When KIPP Esperanza in East Palo Alto earned its first official girls’ soccer victory as an affiliated Central Coast Section team earlier this month, no one was more surprised than new head coach Juan Mayora. A small charter school with just over 200 students, KIPP Esperanza was looking for a girls’ soccer coach until two […]
When KIPP Esperanza in East Palo Alto earned its first official girls’ soccer victory as an affiliated Central Coast Section team earlier this month, no one was more surprised than new head coach Juan Mayora.
A small charter school with just over 200 students, KIPP Esperanza was looking for a girls’ soccer coach until two weeks before the start of the season. That’s when Mayora — who spent the last four seasons running the program at San Mateo High School — was hired.
