Darrell Hirashima has been coaching girls basketball since 1990. He was the JV coach at Miramonte High School from 1991-94, then took over as varsity head coach in 1997. In the ten seasons since Darrell started coaching varsity he has led the team to seven straight DFAL League Titles between 2002 and 2008, four NCS Championships in 2002, 2005 and back to back in '07 and '08, and a Northern California CIF Championship in 2002. In 2002 Miramonte played for the state championship and Darrell was recognized as the Contra Costa Times Coach of the Year, an honor he received again just three seasons later in 2005 when the team was the Nor Cal Championship runner up. Darrell has been coaching AAU girl’s basketball since 1997. In the spring of 2000 Darrell founded the Orinda Magic Girls Basketball Club. He has acted as Club President and head coach every year, as the club has grown from a single team to being nationally recognized as one of the top programs in Northern California.
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courtney@orindamagic.org
Darrell has been coaching basketball since 1994, he has worked as an assistant for Miramonte boys and girls Varsity since 1999, and has been head coach of the JV girl’s team at Miramonte since 2006. In 1999 he started coaching girl’s AAU basketball as a coach for East Bay Xplosion. Darrell has been coaching for the Orinda Magic since 2000 and served as Managing Director since 2003. Darrell. was the starting point guard for the Miramonte varsity boys basketball team for three years between 1995 and 1998. He was selected as the Contra Costa County Player of the Year and TCAL League MVP in 1998. As team captain his junior and senior year he led his team to two league championships, and in 1998 lifted Miramonte to the first and only boys NCS Championship in school history. Darrell was the first player in school history with over 1000 points, 500 assists and 300 steals in their career, and still holds all time records for 3-point shooting percentage, most assists in a game, steals and total wins. After high school Darrell played for Diablo Valley College on a team that went to the Final 8 of the Junior College State Championships. Darrell also served as Sports Editor for the award-winning student newspaper at CSU Monterey Bay in 2004-05.
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Dustin has been a coach for the Orinda Magic since 2005. Coaching basketball as well as wrestling since 1996, he is a consummate student of the game with a rare understanding of the players he coaches. Following in the athletic footsteps of his father on the high school wrestling mats, he competed in the State Tournament as a grappler at Miramonte H.S., and later established himself as a force in his weight-class at Chabot College. As a team captain at both Miramonte and Chabot, Dustin has thrived in leadership positions as both a vocal leader and a leader by example. An avid recreational basketball player who plays the way he coaches, Dustin is well-known at local gyms for being a ferocious defender and relentless hustler. He was the original coach of the first sixth grade Orinda Magic team, helping to establish a previously non-existent youth program in a club dominated by high school teams. As coach for the Orinda Magic Red Team, he has traveled the country and competed against the nation's premier programs at the nation's elite tournaments.
Jason Cragholm
Jason Cragholm has been coaching basketball going on his 4th year at Orinda Intermediate School. He has been working for the YMCA since 2006. Jason has a passion for all sports and is active playing recreational basketball and golf. He graduated from Miramonte High School in '99 and went to college in Nevada. He played basketball for Miramonte but his true talent was in golf. He was a 4 year letterman and captain of his golf team. He loves basketball because of the team unity that the sport demands. "Golf is more of an indivual sport" he says. One of his main goals as coach is to focus on teamwork. Teaching the ability to work with others is very important to him. He says, "It's is a quality you can use for the rest of your life, no matter what you do".Assistant Coaching Staff
Sam Johnson - Blue TeamStephen Pezzola - Red Team
Justin Blackwood - Gold Team
Ashlee Burns - Bronze Team
Katie Evans - Bronze Team
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