Northwest Notes April 13, 2011
Locals to be awarded at
IHSAA Hall of Fame banquet
Three locals will be honored for their work with the Idaho Activities Association during the 32nd annual Hall of Fame banquet on Wednesday, Aug. 10 at the DoubleTree Riverside Hotel in Boise.
Awards to be presented will be the Dick Fleischmann Memorial Award to Craig Christensen of Post Falls; the Duane D. Wolfe Memorial Award to Parker Toyota and the Spirit of Sport award to Shane Maland of Lakeland High.
Bill Leaf of Cascade, Tim Neville of Hailey and Jim Wilund of Lewiston are among those being inducted in the Class of 2011.
Wilund, a lifelong educator, administrator and advocate of high school activities, retired as principal at Lewiston High in 2005. He was also honored as the National Federation of State High School Associations Section 8 Distinguished Service Award winner, as well as a District I Official Hall of Fame inductee and served the IHSAA in numerous positions, including serving as the state basketball rules interpreter for 13 years. He also is a former principal at Sandpoint High.
Nominees for Distinguished Service Awards for each of the six activity districts and Official of the Year will be presented. Those recipients will be announced at a later date.
Ticket information will be posted at www.idhsaa.org later this month.
NIC women to be
honored by local senators
The North Idaho College women's basketball team will be recognized in a ceremony honoring its national championship on Thursday, April 21 in the Edminster Student Union Building Driftway Bay Room at 3 p.m.
The team was honored on March 29 by the Idaho State Senate with an official proclamation following a 32-3 season and its first national title in three straight trips to the NJCAA tournament in Salina, Kan.
Senator John Goedde and fellow North Idaho senators will present them with the proclamation.
The public is welcome to attend.
LCSC selects Harris
as volleyball coach
Former Washington State volleyball standout LaToya Harris has been named head coach at Lewis-Clark State College, the school announced.
Harris played at WSU from 1999 to 2002 and was a teammate of departing coach Jen Greeny (Stinson) during the 1999 season. Greeny resigned to become coach at WSU last month.
Harris has been head volleyball coach at Sam Barlow High in Gresham, Ore., since 2006, leading the team to a 55-28 record in conference play and second place finishes the past two seasons.
Following her playing career, she served as an undergraduate assistant at WSU for the 2003 season before leaving to coach San Leandro High in California for two seasons.
Duo compete at
Masters meet
Cindy Clutter and Margaret Hair swam to top-five finishes in each of their events at The Masters Championship meet at the Weyerhaesuer King County Aquatics Center in Federal Way, Wash., on Saturday and Sunday.
Clutter finished second in the 500 freestyle, third in the 1,000 freestyle, fourth in the 100 breastroke, fifth in the 50 breaststroke and 50 freestyle. Hair finished first in the 400 individual medley and 100 individual, second in the 200 freestyle, third in the 100 backstroke and 500 freestyle and fourth in the 1,000 freestyle.
They will compete in the US Masters Nationals in Mesa, Ariz., at the end of the month.