The Tri-Valley League, comprising four small schools, has been thrown into a postseason grouping of gridiron giants. The Warriors went through a tough nonleague schedule, and despite a 3-6 record, they should reach the CIF playoffs if they take care of Fillmore at home Friday night, November 6. “That’s the only game I’ve missed since my son was 6 years old,” he said. Tim’s father was stuck somewhere on Highway 150 while the Warriors were romping to a 54-0 victory.
That was the day that all roads leading to the South Coast were jammed with traffic because of the closure of mud-swamped Interstate 5. During the October 16 game against Cantwell-Sacred Heart, he scored a touchdown on an 82-yard punt return.
He is a safety and linebacker, a hybrid defensive position that’s called “Warrior.” He also returns kicks. Tim, a six-foot, 170-pound senior, was appointed a captain of this year’s Warriors, as his father had been 24 years ago. Tim Jimenez Sr., left, with son Timothy Jimenez Jr., right, and legendary Carpinteria football coach Lou Panizzon. He could have vetoed the move, but he saw Carpinteria’s positives: the beach, the sense of community, and a quaint Foster’s Freeze. “In Las Vegas, there are more places to go and things to do,” young Tim said. Instead of Facebook images, residents see real faces. “You walk down the street, and you know everybody,” his father said. Tim saw his own cousin, Tony’s son J.P., play for the Warriors in 2006.Īnother reason young Tim’s parents wanted him to experience his high school years in Carpinteria is the character of the town. Other family members, like his father’s cousin Alex Jimenez, who scored four touchdowns in a game, had their moments under the lights at Carpinteria Memorial Field, which until 1999 was located at the Middle School in the heart of the town. grew up hearing about those gridiron heroics. A linebacker and running back like Tony, he was a key player on the team that brought the school its fifth CIF trophy in 1991. Tim Jimenez Sr., Tony’s much younger brother, came along at the tail end of Carpinteria’s run of three consecutive CIF titles (). The community will gather for a 40th anniversary celebration on Saturday, November 7. was a Carpinteria linebacker and running back in 1975, a season that will be remembered this week and forever, because, as they say, “Warrior Spirit never dies!” Those Warriors went all the way to the school’s first CIF football championship. His two sons, Tony and Tim, helped take the Warriors several steps further. was the first, an All-CIF running back as a senior in 1953, when the Warriors went undefeated in the regular season but lost to Hawthorne, a vastly larger school, in the playoffs. The Jimenez boys have been good-luck charms for Carpinteria High football.
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