CAMARILLO SOFTBALL COACH CALLS IT QUITS : VICTORIA HIRED AT OREGON STATE.Byline: Vincent Bonsignore Daily News Staff Writer Nichole Victoria, who guided the Camarillo High School softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' team to the Southern Section Division I championship game last season during her first year as coach, has resigned to take an assistant coaching job at Oregon State University Oregon State University, at Corvallis; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1858 as Corvallis College, opened 1865. In 1868 it was designated Oregon's land-grant agricultural college and was taken over completely by the state in 1885. . Victoria, a Camarillo graduate who was a star softball player at UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , accepted the job last week. She'll work under Oregon State head coach Kirk Walker, who was an assistant at UCLA when Victoria played there. ``This is a great opportunity for me,'' said Victoria, who had indicated when she first took the Scorpions coaching job that she wanted to eventually coach at the college level. ``This is a good step for me.'' Victoria, 24, succeeded Darwin Tolzin last year at Camarillo. Tolzin was forced to step down late in the 1995 season after violating Southern Section rules that prohibit pro·hib·it tr.v. pro·hib·it·ed, pro·hib·it·ing, pro·hib·its 1. To forbid by authority: Smoking is prohibited in most theaters. See Synonyms at forbid. 2. team practices on Sundays. Victoria stepped in and led the Scorpions to a 23-1-1 record. Camarillo advanced all the way to the Southern Section finals, where it fell to Mater Dei High School Mater Dei High School is the name of several high schools:
``I'm definitely going to miss the girls,'' Victoria said. ``We had a lot of success.'' Victoria will coach the catchers Catchers was an Irish Indie Pop band formed in 1993 and led by singer-songwriter Dale Grundle. The band consisted of Dale Grundle (vocals/guitar), Alice Lemon (vocals/keyboards), Peter Kelly (drums), Ger FitzGerald (bass, until 1995), Craig Carpenter (bass, 1996 onwards) and and infielders at Oregon State. She'll also be involved in recruiting. She's known Walker since he coached her travel-ball softball team when she was 13. Victoria spent this past summer playing softball in Illinois. While there, she applied to a number of college softball College softball is softball as played on the intercollegiate level at institutions of higher education, predominantly in the United States. College softball is played by women at the intercollegiate level, whereas college baseball is played by men. programs seeking an assistant's position. Walker offered her the job at Oregon State a week before she left for home. After thinking it over, she decided to accept it. Victoria says she learned a number of things during her first head coaching stint, but admits she welcomes the chance to coach on the college level. ``If it was just coaching the girls (in high school) that would be great,'' Victoria said. ``But there's so much other stuff to deal with and that makes it a little disappointing.'' Victoria doesn't know who the next Camarillo coach will be, but she hopes the job will go to Miki Mangan, her assistant coach. ``That would be my choice,'' Victoria said. ``The girls are comfortable with her and I think she'd do a great job.'' Victoria played softball, volleyball volleyball, outdoor or indoor ball and net game played on a level court. An upright net, 3 ft (or 1 m) high, the top of which stands 8 ft (2.43 m) from the ground for men, 7 ft 4 1/8 in (2. and basketball at Camarillo, graduating in 1990. At UCLA, she was named to the Pacific 10 All-Conference team two times and appeared in four Division I World Series. Victoria was named to the 1993 All-World Series team. |
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