Northwest Notes April 19, 2012
Cardinals scheduled to
return home Friday
After playing six of its first seven home series at Memorial Playfield in Moses Lake, the North Idaho College softball team is scheduled to come home to Coeur d'Alene on Friday afternoon.
NIC (18-33, 14-26 SWAC) will host Southern Idaho (36-14, 28-9) on Friday and Saturday at Memorial Field in Coeur d'Alene.
Saturday will be the inaugural Retro Day, where the Cardinals will be wearing jerseys from the team's first season in 1997.
Friday's start time is 1 p.m., with first pitch on Saturday at noon.
Enumclaw outside hitter
signs to play volleyball at NIC
HayleeMae Dennis, a 5-foot-10 outside hitter from Enumclaw High in Washington, has signed to play volleyball at North Idaho College in 2012.
"HayleeMae is one of the best all-around volleyball players I have seen in a long time," NIC coach Kandice Kelly said. "She is just as good in the back row as she is in the front. She is a great leader on the court and is very consistent and competitive. When I saw her in Vegas, I knew she was exactly what I needed at NIC."
She also earned second team All-South Puget Sound League as a sophomore and first team all-league and all-area her junior and senior years. Dennis played for the Puget Sound Volleyball Club until under-15, where she then played at the nationally ranked Washington Volleyball Academy for two years. This year she is playing once again for the academy, hoping for a fifth chance to participate at the Junior Olympics in Columbus, Ohio, in June.
Few named assistant on
USA basketball U18 squad
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Gonzaga men's basketball coach Mark Few is among the coaches who will form the USA Basketball staff for the 2012 FIBA Americas under-18 championship this summer.
Florida's Billy Donovan is the head coach, with Few and Shaka Smart of Virginia Commonwealth joining as assistants.
This is Few's second selection by USA basketball after serving as a court coach in the 2009 men's U19 World Championship/World University Games team trials.
The 2012 championships will be played June 16-20 in Sao Sebastiao do Paraiso, Brazil.
Vandals add point guard
to women's basketball team
MOSCOW - Idaho women's basketball coach Jon Newlee has added an experienced point guard as Janelle Weiss of Chemeketa Community College signed a national letter of intent.
Weiss, a 5-foot-5 point guard from Salem, Ore., led her team in 2011-12 with 14.4 points, 3.7 assists, 3.3 rebounds and 1.1 steals for the Storm, who finished 21-8 and went to the semifinals of the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges tournament.
She scored 20 or more points eight times in 29 games, including a season-high 38 points and was named the NWAACC Southern Region Player of the Year.
Weiss joins guards Christina Salvatore and Connie Ballestero and posts Ali Forde and Abi Quinnett, who signed letters of intent in the fall.