THE FRONT ROW WITH MARK NELKE: Thursday, September 3, 2015
Her college career recently ended, Carli Rosenthal is still making news on the basketball floor.
Rosenthal, who played at Coeur d'Alene and most recently, at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, Calif., recently played on a team that won a championship in a pro-am women's league in San Francisco.
The team consisted of current and past college players in the bay area, as well as players entering college. Her teammates included former Gaels teammate Danielle Mauldin, as well as Stanford players Kaylee Johnson and Brittany McPhee.
She also played with former Gonzaga standouts Haiden Palmer and Jazmine Redmon, as well as Alyssa Charlston of Idaho, in a 3-on-3 tournament at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. The team won the silver medal.
Recently, Rosenthal could be seen on the basketball court at Peak Health and Wellness Center in Coeur d'Alene, working on her game, her mom, Tammi, feeding her the ball in the post.
SOMEDAY, VAN Troxel, the only football coach Lake City High has had since opening in 1994, will no longer be the coach of the Timberwolves.
With that in mind, during games this season, Troxel plans to coach upstairs, in the press box, with defensive coordinator Travis Harmon - his potential replacement - down on the field, running operations on the sideline.
And, starting this week, handling media interviews after games.
"He's got to learn; I'm going to train him," Troxel said.
It's all part of the eventual transition, "in the whole process of me, somewhere along the line, going to be done, teaching these guys, teaching our team, what needs to be done, no matter whether I'm here or upstairs," he added. "In the long run, I can impact them upstairs, seeing what I'm seeing, and we know what to work on.
"You can't see down here," Troxel said last Friday, on the Kibbie Dome field, after coming down from upstairs after Lake City's loss to Rocky Mountain of Meridian in the season opener. "This is the worst view in America, standing on the sideline. Even the fans have a better view than the coaches do on the sideline."
MEGAN RAMSEYER will have to wait another day to learn the extent of the injury to her left knee, suffered in the first game of Coeur d'Alene High's volleyball match at Post Falls on Tuesday night.
Ramseyer had hoped to see her doctor Wednesday, but the doctor was in surgery all day, Vikings coach Dee Pottenger said.
Ramseyer, a senior setter/outside hitter who has verbally committed to Idaho, "landed wrong attacking a tight set on the net," Pottenger said. She missed the rest of the match; the Vikings, who dropped the first game, came back to win in four.
Mark Nelke is sports editor of The Press. He can be reached at 664-8176, Ext. 2019, or via email at mnelke@cdapress.com. Follow him on Twitter@CdAPressSports.