana College under Geoff Jones and went on to serve in the Army for 10 years.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>At Garden Grove, he replaces Matt LemMon, who resigned in the spring after two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Garden Grove finished 2-8 each of the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>This fall, the Argonauts two drop two leagues in the Orange County Football Conference to the Omicron League. They will compete against Buena Park, Estancia, Los Amigos, Santa Ana and University in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=11384\">Berkshire Hathaway\u2019s Abel makes first deal, buying homebuilder Taylor Morrison for $6.8B<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Please send football news to Dan Albano at dalbano@scng.com or @ocvarsityguy<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nichols spent the past three seasons as the offensive coordinator at Century under coach Lance Neal, whom he also coached for at Loara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-based-on-facts-either-observed-and-verified-directly-by-the-reporter-or-reported-and-verified-from-knowledgeable-sources","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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