Coach Alma has served as an assistant coach since 2019. She was recently part of the D3 Hoops Coaching Staff of the Region as well as the SCIAC Coaching Staff of the Year that led the Tigers to the 2024 SCIAC tournament championship and the NCAA tournament. She is an Oxy alumnae (Class of 1981) and was a member of our women’s basketball team throughout her 4 years here, earning All Conference honors in her Junior year. She is a retired Division 1 women’s basketball official and still continues to referee high school and college volleyball.
After graduating from Oxy with a Spanish major, Mathematics minor, she went on to Cal State LA, where she obtained a Mathematics major, and her CA single-subject clear teaching credential. She then taught High School Math for our Oxy Upward Bound program for 15 summers.
She currently is a full-time Mathematics teacher and Math Dept chair at Ramona Convent Secondary School in Alhambra. In addition to teaching, she had served as the Varsity basketball coach throughout the last 8 years, leading the Ramona team to a CIF berth every season while there. In the summers, she also is the Director of Camp Ramona, a children’s day camp operated on the campus of Ramona Convent.
Coach Alma is passionate about basketball, about education, and about empowering young women. She is married, has 3 successful adult children, and continues to compete in the Senior circuit, traveling around the country enjoying the sport she loves.
