Jonathan Hughes is the new boys basketball coach at St. Margaret High School. (Photo courtesy of St. Margaret High School Athletics)
St. Margaret's Episcopal School officials announced this week that Jonathan Hughes has been named varsity boys basketball coach.
Hughes succeeds Chris Nordstrom, who served as Calvary Chapel girls basketball head coach for the past two years and resigned at the end of last season. St. Margaret's went 17-11 overall last season and finished second in the Orange Coast League with a 9-3 record.
Hughes has had success coaching both the boys and girls teams at Calvary Chapel, whose girls team won a school-record 24 games in the 2022-23 season and won the Orange Coast League championship the past two years.
Prior to taking over as Calvary Chapel's girls coach, Hughes led the boys program to a 2021 CIF Championship and undefeated Orange Coast League Championships in 2020 and 2021.
Hughes was named CIF Coach of the Year in 2021 and Orange Coast League Coach of the Year in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Hughes has also served as Calvary Chapel's athletic director since 2016.
“We are pleased to announce John Hughes as our new head boys' basketball coach. John has a championship-level resume as one of the top head coaches in Orange County high school basketball for over a decade,” said St. Margaret's Athletic Director Dan O'Shea. “We welcome John and his family to the Tartan School community and look forward to future activities starting with summer basketball camps at St. Margaret's.”
“I would like to thank the administration and leadership at St. Margaret's for the opportunity to lead the men's basketball program. I am excited to meet our student-athletes and their families and get started right away this summer,” Hughes said. “I have a great passion for basketball and its promotion and I can't wait to get started.”
—Courtesy of St. Margaret's Athletics Department
