Sunday Locals: Minnesota hires Haase as rowing assistant coach

Courtney Haase, of Spokane, who for the past four years was an assistant at Gonzaga University, is a new assistant coach in the women’s rowing program at Minnesota, the Golden Gophers announced.

Haase is a graduate of Ferris High School and GU, where she was a first-team All-Western Intercollegiate Rowing Association selection as a senior in 2003. She was a two-time All-West Coast Conference coxswain, helping the Bulldogs to three Varsity 8+ WCC titles.

She began her coaching career as an assistant at Saint Mary’s in 2004, returning to her alma mater in 2005 for the first of two stints on the GU staff. She was in her most recent position since 2007, where her responsibilities included recruiting coordinator.

Powerlifting

Two Spokane competitors earned best overall lifter awards at the Washington United Powerlifting Association Championships last weekend in Kennewick.

Don Goldsworthy, 31, who weighed 242 pounds, set state records in the men’s open division with a bench press of 700 pounds and a dead lift of 600 to capture men’s best lifter honors.

Shasta Glotfelty, 30, had a squat of 260 pounds, a bench press of 135 and a deadlift of 315 to earn women’s best overall lifter honors.

Nate Rudd, 42, of Spokane, bench-pressed 465 pounds in the master’s division 220-pound class.

Triathlon

Annie Warner of Nine Mile Falls, one of the country’s top women’s pro triathletes, placed 10th out of 29 competitors in the Hy-Vee 5150 Series Championship event in Des Moines, Iowa, earlier this month.

Warner, who was the fifth U.S. finisher, is 137th overall, and 13th among U.S. women, among the 447 ranked worldwide by the International Triathlon Union.