Garibaldi Acting as a Role Model

Maybe the name is not familiar to you but Mike Garibaldi’s face might be.

Garibaldi, the Pierce College water polo coach and swimming co-coach, is a model and actor with several TV commercials and feature films to his credit.

“I got into the business by chance,” Garibaldi said. “I started looking for another career when I quit teaching 17 years ago.”

Garibaldi, 50, taught and coached at Utah, San Francisco State and Hartnell College. He was an alternate on the 1964 U.S. Olympic water polo team and still plays in Masters’ events.

He has done commercials pitching a hearing aid, an insurance company and a chain of hotels. His resume also includes roles in TV shows “Silk Stalkings,” “Highway to Heaven” and “Dynasty.”

“I took some [acting] classes when I got into modeling,” Garibaldi said. “I spent a whole year doing community theater [in Northern California] and then I moved to [the L.A. area] in 1982.”

Recently, Garibaldi was busy again before the cameras, shooting an industrial video.

“I think I’m still on [an airline’s] in-flight instructional video, how to put on your life vest, that kind of thing,” Garibaldi said.

All tired out: The Montana State football team ran into a little trouble on its way to North Campus Stadium for Saturday’s game against Northridge.

The bus carrying the offensive players made a wrong turn on the campus and had the tires flattened by those “severe tire damage” spikes.

The bus carrying the defense made it OK, so after that unit was unloaded, the offensive players were retrieved.

Another Montana State bus blew out a tire on its way from Northridge to the Burbank airport after the game.

“It was an ill-fated trip,” Montana State sports information director Bill Lamberty said, “except for the game,” which Montana State won, 24-17.

No contest: The final scheduled home game for the Cal State Northridge men’s soccer team, against Loyola Marymount on Nov. 8th, has been canceled.

A Northridge official said he called Loyola Marymount this week to confirm the match but was told the contest was not on the Lions’ schedule.

All-American push: The Cal State Northridge sports information department is producing fliers to promote receiver David Romines and linebacker Marc Goodson for All-American honors.

Team effort: Twelve of 16 field players on The Master’s College men’s soccer team have scored for the Mustangs (12-3-2) this season.

Ten of those players have scored multiple goals. The Master’s is battling to be seeded No. 1 in the NAIA Far West Region Independent tournament next month.