All Area : Football
Player of the Year
Centennial's Kessler named All-Area Football Player of the Year
To know how Centennial junior Cody Kessler became the athlete he is — and The Californian’s 2009 Football Player of the Year — you should know two things.
The first takes us back about eight years. Kessler was in third grade, and he joined his local Jack Frost football team for the first time.
“After a few practices, I thought it wasn’t for me,” Kessler said. “I played receiver, and they would always run the ball.”
Coach of the Year
Great motivator, Centennial's Bryan Nixon named All-Area Coach of the Year
Lost in the drama of Centennial’s playoff victories against Clovis East, Clovis-Buchanan and Liberty that propelled the eighth-seeded Golden Hawks to a surprise berth in the Central Section Division I final was what happened before the game.
Bryan Nixon sure knows how to cook up a pregame speech.
First Team
- Cody Kessler
- Peter Welsh
- Zach Vasquez
- Isaiah Turner
- Cody Temple
- Tim King
- Drew Howell
- Will Harvey
- Kyle Desimone
- Matt Darr
- Grant Campbell
- Emilio Cantu
- Ryan Barnett
- Ted Agu
- Rane Cravens
- Lee West
- Mark Van Kopp
- Eugene Shin
- Ioane Savaii
- Julio Regla
- Myren Moore
- Craig McMahon
- Garrett Hayslett
- David Dolinar
- Tyler Dogins
- Quentin Cheatham