Warren football coach Kevin Pearson talks undefeated season, top recruits and CIF-SS playoffs

DOWNEY – At 6-0, Warren High shot manager Kevin Pearson said his team’s extremity is to get amended each week.

However, erstwhile your mean borderline of triumph is much than 40 points per game, betterment tin sometimes look minuscule. Ultimately, signifier is wherever the elaborate instauration for occurrence is laid.

The Bears are looking to support their San Gabriel Valley League rubric and marque immoderate sound successful the CIF Southern Section playoffs.

In 2019, Warren mislaid successful the archetypal circular of the CIF-SS Division 6 playoffs.

In 2021, the programme is trending up. Current Calpreps projections person Warren rated arsenic the 16th champion squad successful the Southern Section, squarely placing the Bears successful Division 2 on with country teams similar Los Alamitos, Inglewood and Serra, which they bushed 14-0 successful a nonleague crippled connected Sept. 10.

Pearson said projections aside, Warren needs to enactment focused.

“The happening I ever speech astir with the kids is it doesn’t substance who we play, it’s however we play,” said Pearson. “We speech astir that each the time, the sound doesn’t matter, the rankings don’t matter. The lone happening that matters is rankings astatine the extremity of the year.”

Warren Football Academy

Pearson said the Warren Football Academy has been instrumental successful creating well-rounded student-athletes, expanding world accomplishment and diversion eligibility.

“We made them each instrumentality note-taking classes,” Pearson shared. “We made them cleanable retired their backpacks. The schoolhouse bought each the students notebooks and dividers. We started grading them connected (organization).”

With much occurrence of the field, comes much designation disconnected the field, particularly for apical recruits similar five-star inferior backmost Nicholaus Iamaleava, who has thrown for 1,740 yards and 28 touchdowns done six games.

Iamaleava, who boasts a 3.5 GPA, has much than 20 DI assemblage offers, including from nationalist programs similar Alabama, Auburn, Florida State, Georgia, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Mississippi, Oregon, Texas A&M, UCLA, and USC.

His astir caller sojourn was to the University of Mississippi for its crippled against Arkansas connected Saturday, Oct. 9.

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He was joined for the sojourn successful Oxford, Mississippi, by his brother, Madden Iamaleava, who is simply a freshman backmost astatine Warren, and 2 Mater Dei players, sophomore backmost Elijah Brown and sophomore wide receiver Jack Ressler.

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Meanwhile, Warren sophomore cornerback / wide receiver Jordan Anderson is an emerging two-way standout, who leads his squad with 24 receptions for 483 yards and 8 receiving touchdowns. Anderson has respective Power 5 offers, including ones from USC, Arizona, and Arizona State.

“The Warren Football Academy is besides a character-building program,” Pearson continued. “We truly absorption connected the individual… Sometimes it truly has thing to bash with football, that’s what’s truly helping america academically and getting them prepared for college.

“A batch of (other Warren players) are being recruited now. If they person not been offered, astatine slightest there’s a batch of involvement and colleges are coming through.”

The eventual goal

Warren’s archetypal measurement to achieving its eventual extremity is to triumph the 2021 Gabriel Valley League title.

“You privation to triumph a league rubric but it’s not indispensable to triumph a CIF title,” Pearson continued.

Every crippled is an accidental to go better, thing an experienced manager similar Pearson does not instrumentality lightly.

“I judge that if we proceed to get amended each game, I deliberation our eventual extremity is to scope the (CIF-SS) title game. You person to acceptable goals. You person to speech astir those goals, you person to speech astir the process to execute those goals but I ne'er similar to look excessively acold ahead.”

“The ceiling is arsenic precocious arsenic the effort we enactment successful and truthful acold we’re making beauteous bully strides arsenic acold arsenic our effort goes.”

Warren (6-0 2-0) volition play its crippled this week connected the roadworthy astatine Paramount (2-4 1-1) connected Friday astatine 7 p.m.