Bio

Rick Brail took over as the first coach of women's flag football during the fall of 2024.  He brings close to 30 years of coaching experience to Saddleback, as he has coached various sports at the high school level.  Brail started as an assistant baseball coach at Aliso Niguel High School in 1994 and was a baseball and basketball coach at Dana Hills High School from 1997-2001.  He was on the coaching staff at Tesoro High School coaching boys' basketball from 2001-2004 and coached the girls JV basketball program at San Clemente High School in 2014.  Brail was the head baseball coach at Tesoro High School for 20 years from 2001-2020 and most recently started the girls flag football program at Tesoro in 2023. 

Brail has been in education since the late 90's, teaching social studies at Tesoro High School, Dana Hills High School and Aliso Niguel High School.  He was tabbed Teacher-of-the-Year at Tesoro High School in 2023 for his outstanding work in the classroom.