Locally: Lewis and Clark High graduate Michaela Kay transfers to title-winning Oklahoma City University

Michaela Kay, a basketball standout at Lewis and Clark who set a Portland State school record in her first collegiate game, is leaving the Vikings and transferring to the reigning NAIA Division I women’s champions.

Oklahoma City University coach Bo Overton announced that Kay would join the Stars for the 2017-18 season.

“She is a strong guard who has a great knack for scoring,” Overton said of Kay, who led the Vikings in 3-pointers her freshman and sophomore seasons. “I like the experience and leadership she will be bringing to our program.”

Kay, a first-team All-Greater Spokane League selection as a senior in 2014-15 after being a second-team choice as a junior, scored 22 points in her career debut at Portland State. She started 52 of the 60 games in which she played.

She averaged 8.4 points as a freshman, when she led the team with a 2.9-assist average, and 5.3 points as a sophomore, when her 2.0 assists ranked third.

Kay, a two-time Big Sky Conference All-Academic selection, will be joining a team that went 34-2 and defeated Lewis-Clark State College 73-66 for the 2016-17 NAIA championship. The Stars have won four NAIA titles the last six years.

Brett Bailey, a scoring machine at University High before graduating in 2013, is taking his game to Macedonia after completing a four-year career at San Diego. The 6-foot-6 forward signed to play professionally with MZT Skopje Aerodrom in the Macedonian First League and Adriatic League. The team begins training camp Tuesday. At U-Hi, Bailey led the Titans to back-to-back State 3A tournament appearances while gaining All-Greater Spokane League first-team honors as a junior and senior and All-State 3A as a senior. He was the GSL MVP as a senior. In setting the U-Hi career scoring record with 1,300 points, he broke the GSL single-game scoring record as a senior with 47 points in 2013 and also had games of 31 and 30 points. He averaged a GSL-leading 23.6 points and added 8.1 rebounds as a senior. As a senior at San Diego last season, Bailey had team-leading averages of 15.6 points and 6.9 rebounds while starting all 31 games for the Toreros. He was second-team All-WCC.

Kenny Love isn’t going anywhere. The four-year Whitworth basketball standout, who graduated in the spring, is returning to the Country Homes campus as an assistant with the men’s team. “Kenny has walked the walk as an All-American… and I’m excited to watch him grow in the next phase of his professional career,” Pirates head coach Matt Logie said in announcing the appointment. “While coaching Kenny it was evident to me that his basketball IQ and feel for the game pointed toward him being a successful coach.” Love, a guard from Santa Rosa, California, was first-team All-Northwest Conference for three years. As a sophomore in 2015, he was the NWC Player of the Year and a third-team All-American. Whitworth advanced to the NCAA Division III tournament in each of his four seasons.

Danielle Mauldin, the West Coast Conference season and career rebounding record-holder at Saint Mary’s, has joined the Eastern Washington women’s staff, Eagles coach Wendy Schuller announced. Mauldin, who grabbed 427 rebounds as a senior in 2014 and 1,282 during her four-year career, joins Eastern after one year as an assistant at Diablo Valley College in Concord, California. Prior to her time at the community college, the Emeryville, California, native was head coach of the Oakland Soldiers AAU team and an assistant varsity coach at Saint Mary’s College High School. The two-time All-WCC first-team selection played professionally in Keltern, Germany, where she led the team to its first championship during the 2014-15 season, and for the Oakland Rise, the Bay Area’s first professional women’s team.

College scene

Chloe Williams, Eastern Washington’s senior forward from Lewis and Clark, has been named to the TopDrawer.com Preseason Soccer Best XI third team.

Williams, the only Big Sky player nominated, enters her final season off back-to-back conference offensive-player-of-the-year awards. The three-time All-Big Sky first-team choice led the conference last season in several categories, including points (36), goals (15) and winning goals (six).

Ashleigh Jacobs from Calgary, Alberta, who will be a freshman at Gonzaga this fall, earned silver and bronze medals in tennis at the 2017 Canada Games in Winnipeg. She won silver in singles and bronze in mixed doubles. Jacobs entered the singles bracket in the quarterfinal round, posting a two-set victory, before overcoming Washington signee Vanessa Wong 6-1, 3-6, 6-1. In the gold-medal match, Jacobs fell to Ontario’s Rhea Verma 7-5, 6-3.

Kate Ketels and Nevada Apollo of Gonzaga played in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association National Summer Championships last week in Fort Worth, Texas, after qualifying on the ITA Summer Circuit. After drawing a first-round bye, Apollo, a senior from Las Vegas, won her first two matches by 6-2 scores before being eliminated by the same score. Ketels, a sophomore from Kalamazoo, Michigan, won her first match 6-2, 4-6, 10-0 before falling 6-2, 6-0 to the No. 16 seed. In doubles, they lost their only match 8-1.

Letters of intent

Gonzaga baseball – Isaac Barrera, OF, Kentridge HS, Kent, Washington; Carson Breshears, IF, North Bend, Washington/University of Oregon (redshirt junior); Slade Heggen, C/OF, Missoula/University of Oregon (junior); Mason Mareno, IF, Mount Si HS, Snoqualmie, Wash.

Gonzaga women’s golf – Francesca Santoni, Torbole Sul Garda, Italy.

Rowing

Sarah Monn, novice girls coach at a boarding school in Highstown, New Jersey, this past spring after serving as an intern with the open women at Princeton last fall, has joined the Washington State rowing staff as an assistant, WSU women’s coach Jane LaRiviere announced.

Prior to her time at Peddie School and Princeton, Monn was the novice women’s coach at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, for two years (2014-16).

The native of Skillman, New Jersey, Monn rowed four seasons at Clemson (2010-13) where she was part of second-place finishes at four ACC Championships with the novice, varsity four and second varsity eight crews, and was a two-time ACC All-Academic selection.