Jackson to be featured at WSU Sports Banquet
Washington State University alumnus and broadcast legend Keith Jackson will be the featured speaker at the WSU Athletics’ annual Fall Sports Banquet this Friday at the Coeur d’Alene Resort.
Jackson, a 1954 graduate of WSU’s Edward R. Murrow School of Communications, began his broadcast career working for campus radio station KWSC. Since then he has become known to many as “the voice of college football” for his work with the ABC television network.
Jackson has been honored with the WSU Alumni Achievement Award and has been inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame. He announced his retirement from broadcasting in April.
In addition to Jackson, two WSU head coaches will speak, football’s Bill Doba and Jason Drake from cross country. Two other coaches, Brian Heffernan, volleyball, and Matt Potter, soccer, will present video-taped messages.
The banquet begins at 5 p.m. and will cost $60 per person. All proceeds support WSU student-athlete scholarships.
Baseball
Whitworth College has announced the addition of 15 student-athletes who have confirmed their admission and plan on playing baseball during the 2006-07 school year. Eight of the players are transfers and seven are incoming freshman.
The transfers are: pitcher Chad Flett (Jr., CC of Spokane); pitcher Andy Pottenger (Jr., Walla Walla CC); catcher Dan Ramsey (So., Gonzaga); outfielder Mitch Ramsey (So., Blue Mountain CC); infielder Alex Scarpelli (Jr., CC of Spokane); pitcher Hunter Simpson (So., Washington State University); pitcher Ryan Snell (Jr., WSU); and infielder Jon Whiteside (Jr., CC of Spokane).
The incoming freshman are: catcher Mike Anderson from Vashon High School; Dan Belet from Hellgate High School in Missoula, Mont.; infielder Jared Loveland from Camas High School; pitcher Dane Knudson from Central Valley High School; Mitch Nelson from Wenatchee High School, Kyle Richardson from Northwest Christian High School; and infielder Scott Ward from Ferris High School.
Senior Games
Paper Mill Printing won both the 50-54 and 55-59 age divisions of the 2006 Washington State Senior Games 3-on-3 half-court indoor basketball tournament.
It was the ninth successive title in as many years of the Games for the 50-54 team and fifth straight for the 55-59 group.
Tim Gaebe, Ron Cox, Dave Tikker and Paul Tikker were on the younger team which is now 33-1 overall. Dave Tikker finished second in the free-throw shooting competition.
Jon Heimbigner, who has played all nine years, Doug Watson, Jack Soliday, Bill Maxey and Jim Bresnahan made up the 55-59 squad. Watson beat Soliday for the free-throw shooting title. They were second and third in the skills competition.
More than 1,500 seniors in 22 sports participated in the games, July 28-30 in Olympia. It was a qualifier for the national games in Louisville next summer.
Tennis
Bend G.C.C. defeated Spokane A.C. 3-2 in the final round of the men’s 4.5 division at the 2006 Adult League Sectional Tennis Championships in Portland, Ore. The teams were competing for a chance to represent the USTA Pacific Northwest Section of the USTA League Tennis Championships to be held this fall at locations throughout the country.
“Courtney Steinbock has been announced as the Washington State assistant tennis coach. She replaces Elissa Kinard, who became the women’s head coach at Albany.
Steinbock has spent the previous three seasons as the volunteer women’s tennis assistant at the University of Kansas.
Track and Field
Washington State University’s track and field program has announced the addition of four newcomers to the team for the 2006-07 school year.
Rickey Moody, a decathlete from Puyallup, Wash., and Nathan Bache, a javelin thrower from Plains, Mont., join pole vaulters Kendall Mays from Spokane and Josh Winters, from Bethel, Wash. on the WSU track team.
Moody, a 2005 graduate of Highline Community College, transfers from Cal State Northridge where he was a redshirt last spring. In 2005, while at HCC, he won the NWAACC decathlon title and scored a total of 50 points in nine events as HCC repeated as team champions. Moody, a 2003 graduate of Spanaway Lake High, holds the HCC long jump record of 24 feet, 7 1/2 inches.
Bache, a graduate of Plains High School in western Montana, comes to WSU as a freshman. He has been among the nation’s prep javelin leaders the past two seasons.
Mays, a 2006 North Central High School graduate, owns the Greater Spokane League pole vault record of 12 feet. She finished second in the State 3A championships as a senior as North Central won the state title. As a junior, she was the state runner-up in the pole vault.
Winters, a 2006 graduate of Bothell High School, finished second in the State 4A championships as a senior after a fourth-place finish his junior year.
Miscellany
Spokane’s Susanne Simpson and Suzanne Dills won World Championships at the FINA Masters World Aquatics Championships held at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center in Palo Alto, Calif., Aug. 4-11.
Simpson, 46, won the 200-meter butterfly (2 minutes, 32.07 seconds) in the 45-49 age group. She finished second in the 800 freestyle (9:51.23), second in the 400 freestyle (4:44.30), second in the 200 freestyle (2:16.41), and third in the 100 butterfly (1:09.58).
Dills, 61, won the 800-meter freestyle (11:54.21) in the 60-64 age group. She also finished second in the 400 individual medley (7:06.92), fourth in the 200 freestyle (2:46.63), fifth in the 200 individual medley (3:15.30), and seventh in the 100 backstroke (1:34.86).
Coeur d’Alene’s Margaret Hair and Cindy Clutter and Spokane’s Larry Krauser also competed at the event.