Costa Mesa Coach Troxell in Coma After Heart Attack

Paul Troxell, pitching coach for the Costa Mesa High baseball team, was in a coma and on life support Monday night after suffering a brain aneurysm and heart attack Saturday in his Garden Grove home.

Troxell, 40, is being treated at Western Medical Center in Santa Ana and was not expected to survive the night, Costa Mesa Athletic Director and baseball Coach Kirk Bauermeister said Monday.

Bauermeister said Troxell was at a Saturday morning baseball game between Costa Mesa and Corona del Mar. Afterward, he went across the street to watch Orange Coast College play. During the game he complained of a headache.

Troxell went home to rest, Bauermeister said. When his wife, Debbie, checked on him she discovered he was having difficulty breathing.

Troxell, a 1976 graduate of Estancia High, was Costa Mesa’s frosh-soph baseball coach in 1981. A year later, he became the junior varsity coach at his alma mater.

He eventually became varsity co-coach at Estancia before returning to Costa Mesa as pitching coach in 1997.