SWIMMING & DIVING

2023 Roster

Tennis

Coach Heidi Lee grew up in Redding where she spent all of her free time playing tennis with her great grandfather. Heidi graduated from Foothill High School and helped take her team to State. Coach Lee played number one tennis for Irvine Valley College achieving a California Community College ranking of 19. She taught tennis at Pacific Palisades Tennis Club in Newport Beach and coached at Silverleaf Academy while attending college. In 2007 Lee was recruited to play for Southern Oregon University. Heidi has been the tennis coach at Foothill High School and is thrilled to be able to fulfill her dream of coaching tennis at Shasta College.

2023 Schedule

2023 Roster

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Anthony Williams Head Coach

Anthony Williams will be serving as the Jumps and Hurdles coach. Anthony is a graduate of Enterprise High School where he excelled in several sports. Upon graduation Anthony attended Sacramento State University on a track and field scholarship. While at Sacramento State Anthony was second at the Big Sky Championships in both the 110-hurdles and the high jump and was eighth in the triple jump…advanced to the NCAA West Preliminary in the high jump… moved into ninth place in school history with a high jump of 6-11.00 to win the Causeway Classic… best 110H time was 14.76 at the Sacramento State Open and Big Sky Championships…triple jumped 45-04.25 at the Causeway Classic.…indoors, placed second in the high jump, fifth in the 60-hurdles and sixth in the triple jump…ranks third in school history in the high jump after clearing 6-10.75 at the Husky Open…moved into ninth place at Sacramento State in the 60-hurdles with a best of 8.34 in the Big Sky finals…top triple jump was 45-07.00 also at the Big Sky meet. Anthony brings a wealth of experience and enthusiasm to the Knight’s coaching staff.

Ian Montague Assistant Coach

Ian Montague will be serving as the throws coach for Shasta College. He is a returning member of the Shasta Track program, having practiced with the team for a duration of four years, competing in two seasons across all four throwing events. Discus is his favored event, in which he reached the conference podium.

Ian was born and raised in Redding California and graduated from Redding Christian High School where he has coached track and football for the past five years. He left Shasta only recently, and is pursuing a degree in computer engineering from San Jose State.

J.P. O’Hara Assistant Coach

J.P. O’Hara has been coaching track and field for over two decades. His athletic career started at Loyola High School of Los Angeles, where he ran the 300m Hurdles and 110 High Hurdles. He was a CIF Southern Section Finalist with a time of 38.9 in the 300m Hurdles. At Whittier College he ran the 400m hurdles with a personal best of 55.9 which is still one of the fastest times ever run by a Whittier College Poet.

In 2000 J.P. started coaching at his High School alma mater in both Football and Track. He was Chris Conte’s first coach in track and football. Chris went on to play at Cal Berkeley and then in the NFL for the Bears and Buccaneers from 2011 - 2018. In 2015 J.P. moved to Redding and immediately began coaching hurdles and sprints at Enterprise High School. He coached the 2017 team that broke the CIF Northern Section record in the 4x400m relay. He has coached multiple hurdlers that have made it to the CIF State Meet over the past few years.

J.P. comes from a pedigree of coaching, as his brother is a football coach at the University of Florida. In his free time he enjoys doing crossfit, backpacking and fly fishing with his wife, and best friend Teri.

Kylanna Blufford Assistant Coach

Kylanna competed for shasta college in 2019. Unfortunately she would go down mid season with a career ending injury. Prior to her injury Kylanna was on pace for a breakout year. She picked up to career best one in long jump one in triple jump and she was at the top of conference in both. Rather then let the injury sideline her permanently Kylanna would come back later in the year as a “coach” where she shadowed coach Williams with the jumpers and sprinters. She fell in love with the coaching aspect and proved to be a great help. Because of this Williams offered her a spot to help coach at Simpson with him during the cross and track seasons. “Coach Ky” was in charge of all weight room duties for cross country and track and took over as the sprints coach for Williams. Kylanna is majoring in kinesiology with Aspiration of becoming a head coach one day.

Ojimar “Oj” Rosero Assistant Coach

Ojimar “Oj” Rosero is a graduate of Edison High School in Stockton, CA. Where he was an All-Section Sprinter and All League football player. During his junior year he was chosen to represent the United States of America in track and field. He traveled to Europe, Asia, and Africa competing with top high school athletes from across the country. While in Denmark he broke the youth 100m record. His senior year he went undefeated in the 100m and 200m sprints winning the league and section. His season ended after qualifying to go to the state meet but tearing his hamstring in the 200m. For family reasons he chose to attend CSU Chico to play football and run track. After a year at CSU Chico, he transferred to Butte college where he helped Butte go undefeated and win the GVC title in both football and track.

A torn Achilles tendon injury ended his athletic career, but began his coaching career. Coach Rosero became a personal trainer and opened TeamRo Sports Training, where he worked with Middle School, High School and College athletes. Many of Coach Rosero’s athletes went on to receive scholarships and athletic awards throughout their careers. Coach Rosero moved to Redding and began coaching at Foothill High School coaching football and Sequoia Middle School track. Helping Sequoia win four league championships in seven years. In 2021, Rosero became the assistant wide receiver coach for Shasta College’s football team. Rosero’s most proud track achievement was helping his son win 100m and 200m titles in high school, Junior College and College. Coach Rosero is thankful for his loving wife Jaymi and their children Chris, Alyssa, Kai, and Jayden.

Somedays are better than others, Today is one of those days! “O”