Dana Hills Coach Is Reassigned

Bryan McSweeney has been removed as the Dana Hills boys’ basketball coach by principal Rickie Lundgren, but Lundgren said she expects McSweeney to return to the position in a year.

Next season McSweeney will coach the junior varsity while Mike Gallups, a McSweeney assistant and freshman coach, will be interim varsity coach.

Lundgren said the move was made to “take some pressures off McSweeney,” whose wife is expecting a baby and who is still adjusting as a teacher.

“There were some personnel issues I had concerns with,” Lundgren said. “But he hasn’t done anything to be fired over or require an investigation. I have not asked him to resign.

“Brian became a head coach very early and needed some more seasoning. But I have confidence he will be back, unless he gets another job offer he likes. Otherwise, I’d open up [the head coaching job] for interviews and start a new program, and I want to maintain what we have.”

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Bobby Bruch, who led the Marina’s girls’ soccer team to three Southern Section titles, has been hired as director of the Saddleback Valley Soccer Club girls’ program. Former Salsa assistant coach Octavio Zambrano has been hired to head the boys’ program. Bruch, who had a 61-game unbeaten streak with Marina, will remain as coach of the Infamous Shamrocks’ soccer club.

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The 31st Costa Mesa Kiwanis Club Orange County All-Star basketball games will be held April 20 at Orange Coast College. The girls’ game begins at 5 p.m. The boys’ game begins at 8 p.m.