Orange County Roundup : Clinic Features Former Olympian
Five-time Olympian Willye White will conduct a free track clinic at Rancho Santiago College Thursday beginning at 2 p.m. The clinic is open to youths 8 to 18.
White is the national spokesman for the AAU Junior Olympics, a program involving 3 million athletes in 20 sports. She was a member of the 1956 U.S. Olympic team and won a silver medal in the long jump.
For more information, call 667-3385.
The wives of several Rams players will model sportswear Saturday at the Sports Gallery health club in Anaheim. The fashion show, open to the public, begins at noon.
Models for the show include Teresa Lansford, wife of kicker Mike Lansford; Annie Hill, wife of tight end David Hill; and Leslie Jeter, wife of defensive lineman Gary Jeter.
Ram strength trainer Garrett Giemont will conduct a stretching and weightlifting seminar from 11 a.m. to noon.
Gene Gurule, who has led the Mission Viejo High School boys’ track team to seven straight South Coast League championships, will replace Rich James as the men’s and women’s track and field coach at Saddleback College.
Gurule, who led the Diablos to a 42-0 league dual-meet record in the past seven years, began his coaching career at Mission Viejo in 1969. He led the Diablos to the state track and field championship in 1982.
Gurule also coached cross-country from 1976-78. He was 21-6 in those three years, taking over a team that was last in the league in 1975.
Entry fees are being accepted for the Winner’s Circle golf tournament Monday at the El Niguel Country Club in Laguna Niguel.
There will be a shotgun start using all three men’s tees to accommodate each player’s handicap with 32 four-man teams selected at random by computer. Those teams will compete for more than 40 prizes, including an automobile and a week’s vacation for two in Maui.
Putting and driving-for-accuracy contests also are scheduled.,
The $150 entry fee benefits the South Coast Medical Center.
For more information or reservations, call tournament chairman John Bulleit at 496-3211.
The Eastbluff girls’ basketball camp opens Monday for players in grades 4-6 at the Eastbluff boys’ and girls’ club in Newport Beach. A second camp will be Aug. 4-15.
The first camp continues each weekday from 8:30-11 a.m. until Aug. 1. Camp director Diana Meier, who played at UC Irvine and the University of Houston, will emphasize fundamentals, but also will run numerous shooting contests. Scrimmages will be at the end of each day with a game scheduled on the last day of camp.
Registration fee is $5 for either camp. To register or for more information, call 640-6650.
A fund-raiser for jockey Robert Bard, who suffered severe back injuries last month, will be Sunday at the Starting Gate Restaurant, located across the Katella Avenue entrance to the Los Alamitos Race Course.
A buffet luncheon will be served from 1-3 p.m. with raffle tickets sold throughout the day for gifts to be awarded at the benefit.
Bard is best known as regular rider of the mare Indigo Illusion, which won the 1983 Faberge Futurity, 1984 Rainbow Derby and 1985 Vessels Maturity.
Brian Malavar, who will be a senior at Loara High School in the fall, was named the Outstanding Participant in the Los Angeles Games at an awards banquet Sunday. Malavar earned second place in the 177-pound weight class in the wrestling competition and led the Saxons to a second-place finish in the baseball competition. He went 6 for 10 with a homer, two doubles, four RBIs and four runs scored.
Around the area
Loara High School is seeking two paid soccer coaches for the varsity and frosh-soph boys’ teams. The positions run from November to March. For more information, call Athletic Director Ray Moore at 999-3677. . . . Larry Lee, second baseman for the 1981 Orange Coast College baseball team, has been named coach at Cuesta Community College in San Luis Obispo. Lee, 26, played minor league baseball in 1983 with the Utica Blue Sox, the team that owner and author Roger Kahn wrote about in his best-selling book “Good Enough To Dream.” . . . Lorraine Kalehuawehe, who led the state champion Rancho Santiago College softball team with 28 RBIs this season, has received a scholarship to the University of Hawaii. Kim Martin and Laura Janzen of Rancho Santiago have accepted scholarships to Cal State Long Beach. . . . Former Estancia High School athletes Eric Dorn and Doug Miller have received track and field scholarships to Rice University in Houston.