Grossmont Is Losing Coach, Not Much Else

Bob Rump has decided to retire after 28 years at Grossmont Community College.

Then again, the last time Rump tried this--four years ago--it only lasted three months.

He had been men’s tennis coach for 24 years before “retiring” four years ago, only to be talked into coming right back for four more years as coach of the women’s team.

The women have not lost a Pacific Coast Conference match since, totaling 44 victories and four conference tournament titles in a row.

Rump, 59, who also at times served Grossmont as athletic director and football coach, has won a conference tennis title every year since 1979. He is one of only a handful of college tennis coaches with more than 500 victories and the only California community college coach to win state tennis titles for both men (1986) and women (1988).

His current team is going for another.

Grossmont, ranked third in the state, defeated Santa Monica Tuesday in a Southern California playoff semifinal. The Griffins are 16-0-1, the tie coming against No. 1-ranked Orange Coast, which they will play in the final Tuesday at La Costa.

Zarina Galvan, a freshman from Tijuana, is one reason for Grossmont’s success. Galvan, 19, is a Mexican Federation Cup player who has lost just one match and is ranked No. 1 in the state in singles and No. 3 in doubles.

Holly Shupe is ranked seventh and Kristi Douglas 13th. Both are freshmen, as are nine of Grossmont’s 11 players.

Said Rump, “Somebody’s going to inherit a hell of a team.”

Eileen Maul of Grossmont College set a national community college diving record in winning the one-meter springboard last Friday at the state championships at Mt. San Antonio College. Maul, a graduate of Santana High, had 442.10 points. The old record was 435.75 by Susan Fitzgerald of Diablo Valley in 1980. Maul finished second in the three meter.

San Diego State’s baseball team scored more runs in a 27-10 rout at Colorado State Sunday than the SDSU football team scored points in its 13-10 Red-Black game Saturday.

For its four-game weekend sweep of Colorado State, SDSU outscored the Rams, 67-15, including two shutouts, and raised its batting average 15 points.

Bill Dunckel (Fallbrook High) was 10 for 18 with 11 runs batted in, raising his average 64 points to .320. The junior outfielder has a 12-game hitting streak.

The Aztecs are 17-7 in the Western Athletic Conference and tied for first with Wyoming. SDSU begins its final WAC series at Air Force today. SDSU and Wyoming, which plays at Colorado State, could wind up as co-champions. In that case, Wyoming would be seeded first for the WAC playoffs because it won three of four games in San Diego.

Michelle Hagen of U.S. International set school softball records for hits (56), RBIs (22) and game-winning RBIs (seven) in a season. Hagen, a junior second baseman, fell just short of the single season average mark, winding up at .322, seven points behind Shawna Ervin in 1983.

Teammate Nora Flores leads the NCAA with eight saves.

The Gulls finished at 27-31, and victories included upsets of No. 1 UCLA and seven other top 10 teams. Not bad for a team that was 15-39-1 last year.

Heading into this weekend’s NAIA District 3 championship meet at Azusa Pacific, the Point Loma Nazarene men’s and women’s track rosters read like Who’s Who in Stockholm.

Christian Andreasson, Peter Johansson, Kwame Moore, Michael Silander, Ronnie Skold, Peter Stahl and Annette Runnerman all are from Sweden.

“I’ve had Swedes on my team for the last 25 years,” PLNC Coach Jim Crakes said. “It’s just word of mouth. I don’t recruit them.”

No, Crakes has Kent Andersson for that.

Andersson ran for Crakes in the mid-1960s. He is now in his native Sweden and has been known to extol the virtues of PLNC to promising athletes.

“He’s a good man,” Crakes said. “He’s not just sending bodies over here. He knows the kind of life style we have here and the kind of school we have.”

Indeed. All of them have grade-point averages well above 3.0. Of four academic All-Americans from last year’s team, three were Swedes--Stahl, Johansson and Krisper Andersson.