Don Ketchum
Former Staff Writer, AZPreps365.com

Alhambra coach had a Marv-elous career

October 22, 2010 by Don Ketchum, AZPreps365

"=""> When Marvin Nevins received a call from his daughter on Monday (Oct. 18), she told him “they’’ wanted to honor him.
"=""> Who, exactly, is “they?’’
"=""> The people at Phoenix Alhambra, that’s who.
"=""> At halftime of Alhambra’s game against visiting Phoenix Trevor Browne on Friday night (Oct. 22), Nevins was recognized for his 45 years at the west Valley school and five more in his native Nebraska. The event was organized by Ron Scott, who succeeded Nevins as baseball coach and who now is a special-education administrator in the Agua Fria Union High School District in Avondale.
"=""> Nevins taught physical education from 1964-95 but continued to coach football after that. He coached the freshman team at Alhambra in his final season in 2009. He also has been a volunteer assistant softball coach at Peoria Sunrise Mountain for several seasons.
"=""> He was surrounded by those freshman players, now on the junior varsity, during Friday night’s ceremonies. Numerous former athletes coached by Nevins also were on hand.
"=""> Before the ceremonies Scott led Nevins and a group of former athletes on a tour of the school's sports hall of fame in the lobby of the gymnasium. There is shelf after shelf of memorabilia in the glass-enclosed display. Now Nevins will have a couple of shelves of his own.