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After spending the last 10
years as the head coach of the Los Alamitos
High boy's basketball team, former Cerritos
College men's basketball player and
assistant coach Russ May has returned to the
Falcon program. May replaces Jesse
Teplitzky, who resigned after just one year
as the head coach. May was a finalist for
the Cerritos job last year before Teplitzky
was hired. May inherits a team that went
16-13 overall (including a forfeit win over
Los Angeles City College) and won the South
Coast Conference South Division. The team
also came within a minute of upsetting
top-seeded Saddleback College in the 2nd
Round of the Southern California Regional
Playoffs.
May, who was also Los Alamitos High’s
athletic director, resigned both positions
to take over at Cerritos, where he played
for two years (1989-91) and served as an
assistant coach from 1994-99. May will
continue as a full-time government and
social science teacher at Los Alamitos for
the upcoming school year.
Under May, Los Alamitos won CIF crowns in
2006 (Division I-A) and 2007 (I-AA) and
reached the Division I Southern California
final in 2006. In 2008, the Griffins were
seeded fourth in the I-AA playoffs before
being upset by Lynwood in the second round.
May also led his teams to nine league
championships in his 10 seasons and was also
named both the county and CIF Coach of the
Year during his tenure with the Griffins.
As a player for the Falcons, May was a South
Coast Conference Honorable Mention selection
as a sophomore, despite missing the latter
part of the season with a broken foot. The
team won the conference title his freshman
year, while they placed second his sophomore
campaign. In his time as an assistant coach,
the team won five straight conference
championships and the state title in 1999,
his final season as an assistant coach with
the Falcons.
May then earned a scholarship to Cal Poly
Pomona, where he played two more seasons. He
earned his Bachelor’s degree in History from
Cal Poly Pomona, his teaching credential
from Cal State Long Beach and his Master’s
degree from Azusa Pacific University.
May and his wife Andrea have three children;
Madison, Everett and Sydney. |
