Mike Welsh

Mike Welsh was a Salinas High School coach for the better part of 22 years and athletic director for 11 of those years. By the time his career was over he was either a head coach or assistant coach in football, baseball, track and field, golf, softball and wrestling. He also spent two years coaching shot put and discus throwers at Hartnell College. He was varsity football coach from 1977-1979 with an overall record of 37-12-1 including two Monterey Bay League crowns. The previous six years he was on the coaching staff of the Cowboy junior varsity team that went 35-1. His best football team was the 1979 squad that upset unbeaten Oak Grove quarterbacked by Marty Mornhinweg , who eventually became an offensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers, in a CCS semifinal game with a field goal on the last play of the game. The Cowboys went 11-1-1 while knocking off three unbeaten teams in their playoff run before falling 23-22 in the final seconds of the championship game to perennial power St. Francis, a team that had brought a string of four straight shutouts into the title bout.  Welsh was an assistant varsity baseball coach for six years, assistant varsity wrestling coach for 6 years, golf coach for four years, shot put and discus assistant coach for five years, and from 1987-90 as a head coach his JV softball team ran off a 55-game win streak.