“I’m an everyday guy who likes to help people out,” he said. Roth rises at 5 a.m., takes his two younger sons to school (his wife, Leslie, works the late shift as a labor and delivery nurse), supervises workouts, teaches two PE classes, and conducts practices for the City College women’s and San Marcos girls’ teams, and a club team, finishing at 7:15 p.m. He has won numerous Coach of the Year awards and championships with his high school teams and SBCC’s women’s swimming and water polo teams, which he’s coached since their inception in 2014. In 2012, Brian Charles Roth (he was dubbed “Chuckie” during his UCSB student-athlete days) was the first PE teacher to be named Santa Barbara County Distinguished Educator of the Year. “PE is a way to teach responsibility, character, and healthy habits to reduce stress later in life.” “I work with some intrinsically motivated athletes and other kids struggling to improve a D grade to a C,” he said. Just as gratifying to him are the students who learn to swim across a pool for the first time in a PE class. Now a senior, Stretz recently signed a scholarship offer to play water polo at Stanford University, another success story, just one of many since Roth joined the San Marcos staff in 2004. Roth, who coaches aquatics at both San Marcos and Santa Barbara City College, had her practice tossing a ball against a backboard until the pools were opened in September. “I was trying to keep kids sane and have something to look forward to,” he said.ĭuring that time, freshman Makenna Stretz told him she was interested in playing water polo. He offered to meet them every Sunday for a six-mile run. When COVID shut down schools in March 2020, San Marcos High School physical education teacher Chuckie Roth went beyond Zoom calls to engage with his students.
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