DJ Gay hired to ach at La Jolla Country Day - The San Diego Unn-Tribune

Contents:

• DJ GAY HIRED TO ACH AT LA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY
• DJ GAY BIDS FAREWELL TO SAN DIEGO
• WDWARD HIR FORMER SUN VALLEY POLY ALL-CY GUARD DJ GAY AS S BOYS’ BASKETBALL ACH
• DJ GAY’S YOUTH BASKETBALL PERSONAL TRAG
• DJ GAY "SAN DIEGO STATE HAS A TON OF RPECT AND 'S GREAT TO BE PART OF HISTORY"
• DJ GAY LEAVG LA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL; NATNAL SEARCH IS UNRWAY FOR NEW BASKETBALL ACH
• GAY-DJ
• STAR OF THE GAME: DJ GAY
• D.J. GAY
• DJ GAY ON SDSU BASKETBALL: "THIS LEAGUE IS THEIRS TO GO UNFEATED IN"

DJ GAY HIRED TO ACH AT LA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY

La Jolla Country Day, lookg for a new boys basketball ach, got more than 80 applints om across the Torreys found the right man their backyard, namg former San Diego State standout DJ Gay to replace Ryan Meier, who rigned after 14 seasons. ”After playg 140 gam for San Diego State om 2007-11, Gay played profsnally Europe before beg named head basketball ach at Victory Christian Amy Chula three seasons he led the Knights to a 46-35 rerd, cludg 18-10 2018-19. The Knights were 13-16 last season, but won three Cs League champnships unr Gay, gog 29-1 league play.

“As a player, I never wanted to be a high school ach, was never a passn, ” Gay said. “The Coastal League is no joke, ” Gay said. ”Gay replac Meier, who left postg a 226-186 rerd at the ’s teams won a pair of San Diego Sectn champnships.

” (Unn-Tribune) Gay was pta of the Aztecs his senr season, leadg SDSU to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16, and he was named first-team played his high school ball at L. Poly Sun addn to achg basketball, Gay will be a full-time physil tn teacher at LJCD.

DJ GAY BIDS FAREWELL TO SAN DIEGO

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2008-09Sophomore. The SDSU legend and La Jolla Country Day head boys basketball ach was hired by Wdward to n s boys Gay, the standout SDSU pot guard who led La Jolla Country Day to a Divisn 1 Champnship game appearance his send season, is head to Los Angel. Private school power Wdward announced had hired Gay, who was the startg pot guard on the Aztecs Sweet 16 team 2011, as head ach of s boys program.

WDWARD HIR FORMER SUN VALLEY POLY ALL-CY GUARD DJ GAY AS S BOYS’ BASKETBALL ACH

Gay replac Col Pfaff, who was hired by San Jose Valley Christian. For Gay, ’s a homeg of sorts, as he graduated om Sun Valley Poly High before g to SDSU 2007.

Gay honed a reputatn as one of San Diego’s bt young basketball lumari, first as a traer unr Jordan Lawley and then as a youth basketball ach wh the San Diego Bulldogs and California Select basketball 2017 he was hired as head ach of Victory Christian, where he won 3 Cs League tl before beg hired at La Jolla Country Day, where he replaced Ryan Meier. Gay was 32-21 two seasons wh the Torreys, which lost to Carlsbad the CIF D1 fals.

Gay released this statement biddg farewell to San Diego exclively to FTH:Sce 2007, San Diego has been my home. (Eric Sondheimer / Los Angel Tim) DJ Gay, who was an All-Cy guard at Sun Valley Poly 2007 and beme a standout player at San Diego State, has been hired as the new boys’ basketball ach at was head ach for two years at La Jolla Country Day, which reached the San Diego Sectn Divisn 1 champnship game last season.

DJ GAY’S YOUTH BASKETBALL PERSONAL TRAG

”Gay’s ach at Poly, Brad Katz, now an assistant prcipal at Wtlake, said, “I went down to San Diego and saw him ach both travel ball and Country Day, ” Katz said. ”Gay, 33, will take over for Col Pfaff, who rigned to move his fay to Northern California.

Gay’s first task will be to make sure Wdward’s talented group of young players stay at Wdward.

“Comg back home, ” Gay said.

