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Orange Lutheran dedicates basketball court to teacher Nancy Paul

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Orange Lutheran dedicated its new basketball court Friday in honor of Nancy Paul, a 50-year teaching veteran who has worked at the school since 1975 both on the court and in the classroom.

As a team statistician, Paul has missed only four of 404 football games and three of 966 boys’ basketball games. After it was noted that she had a 99.5% attendance record during a ribbon-cutting ceremony in the facility, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce mused, ‘In government mathematics, we round up. That’s a 100% record--quite impressive.’

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Attendees included Royce, other local government dignitaries and several hundred alumni, faculty, staff and school board members. Paul was presented a letter from the White House acknowledging her accomplishments.

--Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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