Moorpark Hires Ex-National Wrestling Champion

Paul Keysaw, a former national collegiate champion, has been hired as wrestling coach at Moorpark College.

Keysaw replaces John Keever, the Moorpark athletic director, who coached the school’s wrestling teams for 27 seasons and won two state championships.

Keysaw was a two-time All-American at Cal State Bakersfield and won the Division I national championship at 190 pounds in 1991. He was an assistant coach at Bakersfield College until hired by Moorpark.

Miscellany

A seven-member selection committee began sifting through resumes this week to pick a permanent athletic director at Cal State Northridge. The deadline for applications was Friday.

Within the next two weeks, the school expects to trim the field of about 40 applicants to three to five candidates. Ron Kopita, Northridge vice president in charge of student affairs, said he hoped to have an athletic director hired by mid-April, to take over in the summer.

Interim Athletic Director Paul Bubb said he has formally applied for the job. Kopita said if Bubb is not chosen, he will return to the position he held before he was temporarily promoted, associate athletic director in charge of external affairs.

Basketball

Dave Ulloa and Jon Rider of Cal Lutheran have been named to the All-Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference men’s team. Fellow senior Mark Heerema is a second-team selection.

The 5-foot-9 Ulloa was a four-year starter at point guard for the Kingsmen and averaged 16.4 points and 5.1 assists. Rider, a 6-3 swingman, averaged 12.7 points and 3.8 rebounds.

Heerema, a 6-2 guard, was the Kingsmen’s second-leading scorer (14.4) and their top three-point shooter at 46.4% (84 of 181).

Moorpark High’s Tim Bednar has been named coach of the year in the Frontier League after guiding the Musketeers to a 19-11 record and an appearance in the Southern Section Division III-AA boys’ semifinals.

Calabasas High freshman Cara Blumfield has advanced to the national finals of a skills competition in Philadelphia on April 13.

Blumfield, 14, won her age division Saturday in a regional competition at the Pyramid in Long Beach.

Soccer

Senior fullback Derrick Dyslin of La Canada High has been named the top defender on Parade magazine’s 1996 All-American team.

Sixteen local players are among the 18 members of the West team selected to play in a girls’ high school seniors all-star game tonight at Azusa Pacific.

They are: Nikki Paredes, Tiffany Tackett and Melissa Endy (Royal); Sarah McLenan, Stacey Hebert and Teresa Almaraz (Buena); Makenzie Mallory, Heidi Reinhard, Heidi Greco and Michele Cena (Crescenta Valley); Jennah Peake and Tami Pivnick (Chaminade), Amie Daws (Alemany); Carly Shafer (Hart); Tracy Driscoll (Notre Dame), and Samantha Conroy (La Reina).

Contributing: Fernando Dominguez, Jeff Fletcher, John Ortega, Tris Wykes.