Girls water polo: LeCours new Mesa girls polo coach

COSTA MESA - Kathie LeCours, a Costa Mesa High alumna with ties to

the school’s former boys water polo supremacy, has been hired to coach

the Mustangs’ girls water polo team.

“I think the girls need to put a (CIF Southern Section) banner up on

the wall and become just as strong as the boys program has been,” said

LeCours, a 1992 graduate who kept statistics for the Mesa boys team

during in the early 1990s. “I remember when (boys) water polo was the

champion of Costa Mesa High athletics.”

LeCours said she initially contacted Mesa about becoming a swim coach,

but was hired to fill the void left when Eric Berg resigned as coach of

the boys and girls programs.

LeCours, a walk-on who lives in Laguna Hills, has been working with

the team during sixth period and is eager for the upcoming season to

begin.

It’s her first coaching job.

-- by Barry Faulkner