Burgess on Touring All-Star Team

Woodbridge center Chris Burgess has been selected to join a USA All-Star team that will play in the Albert Schweitzer Tournament, beginning April 6 in Mannheim, Germany.

The biannual tournament is co-hosted by the U.S. Army and the German Basketball Federation. The USA team will be composed of 10 high school juniors and seniors from the United States, and two military dependents attending high school in Europe. Teams from 16 countries, including Turkey, Italy, Spain, Greece and Russia, will arrive March 30 in Germany, according to John Rhodes, assistant coach and head of player selection.

The USA team, which has won nine championships since the tournament began in 1951--including the past five in a row under Coach Dick McCann, who took over in 1971--play an exhibition game April 4 against Greece, Rhodes said, and begin tournament play April 6. The championship game is April 13.

Since 1973, the USA team is 73-4, Rhodes said.

Some of those who have played in the tournament and gone on to college and the NBA include Magic Johnson, Chuckie Brown, B.J. Armstrong, Kent Benson, Darnell Valentine and Eddie Johnson.

Burgess, who led the county in scoring (26.3) during the regular season, helped Woodbridge finish second in the Sea View League and reach the quarterfinals of the section Division II-AA playoffs.

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Paul Anderson, whose Santiago boys’ basketball teams were 71-130 in his nine seasons as head coach, has resigned, boys’ Athletic Director Ron Heiman said Thursday.

Mike Dadeppo, an assistant to Anderson and a lower-level basketball coach the past four years, will take over the team. Anderson, who will remain on campus as a teacher, said he wants to spend more time with his family and go back to school.

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Ron Vander Fluis has been hired as football coach at Ocean View High, Athletic Director Tim Mennealy said Friday.

Vander Fluis, 40, was an assistant coach last year at Vista High. He also is a former head coach at Bellflower High.

Vander Fluis replaces John Donnelly, who resigned in December to devote his full attention to teaching. The Seahawks had a 5-25 record in Donnelly’s three seasons.

Vander Fluis is accepting applications for assistants, Mennealy said.

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Joe Walters has resigned as the football coach at Calvary Chapel. He said he will continue to be the athletic director and baseball coach.

He left football “because I did not feel I could do all the jobs well,” Walters said. “We need to bring in someone to devote full time to the program. I’ve got too many things going on right now.”

Walters, who led the Eagles to a 6-3 record and a berth in the section Division X playoffs, said he had been pondering his resignation for a couple of months, but decided to make it official “when baseball started and it became evident I couldn’t keep up with both.”

The Eagles’ baseball team is the defending Division X champion.

Walters said he will be interviewing replacements immediately, but has no timetable on when to hire. “We will be real selective,” he said.

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Dianne Vetter of Valencia High has been selected to play for the Sport for Understanding group’s Soccer to Italy team. The team will travel for four weeks this summer. Sport for Understanding is a nonprofit exchange program for teenage athletes.