Northwest Notes Feb. 9, 2013
Stanley to speak at
NIC Booster luncheon
Graydon Stanley, North Idaho College vice president for student services, will speak at the NIC Booster Club luncheon on Tuesday at noon at the Outback Steakhouse in Coeur d'Alene.
Stanley played four years of college basketball at the College of Idaho and has coached numerous junior high, high school and Amateur Athletic Union basketball, baseball and volleyball teams.
Formerly with the College of Southern Idaho, Stanley began working at NIC last August after being chosen to replace former NIC Vice President for Student Services Sheldon Nord and served as CSI's Dean of Students from 1984 to 2012, which grew dramatically in student population, programs and facilities under his tenure. He was the public address announcer for CSI basketball games for more than 20 years.
The public is welcome to attend and the cost of lunch is not covered.
Information: (208) 769-3348
Few named assistant coach
for World Championships
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Gonzaga men's basketball coach Mark Few will be an assistant for the 2013 USA Basketball men's under-19 World Championship - the same staff that helped the USA qualify for the FIBA World Championship.
Florida's Billy Donovan will be the head coach and Shaka Smart of Virginia Commonwealth another assistant coach.
The World Championship will be played from June 17-July 7 in Prague, Czech Republic.
"We are great friends," Few said of the staff. "We complement each other on the floor with our philosophies. I also learned a lot being around them."
This past summer, Donovan, Few and Smart led the USA to a 5-0 record and a gold medal at the 2012 FIBA Americas U18 Championship in Brazil, earning the U.S. its place in the Worlds tournament. In five wins, the U.S. averaged 97.2 points and won by an average of 38.6 points per game.
Missouri-Kansas City to join
Western Athletic Conference
DENVER - The Western Athletic Conference announced that the University of Missouri-Kansas City has accepted an invitation for membership to join the conference effective July 1, 2013.
UMKC becomes the ninth member of the conference in 2013-14, joining Cal State-Bakersfield, Chicago State, Grand Canyon, Idaho, New Mexico state, Seattle, Texas-Pan American and Utah Valley.
UMKC will bring all 16 of its sports - men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's golf, men's and women's soccer, softball, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's indoor and outdoor track and field and volleyball - to the WAC and will begin competing with the 2013-14 season.