Stop us if you’ve heard this before–“CCC is going to be really good this season.” We know, right? It’s becoming a habitual thing the past six seasons following the second stint of John Davis. The Marauders were 60-14 the past six seasons including a 45-8 record the past four seasons with four consecutive drastic titles and regional championships to show for it in Class 3A pushing his all-time record at CCC in his fourteen seasons to a very impressive 112-50 with a total of eight district championships and eleven postseason appearances.
Davis was at CCC from 1994-2001 where he was 52-36 overall. Davis’ first two seasons saw him go just 5-15, but it didn’t take long to keep the Marauders consistently in the win column–rattling off 47 wins over the next six seasons. Once Davis headed up the road to Contryside where he was very successful at the helm for the Cougars, Mike Jalazo took control of the reigns, posting a similar overall record to Davis’ first stint at 55-36, with three district championships, a regional title and a 10-win season to his credit. Following Jalazo’s departure after the 2009 season, Davis returned for his second go-around off Haines-Bayshore.
The Marauders, instead of going 10-games under .500 in his first two seasons like before, flipped-the-script and went 15-6 under Davis his first two seasons back. The Marauders have continued to be insanely successful with a 45-8 record the past four seasons and found themselves in the state title game while also achieving the programs’ first undefeated season in school history. With the vast majority of last year’s wildly successful team returning, it’s needless to say that Davis has left his son-in-law Chris Harvey with plenty of groceries in the cupboard.
If the perception is that is has been a seamless transition from Davis to Harvey–then the reality is very much the same. There were no wholesale changes made to the staff and when you talk to those close to the program that point out how much the kids love him plus love the approach he takes to the program, it all makes sense that success will not take a backseat to the transition. Harvey was on the staff last season after spending a decade in the college ranks and was on Miami’s 2002 National Championship team as well.
The Marauders will play Clearwater for their spring game–the Tornadoes, much like the Marauders are fully-loaded with talent and should provide one of the Bay Area’s best games of the spring season.