Corona del Mar Football Coach Holland Quits

Dave Holland, Corona del Mar football coach for 20 years, has resigned to be defensive coordinator at Grossmont College in El Cajon.

“I had a great time and career at Corona del Mar,” Holland said. “But I figured if I ever was to make a move upward, it would have to be now.”

Holland, 58, was California’s coach of the year in 1989, after the Sea Kings won their second consecutive Southern Section Division VI championship.

Holland’s teams were 106-92-10 and won three league titles during his tenures from 1967 to 1975 and 1983-93. The 1988 team is the only undefeated varsity football team in the history of the Newport-Mesa Unified School District.

Corona del Mar was 7-4 this season, runner-up in the Sea View League, and lost to Villa Park in the first round of the Division VI playoffs.

At Grossmont, Holland will serve under Coach Dave Jordan, a former assistant within the Corona del Mar program. Grossmont was voted the national champion community college football team last season.

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Myron Miller, athletic director and football coach at Costa Mesa High, also will be the school’s wrestling coach the rest of the season.

He replaced Fred Morgan, a campus security guard whose work schedule conflicted with the sixth-period class that athletes schedule at the end of the school day.

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Kim Nelson, the Canyon High School senior who won her fourth Century League cross-country championship and the Southern Section Division II-AA title last season, has signed a letter of intent to attend Brigham Young.