Northwest Notes July 24, 2021
NIC announces Clasen as
assistant wrestling coach
COEUR d'ALENE — North Idaho College athletic director Bobby Lee announced that Chase Clasen will be the Cardinals’ new assistant wrestling coach.
“The respect he has earned in the northwest wrestling community as a recruiter and coach will be a great asset for our program,” Lee said in a news release.
Clasen, a Moses Lake, Wash., native, placed three times at the state wrestling tournament, and was a two-time placer at Tri-State, held annually at NIC. He then wrestled for Iowa Western Community College and at NCAA Division II Chadron State College in Nebraska.
At Chadron, Clasen was a two-time national qualifier, a two-time conference finalist (one of those times a conference champion), and he was dubbed both an NCAA wrestling All-American and an Academic All-American his senior year. After earning his bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies, Clasen spent a season as the graduate assistant coach at Chadron. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in organizational leadership.
WSU's Greene named to Rimington Trophy Watch List
NEW YORK — Washington State fifth-year senior offensive lineman Brian Greene was named to the Rimington Trophy Watch List, the committee announced Friday.
The Rimington Trophy is given to the nation’s top collegiate center.
Greene, a former walk-on, earned All-Pac-12 Conference Honorable Mention after starting all four games at center last season. The Yakima, Wash., native made his first career start in the win at Oregon State, recorded a team-best four knockdown blocks against No. 11 Oregon, tallied a team-high six knockdown blocks at No. 20 USC and added three more in the season-finale at Utah.
Greene walked on and redshirted in 2017, appeared in five games in 2018 and all 13 games in 2019 before winning the starting center job in 2020.
EWU hires three assistant women's basketball coaches
Eastern Washington University women's basketball head coach Joddie Gleason has announced her coaching staff, to include associate head coach Skip Gleason and assistant coaches Brandon Morrison and Jordan Loera.
Skip Gleason is the husband of Joddie Gleason and the duo have coached together for 14 years, beginning at Humboldt State and most recently for the past five seasons at Seattle University.
Morrison heads to Cheney after several seasons at UNLV where he was a scout team coordinator for the women's program prior to being named the video coordinator. In 2017, he was promoted to assistant coach and has been in that role for the past three seasons.
Loera, who played at Moses Lake High and the University of Oregon, spent two seasons at Southern Utah as a graduate assistant.