(Morrow Cove, Ca., July 16th, 2007)  Cal Maritime Athletic Director Marv Christopher has tapped Bryan Rooney as the school’s new men’s basketball coach.   Rooney succeeds Tim Harrison who stepped down this spring to devote more time to his work in the Academy’s Enrollment Management office.  Over his three-year tenure, Harrison guided the Keelhauler team from dead last to third place in the final standings of the Cal Pacific Conference.

Coach Rooney previously served as Assistant Coach at Claremont McKenna College, and is excited about the prospects for his first head coaching position.  “We have a solid core of returning members, including Cody Gatton, Simon Heller, Steve Barrera, Craig Dull, and John Stiles, and several promising incoming recruits.  Tim did a superb job in giving the program new life and recruiting solid student-athletes, and I hope to build on that record of success.”

Coach Rooney has also held assistant coaching positions at San Francisco State and Dominican University, making him familiar with the area’s collegiate basketball programs and with the Cal Pacific Conference.  At Dominican he helped guide the team to back-to-back Conference Championships and consecutive trips to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Nationals.  Coach Rooney is a graduate of Dominican with an undergraduate degree in English and a Master’s degree in Education.  He was captain of Dominican’s first Conference Championship team and earned All Conference and Team MVP Honors.  He and wife Jennifer live in Concord, CA.