Born: July 31, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois.
Hamilton High School, Los Angeles 1960
Santa Monica City College 1961
UCLA BS 1964 MS 1967
CAREER
Played Varsity Baseball at UCLA 1961-64
Teacher at Channel Islands High School from 1974-1996
Varsity Head Football coach 1967-1996
Varsity Assistant Baseball coach for nine years
ACHIEVEMENTS
Channel Islands Baseball won nine League titles and one CIF championship during his coaching tenure
Coach Gershon ranks third in career wins in Ventura County High School Football
He was the fastest coach to reach one hundred wins in Ventura County
Three teams won eleven games in a season
Channel Islands had twelve CIF playoff appearances
Three CIF semi-final appearances
CIF Runner Up 1987
The Raiders were Marmonte League champions six times
COMMUNITY
Coach Gershon’s teams were always distinguished by both their football skills and their sportsmanship
To acknowledge this fact the Ventura County Coaches Association designated the annual county sportsmanship recognition as the Joel Gershon Award
Coach Gershon was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1998.