Sunday local briefs

Members of Coeur d’Alene-based KTigers Taekwondo, which represents Kootenai and Spokane counties, collected 44 top-three finishes, including 15 gold medals, at the Washington State Governor’s Cup on Oct. 24 in Lacey, Washington.

KTigers had 25 students in the event that had close to 1,000 competitors from 65 martial arts schools from the Northwest and Canada competing in Poomsae (form), board breaking and sparring categories.

Troy Lupien and Dylan Kellar, in the 8-9-year-old male division; James Sanders, 10-11 male; and Lain Hunt and Brayden Cannon, 12-14 male, won two gold medals apiece to lead the showing.

KTigers medalists by age division:

8-9: Poomsae - Male intermediate, Dylan Kellar, silver. Male advanced, Chase Watson, gold; Lupien, gold; Giovanni Carlino, bronze. Female advanced, Julia Tickemyer, silver; Hailie Velasco, bronze. Sparring - Male advanced, Watson, bronze. Female advanced, Tickemyer, gold. Board breaking - Male intermediate, Kellar, gold; Lupien, silver. Male advanced, Watson, silver. Female advanced, Velasco, gold; Tickemyer, silver.

10-11: Poomsae – Male intermediate, Tomasz Tabor, silver. Male advanced, Sanders, silver; Grant Lupien, silver. Female intermediate, Miya Koester, silver; Simran Padda, bronze. Female advanced, Kote Hoopman, gold; Kyra Schultz, silver; Kaitlyn Vach, bronze. Sparring – Male advanced, Sanders, gold. Board breaking – Male advanced, Sanders, gold; Grant Lupien, silver.

12- 14: Poomsae – Male advanced, Cannon, gold; Ethan Young, silver; Brandon West, silver. Female intermediate, Makella Schmidt, gold. Sparring – Male advanced, Lain Hunt, bronze. Board breaking – Male advanced, Hunt, gold.

15-17: Poomsae – Male intermediate, Draven Schmidt, gold.

Adult (18-and-over): Poomsae – Male advanced, Nicholas Sunseri, silver. Female intermediate, Jennifer Koester, gold. Sparring – Male advanced, Sunseri, silver.

Team Poomsae – Male intermediate, Troy Lupien and Kellar, gold. Male advanced, Hunt and Cannon, gold; Sanders and Grant Lupien, silver; Young and West, bronze. Female intermediate, Jennifer Koester and Miya Koester, silver; Padda and Bailey Nipp-Berger, bronze. Female advanced, Schultz and Vach, bronze; Hailie Velasco and Kayla Abraham, bronze. Mixed, Watson and Tickemyer, silver.

College scene

Karl Muelheims, a Whitworth senior forward from St. George’s, has been named to the 2015 Academic All-District 8 Division III men’s soccer team by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) with a 3.35 grade-point average in chemistry and nursing.

Also earning All-District first-team honors are Timmy Mueller, an Oregon State sophomore forward from Post Falls in District 8 Division I with a 3.64 GPA in pre-business, and Nathanial Cheney, a Corban junior midfielder from Clarkston in District 4 College Division with a 3.69 GPA as a pastoral ministry/psychology major.

All are eligible for Academic All-America honors.

• Tracy Melville, a Western Washington freshman from Lind-Ritzville/Sprague, finished 10th in the women’s division of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships last weekend in Bellingham, Washington, to lead the showing by area athletes in the meet.

Melville, who earned GNAC all-star honors, covered the 6K course in 22 minutes, 24.90 seconds in helping lead the Vikings to a second-place finish behind Alaska Anchorage. Vikings teammates Sophia Marikis (junior, Lakeside of Nine Mile Falls) and Mikhaela Woodward (freshman, Sandpoint) were 54th and 57th, respectively.

Jared Seckel, a Concordia, Oregon, junior from Central Valley and Spokane Falls Community College, finished 37th in the men’s 8K race in 26:47.50. Concordia was 10th in the 11-team field. Alaska Anchorage also won the men’s race.

Hockey

Seventeen former Spokane Chiefs have been awarded Western Hockey League Scholarships for the 2015-16 academic year, including 12 who have continued their hockey careers at the collegiate level.

The group, which includes Tanner Mort, a Chief from 2008-13, who is attending the University of Idaho, is part of a WHL-record 337 scholarships awarded for the fall academic season.

Former Chiefs with the years they played in Spokane and the schools they attend (*-playing university hockey):

Levko Koper (2006-11), University of Alberta*; Cole Wedman (2011-14), UA; Anthony Bardaro (2008-11), University of British Columbia*; Eric Williams (2011-14), UBC*; Dylan Walchuk (2011-13), University of Calgary*; Reid Gow (2009-14), University of Manitoba; Jeremy McIntosh (2012-14), Trinity Western University*; Jackson Playfair (2012-15), Dalhousie University*.

Also, Blake Gal (2007-13), St. Francis Xavier University*; Steven Kuhn (2008-12), St. Francis Xavier*; Calder Brooks (2014-15), St. Mary’s University*; Luke Lee-Knight (2011-12), St. Thomas University*; Nick Charif (2015), University of Western Ontario (King’s University College)*; Connor Chartier (2010-14), Western Ontario (King’s University College)*; Tyler Vanscourt (2010-11), Riverside Community College; Blair Oneschuk (2013-15), SAIT Polytechnic.

For every season a player plays in the WHL, they receive a guaranteed, full-year WHL Scholarship to cover tuition, textbooks and compulsory fees to a post-secondary institution of their choice. The scholarships are fully funded by WHL member clubs.