Valencia High Names Basketball Coach
Valencia High School has hired John Cyrus as its boys’ basketball coach.
Cyrus, who teaches at Valencia and is a tennis coach at Fullerton College, replaces Ray Rodriguez, who resigned after 14 years as coach to become an assistant basketball coach at Rancho Santiago College.
For the record:
12:00 a.m. June 21, 1990 For the Record
Los Angeles Times Thursday June 21, 1990 Orange County Edition Sports Part C Page 16 Column 1 Sports Desk 2 inches; 69 words Type of Material: Correction
Cypress coach--Judy Moore, a Cypress High School physical education teacher and assistant track coach, has replaced Jeff Scanlon as Cypress’ head boys’ and girls’ track coach, and Marie Upton as head boys’ and girls’ cross-country coach, Cypress Athletic Director Rob Walker said Wednesday.
Don Orr, a former head cross-country and track coach, will assist Moore in cross-country this fall.
Information provided The Times Tuesday by former assistant coach Don Turnbull was erroneous.
Cyrus, a Valencia graduate, has served in various coaching positions at the school, including girls’ basketball coach, assistant boys’ basketball coach and assistant football coach.
Rodriguez will remain at the school in a teaching position.
Don Orr and Judy Moore have replaced Don Turnbull as boys’ cross-country coach at Cypress High School, Turnbull said Tuesday.
Orr, an economics teacher at the school and an assistant track coach, will team with Moore, the girls’ track coach and physical education teacher, to coach the co-ed cross-country program.
Turnbull, who in five years at the school led the Centurions to four Southern Section preliminaries and one final (1988), said he stepped down to pursue a career in event promotions.
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