Santa Margarita Catholic High School announces the hiring of Seyram Bellas the head girls basketball coach. Bell comes to Santa Margarita
from UC Riverside, where she coached the women’s basketball team since 2010. While starting as an assistant coach in 2010, Bell worked her way up to associate head coach in 2017 before being named the interim head coach in 2019. She steps in for Christina Wear-Marinacci, who was hired last spring. Wear-Marinacci is stepping down from her head coaching responsibilities to pursue a career opportunity but will remain on the coaching staff as a varsity assistant coach.
If the last name sounds familiar for Eagle basketball fans, Seyram is the wife of SMCHS boys head basketball coach, Justin Bell. "I want to thank Coach Wear-Marinacci for her dedication and commitment to the girls basketball program and athletes,” SMCHS Athletic Director Annie Garrett said. “We wish her the best of luck in her future endeavors and are grateful she will remain on staff. Our program is blessed to have such wonderful female mentors with outstanding pedigrees and character. Coach Bell brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to this role, and I look forward to the continued growth of the program under her leadership. It is a blessing to have a husband and wife duo at the helm of our basketball programs serving as role models for our student-athletes.”
Bell played for Sylmar High School, where she was a two-time league MVP and a team captain for the basketball and track and field teams. She then played collegiately at UC Riverside, where she earned Big West All-Conference honors several times. After college, she played professionally in Greece for one season before beginning her coaching career.
“It’s a blessing to be joining the Santa Margarita Eagle family,” Seyram Bell said. “SMCHS has a respected academic and sports tradition, and I’m excited that I get to lead the girls basketball program. I am looking forward to building relationships with the girls and getting to work.”
VArsity Assistant Coach - Kerwin WaltersBio and picture coming soon.
