Northwest Notes April 14, 2021
Pickleball play coming up at Cherry Hill Park courts
There will be free rotational play (round robins) for different pickleball skill levels from May through September at the Cherry Hill Park courts.
Players can sign up through TrackitHub.com.
There will be free spring, summer and fall coaching clinics for different pickleball skill levels at Cherry Hill Park. Sign up through Coeur d’Alene Parks and Recreation.
The 2021 Coeur d’Alene Classic Pickleball Tournament is scheduled for July 8-11 at Cherry Hill Park.
WSU announces signing
of D-II All-American Roberts
PULLMAN — After receiving a verbal commitment early in the year, Washington State men’s basketball head coach Kyle Smith announced the official signing of Division II All-American Tyrell Roberts (Sacramento, Calif.) for the upcoming 2021-22 basketball season.
Roberts will join the Cougars after playing two seasons at UC San Diego giving the sharpshooting guard two years of eligibility at WSU.
Roberts heads to the Palouse after dominating Division II to earn All-America honors at UCSD. Prior to opting out of the 2020-21 season, Roberts scored 1,042 points in just two seasons averaging 16.5 points per game in 63 contests while shooting 41.1% from behind the arc during his career.
Prior to UCSD, Roberts played at Woodcreek High where he led his team to the San Joaquin Division I Sectional, NorCal Open Division, and Sierra Foothill League championships as a senior.
Oregon State assistant named Montana women’s basketball coach
Brian Holsinger, who has spent 13 seasons in the Pac-12 and has more than two decades of college coaching experience, was named the next head coach of the Montana women’s basketball program.
Holsinger, who was the head coach at Montana Tech for two seasons (2005-07) before moving on to an assistant position at Washington State (2007-15), has spent the last five seasons at Oregon State, which has become a national power under coach Scott Rueck.
Holsinger signed a four-year contract on Monday night, which needs to be approved by the Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education.
Holsinger becomes just the fourth coach of the Lady Griz since they became an intercollegiate athletics program in the late 70s.
Robin Selvig (1978-16) led the program for 38 years and won 865 games. He was followed by Shannon Schweyen (2016-20) and Mike Petrino, who guided Montana to a 12-11 record this past season as interim coach.
Former Griz star Katie (Baker) Faulkner, the 2012-13 Big Sky Conference Most Valuable Player and a former Lake City High star, is an assistant at Oregon State.
“The respect and things Katie shared with me about the Lady Griz, you can tell it still means a ton to her,” Holsinger said. “It’s her program. She is still passionate about it. How it impacted her is exactly what I want to do for the young women who are there now and will be there in the future.”