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Huntington Beach High School is ranked sixth this week in America’s most competitive prep boys’ water polo league and gets prime time streaming exposure on Thursday when it takes on the nation’s best, Harvard-Westlake. But the high ranking and the media exposure weren’t sufficient to preserve the relationship between the high school and now-former head coach Brian Anderson who resigned from the post for “personal reasons” according to press reports.
Anderson’s mysterious early-season departure was met with surprise by one high ranking official at USA Water Polo who lamented the coaching turnover that is becoming more common especially among stalwart Orange County programs. Former Newport Harbor boys’ coach Robert Lynn resigned just prior to the 2014 fall season and Foothill’s girls’ varsity coach Jeff Colton surprised his team by departing in the midst of their winter 2013-14 campaign. Colton has since taken the head girls’ position at University High School; Lynn took a coaching and teaching position at Chadwick.
Anderson remains listed as a coach with the premier Vanguard club program headquartered in Huntington Beach. He was named an assistant coach with the US Men’s Cadet National Team in December of 2013 and is the Olympic Development Program 12th/11th grade boys’ coach for the Southern Pacific Zone of USA Water Polo.
