FRESHMAN COACHES

RAY LOPEZ | HEAD COACH

DON MARCIGLIANO | ASSISTANT COACH

Born in Brooklyn New York, Coach "Marcig" served in the Vietnam War from 1971-1974. He started coaching baseball with his first 8th grade team in 1974. 

He graduated from Long Beach State in 1981 and earned his Teachers degree in Special Education in 1991. He started his High School teaching career in 1992 at Trabuco Hill High where he was Head JV coach for 3 years.  He went to Tustin high where he was part of the Baseball program for almost 17 years except for 2 years where he was at the district office as a Teacher on Special Assignment. He was Head coach for both JV and Freshman teams for many of those years.  Coach Marcig went on to Foothill in 2014 and has been part of the Freshman team mostly as head coach ever since. Since that time he started with the Freshman, his record is 130-26-3, with a 29-0 in  2019 (the only undefeated season at any level in Foothill history.) He has coach every level of Little League from T-ball to Majors and has been a part of the Tim O'Donahue Baseball Camp since 1998.  He retired from teaching in  2017 and is married 2 adult children and 2 grandkids