Chuck Filice

Regarded as one of the Salinas Valley’s premier football and baseball coaches. At Alisal High he was the varsity football & baseball coach, with his 1974 baseball team as Region IV champions. As an assistant football coach at Salinas High, they reached the CCS title game in 1979. Starting in 1980 he began a 10-year career as an assistant coach in the same two sports at Hartnell College. By the time the decade was over Filice was on a football staff that won eight conference championships and two state titles (1981-82) and one state crown in baseball. In that time Hartnell football went 84-21-3 and from 1980-83 went 39-4-2. In 1984 Filice and Frank Geller took over the Hartnell baseball team when head coach Tony Teresa was hospitalized and unable to travel to the state small-college playoffs in Chico. After a come-from-behind win in the semifinal game Hartnell beat Siskiyous 14-7 in the title contest. He was the Hartnell quarterback in 1964-65 and transferred to the University of Pacific for the next two years.