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Basketball: Fairmont hires Clay McKnight

Steve Fryer — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:12:10 +0000

Tweet Clay McKnight, son of Mater Dei basketball coach Gary McKnight, has been hired as the boys basketball coach at Fairmont Prep, Fairmont athletic director Mark Alves announced Wednesday. McKnight, an All-Orange County guard at Mater Dei in the 1990s, has been an assistant coach at UCLA, USC, Syracuse and UC Riverside. At Fairmont, he [...]

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The new basketball coach at Fullerton is …

Steve Fryer — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:39:05 +0000

Tweet Jesse Jackson. Not that Jesse Jackson. This Jesse Jackson has been coaching at Valencia for seven years, including three as freshman head coach and last year as JV head coach. He replaces Bill Czech, who left to take the coaching job at Hope University in Fullerton. The new basketball coach at Fullerton is … [...]

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Football coach talks about changes at Newport Harbor

Steve Fryer — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:46:04 +0000

Tweet Newport Harbor football coach Jeff Brinkley is unhappy that Eric Tweit was fired as Harbor’s athletic director and Evan Chalmers was fired as baseball coach at Harbor this week (and girls athletic director Fletcher Olson vacated her position, in protest to what happened to Tweit). Brinkley, Harbor’s football coach for 23 years, was careful [...]

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Esperanza’s Pendleton steps down as head coach

DAN ALBANO, ocvarsity.com — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:10:12 +0000

Tweet Esperanza football coach Bill Pendleton – one of the most respected and colorful coaches in Orange County – has resigned after six seasons but said Sunday night that he plans to remain with the Orange County powerhouse as an assistant ccoach.Pendleton said his successor has not been selected but he will coach Esperanza’s offensive [...]

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La Quinta losing its longtime athletic director

Steve Fryer — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:29:06 +0000

Tweet Jim Perry has resigned as La Quinta’s athletic director after 26 years in the post. Including 14 years as the school’s boys basketball coach, Perry spent more than 27 years at La Quinta. He is leaving to become athletic director and assistant principal at Corona, in Riverside County, effective in two weeks. Perry, 57, was [...]

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