Titans Hire Bossenmeyer as Basketball Assistant

Rich Bossenmeyer has been hired as an assistant men’s basketball coach at Cal State Fullerton.

Bossenmeyer, a former head coach at Orange High for six seasons, was an assistant last season at Chapman. He spent one season as an assistant for the Rapid City Thrillers of the Continental Basketball Assn.

Bossenmeyer moves into the restricted-earnings position left vacant when Bob Thornton was promoted to full-time status.

The hiring completes Coach Bob Hawking’s staff for 1998-99.

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Sara Kahler of Los Alamitos High has made an oral commitment to play softball for Arizona State, her mother, Dee Cockriel said Tuesday.

Kahler, a catcher who was recently invited to try out for the Junior Olympic World Team, was a first-team Southern Section Division I and Sunset League selection last season. She helped the Griffins to a 14-11 record and to the second round of the Division I playoffs.

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Frank Addleman, a member of the Orange County Sports Hall of Fame, has been recognized with a Lifetime Service to Wrestling Award by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, which will induct him into its hall of fame during ceremonies Nov. 17 at the Pacific Hotel in Anaheim.

Addleman’s 1974 wrestling team at Santa Ana College won the state championship, and he was named the county’s coach of the year in 1970 and ‘74, when he was also honored as Southern California’s coach of the year.

He started the wrestling programs at Corona del Mar High and Santa Ana College, where he was head coach for 17 years. He is currently the assistant coach, a position he has filled since 1982.

Addleman also was a professor of nutrition and fitness in Santa Ana’s Sports Medicine Department. In 1984, he wrote “The Winning Edge,” a book on nutrition for athletes.

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Kristin Spataro, a former setter on the Corona del Mar High and Princeton volleyball teams, has been named to Princeton’s silver anniversary volleyball team.

The Ivy League is celebrating 25 years of intercollegiate women’s athletics, and each school was asked to name two outstanding athletes from each of its women’s sports for the last 25 years.

Spataro, 24, graduated from Princeton in 1996 with a degree in political science. She was a four-year starter for the Tigers.