Mark Haddan

One of the standout players of the Alisal High boys basketball teams in the 1970s was Mark Haddan, son of coach Cork Haddan. Mark Haddan was on the 1971 team that won the CCS championship. A year later, the guard had the most prolific single-game scoring output in the history of the CCS, scoring 65 points in a game against Watsonville. The record still stands to this day. Haddan achieved the feat long before the three-point line existed. In the previous game against Watsonville, he poured in 55 points. The closest any player in the CCS has come has been in 1984, when Aptos High’s Bryan Holt scored 62 points. Haddan later became a coach for several schools. He led the 2001-02 King City High team to its best season in school history, going 21-6 overall, nearly doubling the school’s previous best for wins, as they won the Mission Trail Athletic League championship. Haddan is now a coach at Alvarez High, where he led the team two years ago to its first league championship in the near-two-decade history of the school.