Northwest Notes Feb. 16, 2011
Cruzaedo named tennis
coach at Lakeland High
RATHDRUM - Frank Cruzaedo was named the head boys and girls tennis coach at Lakeland High on Tuesday, athletic director and assistant principal Trent Derrick and principal Conrad Underdahl announced.
"We're excited to have Frank join our school," Derrick said. "He has an experienced and varied background in the tennis industry and is capable of creating a new tradition for tennis as a team sport for our Lakeland High School Hawks."
Cruzaedo has helped coach high school players at Mt. Spokane and Central Valley High in Spokane and Mira Costa High in Manhattan Beach, Calif. Last year, he spent time in California coaching juniors for a world top-rated tennis camp at the University of California-Santa Barbara and is also president and founder of the Liberty Lake Community Tennis Association in Washington.
"I'm ecstatic about this position," Cruzaedo said. "The challenge of working with a new program at Lakeland High and teaching students new to the game is what I love to do. Our goal will be to make the program the best that it can be this year and grow the Hawks tennis team."
McDonell joins Vandal staff,
will work again with Akey
MOSCOW - John McDonell, a native of Spokane, has returned to his northwest roots as the offensive line coach at the University of Idaho, coach Robb Akey announced Tuesday.
McDonell comes to Idaho from the University of Memphis, where he was the Tigers' offensive line coach for one season (2010) after serving for one season in the same capacity at Bowling Green (2009).
After graduating from Carroll College in Helena, Mont., in 1981, he embarked on a coaching career that began at Weber State (1984-88) before stops at Washington State (1989-2000), Stanford (2001, '05), Notre Dame (2002-04) and Purdue (2006-08).
McDonell is a graduate of Gonzaga Prep in Spokane. While playing at Carroll College, he was an NAIA All-American his senior year after having been an all-Frontier Conference choice three times and being inducted into the Carroll College Athletic Hall of Fame in 1994.
Christensen named 5A
activities director of the year
Post Falls High School Activities Director Craig Christensen was recently named the state 5A Activities Director of the Year by the Idaho Association of Activities Directors.
He was selected for his successful leadership both locally and throughout the state and strongly commended for his work related to sportsmanship.
Christensen has been the activities director at Post Falls since 2002.