Monroe Changes Football Coaches

Sloan Bunting, football coach at Monroe High for the last two seasons, has resigned for health reasons and will be replaced by Chris Richards, a former running back at San Fernando and California.

Richards was hired this year as defensive coordinator and teaches at Monroe. His brother, Keary Johns, another former San Fernando player, will take over as Monroe’s defensive coordinator.

“He’s going to do a great job,” Bunting said of Richards.

* Coach Carl Ferrill of Valley College has hired six assistants.

Gaylord Fenley, Ted Umbhagen, Don Weems, Jamar Nailor, Lewis Jones and Justin Webb will join five other assistants on staff.

Fenley will coach the secondary. Umbhagen, a former assistant at Texas A&M;, Houston, Texas Tech and Louisiana State, will coach the offensive line.

Weems, former coach at Harbor College and defensive coordinator at Santa Monica College, will serve as a defensive consultant.

Nailor, a former wide receiver in the Arena Football League, will coach the receivers.

Jones, a former quarterback and running back at San Fernando High, will be an offensive assistant.

Webb, a line coach at Pierce the last three seasons, will be an administrative assistant and recruiting coordinator.

* Co-coach Darryl Stroh of Granada Hills High was one of more than 400 invited guests who attended a surprise retirement party last weekend for John Elway, former Highlander quarterback, at his home in Englewood, Colo.

“It was great,” Stroh said of the party, which included fireworks and a band.

Granada Hills named its football stadium in honor of Elway last year.

WATER POLO

* Terry Schroeder of Westlake Village, U.S. national team captain from 1983-1992, will be inducted into the U.S. Water Polo Hall of Fame on Saturday at the Doubletree Hotel in Irvine.

Schroeder, a four-time Olympic team member who played at Pepperdine and has coached the Waves since 1986, led the U.S. to a silver medal behind Yugoslavia in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics, and to a fourth-place finish in the 1992 Games.

TRACK AND FIELD

* David Warren, state junior college champion in the men’s 400-meter intermediate hurdles for Long Beach City College, has signed with Cal State Northridge.

Warren ran a career best of 50.86 to win the Southern California title in May.

BASEBALL

* Jack Cassel, a pitcher from Kennedy High, has decided to leave Loyola Marymount and is expected to transfer to Pierce College.

* Chad Redfern, former Chatsworth High outfielder, has committed to San Diego State.

* Open registration for Conejo Valley Little League is scheduled for 9-11 a.m. Saturday at Fiore Playfields in Thousand Oaks.

Sign-ups will be taken before the District 13 championship playoff game for 9- and 10-year-olds.

Registration is open to players 7-16 as of July 31, 2000. Cost is $55 per player.

Information: Karen Brown, at (805) 498-9151 or Conejo Valley Little League, at (805) 480-9927.

VOLLEYBALL

* Sherisa Livingston, a 6-foot-2 sophomore middle blocker for Wisconsin from Royal High, has been selected preseason All-Big 10 Conference.

Livingston was the first Wisconsin player chosen Big 10 freshman of the year, leading the Badgers with a .361 hitting percentage.

SUMMER CAMPS

* The Chaminade High softball camp for girls 7-14 will be held July 26-30 from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at the West Hills school.

Instructors include Coach Steve Harrington of Chaminade, The Times’ Valley coach of the year last season; Julie Adams of national champion UCLA, most valuable player of the College World Series; and former Chaminade players, including pitcher Maureen LeCocq, Gatorade national player of the year.

Information: Brian Cantwell at (661) 252-9388.

* The first session of the All-West Valley soccer camp is scheduled for Monday through July 23.

The camp’s second session is Aug. 2-6. Both sessions, for boys and girls 6-14, are from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at Pierce College.

Cost is $170 per player.

Information: (818) 346-4391.

* Sessions of the Cal Lutheran volleyball camp for boys and girls entering third through eighth grades are scheduled for 4-7 p.m. on July 26-29 and Aug. 2-5.

A camp for high school girls focusing on outside hitters is being offered during the first session.

A camp for high school girls who are middle blockers and setters is being offered during the second session.

The sessions will be directed by Coach James Park, Cal Lutheran women’s coach, and staffed by Cal Lutheran assistants and players.

Information: (805) 493-3832.

* The Oxnard College basketball camp for boys and girls 7-14 will be conducted in three sessions--Monday through Thursday, July 26-29 and Aug. 2-5--from 8:30 a.m.-noon.

Cost is $60 per session.

Information: (805) 986-5800, ext. 2075.

* The Master’s College volleyball camp for girls 12-18 will be conducted Monday through Thursday.

Instruction will be provided by Coach Karen Peterson of Master’s and her players.

Information: (661) 259-3540, ext. 222.