The fall 2010 sports season will bring a shuffling of coaches among the three high schools in Tracy Unified School District and at Tracy’s two charter schools.

The California Interscholastic Federation’s Sac-Joaquin Section has realigned leagues for the 2010-11 season. That puts Kimball High, in its first year with varsity teams, in the eight-team Valley Oak League in Division IV. VOL teams include East Union, Lathrop, Manteca, Oakdale, Sierra, Sonora and Weston Ranch high schools.

Tracy High’s league, the San Joaquin Athletic Association, and West’s league, the Tri-City Athletic League, remain unchanged. Both schools compete in Division I, which includes the largest schools in the section.

Millennium High joins the Division VII Central California Athletic Alliance, made up of teams that were previously in the Harvest Christian League.

In its first year of league play, Delta Charter High School will join the Division VII Mountain Valley League, which also includes some of the schools previously in the HCL.

Each one of the schools has new coaches, with some positions still unfilled as practice is officially set to begin Monday, Aug. 9.

Tracy High

The Bulldogs will start the season with a new athletic director, Gary Henderson, who has been a coach in various school sports the past 15 years.

Matt Shrout, who has six years as the varsity team’s offensive and defensive line and special teams coach, begins his first year as the head coach of the varsity football team. He has kept players busy over the summer with workouts and conditioning.

The team graduated a lot of players from last year’s SJAA championship team, which went 10-0 in the regular season and 11-1 overall.

The team will try to pick up where it left off with its first game, a Sept. 3 rematch at home against the Los Banos Tigers, who pulled off an upset win over Tracy in the second round of playoffs last year.

The sophomore team gets a new head coach with Greg Smith, who has been an assistant coach of the team, and Jay Fishburn will return for another year as head coach of the freshman team.

Returning coaches at Tracy High include Paul Demsher, who hopes that players from last year’s SJAA champion boys tennis team will lead Tracy to another league title.

Mahina Tankersley begins her second year as head coach of the varsity volleyball team, and Erma Patrick returns as the freshman coach, but Tracy High still lacks a sophomore coach. Even after the job was advertised, it remains unfilled.

Derek Solano, also the school’s physical education department head, is back for his sixth year as the head coach for the girls golf team.

Boys soccer coach Phil Kalis returns for another year as head coach of both varsity and freshman-sophomore teams.

Water polo coach Keith Britt is back for his fourth year as head coach for all four teams — varsity and freshman-sophomore boys and girls — and it will be Britt’s fifth year as the girls’ coach.

Rachel Hermann returns for her second year as head coach of the cross country team.

West High

Matt Loggins, who became West’s athletic director last year, will do double-duty as he takes on the head coaching job for the Wolf Pack varsity football team, the first new coach for the team since Steve Lopez, who was West’s original football coach, retired last year.

Leading the sophomore team this year is Tom O’Hara, who has been involved with West football since 1994, the first year West had a varsity team. He became freshman head coach in 1998, was a sophomore assistant coach in 2003 and was head coach of the West sophomores from 2004 to 2006. He was an assistant coach with the varsity team in 2008.

Returning for his second year as head coach of the freshman team is Demetrius Ball.

The West volleyball team gets a new varsity head coach with Christine Toon, last year’s sophomore coach. She has some returning seniors and a large group of juniors, including about three dozen girls who went to West’s camps and conditioning over the summer, so she expects the team to get off to a good start.

West also has Chelsea Stephens returning as freshman volleyball coach, and Gloria Knaus comes back for her third year as an assistant. Knaus applied for the job of sophomore head coach, but as of this week, the school district had not confirmed who will have that job.

Returning coaches include Ben Tsukiji, who leads a girls tennis team that includes players who claimed a share of the Tri-City Athletic League championship.

Joe Perry returns for another year coaching the West boys soccer team. Perry has held the West coaching job since the school opened in 1993 and alternates between the West boys team in the fall and the Tracy girls team in the spring. Perry coaches both the varsity and freshman-sophomore teams, with his son, Nate Perry, and Danny Bourassa as assistant coaches.

Joe and Ellen Raco will start their eighth year as coaches of the West cross country team.

Gary Moore starts his fifth year as the West High girls golf coach.

Bob Kuks is back for his fourth year of coaching the boys water polo teams, but the school district has yet to confirm who the girls coach will be.

Kimball High

Kimball High still needs an athletic director after Joe Lawrence stepped down to become the boys varsity basketball coach. Tracy Unified School District spokeswoman Jessica Cardoza said the district has interviewed candidates, but has yet to make its final decision.

For its second year of football, Kimball High will have a new slate of head coaches at all three levels.

Steve Anastasio was hired in January to lead the new varsity team in its first year. He was the West High sophomore coach for 12 years, with three years as an assistant varsity coach between 2004 and 2006, and also worked as an assistant coach with Steve Lopez in the first few years of West High football.

The sophomore coach is Steven Wichman, a 2002 graduate of West High and former Wolf Pack quarterback. He was the defensive coordinator of the Jaguar sophomore team last year and also the quarterback coach. Before that, he worked with the Tracy High sophomore team.

The new freshman coach will be Jeff Telles, who has been with Tracy Raiders youth football for 11 years, most of them as a head coach, and has also been an assistant freshman coach with St. Mary’s High in Stockton.

Most of the other Jaguar teams will be headed by returning coaches.

Volleyball coach Mila Iosefa, head of Kimball’s sophomore team in the school’s first year, will be the first varsity volleyball coach at Kimball. Gerianne McGee returns as freshman coach, but she is also in the running for the job as the school’s sophomore coach, which hasn’t been filled yet.

Ron Hattley returns as soccer coach, leading the varsity team with assistant coach Zafar Aini, but the district has not named a coach for the freshman-sophomore team.

Danette McDaniel is in her second year coaching tennis at Kimball High; Ben Trombley will return as cross country coach; James Tiffany is in his second year as girls golf coach; and Erin Mann is in his second year as water polo coach.

Millennium High

Levinia Woods will start her second year as athletic director of Millennium High as the charter school starts its fourth year in league play in the Sac-Joaquin Section. Nearly all of the coaching staff returns, but the Falcons will have one new coach.

Therese Slade, a 2002 West High graduate, takes over as head coach of the volleyball team. Slade played volleyball and basketball for the Wolf Pack and went on to play volleyball at Holy Names University in Oakland.

Jayson Dias will again lead the football team in its third year — the squad reached the second round of playoffs last year.

Daniel Espinoza, starts his second year as head coach and hopes to make it the third year Millennium’s soccer team claims its league championship.

Sherrie Linford started the cross country team at Millennium High last year and will have most of the same runners back.

Bill Morgan is in his third year as golf coach. This will be the second year the Falcons have a girls team.

Delta Charter High

Delta Charter High School enters its first year of league play with volleyball and soccer teams. Athletic director Julia Ulrich leads the volleyball team, which played last year as a freelance team in the Sac-Joaquin Section.

The school has a new boys soccer coach in Avo Atoian, the assistant principal for Delta Charter’s online school. He played for the Armenian National Soccer team for two years. His assistant is Ron Lovell, who previously coached soccer and baseball at Banta School.