Diamond Controversy: Baseball coach Cassidy Olson went from Mira Costa to Redondo and back
Cassidy Olson. Photo Interpretations of the hiring policy of the Redondo Beach Unified School District (RBUSD) put first-year head baseball coach Cassidy Olson in the middle of a controversy. After long-time head coach Tim Ammentorp stepped down, Olson was the popular selection for the position, endorsed by Redondo High’s Athletic Director Les Congelliere and Principal Mary Little, along with RBUSD Superintendent Dr. Steven Keller. Olson, 33, teaches history at Mira Costa and was an assistant under Mustang Head Coach Mike Neily for six seasons before serving as an outfield/hitting instructor at Harbor College in 2008. After his hiring, he quickly began a fundraising campaign that tripled the program’s donor base, was instrumental in the initial steps of the building of an Alumni Wall of Fame and helped form the new booster Diamond Club according to Diamond Club President George Wassil. Enter Brady Thurman, a teacher at Parras Middle School in Redondo Beach and former pitching coach for the Sea Hawks under Ammentorp who had also applied for the head coaching position at Redondo High. Thurman threatened legal action after, according to Thurman, “someone had placed the Ed Code in my…
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