Norm Costa

The Palma football team was coming off five straight losing seasons when Costa was named coach in 1977.  Twenty-three seasons later Costa’s teams had chalked up 206 wins, including his years at Holy Cross (1964-69) and Marello Prep (1970-76) Costa totaled 253 career wins-fourth highest total in Central Coast Section history. His Palma teams won 16 consecutive league titles and six CCS championships.  Through 2014 the Costa-coached Palma teams held the record for the longest unbeaten streak in CCS history at 48 games (47-0-1), done from 1989 to 1992.