Four individuals, one team to enter University of Idaho Hall of Fame
Four individuals and one team will be inducted into the University of Idaho Vandal Athletics Hall of Fame during ceremonies Sept. 17-18.
They are Gerry Hagedorn, for lifetime contributions to Vandals athletics; Don Matthews, for lifetime achievement as a coach in the Canadian Football League; Ken Owens, basketball; Angela Whyte, track and field; and the 1994 volleyball team.
The ceremony will highlight a banquet Sept. 17. The inductees will then be honored at the Idaho-UNLV football game the next day. Reservations for the banquet, which is $150 per couple and $100 per individual, will be taken beginning May 3.
Hagedorn, a track and field athlete at UI in the 1940s, has provided behind-the-scenes support of Vandals athletics for years, particularly in track and field.
Matthews was an offensive guard for the Vandals, earning four letters from 1960-63. After his playing days, he went into coaching, including a stint at Ferris High School. His CFL head coaching career includes five Grey Cup championships, a .633 winning percentage in 22 years and 11 divisional champions and he was a five-time coach of the year. He has CFL records for most seasons coached (22) and most regular-season wins (231).
Owens (1980-82) led Idaho to the 1982 Big Sky Conference title, NCAA tournament, and a Sweet 16 appearance while averaging a team-best 15.6 points. He was named an All-American by The Sporting News and United Press International, was the BSC most valuable player and was named MVP of both the 1981 and 1982 Big Sky tournaments after leading the Vandals to titles both seasons. He was also named to the Big Sky’s 25th Anniversary Team.
Whyte, a four-time NCAA All-American and five-time NCAA qualifier in two seasons (2001 and 2003), led the Vandals women to Big West Conference outdoor titles and earned athlete of the year honors both times. Her career-best 12.78 seconds in the 100-meter hurdles is also the Big West record. She left school holding 10 individual records and ran on three school-record relay teams. She qualified for two Olympic Games (2004 and 2008), and also represented Canada three times at the IAAF World Championships.
The 1994 volleyball team had 31 wins in 34 matches, including 16-0 at home, an All-American (Mindy Rice), the program’s first national ranking, and two NCAA tournament victories. Coach Tom Hilbert’s Vandals capped the program’s best season with a third consecutive Big Sky championship and a third straight trip to the NCAA tournament, where they advanced to the second round for a second consecutive season.
Bowling
Two more perfect games spiced the Junior Bowler Tour’s season-ending fun tournament last weekend at Valley Bowl.
Dalton Shears recorded another 300, and Alex Earle spiced his with an 820 series.
Shears and Steven Talbot combined to defeat Earle and Patrick LaTrail 401-341 in the title match. Jesse Covington and Justin Oens finished third, Bry Tillett and Jeremy Gra ves were fourth and Curtis Lindeman and Tyler Sumpter were fifth.
Heather Lundgren’s 205 was high game for the girls.
College scene
Annie Brophy, the Notre Dame senior from Gonzaga Prep, was the Big East Conference women’s golfer of the week last week after a 9-over-par 219 earned her 11th in the SunTrust Gator Invitational. She had four birdies in her 4-over closing round of 74 and has top-15 finishes in four of nine events this spring.
•Chance Hargrove, a Dakota State junior outfielder from Newport, was named the Dakota Athletic Conference baseball player of the week after going 8 for 17 (.471) with two doubles, three home runs, nine runs scored and nine RBIs as the Trojans went 5-0 during the week.
•Junior point guard Courtney Vandersloot was named the team’s most valuable player and also received the Fred Obde Hustle Award when the Gonzaga women’s basketball team honored its players April 11.
Sophomore Carter Schick was named the Katy Prichard Most Inspirational Player and classmate Kayla Standish earned the most improved player and best rebounder awards. Junior Janelle Bekkering was tabbed the best defender.
•Senior captain Lori Conrad was named the team’s most valuable player at the Gonzaga women’s soccer team’s dinner last weekend.
Sophomore forward Sarah Rhodes was named the offensive player of the year; sophomore defender Elle Sweeney was the defensive player of the year; and freshman forward Emily Hutchins was named the team’s newcomer of the year.
•Tennis player Caitlin Bampton and distance runner Kyle King were selected the Eastern Washington scholar athletes of the month for March.
