Our History

The 2023 season would be challenging before the team stepped foot on the gridiron: with Witter Field being renovated, the team would have no home games and would hold practices on a small makeshift football field normally used by the baseball team. Additionally, the team would again have a small roster. Finally, with budget cuts, the team would lack bus transportation to all but one of the games.

PHS played a challenging preseason schedule--and this would prove to pay itself back when WACC league play started. In short, PHS was predicted to finish last in the league; however, the team came together and ended up winning the WACC--a feat not achieved since the 2015 season. They also made their first trip to NCS in over 6 years, had 4 players (Sam Shelby, Jordan Alemania, Cash Elmquist and Markos Lagios) on All Bay Area/All-Metro Team, Coach Seiden was Honorable Mention Coach of the Year and had 13 players named to the All WACC team.

During the 2022-2023 school year, the California Interscholastic Federation made girls flag football an official sport. In 2023, PHS had its inaugural season and girls flag football quickly became a hit. The team had fifty-five (55) girls try out for forty (40) spots and while there were no NCS playoffs, it was quite clear flag football was a quickly growing sport.  It's even now a college scholarship sport.

PHS ended the year with defensive lineman Elizabeth Long being named to the WACC first team. Miya Fujimoto and Dorothy Nemeth earned second team honors while Maisy  Richardson and Dahlia Osman received honorable mention.

Head coach Beth Black anticipates 2024 is going to be a strong season--she's going to need to add more coaches!

On February 10, 2022, the PHS football program was in limbo and hadn't been to a NCS game since 2018. Eventually a new coach--Jordan Seiden--was hired and the team entered the season with a small varsity team.

On October 19, 2022, after going 0-4, PHS had to cancel the season. The roster was down from seventeen (17) boys at the start of the season to thirteen (13)--and most of the team consisted of undersized sophomores who had played one (1) season of JV the prior year. 

The program was on life support: most of the team went back down to JV, there was talk of moving the program to 8 on 8 and the community openly questioned if PHS football would survive.