Addleman and Gorrie, Veteran Santa Ana Coaches, Retire

Frank Addleman and Doug Gorrie, who have combined for more than 70 years of coaching and teaching at Santa Ana College, have retired from full-time assignments at the college.

Addleman was wrestling coach at the college from 1961 to 1981 and his 1971 team won a state title. He also coached seven individual national champions, 13 state champions and 35 of his wrestlers were All-Americans.

He was inducted into the Orange County Wrestling Hall of Fame two years ago. Addleman, considered an expert in fitness and nutrition, wrote a book titled “The Winning Edge: Nutrition for Athletic Fitness and Performance,” which was published by Prentice Hall in 1984.

Gorrie, brother of assistant football coach Dick Gorrie, coached defensive backs for 12 seasons and worked with athletes in field events for three years and was the men’s tennis coach for two. He started at the college in 1964.

Both are working as part-time instructors in the physical education department this semester.

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Orange Coast and Golden West, which met for the state men’s volleyball title the last two years, meet for the first time this season at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Golden West.

Orange County teams have won nine of the last 11 state titles. Golden West won the last two.

Scott Lane, from Basic High in Henderson, Nev., is back to lead Golden West, which is 6-0. Lane, the most valuable player in the conference last season, had 40 kills in the state title match.

The Pirates are led by sophomore middle blocker Josh Richardson (Newport Harbor High), who was an All-Orange Empire Conference selection last season.

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The men’s and women’s basketball playoff pairings will be announced today. Santa Ana, which won the Orange Empire Conference men’s title, should get a spot somewhere in the top eight of the 32-team field.

Fullerton and Orange Coast tied for the women’s title and OCC Coach Mike Thornton, who is the seeding representative from the conference, hopes both teams will be among the top eight and receive first-round byes in the 24-team field. Fullerton will get the higher seeding based on a better power rating than OCC.