Harbor Day is a private school in the idyllic seaside community where Bryant lived. Mauser, of nearby Huntington Beach, taught and coached at the school from 2007 to 2018, the school said. She and her husband Matt taught and coached basketball at the school, which is how they met Bryant, Matt Mauser told NBC’s “Today” show. She had a keen ...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) - Kobe Bryant's daughter Gianna always wore a smile and looked out for the underdog, a leader in her own right at the tender age of 13. Christina Mauser poured her heart and soul into coaching and teaching physical education at the school where the young Bryant and her basketball star father were an integral part of the community.

Harbor Day is a private school in the idyllic seaside community where Bryant lived. Mauser, of nearby Huntington Beach, taught and coached at the school from 2007 to 2018, the school said. She and her husband Matt taught and coached basketball at the school, which is how they met Bryant, Matt Mauser told NBC’s “Today” show. She had a keen ...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) - A woman who helped coach the girls' basketball team that Kobe Bryant's daughter played on was among those on the helicopter that crashed, killing all nine aboard including the basketball legend and his teenaged daughter,

Harbor Day is a private school in the idyllic seaside community where Bryant lived. Mauser, of nearby Huntington Beach, taught and coached at the school from 2007 to 2018, the school said. She and her husband Matt taught and coached basketball at the school, which is how they met Bryant, Matt Mauser told NBC’s “Today” show. She had a keen ...

Zobayan, of Huntington Beach, Calif., was also a certified flight and ground instructor, according to the FAA. Darren Kemp, one of Zobayan’s flight students, told the Los Angeles Times that he knew his teacher would have been on the helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant. “He doesn’t let anyone else fly him around but Ara,” Kemp said.

“She did a good job.” Doucette said Mauser, a former standout athlete at Edison High in Huntington Beach, and Bryant formed their connection after Mauser coached Gianna in basketball at Harbor Day School, a small private school in Corona del Mar. One of Mauser’s children played on Doucette’s Mambas team for sixth and seventh graders ...

He was a neighbor who didn’t mind being approached at the nearby gym, gas station or coffee house. “There’s a park right around the corner,” said Bryan Rios, a Huntington Beach resident who routinely visits a co-worker in Newport Coast. “A public park up here. He’d be shooting basketballs at night. 8 o’clock, 9 o’clock at night ...

On Facebook, Matt defines himself as a “Singer/Song Writer/Entertainer/Dad.” Kevin Tripp of NBC News Radio wrote on Twitter, “One of the passengers on #KobeBryant helicopter was Christina Michelle Mauser of Huntington Beach. Her husband tells me that the 38-year-old mother loved helping coach basketball with Kobe’s team for girls.

She also joins Eddie Alvarez as the only fighters to win titles in the UFC and Bellator. Cyborg, 34 and fighting out of Huntington Beach, adds Bellator gold to her other three championships. She won the inaugural 145-pound titles in Strikeforce (vs. Gina Carano in 2009) and Invicta FC (vs. Marloes Coenen in 2013) and the vacant UFC title vs.