CHATTER: FAURIA TAKES OVER AT MONTCLAIR PREP.Byline: Gerry Gittelson Staff Writer Lance Fauria is the new football coach at Montclair Prep of Panorama City, replacing George Giannini, who resigned under pressure after last season. Fauria, 38, who played tight end for Crespi High in Encino and the University of Washington, is a former assistant at Chaminade of West Hills and a former head coach at St. Joseph in Santa Maria Santa Maria, city, Brazil Santa Maria (sän`tə mərē`ə), city (1991 pop. 217,592), Rio Grande do Sul state, S Brazil. It is a major railroad terminus and the site of an important military base. . Giannini, who has been Montclair Prep's coach on and off since the early 1970s and never has had a losing season, stepped down after the athletic program was placed on probation for the second time since 1992 because of an ``undue influence'' violation. Fauria said he is aware of Montclair Prep's troubled past but is eager to push the program in a positive direction. ``I tell you what, I think coming here is a pretty dog-gone good set,'' Fauria said. ``I've got some experience, and there have been some pretty good athletes to come through here, to say the least. The principal and the athletic director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic have given me the background about what's happened here the last six months, and I'm going to run a clean program. ``I'm not going to go out looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. kids. If they like what we're doing, they're welcome to come out for the team.'' The Southern Section has banned all of Montclair Prep's sports teams from the playoffs through the end of next football season. Meanwhile, Montclair Prep is looking for a boys' basketball coach to replace Tyrone Fuller, who also resigned. Former coach Howard Abrams, who has been at the school as a coach or administrator since 1976, said he might be the head coach again. ... The seventh annual East-West All-Star Football Game is at 5 p.m. Saturday at Birmingham High in Lake Balboa. Running backs Dennis Keyes of Birmingham, Charles Burnley of Valencia, linebackers Rob Lewis of Montclair Prep, Cody Kase of Hart of Newhall and Lance Broadous of Taft of Woodland Hills, and kicker Will Simons of Hart are participating. Tennessee Titans football coach Jeff Fisher Jeffrey Michael Fisher (born February 25, 1958) is an American football head coach, currently the head coach of the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League. With the resignation of Pittsburgh's Bill Cowher[1], Fisher now has the longest tenure as head coach with , formerly of Taft High, is the keynote speaker for the Building a Better Athlete conference beginning at 8 a.m. today at the Renaissance Hotel in Agoura. The event, produced by highschoolfitness.com, is open to the public and focuses on sports nutrition Sports nutrition is applied in most sports training, however it is most dominant in strength sports (for example weight lifting and bodybuilding) and endurance sports (for example cycling, running, triathlon). , supplements and injury prevention. Information: (888) 473-2266, Ext. 411. ... Canyon High softball coach James Hanger has resigned after one season to pursue other interests. ... Long Beach State's Tim Hutting was supposed to be thinking only about helping his team get to the College World Series. Instead, he spent 20 games wondering whether he'd have a chance to help his team get there. But the senior shortstop from Hart has recovered from a posterior cruciate ligament injury posterior cruciate ligament injury PCL injury Orthopedics A partial or complete tear, dislocation, or stretch of the PCL from the bone attachment to the knee, or anywhere else along its length; it is usually injured by hyperextension, or a direct blow to the flexed enough for his return in time for this weekend's NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Regionals in Long Beach. He was back in the lineup May 17 and finished the regular season with a three-hit game at Miami. He's batting .343. ``Just having that feeling that you might not play college baseball College baseball is baseball as played on the intercollegiate level at institutions of higher education, predominantly in the United States. Compared to American football and basketball in the United States, college competition plays a less significant contribution to cultivating again; it's terrible,'' said Hutting, whose team hosts Pepperdine at 7 tonight. ``I'm not really focusing on that anymore. I'm concentrating on what's going on What's Going On is a record by American soul singer Marvin Gaye. Released on May 21, 1971 (see 1971 in music), What's Going On reflected the beginning of a new trend in soul music. now.'' ... Former Saugus girls' basketball coach Eric Olsson has been hired as the new girls' basketball coach at Clovis West near Fresno. Clovis is one of the premier girls' basketball programs in the state, and Olsson said he couldn't pass up the opportunity. Olsson was the Daily News Coach of the Year in 2002 and guided Saugus to the quarterfinals this season. ... L.A. Baptist of North Hills sprints coach Jonathan Patton, who coached senior Allyson Felix Allyson Felix (born November 18, 1985 in Los Angeles, California) is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for the United States in the 200 meters. Felix, born and raised in southern California, is also a devout Christian and is the daughter of an ordained to a world junior 200-meter record this season, has announced his resignation effective at the end of the season. Staff Writers Ramona Shelburne, Chris Cocoles and Kirby Lee contributed to this report. |
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