Hamilton Hires Wein and Norton

Longtime coach Larry Wein has been selected to head the football program at Los Angeles Hamilton, and one of his assistants will be former All-Pro linebacker Ken Norton Jr., who played for Wein at Westchester.

Wein, 60, will serve as a walk-on coach in place of Aaron Golding, who remains a teacher at Hamilton after two years as its football coach. The Yankees were 0-10 last season.

A head coach for 27 seasons, Wein began his career at L.A. Dorsey and was at Westchester from 1982 to 2001. The Comets won the City 3-A title in 1987 and didn’t lose a Western League game during his last three seasons.

This is the first coaching position for Norton, a former UCLA standout who played on three consecutive winning Super Bowl teams during his 13-year NFL career with the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers.

In other coaching news:

* Ben McEnroe, the offensive line coach at Humboldt State, has been chosen football coach at West Hills Chaminade.

McEnroe is a former Cal Lutheran assistant who has worked at Humboldt State since 1999. He replaces Bill Culpepper, who resigned after three seasons.

Athletic Director Joe Shapiro also announced that Chaminade received an anonymous donation of $500,000 to underwrite football coaching.

* Rick Secrist, who was set to begin his second season as Alta Loma’s baseball coach, has been replaced by Gary Cronan, a former Braves’ coach.

Cronan served as baseball coach from 1973-90 and is currently the head of the physical education department at Alta Loma. Secrist, who led the Braves to a 13-15 record last season, will remain as a teacher at the school.

Bob Rohwer

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Sharon Day of Costa Mesa was competing in her first indoor track and field meet in the Los Angeles Invitational at Sports Arena last Saturday. But that didn’t seemed to hinder her performance as she cleared 5 feet 10 1/4 inches to win the girls’ high jump and move to the top of the yearly national list.

The wood surface of the Sports Arena infield is not regarded as great for high jumping, but Day cleared 5-2 and 5-4 on her first attempts, 5-6 on her second and 5-8 and 5-10 1/4 on her third. She missed all three of her jumps at 6-0.

“Just to get a feel for [jumping indoors] and jump as well as I could,” Day said when asked about her goals entering the meet. “This isn’t a bad way to start the track season.”

Day, the defending state champion, has committed to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo to compete in track. But she also might play soccer for the Mustangs.

-- John Ortega