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Greiner Athlete of the Week (2/15/12): Former DHS player and coach Ralph Villanueva
As a three-sport star for Davis High in the early 1960s, Ralph Villanueva was more than just a talented athlete. He was a leader and a winner.
In 1962, a year that spanned the second half of his junior season and the first half of his senior campaign, Villanueva was the leading scorer on a Blue Devil basketball team that finished 21-0, was a star third baseman and pitcher for a DHS baseball squad that went undefeated, and quarterbacked the Devil football team to a 7-1 record.
While he excelled in all sports, the Greiner Athlete of the Week was the top scorer for the DHS hoops squad for all four years of high school. Villanueva’s 1962 squad will be honored on Wednesday before the Devil boys basketball game against Franklin that night (7 p.m.).
His leadership abilities would push him into coaching, where Villanueva was at the helm of league championship football squads at Davis in 1977 and ’79 (an undefeated season) and coordinated the offense for the Devils 1988 section title. As a basketball coach, Villanueva’s team captured the Sac-Joaquin crown in 1995. Such was Villanueva’s ability to inspire, he even coached a DHS boys soccer squad to a section championship in 1974.
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