UCI’s Shipp Regains Consciousness

UC Irvine basketball recruit Tchaka Shipp, who was seriously injured in a July 19 car accident, has regained consciousness but remained in intensive care Monday at Western Medical Center in Santa Ana.

“He’s coherent and speaking,” assistant coach George Wunder said. “He’s way better than he was over the weekend.”

Shipp, who is in the process of transferring from Seton Hall, was injured July 19 when a car he was driving flipped near campus.

Kevin Simmons, a fellow recruit who was a passenger in the car, suffered minor injuries and was released the same day.

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Richard Gishi, a coach of the Huntington Beach SCATS gymnastics club, has been hired as a part-time women’s gymnastics coach at Cal State Fullerton.

Gishi, a graduate of Westminster High, competed in gymnastics at UCLA before taking the position at SCATS. “We’re happy to have him as our restricted-earnings coach,” Titan Coach Lynn Rogers said. “He needed to finish up some work for his college degree, and this will allow him to do that at the same time.”

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Jamie Shine, a three-sport standout at El Modena High, will play basketball at Orange Coast College next season. Shine, a forward, averaged 15 points for the Vanguards last season and played in the Orange County All-Star game.

She was the Century League’s player of the year as a junior. Shine also played volleyball and ran track for El Modena but is expected to concentrate on basketball at OCC. She is the daughter of Tom Shine, an assistant football coach at Rancho Santiago College.