and competes in the Tri-County Athletic Association (TCAA). The Villanova Prep baseball team won a CIF-SS championship in 1961 and the boys basketball team won a CIF-SS championship in 2022 Villanova Prep discontinued its football program in 1974, but in 2001 it was brought back in an eight-man format under head coach and athletic director John Muller. The school switched to the conventional 11-man version in 2004. In only its second year in 11-man, the team went undefeated during the 2005 season and made the CIF playoffs. Villanova Prep returned to eight-man play in 2013. Villanova Prep defeated Chaffey High School 75-69 in overtime on February 25, 2022 to win its first-ever CIF-Southern Section Boys' Basketball Championship. Villanova Prep was the only Ventura County boys' basketball team to win a CIF-SS championship in 2022. Notable alumni Colman Andrews (1962), cofounder of Saveur magazine William P. Clark, Jr. (1949), California Supreme Court justice, National Security Advisor to Ronald Reagan (1982–1983), and Secretary of the Interior (1983–1985) John Gavin (1948), actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild, and United States ambassador to Mexico Michael G. Wilson (1956) screenwriter and film producer Steve Hovley (1963), Major League Baseball player, Seattle Pilots/Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics, Kansas City Royals John Fuller (1980), CEO, Wahlburgers Tara Hernandez (1986), software developer and open source contributor in Silicon Valley Notable faculty Parry Shen, drama teacher and dormitory staffer; actor, Better Luck Tomorrow Controversy In 1998, James Woodstock, a 31-year-old religion and morality teacher, was convicted of statutory rape after impregnating a 16-year-old student. In early 2006, it was discovered that the headmaster had hired a Latin teacher, Shannon McCreery, who had been convicted of second degree murder for assisting in his father's suicide in 1996. Though the headmaster was aware of the conviction, he did not disclose this information to the school's board of directors nor the rest of the staff. Fallout from the incident included McCreery's dismissal and an attempt to oust the headmaster. References External links Order of St Augustine, International Homepage Augnet International Cooperative Web Site for Schools in the Tradition of St. Augustine Boarding schools in California High schools in Ventura County, California Ojai, California Augustinian schools Catholic boarding schools in the United States Catholic preparatory schools in California 1924 establishments in California Educational institutions established in 1924