Honors: OCC’s Cutenese Coach of the Year

COSTA MESA - Orange Coast College volleyball coach Chuck Cutenese

has been named the top community college female coach in Orange County,

determined by the county schools’ sports information directors.

Cutenese guided the OCC women’s volleyball team to the Orange Empire

Conference title and a second-place finish in the state tournament. The

Pirates finished 24-3, 13-1 in conference play.

Cutenese, a former Costa Mesa High and OCC volleyball standout setter,

will enter his 11th season as the Pirates’ coach in the fall. He was also

selected as the OEC Coach of the Year for men’s and women’s volleyball.

Cutenese, who was a nominee for the top male coach of the year, led

the OCC men’s volleyball squad to a second straight OEC title and a

second-place finish in state.

Saddleback men’s basketball coach Bill Brummel was named male sports

coach of the year. Brummel’s squad won the state championship, after

claiming its second consecutive conference title. His point guard, Utah

State-bound Mark Brown, won the county’s male athlete of the year honor.

Colleen Burdick, a Fullerton College softball pitcher, was named the

female athlete of the year. Burdick will play for Long Beach State next

year.

Brian Kreutzkamp, a former Newport Harbor High water polo coach, was a

nominee for male coach of the year. Kreutzkamp, who was recently hired as

an assistant water polo coach at Stanford, guided the Golden West men’s

water polo team to a state title.

The sports information directors who represent each of the seven

community colleges in the county (OCC, Golden West, Cypress, Saddleback,

Santa Ana, Santiago Canyon, Fullerton and Irvine Valley) nominate

candidates and vote for the winners.