By - A couple of notable coaching changes at the high school level. Spencer Dornin, former Cal all-American who has been at the helm of Palo Alto (CA) High School’s girls’ team is leaving. Dornin’s wife will be finishing her post-medical school residency and is presumably relocating to take a new job. Update: Dornin has confirmed that he and his wife will be relocating to the Dallas area where, if he chooses to continue coaching, he should be in great demand.
- Meanwhile, St. Charles East (IL) boy’s coach Jaclyn Weber has resigned mid-season under mysterious circumstances. She left a meeting attended by 40 parents on Tuesday without comment. The team will now try to find a quick replacement or could be threatened with a shortened season.
- Salem International University (SIU) forfeited their April 17 women’s varsity match to Virginia Military Institute (VMI) and “cancelled the remainder of their season” according to vmikeydets.com. SIU officials have not yet replied to emails asking for information about the apparently abandoned season and the future of the program.
- Flooding and the threat of tornadoes are hampering high school sports throughout the Ann Arbor, Michigan area today leaving only one girls’ water polo match on the docket: Dexter will visit Saline at 7pm locally.
- The IHSA has released seedings for the state’s sectional water polo competition which begin May 6 with play-in games, leading to the Illinois state championship tournament beginning on May 16.
- Massachusets Institute of Technology has hired Ivan Ivovic, former volunteer assistant to Jovan Vavic at USC and assistant coach at Johns Hopkins last season, to lead its men’s program. Ivovic takes over for Mark Lawrence, who left the university in January to take an assistant coaching position with Brown University.
- High school championships have begun in Florida, where the Northeast boys and Westminster girls have already earned District 9 titles. It is the first district title since 2009 for the Hurricanes of Northeast, and the fifth straight for Westminster.
- Interviews are well under way at UC Davis, which is searching for a replacement for former men’s head coach Steve Doten, who stepped down on March 28.
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