Rick Naranjo moves to Agoura High
By Stephanie Bertholdo

bertholdo@theacorn.com

Rick Naranjo

Rick Naranjo, the assistant principal at Calabasas High School for the past five years, will take a similar position at Agoura High School in the fall.

According to school officials, Naranjo will serve as the school’s assistant principal in charge of athletics. He is currently working as the summer school principal at Agoura High, a position that Naranjo has held for the past three years at Calabasas High School.

Naranjo said he will be in charge of discipline, attendance, security and athletics at Agoura High.

“My biggest challenge will be getting to know everyone at Agoura High School,” Naranjo said. “I look forward to working with Larry Misel, (the principal of Agoura High).”

Naranjo, 61, launched his career in a private school, teaching science and working as the assistant football coach at Crespi High School in Encino. After five years, Naranjo headed to Mammoth Lakes in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, where he accepted a job at Mammoth High School as their first head football coach. Soon after, he took charge of the basketball team and led the girl’s volleyball team to a 1990 CIF title.

For five years Naranjo served as the assistant principal of Calabasas High School. He taught Spanish and worked as the head varsity volleyball coach and assistant football coach.

Naranjo lives in Westlake Village and said he likes the idea of living closer to his job.

Naranjo will kick off the 2005/ 2006 school year at a new school, and in a new role as grandfather. Two of his children are having children of their own in August and September.