Bampton, a sophomore from Kamiakin, had a 3-2 record in singles and 4-1 in doubles and has a 3.00 grade-point average. King, a sophomore from Coupeville, Wash., set a school record in the 10,000 meters (29:34.21) at the Stanford Invitational on March 26 and qualified for the Big Sky Conference Championships.
Gymnastics
Two girls from Northwest Gymnastics Academy of Spokane qualified for national-level meets with their performances in the Region II Championships last weekend in Auburn, Wash.
Cady Markin, a Level 9 gymnast from University High, will be at the USA Gymnastics Western National Finals May 1-2 in Des Moines, Iowa, after winning the Senior 7 regional championship in the uneven bars with a 9.175 score and placing second in the all-around. She also was third in the vault and fourth in floor.
Jamie Wright, Level 10 from Coeur d’Alene High School, will be in the Junior Olympic National Championships in Dallas May 7-8 after placing second on floor and seventh in all-around in the Junior C division in her first major competition coming off a strained back.
Hall of fame
Three members of the 1987 Community Colleges of Spokane conference championship baseball team that will be one of two teams inducted during the school’s athletic hall of fame ceremonies Saturday are among five former Sasquatch baseball players included among 11 athletes who will join the shrine.
Slated for induction are Bob Wells (1987) from Yakima, who holds several school records and went on to a nine-year major league career; Dave Rypien (1986-87), a catcher from Shadle Park who holds three season and career records at CCS and played for the Canadian National team in the 1988 Olympics; and Chris Bugni (1987-88), a power hitter from Butte, an NWAACC MVP who still holds three career and season records.
Joining them will be pitcher Mike Davey (1971) from Gonzaga Prep, who had a five-year professional career that included stints with the Atlanta Braves, who drafted him in the second round in 1974, and the Spokane Indians; and Carl Benson (1971-72), an infielder from Pullman who has been the commissioner of the Western Athletic Conference since 1994.
The induction ceremonies and dinner will begin at 5:30 p.m. Cost is $25. For information or tickets, contact Nancy Zacher at 533-3630 or nancyz@spokanefalls.edu.
Hockey
Kailer Yamamoto of Spokane, who plays for the Kent Valley Rainiers at the peewee level, scored 13 points in four games to finish second in scoring at the USA Hockey 12-and-under Tier I Championships last weekend in Amherst, N.Y.
He had four goals and two assists in a second-round win, but the Rainiers were eliminated in the quarterfinals.
Shooting
Three area shooters, led by Amanda Furrer’s national championship in small bore rifle, had strong showings in the U.S. Junior Olympics National Championships in air rifle and small bore rifle last weekend in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Furrer, a Mead graduate attending Ohio State, shot a national record-tying score of 588 out of 600 the first day and added a 580 the second en route to becoming the U.S. Junior Women’s small bore national champion.
Denise Martin of Chewelah was second in her age group (J2) and 15th overall and Rene Hopkins, a Shadle Park graduate attending Eastern Washington, finished 46th.
Martin, who trains at the Davenport Rifle Club, earned the bronze medal in air rifle with a score of 103.1. Furrer was 14th.
Swimming
Coleman Allen of Lewis and Clark had top-eight finishes in all four of his events to lead 10 Spokane Area Swim Team members representing the Spokane YMCA at the 2010 YMCA National Championships April 7-10 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
SAS finished 13th out of 215 teams.
Allen was third in the 100 butterfly, fifth in the 200 backstroke, sixth in the 100 back and seventh in the 200 fly.
Other SAS swimmers: Ben Lovell (LC), 19th 100 fly; Emri Moore (Mead), seventh 500 freestyle, 11th 200 fly; Emily Renzini (Mt. Spokane), 15th 200 fly; Mason Shaw (Lake City), second 400 individual medley, 10th 200 breaststroke, 11th 200 IM.
SAS boys relay finalists: 800 free, fifth (Shaw, Allen, Lovell, Alex Martinek of University); 400 free, 13th; 400 medley, seventh, 200 medley, 19th (all with Allen, Kyle Marsh, Shaw, Lovell).
Girls relay finalists: 200 medley, 15th (Amani Amr of Shadle Park, Melissa Peplinski of Central Valley, Moore, Amber Amr of Shadle); 800 free, 13th (Renzini, Amber Amr, Amani Amr, Moore).
SAS swimmers set three Inland Empire relay records and two individual marks.
Todd and Vicki Marsh are the coaches.