Pax et Bonum Magazine Spring 2016 | Page 36

Built on a Strong Foundation Alynn Wright Head Varsity Volleyball Coach Head Volleyball Coach Alynn Wright is one of the most decorated coaches in California prep history and she will coach her 28th year at St. Francis Catholic High School in 2016 and 31st overall as a head coach at the high school level. St. Francis was led to the 2005 CIF State Championship and 2012 runner-up finish by Wright. Overall, the Troubadours have recorded thirteen Top-3 Nor Cal finishes and twelve Sac-Joaquin Section titles under her tutelage. Alynn has coached four All-Americans during her career, including her own daughter Taryn ’06, and tutored over 30 student-athletes who went on to play collegiate volleyball. She was named the League Coach of the Year fourteen times in her career and the Sacramento Bee has selected her Coach of the Year three times. Coach Wright was named to the Justin Sienna High School Hall of Fame in 2012 and the Sac-Joaquin Section Hall of Fame in 2014. Al LoGiudice Assistant Varsity Softball Coach Al LoGiudice is in his 27th season working with the St. Francis softball program in 2016. He is serving as an assistant in 2016 after leading the program as a co-head coach with his best friend Kevin Warren for the last 16 years. They have coached together off and on for 26 years. St. Francis has won nine league titles during his tenure on the diamond and led the team to two Sac-Joaquin Section second-place finishes. LoGiudice started coaching baseball as a student at Jesuit High School for a local league. He coached for one season at Bishop Manogue High School before moving to his current position at St. Francis and has been a teacher in the Diocese of Sacramento since 1988. His daughter, Alexa, is a 2014 graduate of St. Francis and currently is a sophomore at Dominican University, where she is a captain on the volleyball team. 36