Nate Klitzing has been hired as the boys basketball coach at Orange Lutheran, the school announced Monday.
Klitzing, 40, has been Crean Lutheran’s coach the past seven seasons. He led Crean Lutheran to a CIF Southern Section championship in the 2020-21 season. At Orange Lutheran he replaces Daniel Dunbar whose resignation was announced April 7.
Klitzing was a varsity basketball assistant coach for four seasons at Orange Lutheran where he also was junior varsity head coach before taking the Crean Lutheran coaching position before the 2018-19 season.
Crean Lutheran this past season finished 18-13 overall and won the Crestview League championship with a 7-1 league record. Three of the Crestview League’s five teams finished in the Orange County Top 10. Crean was No. 5 in the final county rankings.
The Saints advanced to the CIF-SS Division 1 semifinals, where they lost to eventual champion Los Alamitos. Crean Lutheran won the CIF-SS Division 2A championship in the 2020-21 season.
“Orange Lutheran is a special place to me,” Klitzing said in the Orange Lutheran announcement. “I’m honored to be able to come back to a school that helped shape me as a person, player, and coach. I’m grateful for the opportunity, and I’m excited to go out there and compete in an incredible league while bringing glory to God.”
Orange Lutheran finished 14-14 overall and was fifth in the six-team Trinity League with a 2-8 league record. The Lancers did not qualify for the playoffs.
Dunbar coached Orange Lutheran for six seasons.
Klitzing played basketball at Orange Lutheran and at Concordia University in Irvine.
He will be a history teacher at Orange Lutheran. Klitzing taught history at Crean Lutheran.
“OLu basketball is a historic program that has had a lot of success in the past,”Klitzing said, “and I’m eager to build on to that legacy.”
Klitzing is the second new coach to be hired in Trinity League boys basketball. Servite hired Matt Kanne as its basketball coach in February.
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