East County H.S. coaching deaths

[kickingaztecs]

On Saturday Frank Yancey, O line coach at Valhalla passed away in his Santee home. The cause is unknown at this time. Yancy also spent 5 years at El Cajon Valley and 18 years at West Hills.

On Monday Ron Murphy, Head coach at Grossmont High passed away from cancer. The cancer was a fairly sudden development and it all happened very fast.

A very sad weekend for East County Football. They will both be missed.

[aztecryan]

Wow. Hadn't heard about Coach Murphy. Very sad.

[showdora]

Oh No about Coach Murphy!!!!! I coached in his defense for a few years. Very good man, very very sad to hear.

[bio71]

Some more info:

www.eastcountysports.com/main/2011-12/prep/football.shtml

[showdora]

The sad and ironic thing about this story is that both of these coaches played on the same high school football team in the 80s at Santana. They've both coached in East County for the last 20 years. Coached a lot of guys between em.

For anybody interested, there will be a celebration of Ron Murphy's life on Saturday at the Grossmont High School football field at 9am.