Bishop Alemany High School welcomes long-time Inland Empire high school and college coach Bethel Trice to the position of Head Girls’ Basketball Coach. She will teach on campus in the Science Department.
Trice spent last season as assistant coach for the Cal Poly Pomona Broncos women's basketball team. Before coming to Cal Poly, She was the head girls’ basketball coach at Riverside North HS where the Huskies finished 19-10 record and reached the third round of the CIF Playoffs. She also served as head coach at Riverside Norte Vista for two seasons and at Fontana A.B. Miller HS, where she took two of her three teams to the CIF Playoffs. While at Norte Vista and North, she was on the faculty as a physical education instructor.
Trice also served as an assistant coach at Riverside City College for three seasons and was on the staff at both Chapman University and La Sierra University. She co-founded the IEBALL Basketball academic league for ladies.
Trice starred at Riverside City College in the mid-1980s where she led the Tigers to a California State Junior College championship in 1985-86, where they averaged 99 points a game and finished 33-0. She is a member of the school's athletic Hall of Fame and was inducted into the California Community College Hall of Fame in 1997. She later played at Cal State Fullerton (1986-87) and Chapman (1988-89).
Trice, who graduated from Cal State San Bernardino in 2005, is a Fontana native. She is the mother of four children – Ajailee, Josiah, Trinidee and John.