Volleyball hall will honor Matlock
Irene Matlock, the volleyball coach at Community Colleges of Spokane from 1986-2004, is a member of the newest America Volleyball Coaches Association hall of fame class.
Matlock joins former U.S. men’s coach Carl McGown and University of Hawaii coach Dave Shoji. The class will be inducted Dec. 16 at the AVCA annual convention in Kansas City, Mo.
Matlock collected 715 wins at CCS and captured four NWAACC championships. She won NWAACC coach of the year three times.
Prior to coaching at CCS, she won more than 100 matches and four state championships with Sandpoint High School.
College scene
Washington State sophomore rower Katie Dick has been named to the 2010 Pocock All-America second team, the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association announced. A sophomore from Victoria, British Columbia, Dick is in her first season with the varsity 8.
•Three members of the Gonzaga women’s rowing team were named Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association scholar-athletes for the 2010 season – juniors Emily Wilson (3.67 grade-point average in nursing), Hannah Winters of Northwest Christian (3.55, biology) and Therese Yrani (3.62, psychology).
•Washington’s Chris Williams, of Moscow, Idaho, was named to the men’s PING golf All-America third team.
•North Idaho College women’s basketball player Mariana Lamperti has earned National Junior College Athletic Association Academic All-America honors. Lamperti graduated from NIC in May with a 3.88 GPA. She was the NIC Female Academic Athlete of the Year.
•Two Washington State athletes with local ties have been chosen to the Pac-10 track and field All-Academic team. Redshirt junior Kendall Mays (3.65 GPA) of North Central was chosen to the second team and redshirt freshman Loreah Winlow (3.47) of Lakeside (Nine Mile Falls) and sophomore Ashley Kenney (3.40) of West Valley were given honorable mention.
•Washington State senior men’s golfer Nick Grigsby from Central Valley was named to the Pacific-10 Conference All-Academic first team. Grigsby had a GPA of 3.47 in management and operations.
•Gonzaga University women’s soccer player Lori Conrad was selected as the female recipient of the 2010 WCC Postgraduate Scholarship. Conrad becomes the third Gonzaga female student-athlete to earn the award after Kari Durgan (crew) won the award in the 2006 and Lauren Zuckerman (women’s soccer) earned the accolade in the 2008.
University of Portland cross country runner Thomas Betterbed was the male recipient.
Golf
The Lewis-Clark State College men’s team has signed four players for the 2010-11 season, including three from Community Colleges of Spokane and Pullman’s Dillon Williams, who played this spring at North Idaho College.
Joining Williams are Kyler Gable of Hayden, Tyler Johnson of Coeur d’Alene and Jason Molner of Longview, Wash., who will transfer from CCS.
Williams, the son of Washington State golf coach Walt Williams and who attended Pullman Christian, will be the first NIC golfer to move on and play at a four-year school since NIC restarted its golf program five years ago.
Gable and Johnson were teammates at Coeur d’Alene High.
•Community Colleges of Spokane announced that Grahm Schmaltz, of Glacier High School in Kalispell, Mont., will join the men’s team next season.
Softball
Two North Idaho College sophomores have signed letters of intent with four-year schools. Alyssa Hawley (University High School), an All-Region 18 outfielder who hit .358, has signed with Stony Brook University in New York. Left fielder Brooke Springer from Omak has signed to play for Southern Oregon University.
Swimming & diving
Idaho has added nine women for the 2010-11 season, a third of them divers, coach Tom Jager announced.
Signing with the Vandals were Paige Conrad, Fort Mill, S.C., butterfly; Hannah Cox, Denver, a four-time state qualifier; Paige Hunt, a diver from Mesa, Ariz.; Mairin Jameson, a diver from Fargo, N.D.
Also Shana Lim, Singapore, a backstroke specialist with international experience; Sammi Mischkot, Salem, Ore.; Kelsi Potterf, a diver from Bonney Lake, Wash.; Megan Venlos, Elgin, Ill., freestyle; and Lyndsay Williams, Aurora, Colo.
Tennis
Mead coach Bill Wagstaff is one of 18 national finalists for the 2010 USTA Starfish Award, honoring coaches who implement a “no cut” policy for their high school teams.
Track and field
Community Colleges of Spokane coach Larry Beatty announced that several of his athletes are going on to four-year schools.
Signing letters of intent were Rigoberto Jimenez of Royal with University of Great Falls for cross country and track; and Anna George (Wyoming), Chanel James (Washington State), Andrea Edwards of Almira/Coulee-Hartline (Angelo State), Myisha Valentine (Seattle Pacific) and Chelsea Wordell, who has been a volunteer assistant coach from North Central (Cal State Northridge), all for track.
Beatty also said Michael Vetter (WSU) and Carter Nell, Armarose Bailey of Mead and Andrew Cesal of Central Valley (all Southern Utah) will compete next year but did not receive an athletic scholarship. Cesal received a Western Undergraduate Exchange scholarship for academics, Beatty said.