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Zags’ Townsend earns WCC honors
Gonzaga women’s basketball junior guard Jill Townsend was named this week’s West Coast Conference Player of the Week, the conference announced Monday.
Townsend, from Okanogan, Wash., led Gonzaga to another perfect week, this time finishing 2-0 with wins at Montana State and at Washington State. She averaged 15.0 points per game, shooting 66.6 percent from the floor and 50 percent from long range to go along with a perfect 100 percent showing from the line. She added 6.0 rebounds per game, 1.0 assist and 1.5 steals.
Last Thursday at Montana State, Townsend had 16 points, six rebounds and two steals.
Sunday at Washington State, Townsend netted 14 points off 5-of-7 from the floor including 3-of-4 from long range to go along with six boards, two assists and one steal.
WSU’s Arconado named Academic All-American
Washington State redshirt senior wide receiver Brandon Arconado was named to the Academic All-America first team selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America on Monday.
Arconado boasts a 3.65 GPA, owns a bachelor’s degree in management information systems and is working toward his master’s degree in business administration. The Chino Hills, Calif. native is a two-time Pac-12 Conference All-Academic selection, earning second-team honors in 2017 and honorable mention last season.
Arconado is WSU’s first football Academic All-America selection since Chima Nwachukwu earned second-team honors in 2010 and the first Cougar to be a first-team honoree since Jason Hanson in 1991.
On the field, Arconado leads the Pac-12 with six 100-yard games receiving, tied for second-most in WSU single-season history, is seventh in the conference with 67 catches, fourth with a team-high 947 receiving yards, leads the team with 14.5 yards-per-catch and has caught six touchdown passes.
National teams beckon three WSU soccer players
After finishing a historic season at Washington State, senior Morgan Weaver, junior Makamae Gomera-Stevens and sophomore Mykiaa Minniss will continue to play on as the trio of Cougars were called into national team duty this week in Florida.
The attacking duo of Weaver and Gomera-Stevens will join the senior national team camp in Bradenton, Fla., while Minniss will pull on the U-20 jersey in Lakewood Ranch, Fla., to play in the 2019 Nike International Friendlies.
For Weaver and Gomera-Stevens, the duo become the first Cougars to be called into camp with the top team in the U.S., training alongside of 24 other professionals and college players in the Identification Camp. The camp includes 14 professional players from the NWSL and 10 other college players from Stanford, North Carolina, UCLA, Florida State, and Texas A&M. The camp will be guided under the eye of new national team head coach Vlatko Andonovski, who made initial call-ups to the camp last week prior to the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals. The identification camp will not include any players from the 2019 World Cup squad. The two Cougs join 10 other players who are earning their first call-up to the senior national team.
Minniss, a second-year center back, was called into camp by U-20 head coach Mark Carr to take part in the friendly tournament. The U-20 squad will split up into two teams for the three-day event with the U.S. teams playing U-20 squads from Brazil and France at the Premier Sports Campus in Lakewood Ranch, Fla. The U.S. teams will play Wednesday and Friday. The matches are serving as preparation for February’s Concacaf Women’s U-20 Championship, to be held in the Dominican Republic.
— From news services