Giffin joins Mejia as CdM softball co-coaches

Ed Mejia, a former assistant who assumed head-coaching duties last

season when first-year coach Yogi Johnson resigned for medical

reasons, will be joined by Racie Giffin as co-coaches of the Corona

del Mar High softball team, Dawn Payne, the school’s girls athletic

director, announced.

Giffin, a 26-year-old walk-on, comes from Utah, where she was a

varsity assistant for four seasons at Cottonwood High, her alma

mater.

“I’m really excited that it’s a co-coaching situation,” Giffin

said of working with Mejia, also a walk-on who guided the Sea Kings

to their second straight trip to the CIF Southern Section Division IV

Playoffs last spring.

The Sea Kings finished 11-9 last season, 7-3 and tied for second

in the Pacific Coast League with Costa Mesa.

They were eliminated by Rancho Alamitos, 1-0, in a wild-card

playoff game.

Giffin and Mejia will begin working with the team in January.

-- by Barry Faulkner