College track and field: Fitzel to coach OCC track and field.

COSTA MESA - Gordie Fitzel will coach the men’s and women’s track

and field teams at Orange Coast College this spring, Fred Hokanson, the

interim athletic director, said.

Fitzel, who returned from the college earlier this month, started at

OCC in 1978 as the men’s and women’s cross country coach and was also

assistant track and field coach. He coached the cross country teams

through 1995 and started OCC’s women’s golf program in 1996. He continued

as an assistant track coach through last spring.

Fitzel is filling in for Hokanson, the former track and field coach,

who is temporarily filling the void left when Jane Hilgendorf stepped

down as athletic director and dean of physical education.