SAINTS FOOTBALL COACH WON’T RETURN
Saints football coach Ron Gladnick will not return, school officials said Thursday.
“We appreciate Ron’s commitment and dedication to the boys in our football program,” Mike Haupt, Assistant Principal for Auxiliary Services Officials, said in a statement.
“We constantly evaluate the school’s needs, and we have decided that now was an important time for a fresh start.”
In his second season at St.
Augustine, Gladnick led the Saints to a 10-5 finish and a San Diego Section Division 1 championship with a 13-0 win over Mission Hills in the title game.
Starting 14 freshmen and sophomores, Saints lost a heartbreaking last-play 21-20 game to Ventura St. Bonaventure in the Southern California Regional 1-AA championship.
The program was coming off a 2-9 season in 2021 and a 2-2 campaign in the 2020 “COVID” season when Gladnick was brought in to rekindle the football program’s winning ways.
Saints went 4-8 in Gladnick’s first season.
“Ron knows how to win football games and did a tremendous job turning our football program around in a short time,” said St. Augustine Principal Ron Horne. “Ron’s success as a private businessman has meant a limited role in our educational community, and we are looking for something different. “We wish him well.” Calls to Gladnick were not immediately returned.
Prior to accepting the job at Saints, Gladnick was 50-35
San Diego County state football history
The State CIF Championship Bowl series started in 2006. Here’s how San Diego Section teams have fared in championship games:
2006 (0-0)
No San Diego teams participated
2007 (1-0)
Oceanside 28,
Division II:
Novato 14
2008 (1-0)
Cathedral Catholic 37, Stockton St. Mary’s 34
Division II:
2009 (1-1)
Oceanside 24, San Jose Bellarmine Prep 19 Modesto Christian 44, Francis Parker 40
Division I: Small School:
2010 (1-1)
Division III:
14
Division IV:
Escalon 30, Madison
Bishop’s 40, Stockton Brookside Christian 14
2011 (1-0)
Helix 35, Loomis
Division II:
Del Oro 24 2012 (1-1)
Division III:
Madison 38, Kentfield Marin Catholic 35 Modesto Central Cath. 66, Santa Fe Christian 6
Division IV:
2013 (0-0)
No San Diego teams participated
2014 (0-2)
Folsom 68, Oceanside
Division I:
7
Division III:
Moraga Campolindo 35, El Capitan 28
2015 (2-2)
Division III-A:
Rancho Bernardo 35, Atherton Sacred Heart 14
Division IV-A:
Hanford 33, Bonita Vista 21
Division V-AA:
Mater Dei Catholic 56, R. Immanuel 21 East Nicolaus
Division VI-AA:
16, Coronado 6 2016 (2-2)
Division 1-AA:
Cathedral Catholic 38, Stockton St. Mary’s 35 (OT)
Division 2-AA:
Madison 21, Santa Maria Valley Christian 17 Oakdale 47,
Division 3-A:
Bishop’s 0
Division 5-A:
Oakland McClymonds 20, La Jolla Country Day 17
2017 (1-3)
Division 1-AA:
42
Division 3-A:
Steele Canyon 44, Half Moon Bay 42
Milpitas 45, Southwest-El Centro 41
S.F. Galileo 38, Vincent Memorial 20
Division 4-A: Division 6-A:
2018 (1-3)
Division 1-AA:
Folsom 21, Cathedral Catholic 14 (OT) Menlo-Atherton
Division 3-AA:
21, Lincoln 7
Division 5-A:
Colfax 10
Division 6-A:
San Francisco Lincoln 24, Orange Glen 13
2019 (0-2)
San Diego 21,
Division 3-AA:
Santa Rosa Cardinal Newman 31, El Camino 14
Division 4-A:
Jolla 21
Folsom 49, Helix
Escalon 52, La
2020 (0-0)
No championships due to pandemic
2021 (3-0)
Division 1-AA:
Cathedral Catholic in eight years at Torrey Pines, going 10-1 in 2018. He was the head coach at Clairemont prior to Torrey Pines, posting a 10-13 in two seasons, but leading the Chieftains to their first playoff win in a decade.
Clairemont was 24-47 in the seven years before Gladnick. He has a career record of 60-48 in 12 seasons.
Since the end of the 2023 season, Poway, Mater Dei Catholic, Point Loma, Bonita Vista and Rancho Buena Vista are looking for new head football coaches.
33, Folsom 21
Mater Dei Catholic 34, Modesto Central Catholic 25
Division 2-AA: Division 2-A:
Scripps Ranch 31, Santa Clara Wilcox 28
2022 (4-0)
Division 1-AA:
Lincoln 33, Concord De La Salle 28 Mater Dei Catholic 26, Oakland McClymonds 18
Division 2-AA: Division 2-A:
Granite Hills 31, San Ramon Valley 24 (OT) Classical Academy 7, San Jose Santa Teresa 0
Division 6-AA: San Diego’s all-time record:
19-17
State title game records by school
Mater Dei Catholic (3-0) Cathedral Catholic (3-1) Madison (2-1) Oceanside (2-1) Classical Academy (1-0) Granite Hills (1-0) Rancho Bernardo (1-0) San Diego (1-0) Scripps Ranch (1-0) Steele Canyon (1-0) Bishop’s (1-1)
Helix (1-1)
Lincoln (1-1)
El Camino (0-1)
La Jolla (0-1)
Orange Glen (0-1) Southwest-El Centro (0-1) Vincent Memorial (0-1) Francis Parker (0-1) Santa Fe Christian (0-1) La Jolla Country Day (0-1) El Capitan (0-1)
Bonita Vista (0-1) Coronado (0-1)
This weekend’s games
Serra San Mateo (12-0) vs. Santa Ana Mater Dei (12-1), 8 p.m., Saturday at Saddleback College
Concord De La Salle (11-2) vs. Mission Viejo (12-3), 8 p.m. today at Saddleback
Open Division: Division 1-AA: Division 1-A:
Folsom (12-2) vs. St. Bonaventure (12-3), 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Saddleback
Sacramento Grant (12-2) vs. La Serna (12-3), 4 p.m. today at Saddleback
Division 2-AA: Division 2-A:
Los Gatos (12-1) vs. Central Valley Christian (14-1), 7 p.m. Saturday at Pasadena City College
Acalantes (10-4) vs. Birmingham (12-2), 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Saddleback
Division 3-AA: Division 3-A:
Marin Catholic (13-1) vs. Mayfair (11-3), 7 p.m. Saturday at El Camino College
Soquel (11-2) vs. Jurupa Hills (9-6), 8 p.m. today at Pasadena CC
Palma (10-4) vs. Mission Oaks (10-5), 3 p.m. Saturday at Pasadena CC
Pleasant Valley (10-3) vs. Ramona (10-5), 8 p.m. today at ECC
Woodland Christian (14-0) vs. Banning (9-6), 3 p.m. Saturday at ECC
St. Vincent de Paul (12-2) vs. Wasco (9-5), 4 p.m. today at Pasadena CC
Division 4-AA: Division 4-A: Division 5-AA: Division 5-A: Division 6-AA: Division 6-A: Colusa (13-0) vs. Sweetwater (8-6), 11 a.m. Saturday at El Camino College Division 7- AA:
Ferndale (10-4) vs. Fairfax (10-4), 4 p.m. today at ECC
Division 7-A:
Strathmore (11-4) vs. Bell Gardens (10-5), 11 a.m. Saturday at Pasadena CC