Athletics Program

• Varsity and Freshman/Sophomore Football Schedule

• Cross Country Schedule

• Volleyball Schedule

• Boys Golf Schedule

• Girls Golf Schedule

Head Coach Gretchen Wesbrock

Gretchen Wesbrock, or as the swimmers call her, Coach G, has swimming in her blood! She began swimming competitively as a four-year-old. Her older brother found a love of the sport, and she decided to follow in his footsteps…or flippers. She continued her USA swimming career through high school at Mountain View High School in Mesa, Arizona. She had the opportunity to swim on the women’s state winning team! Swimming took her to college at Northern Arizona University where she made the difficult decision to hang up her goggles and get involved in leadership at NAU. She has taught swim lessons, lifeguard instructor training, water safety instructor training, CPR, and first aid for the American Red Cross. Coach G began coaching as a junior in high school for the City of Apache Junction Rec Team and the Red Mountain Country Club team. She has coached age groups all the way to master swimmers. This is Coach G’s eighth season as the head coach for the Marauders. Her philosophy is that swimming is a lifelong sport that helps build character and pushes athletes past their barriers.

• Swim Schedule

Head Coach Paul Ventura

Coach Ventura is excited to begin his fourth year as Mingus Union High School’s girls basketball varsity head coach. Coach Ventura is a 1997 graduate of Taunton High School in Massachusetts, where he was a multi-sport athlete. He is also a graduate of Northern Arizona University with degrees in criminal justice and sociology. He has been an adult probation officer for 17 years. Coach Ventura has instructed officers and adult professionals in the fields of corrections, community supervision, law enforcement,  and social work/counseling on a national and state level, in areas of leadership, firearms, and scenario-based decision making. He has over eleven years of coaching experience at the youth, middle school, and high school levels. Coach Ventura’s philosophy is that sports can be an opportunity for student-athletes/teams to build effective skills and positive attributes that can be utilized later as adults and attempt to accomplish a shared goal while pushing themselves to consistently improve as students, community members, and athletes.

Boys’ Soccer Varsity Head Coach: David Glick

Soccer is so enjoyable to coach because the action is fluid, there’s always something to work on, and I love taking on the challenges of coaching it.

Like many parents, I began coaching soccer in 1995 for AYSO when my two boys were five and six years old. Over the years, I coached all my kids in AYSO until they aged out into Mingus. To this day I still volunteer my time for AYSO.

In 2005, I coached JV soccer for the first time when my two boys played Mingus Soccer. I coached JV Boys in 2005, 2006, 2014, and 2018. 2021 will be my second year as MUHS Boys’ Varsity Coach.

I love coaching mostly because it makes me happy knowing I’m making a positive difference in kid’s lives while helping them get better at a sport they love to play.

Head Coach Erick Quesada

My name is Erick Quesada, and this is going to be my fifth year as the head varsity baseball coach at Mingus. I was born and raised in Cottonwood and am a 2011 alumnus of  Mingus. After high school, I attended ASU for one year then played collegiate baseball at Chandler-Gilbert Community College for two years, two summers in a collegiate summer league in Virginia, Western Oregon University for one year, then finished at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth. After my senior year, I was a graduate assistant coach at Texas Wesleyan before returning back home to teach and coach. For the past six years, I have worked for USA Baseball where I evaluate and scout some of the nation’s best baseball players ranging from 14 to 18 years old.

Head Coach John Brown

Head coach at Mingus for the last 12 years. Coaching experience over 20 years in softball. Pursuing a goal of winning a state championship at Mingus in 2022. My purpose in coaching is to inspire young, female athletes, to be competitive, and work as a team to find a way to win, regardless of the obstacles thrown their way. In doing so, teaching them how to use these lessons from the game, to help them in life after softball.