PREP NOTES : White to Coach Girls’ Basketball at Edison Again

Phil Abraham, girls’ varsity basketball coach at Edison High, announced Thursday that he was resigning to continue his education, girls’ Athletic Director Bruce Belcher said.

Abraham will be replaced by Dave White, who was the girls’ varsity coach for eight seasons before taking over the Chargers’ football team in 1986. White led Edison’s girls to the Southern Section 4-A title in 1987.

White said he will rely heavily on assistant coaches Michelle Hennessey and Alonda Varisco. Hennessey played for White’s championship team in 1987. Varisco was a standout player at Mater Dei and UC Riverside.

“There is going to be some overlap (of seasons), how much depends on how far we go in the football playoffs,” said White, who also coaches the girls’ distance runners on the track team.

Abraham had an 81-50 record in five years as a walk-on coach. The Chargers finished 17-9 last season, losing in the first round of the section I-A playoffs.

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Lowen Cattolico of San Jose Leigh High and Bret Mobley of Moraga Campolindo have been named the 1993-94 CIF scholar-athletes of the year.

Each will receive a $2,500 college scholarship from KCAL and be honored at the State track and field championships June 4 at Cerritos College.

Three girls and four boys from Orange County were finalists: Laguna Hills’ Romy Christensen, Mission Viejo’s Melissa Kuser, Corona del Mar’s Jennifer Stroffe, Brea-Olinda’s Carl Daucher, Corona del Mar’s Crosby Grant, Foothill’s David Hay and La Habra’s Brendan Mahon.