Prep beat

SHORELINE - Less than five months after guiding Shorewood to the Class 4A girls state soccer championship, Gary Harris is moving across town.

Harris, who spent the last four years at Shorewood, has been named girls head coach at Shorecrest, Athletic Director Paul Lesh announced yesterday.

Harris, 38, a physical-education teacher at Einstein Middle School in Shoreline, hopes to teach at Shorecrest.

"I'm excited for the new challenge," Harris said. "I'm nervous because Teddy (Mitalas, the former Shorecrest girls coach) is a hard act to follow and I'm sad to leave Shorewood because I developed a lot of close relationships there."

Harris' record was 48-22-9 in four years at Shorewood.

He currently coaches the Shorecrest boys junior-varsity soccer team.

Two KingCo girls coaches quit

Two KingCo 4A girls basketball coaches resigned last week.

Woodinville Coach Alvin Horn, said he was quitting after one season (5-8, 8-14) to get away from certain parents. He was Woodinville's fourth coach in five years.

Bothell Coach Dave Gertlar's resigned after two seasons (20-24) for what he said were personal reasons.

Meanwhile, Gertlar has been named softball coach at Eastside Catholic, where Coach Marie Peterson was asked to resign after trying to recruit players on the internet.

Horn said, "I've been dealing with a few parents who, in their minds, thought if their child made the team they deserved equal playing time. The misconception a lot of parents make is that just because the child works hard does not make them competitive on the playing field."

Seattle C.C. signs six

Seattle Community College has signed six basketball players for next season including Scott Collins, a 6-foot guard who graduated from Mount Vernon High School in 1997.

Signees who will graduate from high school this spring are: Zach Haley, 6-3, Wilson-Tacoma; Brian Harris, 6-1, Kent-Meridian; Charles Hopper, 6-3, O'Dea, Barry Jones, 6-2, Cleveland, and D.J. Means, 5-11, Kentridge.

Notes

-- Al Aldridge, who has guided the Prairie High School (Vancouver, Wash.) girls basketball to two of the past three 4A championships, will coach the "white" team this weekend in the Phoenix/WBCA All-American Game Saturday in Hartford, Conn. The game is the girls' equivalent of the McDonald's Game for boys.

-- Randy Dolvin, who has been at Kamiakin (Kennewick) since the school opened in 1970 as a basketball coach or athletic director, is retiring at the end of this school year. In recent years, Dolvin has been a member of the executive board of the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association. Current basketball Coach Don Schumacher will succeed Dolvin as AD and is resigning as coach to take the job.