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Former GU player Allen returns to assist head coach Graves

Triana Allen, one year removed from playing at Gonzaga University, has returned to her alma mater as an assistant women’s basketball coach.

GU head coach Kelly Graves said Allen, who was an assistant at Long Beach (Calif.) City College in her hometown, would replace Toriano Towns on the Bulldogs’ staff. Towns accepted a position as an assistant coach at the University of Arizona last week.

“I think Triana will be a great addition to our coaching staff,” Graves said in a news release. “She is going to bring the same intensity with her as a coach as she did as a player.

“She has a great understanding of what we are trying to accomplish with our program and will help us continue to work toward our team goals.”

Allen played three seasons for the Bulldogs, 2001-03, earning all-West Coast Conference honorable mention as a senior. She finished her career ranked seventh on GU’s 3-point list and 10th on the career assists list. She was the Bulldog Club Senior Women’s Athlete of the Year in 2003.

Baseball

The 2004 Gonzaga University alumni weekend will be Oct. 8-9.

The alumni golf tournament will be Friday, Oct. 8, with the alumni baseball game starting at 11 a.m. Oct. 9.

Info: Steve Bennett, 323-4078 or Bennett@athletics.gonzaga.edu.

College scene

For the second time in as many weeks, former Lakeside-Nine Mile Falls standout Kate Reome is a Great Northwest Athletic Conference player of the week in volleyball.

Reome, a senior setter at Central Washington, shared the second honor with Mandy Veley of Western Oregon. Reome averaged 14.69 assists per game at the Rodeo City Invitational as 33rd-ranked Central won four matches to run its season record to 8-0.

Reome was named the tournament’s most valuable player, duplicating an honor from the previous weekend’s tournament in Mankato, Minn.

She has a school-record 3,869 career assists.

•Former Mt. Spokane kicker Daniel Kleckner was the Frontier Conference special teams player of the week in football last week after kicking four extra points and a 36-yard field goal in Montana Tech’s 31-7 win over Jamestown College.

Besides being successful on all his kick attempts, the 5-foot-10, 190-pound sophomore also put four of his six kickoffs into the end zone.

Football

Eastern Washington University’s weekly football luncheons with coach Paul Wulff will be held Wednesdays this fall at the Red Lion River Inn in Spokane. Cost is $10 and the public is invited.

The events, which begin at noon, will include video highlights, commentary from Wulff, and a visit from an Eagles player.

Additionally, EWU volleyball coach Wade Benson will appear at the Sept. 22 luncheon, and head soccer coach George Hageage will visit Oct. 6.

Wulff will be featured until the end of November, when the focus will switch to basketball with men’s coach Mike Burns and women’s coach Wendy Schuller at the head table.

No luncheons will be held Dec. 22 and 29. Otherwise, the program will run weekly through March 16.