El Modena Softball Coach Weyer Quits for Health Reasons

Rhonda Weyer has resigned as softball coach at El Modena.

Weyer, a walk-on coach, stepped away because of health concerns. “I’m not able to put 100% into it as I had in the past,” Weyer said Friday.

She turned in one of the county’s best coaching performances this season, guiding a team without any seniors to a 20-9 record and a brief stay in the county’s top 10 poll. Her record was 99-64-1 in six seasons at El Modena.

BASKETBALL

UC Irvine has hired former WNBA forward Molly Tuter-Koral as assistant women’s basketball coach, it was announced Friday.

A 1988 graduate of Arizona State, Tuter-Koral has been an assistant at UCLA the past two seasons. A native of Alaska, she ranks third on the Wildcats’ career scoring list and is among the top five in career steals (221) and three-point shooting (116 made).

Tuter-Koral spent the 1998 WNBA season with the Phoenix Mercury and has also played in Europe.

CROSS-COUNTRY

Danny Mejia and Juan Casas, who starred for Katella High’s cross-country team, have signed to attend Adams State College in Alamosa, Colo., according to their coach and athletic director, Mike Cochrane.

Both were all-county selections by The Times’ Orange County edition in cross-country, and Mejia was an all-county performer in track.

Mejia, the Empire League’s athlete of the year, was fifth in the state in cross-country, and he took third in the 3,200 at the Southern Section Masters meet. He ran a disappointing 16th in the state meet.

Casas took 14th in the section cross-country finals and finished 16th in the state meet.