COACHES

Dane Jako- Head Golf Coach
djako@servitehs.org

Coach Jako has been teaching and coaching at Servite for over two decades with the 2025 season marking his 25th year as head coach of the golf program. During his tenure, Jako has been named Coach of the Year eight times by various organizations while earning his 500^th career win in 2023.

The Varsity golf team continues to be among the top teams in both CIF and Orange County returning to the top of the Trinity League in 2024 and 2025 to win their 35^th league title in school history and 12^th overall since 2008. The Friars have also won 7 CIF Championships under Coach Jako’s tutelage including three straight from 2017-2019. In 2021, the Friars added a SCGA Championship, winning the title for the first time in school history. Over the last ten seasons, the Friars have posted an 154-15 record with two undefeated seasons.

Servite golfers have continued their success at the collegiate level with 15 alumni moving on to compete at the next level since 2016. 

Servite alum, Patrick Cantlay '10 has earned 8 wins on the PGA tour highlighted by winning the coveted FedEx Cup Championship in 2021. Coach Jako has caddied for Patrick on several occasions including the US Amateur Open tournament where Patrick made it to the semifinal in 2010 and the finals in 2011.

Under Coach Jako’s guidance, the golf program has tripled in size and Servite has become one of the largest programs in all of California and regularly ranked in the top 10 in Orange County. Servite hosts one of the best high school golf tournaments in Southern California. The Servite Invitational was Coach Jako’s vision and he has now hosted this top-notch event for the past 15 seasons, of which Servite has won 10.

The 2017 season marked the inaugural year for the Chris Roth Memorial Tournament, created in honor of Christopher Roth '10 who was passed away in February of 2016. Roth was a member of the Friars 2009 CIF Championship team and a close friend to and caddy for Patrick Cantlay.

Coach Jako is a graduate of Artesia High School where he played football, baseball and track. Coach Jako has a bachelor’s degree in physical education and exercise physiology from Upper Iowa University (UIU) where he also played football and baseball. He was an All-American wide receiver in football and an all-conference center fielder in baseball. Coach Jako went on to play three years of football in the USFL before returning to UIU to begin his coaching career. He is married to his lovely wife, Eva, and they have two boys, Nick '21 and Beau '24, who keep them very busy. 

JV1- Brian Hooper
JV2- Chris Higgins
FS1- Cory Fajardo 
FS2 - JC Ellis

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