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Meti, women’s World Long Drive champion, returns
Monday for another show
POST FALLS — She’s added another World Long Drive championship and 8 more yards to her world record drive since her last visit here last summer.
Phillis Meti, now a three-time women’s World Long Drive champion, is scheduled to give a long drive exhibition Monday from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Prairie Falls Golf Club.
Meti, from New Zealand, still holds the record for longest drive by a woman, now at 414 yards. She also won World Long Drive titles in 2016 and ’06.
Monday’s “long drive expo” is scheduled to consist of a Q&A with Meti, and a long drive competition featuring Phillis and anyone else willing to step up.
Admission is free. Food and beverage will be available for purchase at the course.
Information: (208) 457-0210
Few named assistant for
USA Basketball Select Team
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Gonzaga men’s basketball head coach Mark Few was selected to assist the USA Basketball Select Team at the Aug. 5-9 USA Basketball Men’s National Team minicamp in Las Vegas, USA Basketball Chairman and National Team Managing Director Jerry Colangelo announced Thursday.
“The purpose of the Select Team is to help prepare our National Team for the World Cup,” Colangelo said.
Former NBA head coach Jeff Van Gundy, who served as head coach of the 2017-19 USA Basketball’s six World Cup Qualifying Teams and the gold medalist 2017 USA AmeriCup team, will serve as head coach of the 2019 USA Basketball Select Team.
Few, who served as head coach of the 2015 USA Pan American Games Team, will serve as a Select Team assistant coach. Few entered his first USA Basketball head coach position after having served as an assistant coach for the gold medalist 2012 USA U18 National Team, and he was a court coach for the 2009 USA Men’s U19 World Championship/World University Games Team training camp.
Last summer, Few was selected to assist USA National Team head coach and San Antonio Spurs mentor Gregg Popovich at the USA Basketball Men’s National Team minicamp in Las Vegas.
Selected for the 2019 USA Basketball Select Team were: Jarrett Allen (Brooklyn Nets/Texas); Marvin Bagley (Sacramento Kings/Duke); Mikel Bridges (Phoenix Suns/Villanova); Jalen Brunson (Dallas Mavericks/Villanova); John Collins (Atlanta Hawks/ Wake Forest); Pat Connoughton (Milwaukee Bucks/Notre Dame); D’Aaron Fox (Sacramento Kings/ Kentucky); Joe Harris (Brooklyn Nets/Virginia); Jonathan Issac (Orlando Magic/Florida State); Mitchell Robinson (New York Knicks/Chalmette High School); Landry Shamet (Los Angeles Clippers/Wichita State); Derrick White (San Antonio Spurs/Colorado); and Trae Young (Atlanta Hawks/Oklahoma).
Members of the USA Select Team will train daily with the USA National Team from Aug. 5-8 at UNLV’s Mendenhall Center. All practices are closed to the public. The Select Team members will also join with the National Team players and participate in the USA Blue versus USA White exhibition game that is scheduled for Aug. 9 at 7 p.m. PDT, at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Circling Raven plans party
to celebrate 15th anniversary
WORLEY — Circling Raven Golf Club is celebrating its 15th anniversary in a fairly unique way.
The club, an amenity of the Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort Hotel, will host a party on the links on Aug. 2.
Guests and customers will have the opportunity to play 18 holes that day for $70 — the price during the club’s first full season in 2004, and a saving of 30 percent off the current rate.
There will be drinks and appetizer specials all day, and live music on the back deck of the golf course’s Twisted Earth Grill.
Additionally, Circling Raven will be selling its remaining golf shop equipment (putters, wedges, drivers, etc.), for 10 percent over cost on that day only.
Idaho men’s basketball
team adds Thacker
MOSCOW — Idaho’s men’s basketball team has added another in-state talent, with Damen Thacker joining the Vandals.
Originally from Meridian, Thacker spent the last two seasons with Walla Walla Community College. He will have two years of eligibility at Idaho.
“He’s a really skilled, competitive point guard who can do a little bit of everything,” Idaho interim head coach Zac Claus said. “He has already made an impression here, in terms of how hard he plays on a daily basis.”
As a sophomore at Walla Walla, the 5-11 guard averaged 22.6 points, 6.1 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game to earn All-East Region first team honors. The Warriors finished at 13-3 in conference play and advanced to the NWAC Championship game, where they lost to North Idaho College. Thacker earned All-NWAC Tournament first team honors after averaging 26.3 points, 7.5 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game while shooting 44.2 percent from the floor and 38.5 percent from beyond the arc.
In his first season at Walla Walla, Thacker averaged 15.8 points per game and helped lead the Warriors to the NWAC East regular-season championship.
Thacker began his collegiate career at Southern Virginia. He appeared in five contests for the Knights, including a pair of exhibitions against Division I opponents. He scored 14 points in an exhibition against Utah State and also appeared against VMI and Idaho State. Thacker played his high school basketball at Mountain View in Meridian.