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Sports Hall of Fame Bio.

Frank Lynch

Frank’s athletic career began at Fremont High School in Sunnyvale in the early ’60’s, where he participated in football and track. He went on to Foothill College, where he was a J.C. All-American football player. Frank received a football scholarship to U.C. Berkeley, where he was a two year starter at fullback for the Golden Bears. He also was captain of the Cal track team in 1966. After graduating from Cal in 1967 with a degree in Kineseology, he stayed at Cal to coach the undefeated 1968 frosh football team. In 1972, Frank was hired at Aptos as a Resource Specialist and as the head J.V. football coach. The following year, he was promoted to the head varsity coach, a position he held through the 1979 season. Frank took a program that was was 8-30 the previous four years, and he left with won-loss record of 36-33. He was the SCCAL Coach- of-the-Year in only his second season (1974), and he went on to earn two more SCCAL Coach-of-the-Year honors (1977 and 1978). He is the only Aptos HS football coach to win that honor three times. In 1978, ten years after the school opened, led by quarterback Scott Ramsey and running back Joe Garbini, and led on the defensive side by Johnny Clifton, Eric Smith, and Bill Belsey, Frank won our school’s first SCCAL football championship and led us to our first CCS playoff game. Frank and his Mariners won the SCCAL championship again in 1979, and then he retired (he also finished second in the SCCAL twice). In addition, he also coached the J.V. softball team for many years, including a 15-1 record in 1975. In 1980 Frank moved on to Cabrillo College, where he coached the offensive line for the Seahawks for 5 years. At Cabrillo, Frank served as the Director of Disabled Student Services for 25 years, and he is also responsible for creating the highly successful Cabrillo Student-Athlete Counseling Program. Frank is also very proud to have teamed-up with his wife Marcie, and with John and Carol Tietz, in creating the GAL’s of Cabrillo College, which has benefited many Aptos softball players. Frank has been married 36 years to Marcie and they have three children, all former students and athletes at Aptos High School , Trent Dilfer, Tegan Lynch Liddiard and Quinn Lynch. Marcie and Frank have eight grandchildren: Madeleine, Tori, Trevin, and Delaney Dilfer, and Mia, Matea, Lyla and Cruz Liddiard. Frank was presented into the Hall by his wife Marcie, and by two of his children, Quinn and Trent. 

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