Entering his eighth season (no season in 2020-21 due to Covid-19) as a member of the coaching staff is Joe Pacheco. From 2012-15, Pacheco guided the Mayfair High girls’ basketball team to a pair of Suburban League championships and a combined 60-21 record. Prior to coaching at Mayfair, Pacheco coached at St. Joseph’s High from 2003-12, with four of those seasons in the head coaching position. During that time, he helped them win consecutive league championships for the first time in school history.

In addition to his basketball coaching experience, Pacheco was the varsity softball coach (2003-05) and track and field coach (2006) at St. Joseph’s.

A graduate of Cerritos College in 1978, Pacheco was a four-year letterman in football, basketball and baseball at Paramount High.

While coaching at St. Joseph’s Pacheco and his basketball team attended a taping of the television show Deal or No Deal. He was selected to be a contestant and intended to use his anniversary date (18) as his suitcase, but chose the birthday of his older daughter, Jill. As it turned out, there was $3M in the suitcase of his younger daughter, Danielle’s birthday.

Pacheco, 67, and his wife of 44 years, Pat, reside in Artesia.