Fast Break
Girls basketball
Bjorklund’s set to Volunteer
A whirlwind schedule has altered conventional senior year-ending thinking for basketball star Angie Bjorklund.
When her University High classmates graduate June 9 and adjourn to the typical congratulatory parties, Bjorklund will already be enrolled and taking classes at the University of Tennessee.
Her family will hold a gathering May 26 for well-wishers and she’ll leave U-Hi for the last time May 30 after being recognized at the high school’s annual morning athletic Hall of Fame assembly.
Already this spring, Bjorklund played in the McDonald’s All-American and Women’s Basketball Coaches Association all-star games.
The latter afforded her tickets to the NCAA women’s finals where she watched the Tennessee Volunteers win the national title.
“After she got back, she said she was ready to get started playing,” said U-Hi activities coordinator Ken VanSickle.
This week she’s in Colorado Springs, Colo., for the USA Women’s National U19 team tryouts. Twelve will be chosen from 34 invitees.
If she makes the national team, she goes back to Colorado Springs for training in July, then to Spain and Slovakia for games, said mother Kris.
Girls basketball
Walters resigns as CV coach
Central Valley girls basketball coach Judy Walters has announced her resignation – with a caveat.
“I’m not done coaching,” Walters said. “I hope someone give me the opportunity to assist again.”
Walters joined CV basketball as an assistant during 1984-85 season. She has been head coach for three years. Her teams combined for a 29-18 record the first two seasons and 5-15 this year with a young roster.
“I’m just not comfortable being a head coach,” she said. “I’m a low-profile person in a high-profile position. I’d rather smooth feathers than ruffling them.”
Activities coordinator Butch Walter said the position is posted and ideally will be filled by the second week of school team camps in early June. Realistically, it will no later than July 1, he said.
Colleges
Bill Carr will lead EWU A.D. search
Bill Carr of Carr Sports Associates has been hired to lead the search for a new athletic director at Eastern Washington University, interim A.D. Michael Westfall announced Thursday.
The analysis/search process will begin June 1.
Eastern hopes to have a new athletic director named by September when the 2007-08 academic year begins.
Carr, formerly an athletic director at Houston and Florida, is in his 11th year working in executive search and management consultant activities for intercollegiate athletics.