CIF Drives Away With a Title Sponsor

Toyota has signed on as title sponsor of the California Interscholastic Federation, effective July 1, it was announced Monday.

Details of the contract are still being worked out, but it is believed the deal is worth between $1 million and $2 million over three years.

The CIF has been without a title sponsor since last July when Reebok did not renew its contract.

Toyota is the second corporate sponsor to sign with the CIF in the last year, joining the Vons grocery store chain.

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Dean Crowley’s fate as Southern Section commissioner will be decided at an Executive Committee meeting June 24.

Crowley, 60, has been the section’s acting commissioner since October when Stan Thomas was forced to resign for allegedly misusing his expense account.

“One of our options is certainly to make Dean’s position as commissioner permanent,” said Gary Smidderks, executive committee president. “My feeling is that his performance has been favorable with the committee, and I don’t expect any problems.”

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If Crowley remains commissioner, one of his priorities will be to straighten out the football playoff groupings for next season.

A number of appeals have slowed the process and the playoff groupings will not be final until the Southern Section Council meets again in mid-October.

The playoff committee met again last week and made several changes. It is now recommending that groupings be based on equity instead of geography and that revisions be made again in two years.

The schedule for next season will made based on the latest recommendations, even though things could change in October.

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Kelley Moohr of Santa Margarita will attend Dartmouth and participate in the track and field program. Moohr also was a two-time All-Sea View League selection in volleyball and basketball.

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A memorial service for Dutch Kallemyn, Westminster’s junior varsity softball coach who died of a heart attack June 3 at age 55, will be Friday at First Presbyterian Church in Westminster.

Kallemyn coached the Westminster JVs four years and helped start the Westminster softball booster club.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations are made to the softball booster club.