Former Eagle builds hoops career in Europe
Julie Page, a former Eastern Washington University women’s basketball player who played her senior season with the Eagles in 2006-07, has recently joined a squad in Italy’s highest league and made the Great Britain national team roster.
Page will join the Great Britain national team for the Eurobasket 2009 (European Championships) qualifying process.
College scene
Kara Hamby, a Mead graduate and senior midfielder on the Seattle Pacific University women’s soccer team, was awarded the school’s prestigious Falcon Award for Excellence.
The award is given to senior athletes judged to have excelled in the athletic arena, made a positive impact on those around them, fulfilled a leadership role on their teams and over their careers, and proved themselves to be consummate student-athletes for the school.
•Ferris graduate Cameron Moore and Priest River graduate Bonnie Millard, both junior track and field athletes at Eastern Washington University, have been selected by the school’s athletic department as its Scholar-Athletes for May.
Moore won the triple jump at the Big Sky Conference Championships with a leap of 47 feet, 81/2 inches. He is majoring in business management.
Millard won the discus crown at the Big Sky Championships with a throw of 152-9. At the NCAA West Regional Championships, her mark of 157-11 was the second best in school history.
Millard is majoring in exercise science and has made the dean’s list all nine quarters she has been enrolled at Eastern.
•Ten University of Idaho student-athletes from local high schools earned all-academic honors from the Western Athletic Conference.
Honorees include golfers Russell Grove, (Coeur d’Alene) and Jenna Huff, (Lewiston); track and field athletes Benjamin Wood (Post Falls), Nikita Amy and Darcy Collins (Kootenai), Meagan Garcia, (Lake City), Alex Lee-Painter (Moscow) and Melissa McFaddan (Post Falls); football player Andrew Blevins (Mead) and soccer player Joanna Byrne (Moscow).
•Two throwers and a decathlete have signed national letters of intent to compete for the Washington State University track and field teams.
The Cougars signed Joe Bartlett, a discus and shot put thrower from Reno, Nev., Lynnea Braun, a javelin thrower from Yakima, and Sean Harris, a multievents competitor from Kent, Wash.
•Ryan Bowen of Lewiston High School signed a letter of intent to compete for the University of Idaho track and field team.
At the 2008 Idaho 5A State championships, Bowen helped lead Lewiston to a fifth-place finish by scoring 21 points. He hit 23-83/4 to repeat as the state long jump champion, cleared 6-4 in the high jump to tie for second and ran 15.44 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles to take fifth.
Bowen is expected to compete in the decathlon for the Vandals.
•Allison Scurich, a four-year letter winner for the Washington State women’s soccer team, has joined the Cougars’ coaching staff as an assistant.
Basketball
The Washington State Basketball Coaches Association will induct Jim Clifton, Jack DeKubber, Bill Hill, Lyle McIntosh and Jim Thacker into its hall of fame.
Induction ceremonies are July 19 at the Herak Room in Gonzaga University’s McCarthy Center.