Go, Redlands Go, Redlands Go, Redlands Go, Redlands!
Bulldog Athletics
By Lilledeshan Bose ’22
Yellico named head tennis coach Peter Yellico began his tenure as head men’s and women’s tennis coach on Feb. 14. Before joining Redlands, Yellico served for five years as the head men’s tennis coach at Pacific University in Oregon, where he compiled an impressive 95-41 overall record and a 63-12 mark in the Northwest Conference. “The tennis program at the University of Redlands has an extremely rich history,” says Yellico. “I am incredibly grateful to lead the next chapter.” A native of Crystal River, Florida, Yellico was also a teacher and clinician at the adult and junior levels of tennis. He served five years in the U.S. Navy and was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal while serving in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a minor in finance at Pacific University.
Peter Yellico
Bulldog coaching staff recognized
Jim Good
Ralph Perez
Dominic Lopez
OCH TAMALE SPRING 2022
COURTESY OF BULLDOG ATHLETICS
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Rich Murphy
University of Redlands coaching staff are earning national accolades. In January, the men’s soccer coaching staff—Head Coach Ralph Perez and assistants Cody Carlson, Gio Napoletano, and Claudio Rivas—were selected by the United Soccer Coaches as the Region X Division III Coaching Staff of the Year for 2021. The National Soccer Coaches Association of America also named Perez and his staff the Division III West Region Coaching Staff of the Year in 2015 and 2016. This year, the men’s soccer team posted a 17-3-1, 9-2-1 Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) record, earned Division III national rankings by United Soccer Coaches (No. 5, No. 19, No. 23) and d3soccer.com, won the SCIAC post-season tournament, and earned a berth in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III National Championships. The basketball and football coaching staffs were recognized with Coaching Staff of the Year honors during the 2021 All-Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The U of R Head Women’s Basketball Coach Rich Murphy and his staff, Ashley Lona, Kaden Norton, and Mario Trutanic Jr., were named the SCIAC Coaching Staff of the Year after leading the Bulldogs to the 2021-2022 SCIAC regular season championship title, which secured the No. 1 seed in the SCIAC tournament.
CARLOS PUMA
Bulldog coaches and scholar-athletes were out in full force this year, breaking records and winning awards throughout conferences.
