Reneker named interim head coach for Coyotes

Former Cal State San Bernardino all-American Sarah Reneker has been named interim head coach of the Coyotes’ women’s water polo team for the 2009-10 academic year, it was announced by Athletic Director Kevin L. Hatcher.

 

            Reneker, an assistant coach with the team in 2008-09, succeeds Lorenzo Maya, who served as acting head coach of the team this past season following the resignation of Tom Finwall, who left to be girls’ water polo coach at Riverside Poly High School.

 

            Reneker played four years for Finwall after being recruited out of John W. North High School in Riverside where Finwall had previously been a water polo coach.

 

            “I’m ecstatic about this opportunity, especially given the fact I have worked with all these girls this past season and they are all coming back,” said Reneker. “I am really pumped up.”

 

            The Coyotes, with no seniors on the team and several freshmen and first-year NCAA Division II players on the team, posted a 12-23 record and finished 10th in the Western Water Polo Association, a 12-team conference.

 

            “We had such a young team and we didn’t have much time to recruit but the girls got a full year’s experience of playing in our system and found out what it takes to play at this level. We will definitely be stronger next season,” Reneker said.

 

            Reneker is looking at a few incoming freshmen and community college transfers to bolster the team’s depth in 2010.

 

            “I think we have a good opportunity to do really well,” she said.

 

            The Coyotes will return Kaitlin Hartman, a three-year veteran who set a new single-season Coyote scoring record with 120 goals in 2009 along with two-year starter Jennifer Goetz , freshmen Emily Hove and Danica Vera and junior Kelsey Morino. Seasoned goalkeeper Bryanna Burns will return for her third season in the cage.

 

            Reneker played for the Coyotes from 2002 to 2006, missing all of 2005 with an injury. She was an NCAA Div. II all-American in 2004 for scoring 117 goals for a team that went 23-16. She is No. 2 on the team’s single-season scoring list and No. 2 on the career scoring list with 324 goals.

 

            She also ranks No.2 on the Coyotes career list for assists and steals and is No. 1 in career ejections drawn.

 

            Reneker is a 2006 graduate of CSUSB with a degree in communications. She is a 2001 graduate of North High School in Riverside where she was an all-CIF Southern Section first-team pick

           

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