NOTEBOOK : CSLA Tennis Coach Captures Senior Singles Title

Tina Karwasky is coaching tennis at Cal State Los Angeles, but the 41-year-old’s playing days are far from over.

The men’s and women’s coach won the singles 40-and-over title in the United States Tennis Assn. senior women’s grass court championships July 24 in New York.

The top-seeded Karwasky won four of her five matches at the West Side Tennis Club in straight sets, beating fourth-seeded Carole Ford of Bethesda, Md., 6-4, 6-3. She also had two shutout victories.

“Playing in these tournaments is just for fun,” Karwasky said. “I’ve hit a billion balls in my life. I’m a strictly a coach now.”

A member of Cal State L.A.’s athletic Hall of Fame, Karwasky was ranked as high as 89th in 1986 while competing as a touring pro for 11 years. Competing for Cal State L.A., she reached the 1973 national finals as a junior and qualified for the finals each of her four seasons.

Karwasky was in Pennsylvania last week for the tennis association’s 35-and-over grass court tournament, where she is the defending champion in the singles and also won the doubles title with Dee Williams-Horne last year.

“I’m sure I’ll have a million phone messages at home and school when I get back,” Karwasky said. “I don’t even want to think about it now. This is like a vacation. I just need time to get away.”

*

Names in the news--Salvador Garcia and Adan Reyes of the Eddie Heredia Youth Boxing Club in East Los Angeles will compete in the Junior Olympic Trials at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Boulder, Colo. Weight-class winners will earn spots in next month’s International Golden Gloves tournament in Dublin, Ireland.

Garcia won the 90-pound division and Reyes, who will be a sophomore at Garfield High, captured the 112-pound weight class in the Junior Olympic championships for 15- and 16-year-olds in June. . .

Curtis Hughes has been named head basketball coach for the girls’ team at Jefferson High.

Hughes, 33, who played at Jefferson and starred on the CBS-TV drama “The White Shadow,” has served as co-coach with Paul Goulding for the last three seasons, helping to guide the Democrats to the 1993 City 3-A Division championship and two semifinals playoff berths . . .

Dora Perez has been selected as the girls’ basketball coach at Roosevelt High, replacing six-year Coach Lorenzo Garcia, who recently resigned . . .

Distance runner Ivo Rodrigues has transferred from Trade Tech to East Los Angeles College.

Rodrigues was the runner-up at 10,000 meters in the State junior college track and field championships in May and finished 10th in the State cross-country finals last fall . . .

Former Dorsey High sprinter Ron Williams has signed a letter of intent to Kentucky. Williams won the 400 meters in 46.80 seconds in this year’s South Coast Conference championships. He also anchored the Vikings’ 1,600-meter relay team to a school-record 3:06.81 in the State meet in May.