By Ed Piper
Armon Harvey, who served as wide receivers coach and head JV coach for La Jolla's football program for five years from 2016 to 2022, peaking in the Southern California Regionals championship in 2019, attended the Vikings' game at Scripps Ranch Friday night, Oct. 4.
Harvey was using a cane. Recognizing him as a past assistant, and seeing him using the cane, I went up to him and said hi.
He poured out the challenging story of having been caught in the floods last spring, helping family and friends, climbing on the roof, and contracting a bacteria from the dirty waters that flooded Southeast San Diego. He told a player, "We went to the Southern California Regionals" in 2019.
Armon said the surgeons "shaved" his hip bone to rid him of the infection he contracted, hence the need for a cane at this point. Godspeed as he recovers, gets stronger, and hopefully attends more Viking football games.
In his playing days, as a tight end, he attended and played at Mission Bay, then Mesa College in 2007-2009. He went on to Greenville University in Greenville, Illinois, near Springfield, and earned a B.A. in graphic design.
On his Instagram account, Harvey cites the Bible verse, John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whosoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life." Armon's online comment: "Here to change the world any way that I can." Also, "determination and discipline".
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