Manhattan Beach native and longtime El Camino College football head coach John Featherstone will be honored at the Warriors last regular season home game against Long Beach City College on Saturday, Nov. 14 at Redondo Union High School’s Sea Hawk Bowl.
All community members, alumni, and former student-athletes are invited to celebrate with the renowned coach who be will be recognized at halftime.
“I am proud to have known Coach Featherstone since our elementary school days when I had to attempt to tackle him on the playgrounds of Manhattan Beach,” said Bill Beverly, president of the El Camino Community College District Board of Trustees. “He has touched thousands of lives and presided over the building of innumerable young players into better students, athletes and men. John represents all that is best of El Camino College.”
Featherstone has coached more than three dozen players into professional football including: Keith Ellison (LB, Buffalo Bills), DeLawrence Grant (DE, Oakland Raiders), Antonio Chatman (WR, Cincinnati Bengals), Marcel Reece (FB, Oakland Raiders, active), and Derrick Deese (OL, San Francisco 49ers). Countless former students are All-American athletes and have transferred to universities to continue their education and play football.
Featherstone was a gridiron star for Mira Costa High School, El Camino College and San Diego State University before entering the coaching ranks.
Now in his 31st season at ECC, Featherstone has a 214-118-1 record. His ECC teams made three national championship game appearances, winning in 1987. They also won two state championships and 11 conference titles.
Featherstone was twice named National Coach of the Year and earned the California State Coach of the Year award eight times. He was inducted into the El Camino College athletic Hall of Fame in 2005.
