Pascoe Marina’s new man

George Pascoe is no stranger to coaching football at Marina High, or to coaching high school football in Huntington Beach.

And while he knows his next task might be challenging, he is excited for the opportunity.

Pascoe, 55, has been named the head coach at Marina.

The former coach at Huntington Beach High (1983-’95) has also been assistant coach at Marina for the past six years. Following the stint with the Oilers, he was an assistant coach at Golden West College for six years before landing with the Vikings.

“It’s something I wanted to do,” said Pascoe of becoming a head coach again. “I was a finalist when they hired Coach [Dan] Petrone but didn’t get it then. Like any football coach, you want to make a difference in kids’ lives and a difference in their environment. I think with myself and the staff I put together, we can do that for a variety of reasons. A successful football team tends to drive the school, and I want to work at getting Marina that success.”

Pascoe, a physical education teacher at Marina, also had assistant coaching gigs at Fountain Valley, Westminster and the University of Arizona in the late 1970s and early ’80s. He was a coach of the Fountain Valley team that won the CIF title in 1978.

While with Huntington Beach, his teams won four league titles and advanced to the 1993 CIF Southern Section Division II title game before falling to Los Alamitos. The team’s star that year was future NFL Hall-of-Famer Tony Gonzalez.

Pascoe has a wife, two sons and two grown stepdaughters. His son George is a senior at the University of Pacific, and Daniel is a seventh-grader at Dwyer Intermediate School in Huntington. George Pascoe’s father, Ernie, was the first principal at Edison and served in that role from 1969-73. He also worked as an assistant principal at Marina.

George Pascoe will take on the task of rebuilding the Vikings. Marina went 6-24 in three years under Petrone, who resigned in late November. The Vikings have not won a Sunset League game since 2004.