Schaefer earns another award

Jami Schaefer, a Gonzaga University senior women’s basketball player from University High School, has been selected to the Division I-AAA Scholar-Athlete Team by the I-AAA Athletic Directors Association for a second straight year.

This is the seventh year a team has been selected to honor student-athletes playing at non-football playing schools.

Schaefer has a 3.95 grade-point average in business administration. She was also named to the ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA District 8 and West Coast Conference all-academic teams, both for a third straight year.

College scene

A couple of sophomores are the Community Colleges of Spokane Scholar-Athletes of the Month for March.

Ashley Hutchinson, a track and field athlete from Mead, is the female selection. In the Whitworth Invitational, she won all three throwing events. Her hammer mark of 162 feet, 7 inches set a school record.

Hutchinson, who has accepted a scholarship to the University of Wyoming, leads the NWAACC in the hammer, shot put and discus.

Ian Atkinson, a baseball player from North Bend, Wash., is the male choice. He made the switch from second base to third base this season and is an anchor on defense as well as batting more than .400. He has a 3.07 GPA.

•Melissa Mauro, a Montana freshman from West Valley, qualified for the Big Sky Conference track and field championships with her performance in a meet last weekend in Missoula.

Mauro won the high jump at 5-31/4 and the 100 hurdles in 14.84 seconds.

•Four members of the Eastern Washington club hockey team were selected for the Western Division team in the first American Collegiate All-Star Challenge in Philadelphia last weekend.

Competing in the three-day, five-game tournament were Josh Pickens, Mike Truex, Alex Arnold and Brent Seidel. Their Western team placed second.

•Four members of the Idaho men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams from the area were named to Western Athletic Conference All-Academic teams with GPAs of 3.0 or better.

Selected to the men’s team were Steven Potratz, a junior from Moscow, Idaho, and Dominic Schmidt, a sophomore from Lewiston. On the women’s team are Darcy Collins, a junior from Kootenai of Harrison, and Alexandra Lee-Painter, a senior from Moscow.

Memorial

A celebration of the life of Charlie Dean will be May 2 in the Central Valley High School cafeteria from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. A no-host gathering will follow at Max’s at Mirabeau.

Dean, who coached CV football for 11 years from 1964-74, died March 31 at age 83.

For information, call a recorded message at 928-7947, Bruce Wendelburg at 863-4785 or Jay Rydell at 255-6250 or 999-2841.

Wrestling

Two Deer Park middle school boys placed at the Asics-Kids Folkstyle National Championships in Cedar Falls, Iowa, last weekend.

Cole Harris, an eighth-grader, placed fourth, and Joe Grable, a seventh-grader, placed sixth, reported Matt Jorgensen, the Deer Park High School coach.