Hanford native Ryan Tos joins Lemoore High staff as school's athletic director

Sembritzki, a former athlete, teacher, coach and athletic director at LHS accepted a job as Dinuba High School’s athletic director to be closer to his family. Sembritzki and his family live in Kingsburg and he was getting tired of the daily drive.

For much of his life Sembritzki has been associated with Lemoore High School, first as a quarterback with the 1979 West Yosemite League champion Tigers, as a successful varsity head coach, and finally, for the past 13 years, as the school’s talented but busy athletic director.

Of his 27 years as an educator and the two he spent as a student, 23 of those years have seen him for the most part plastered in the purple and gold of Lemoore High School.

Now it’s Tos’s turn to pledge allegiance to the purple and gold of Lemoore High School. The 38-year-old 1997 Fresno Pacific Graduate is already on the job. Tos was an English major while at Fresno Pacific but had a hankering for athletics.

For the past nine years he’s been the athletic director at Central Valley Christian where he also coached and taught English. They already have some Lemoore roots. His wife, Angela, is a counselor at West Hills College in Lemoore.

The duo have a pair of kids, Zachary, 9, and Ainsley, 6 years old. They currently live in Visalia but are contemplating a move to Lemoore.

Tos attended Immanuel High School in Reedley and is the son of Bob and Jane Tos, who for many years owned the Workingman’s Store in Hanford.

Tos cited the stability of the Lemoore athletic director’s job, citing the performances of former LHS athletic directors Don Warkentin, Jim Gordon and Sembritzki all of whom excelled at the position. He is also excited about coming to Lemoore.

“It’s a small community and the people there, that’s what’s good about Lemoore,” he said. “The tradition here is a very exciting thing to be a part of.”