Redondo hires new baseball coach

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Tony Ciniglio
on August 22, 2008 11:53 PM | | Comments (0) |
 

Cassidy Olson certainly has some big cleats to fill.


Olson, a former UCLA baseball player, has been named the head baseball coach at Redondo High, becoming just the school's third head coach in the last 38 years. He follows in the footsteps of local coaching icons Harry Jenkins and Tim Ammentorp, who resigned Aug. 1 after serving the last 20 years at Redondo.


Olson, 33, was the hitting coach at Harbor College last season. Before that, he was an assistant coach and a junior varsity coach under Mike Neily at Mira Costa for five years. This is his first head coaching gig.


Olson knows it is a challenge to take over a program with a rich history, but says he is "excited to carry on the Redondo tradition."


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Tony Ciniglio is an 11-year veteran at the Daily Breeze and is the Prep-JC Editor. Ciniglio graduated from Malibu High (home of the mighty Sharks) in 1997 as part of the school's second graduating class before attending powerhouse Pepperdine (Class of 2001), thus shattering any reader's preconceived notion that he has any personal bias when it comes to South Bay Preps.

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Dave Thorpe

Dave Thorpe was a self-proclaimed, slightly above average baseball player back in the day at Torrance's West High, who went on and had an unspectacular, injury-riddled stint as a third baseman at El Camino College. Trading bat for pen, Thorpe wrote sports for the Long Beach Union newspaper at Long Beach State University, then worked as the sports editor for the Palos Verdes Peninsula News for seven years before climbing down the Hill to the Daily Breeze, where he has been a sports writer covering local sports for more than two years.

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