Aundre Cummings is new coach at Ontario Christian, rising girls basketball national power

Aundre Cummings is new coach at Ontario Christian, rising girls basketball national power

A program on the ascended among the girls basketball high rollers in the country will enter a new chapter in a new chairman in the next season 2024-25. 
 
reached out to Ontario Christian athletic director David Parkes who confirmed that former assistant Aundre Cummings is the new head coach. The resignations come four days after former coach Matt Tumambing posted on his Instagram account that he was breaking away from the program and this paper received a notice of the shedding on Wednesday afternoon through a Tweet by the Los Angeles Times. 
 
Cummings is the stepfather to star guard and 2023-24 SBLive Freshman of the Year Kaleena Smith who scored thirty four points per game this season. Nine points per game to successfully guide the Knights to a 28-5 mark and nineteenth in the country. Cummings is also credited as a director and a coach in the boys’ section of the well-known Cal storm club soccer team. 
 
In five seasons, Tumambing took the program from a CIF-Southern Section heavyweight division team to a squad that was among the soccer powers in the country. The Knights compiled a record of 140-22 with him at the controls of the program, qualified for three CIF sectional or regional title games, earned the right to compete in the Southern Section Open Division both seasons and were unbeaten in Ambassador League competition. 
 
The Knights were more successful in the 2023-24 season when they amassed a record 28-5 and the Knights’ best-ever rankings of 4th in California and 19th nationally at the end of the season. Besides her shooting, the 5-foot-6 guard, further solidified herself as the best player in the Class of 2027, averaging 6. 5 assists, and 4. 2 steals per game. 
 
Crazy recipe takes Ontario Christian to the nationals 
 
Graduating seniors Amanda Ajobiewe (Georgetown), Karsen Marshall (CSU-Northridge), and Dejah Saldivar (Jessup) have been strong contributors for Ontario Christian; still, it has every potential to produce further strides on the National rank in 2024-25. 
 
The Knights gain back Smith and other starter Legacy Benjamin, and have at least three significant newcomers in senior transfer Alanna Neale from Village Christian, and freshmen Tatianna Griffin and Syndey Douglas. Neale is back as an  All-Southern Section selection, and he has multiple Division I offers, while Griffin and Douglas are widely regarded as two of the top youth talents in the Class of 2028.