Northwest Notes April 4, 2020

| April 4, 2020 1:05 AM

Former Priest River coach Bodecker named CCS women’s hoops coach

SPOKANE — Ryan Bodecker, assistant women’s basketball coach at Community Colleges of Spokane the past five seasons, has been promoted to head coach, the school announced.

Bodecker replaces Bruce Johnson, who retired following 32 seasons as head coach.

Prior to being an assistant at Spokane, Bodecker was the head boys basketball coach at Priest River High, his alma mater, winning a state championship in 2010.

A 2004 graduate of University of Idaho with a degree in business education, Bodecker also taught business classes at Priest River High while coaching. Bodecker earned his master’s degree in athletic administration from Central Washington University in 2017.

Stewart, a Priest River alum,

named CCS volleyball coach

SPOKANE — Taylor Stewart, who spent the past three seasons as an assistant at Whitman College in Walla Walla, has been named head volleyball coach at Community Colleges of Spokane, the school announced.

Prior to her time at Whitman she spent time at William Jewell (Mo.) College as the volunteer assistant for the Cardinals’ NCAA Division II volleyball program, which followed a three-year stint as the head girls volleyball coach at Potlatch High.

Stewart was a three-sport athlete at Priest River High. She was all-Intermountain League in volleyball, basketball and track her sophomore, junior and senior years, and was named the North Idaho Female Athlete of the Year in each of those sports her final year at Priest River.

A 2014 graduate of Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, Stewart was an outside hitter for the volleyball team. She started all four years and was part of a program that accumulated 78 wins during her time with the Mountaineers, including a 25-6 mark her senior year after which she earned Cascade Conference honorable mention recognition.

At Eastern Oregon, Stewart majored in media arts communication with a concentration in digital design and then went on to earn a Master of Education in curriculum and instruction from the University of Idaho.