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Kennedy High has hired Toya Holiday, a former player at the school, to replace Craig Raub as the girls basketball coach.

Holiday, a 1981 Kennedy graduate, will teach math at the school. She played for Raub in high school, and later played at Arizona State and U.S. International University.

Marcello Guiscardo of Thousand Oaks won the 35-45 age group national championship in a 10-mile ocean swim last week at Seal Beach. Guiscardo’s time was 3 hours, 42 minutes.

Teams from Rockwell International, Rocketdyne and 20th Century Insurance took first place awards at the Pacific Boys Home’s first corporate and recreational volleyball tournament, which marked the opening of the Lodge’s $1.1-million activity center.

The Lodge, located in Woodland Hills, provides residential and counseling services for troubled adolescents and their families. It was founded in 1923.

Deron McBee of Northridge defeated Mark Silva of Sherman Oaks to win the men’s title of the Marty Hogan Racquetball Classic at the Racquet Centre in North Hollywood last weekend.

McBee defeated Silva, 15-8, 15-14.

In men’s doubles, Bruce Radford of Tarzana and Mark Morrow of Los Angeles defeated Phil Montanio and Mike Hart, both of Van Nuys, 15-14, 15-3.

Bill Hughes, formerly the basketball coach at Reseda High, has been hired as varsity coach at Gardena High.

John Reich, the soccer coach at Calabasas High for the past 14 seasons, is the school’s new athletic director.

Reich, who has taught at Calabasas for eight years and formerly served as the girls tennis coach at Agoura High, replaces Dick McLeish, who accepted a teaching position at Agoura.

Thousand Oaks High sophomore Tad Ripley participated in a hockey camp for goalkeepers at the U.S. Olympic Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., last month.

Ripley and other top young goalies from across the U.S. received instruction by several scouts and teachers from the National Hockey League.

The Ventura-Santa Barbara Sharks girls club basketball team finished its season on a high note, winning its own Blue Star Shootout at Pepperdine last month.

The Sharks, whose roster includes Lina Mascarenas of Thousand Oaks and Katie Krauss of Newbury Park, won all five of its games in the tournament. The team, which also won the Class of the Field Tournament in Oregon earlier this summer, finished 15-4.

A soccer team composed of girls from Simi Valley and Royal high schools, won the Australian Youth Umbro Cup tournament in Sydney on a tour of the country last month.

Brenda Brian of Simi Valley was the tournament MVP. The team was coached by Simi Valley coaches Jim Murawski and Mark Johnson.

Kristen Olson, an eighth-grader from Newbury Park, jumped a personal best of 34 feet to win the girls 13-14 age division triple jump at The Athletic Congress Youth Track and Field Championships in Philadelphia last month. The mark was Olson’s best by more than a foot.

Terin Matthews of Newbury Park earned two medals at the meet in the girls 9-10 division, placing third in the 1,500 meters (5:21.5) and sixth in the 800 (2:41.6).

The relay team of Rachel Muir, Aimee Edwards, Vici Aguilar and Amy Nesbitt was second in the girls 15-16 division 3,200 meters (9:41.5).

The Newbury Park all-star team won the District 81 Major Bobby Sox tournament and will compete in the national championships in Buena Park from Aug. 15-21.

The team defeated Simi Valley twice and Thousand Oaks once by a combined score of 30-0 to reach the finals.