Henry Armenta:  

Wow! Where do I begin? Right after graduating I had to wait until Sept. to join the Navy. I got to travel half way around the world, but I'll spare you the boring details. Ha Ha The biggest thing that happened then was when I was instititionized because a drug induced psychotic breakdown. It happened in 1977 after my father died. I was so brain damaged that I would never get out, or so the Dr. told my mother. After much prayer from family and friends, I was out 2 weeks later. That was when I knew God was looking after me. That pretty much took the rest of the 70's. I got out in Oct. of '79, worked 2 months at Union Sugar, then started AHC in Jan. '80. Graduated in '82, went through a failed marriage that produced my only child, Krystal Rose. Had various jobs, started coaching football, doing plenty of drinking and drugs, had a serious knee injury while going to Cal Poly SLO. The worst part of this decade was the day I tried to kill myself and was stopped by a knock on the door. It was an old friend, Jeff Almaguer, who came by to ask me if I wanted to coach girls basketball. My life changed forever, God had a plan for me. The '90's were incredible. In 1991, with the help of Jeff, we won a Southern California state championship with a 3rd & 4th grade girls recreation team. That same year I rebuilt a park in my home town as my senior project. Both of these had never been done before in my town or at the university. I met my now wife in 1997, got myteaching credential in '99, and went to a brand new school in Oct. 2000. I started teaching 2nd grade for three years and was then moved-up to 5th grade. In my second year I was asked by the principal to start the sports program and I took it and ran. I became the AD and have coached football, basketball, soccer, track and golf. We have some of the bests athletes in the district. Keeping them in school is the problem. I wo...Expand for more