DJ GAY "SAN DIEGO STATE HAS A TON OF RPECT AND 'S GREAT TO BE PART OF HISTORY"

WITH SDSU LEGEND DJ GAY. DJ Gay discsed what meant to be on the Aztecs first Sweet 16 team, how helped lnch what the program is today, what kd of nerv the players are facg and why SDSU is peakg the right time. Top Snippets - DJ Gay "San Diego State has a ton of rpect and 's great to be part of history".

After jt two years, La Jolla Country Day School basketball ach DJ Gay is movg on to another school, and Country Day has embarked on a natnal search for a a note to the school muny, Gay stated that “after long nsiratn” he had cid to return to his native Los Angel to bee the head ach at the private Wdward School. “This was not an easy cisn, but ’s what’s bt for my fay, ” Gay wrote.

DJ GAY LEAVG LA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL; NATNAL SEARCH IS UNRWAY FOR NEW BASKETBALL ACH

”Assistant ach Mike Riccuti has been promoted to terim head ach for the upg season while the private school looks for a permanent replacement for Gay. The school tends to have a permanent ach place for the 2023-24 Country Day’s ach search two years ago, after which the school chose Gay, there were more than 80 applints om across the untry. ” — DJ Gay Gay, a former San Diego State Universy pot guard, was hired May 2020 to replace Ryan Meier, who rigned after 14 COVID-19 panmic ma for a rough first year.

Speakg wh the La Jolla Light ahead of the 2021 season, Gay said: “Wh COVID protols, we were gog to have gam and then not, we were gog to have a season, then we weren’t.

“To all of the stunt-athlet, thank you for all the effort and pri you have put to the program over the past two years, ” Gay wrote. This is not an easy goodbye for me or the Gay fay.

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D.J. GAY

Gay led the Aztecs to their first victory at Cal Berkley sce 1941. But wh a two-pot lead to start the send half, team pta DJ Gay sparked a n that led the Aztecs to a 77-57 's 14 pots, all the send half, were the fuel to two key ns of 15-2 and 12-0 to put the Bears away for good and keep the Aztecs (No. The year-round league for third through eighth gra players giv boys and girls a chance to pete on practice teams, league teams that play lolly San Diego or the hight level club that travels to pete up by Program Director DJ Gay, the former San Diego State Universy standout, the program aims to velop not jt great basketball players but great dividuals.

“We try to make as real-life as possible, ” Gay said, notg players try out every three months and they n move up or down a level. He played profsnally Europe 2012 and 2014 before returng to San Diego and begng a reer basketball achg and skills addn to the Bulldogs, Gay is also the head ach of the varsy boys basketball team at Victory Christian helped get the Bulldogs up and nng four years ago. “I saw that basketball out here was really lackg fundamentals and a lot of kids were learng the game the wrong way, ” Gay said.

Not to mentn the crentials of those leadg the Gay leads the boys si, the Girls Head Coach is Courtney Clements. “Courtney has done a tremendo job, ” Gay said of the profsnalism she brgs to the program. ”The Bulldogs play the Sol and Thrive leagu as well as tournaments throughout San Diego, Los Angel, Orange County and Las Vegas— the boys eighth gra team is ranked number eight Southern travel om as far away as Chula Vista and Temecula to play wh the Bulldogs and scholarships are offered, “Our philosophy at the Boys & Girls Clubs is that no kid is turned away, ” Gay said of the anizatn that served 7, 000 kids last Bulldog players have gone on to hoop high school and have been reced to play llege, “It shows what we’re dog is workg, ” Gay Bulldogs strs player velopment, hopg to shape players’ gam and stcts to space the floor, fd a way to help the team other than srg, value fense (both man to man and zone) and unrstand the importance of team many s, Gay is passg along the valu stilled him by the legendary Coach Fisher, who, he said fluenced him a lot.

DJ GAY ON SDSU BASKETBALL: "THIS LEAGUE IS THEIRS TO GO UNFEATED IN"

’ When the team is dog well, everybody’s boat ris, ’” Gay tells his kids that whether their goal is to improve, get a better rankg or w, tak the team to reach that have taken on this role wh the Bulldogs for the past four years has been a surprise for the 29-year-old Gay, who adms he had never wanted to be a ach.

“I found myself a posn and started workg wh kids and I fell love wh , ” Gay said. More Gay Pag.

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