“We are fortunate to have talented young coaches already associ- ated with our programs ready to step forward and take over the top coaching spots” said NIC Athletics Direc- tor Al Williams. “This is the first college head coaching position for all three, so I know they are excited!” Corey Symons has been waiting for a chance to be a college head basketball coach for ten years as an assistant to Jared Phay, who departed for the College of Southern Idaho head coaching position. Sy- mons becomes only the fourth NIC men’s head basketball coach in 52 seasons! Sy- mons redshirted at NIC in 1993 and then went on to play at Blue Mountain Com- munity College and Northwest University in Kirkland, Wash. Symons averaged 16 points per game in his final season and was team captain at Northwest University, where he graduated with a business degree. After college, Symons played for a select international team in France. During Sy- T he NIC Athletics department will have three new head coaches on staff as the 2014 school year begins, and all have long ties to Coeur d’Alene or North Idaho College. Former NIC basketball player and long-time assistant coach Corey Symons will take over the men’s basketball program. Former NIC volleyball assistant volleyball coach Kelsey Stanley slides over into the head coaching spot, and Coeur d’Alene native Russell Grove assumes the men and women’s golf team head coaching position. mons tenure as an as- sistant coach, NIC av- eraged 22 wins a year, including three Scenic West Athletic Confer- ence championships and the NJCAA No. 1 national ranking in two different seasons. Russell Grove is currently the assistant golf professional at Avondale Golf Club in Hayden, the home of the NIC Golf teams. Grove attended Coeur d’Alene High School, where he was the valedictorian and helped the Vikings win the 5A State Golf Championship in 2004. He received a golf scholarship to the University of Idaho where he served as the team captain and led the Vandals to their best finish in the history of the Western Athletic Conference. Grove was a three- time recipient of the WAC Scholar Ath- lete Award, and three-time selection on the WAC Academic All-Conference team. At the University of Idaho, Grove set the 36- hole and 54-hole record with scores of 131 and 203 respectively. In addition, he set the UI course record with a score of 62, and currently holds the second lowest career scoring average in school history at 74.2. Grove replaced Derrick Thompson who moved on to Iowa Western CC. Kelsey Stanley has been the top assis- tant on the past two NIC volleyball teams that have finished 6th and 8th in the na- tion at the NJCAA national tournament, and earned the No. 1 national ranking in NJCAA polls. Stanley is used to success after attending Bottineau High School in North Dakota, where she excelled as a stu- dent athlete in volley- ball, basketball, and track and field. She earned All-State hon- ors in volleyball and was a five-time state pole vault champion in track. In 2006, Stanley was named North Da- kota Athlete of the Year. Stanley continued her volleyball and track career at Dickinson State University where she became a six-time NAIA All- American in track and field and a four-time national pole vault champion. She complet- ed a bachelor’s degree in elementary edu- cation at Dickinson State University. “These coaches have tremendous re- sumes and are used to success on all levels” said Williams. “I think we are in very ca- pable hands!” A new era of Athletics begins at NIC with the eventual transition to the NWAC in two years. In the meantime, three familiar faces hope to continue the tradition of success in Cardinal athletics from the head coaches perch! The future looks bright! Booster Club News NORTH IDAHO COLLEGE LUNCHEON SCHEDULE: 8/26: Noon: Coeur d’Alene Resort • 9/9: 11:30am: Coeur d’Alene Resort • 9/30: Noon: Coeur d’Alene Resort AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2014 New Faces from Familiar Places Men’s Basketball, Volleyball and Golf programs under new leadership INSIDE: Montgomery NJCAA Freshman Golfer of the Year KELSEY STANLEY RUSSELL GROVE COREY SYMONS
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“We are fortunate to have talented young coaches already associ-ated with our programs ready to step forward and take over the top coaching spots” said NIC Athletics Direc-tor Al Williams. “This is the first college head coaching position for all three, so I know they are excited!”
Corey Symons has been waiting for a chance to be a college head basketball coach for ten years as an assistant to Jared Phay, who departed for the College of Southern Idaho head coaching position. Sy-mons becomes only the fourth NIC men’s head basketball coach in 52 seasons! Sy-mons redshirted at NIC in 1993 and then went on to play at Blue Mountain Com-munity College and Northwest University in Kirkland, Wash. Symons averaged 16 points per game in his final season and was team captain at Northwest University, where he graduated with a business degree. After college, Symons played for a select international team in France. During Sy-
The NIC Athletics department will have three new head coaches on staff as the 2014 school year begins, and all have long ties to Coeur d’Alene or North Idaho College.
Former NIC basketball player and long-time assistant coach Corey Symons will take over the men’s basketball program. Former NIC volleyball assistant volleyball coach Kelsey Stanley slides over into the head coaching spot, and Coeur d’Alene native Russell Grove assumes the men and women’s golf team head coaching position.
mons tenure as an as-sistant coach, NIC av-eraged 22 wins a year, including three Scenic West Athletic Confer-ence championships and the NJCAA No. 1 national ranking in two different seasons.
Russel l Grove is currently the assistant golf professional at Avondale Golf Club in Hayden, the home of the NIC Golf teams. Grove attended Coeur d’Alene High School, where he was the valedictorian and helped the Vikings win the 5A State Golf Championship in 2004. He received a golf scholarship to the University of Idaho where he served as the team captain and led the Vandals to their best finish in the history of the Western Athletic Conference. Grove was a three-time recipient of the WAC Scholar Ath-lete Award, and three-time selection on the WAC Academic All-Conference team. At the University of Idaho, Grove set the 36-hole and 54-hole record with scores of 131 and 203 respectively. In addition, he set the UI course record with a score of 62, and
currently holds the second lowest career scoring average in school history at 74.2. Grove replaced Derrick Thompson who moved on to Iowa Western CC.
Kelsey Stanley has been the top assis-tant on the past two NIC volleyball teams that have finished 6th and 8th in the na-tion at the NJCAA national tournament, and earned the No. 1 national ranking in NJCAA polls. Stanley is used to success after attending Bottineau High School in North Dakota, where she excelled as a stu-dent athlete in volley-ball, basketball, and track and field. She earned All-State hon-ors in volleyball and was a five-time state pole vault champion in track. In 2006, Stanley was named North Da-kota Athlete of the Year.
Stanley continued her volleyball and track career at Dickinson State University where she became a six-time NAIA All-American in track and field and a four-time national pole vault champion. She complet-ed a bachelor’s degree in elementary edu-cation at Dickinson State University.
“These coaches have tremendous re-sumes and are used to success on all levels” said Williams. “I think we are in very ca-pable hands!” A new era of Athletics begins at NIC with the eventual transition to the NWAC in two years. In the meantime, three familiar faces hope to continue the tradition of success in Cardinal athletics from the head coaches perch!
The future looks bright!
Booster Club NewsN O R T H I D A H O C O L L E G E
New Faces from Familiar PlacesMen’s Basketball, Volleyball and Golf programs under new leadership
INSIDE: Montgomery NJCA A Freshman Golfer of the Year
KELSEY STANLEY RUSSELL GROVE COREY SYMONS
mer NIC Men’s basketball player, and Rann is an architect who designed the NBA Arco Arena, the home of the Sacramento Kings. We welcome them both!
Also, a special thanks to Booster Club Board members John Marcheso and Robert Cliff, for their hard work on the board of the Coeur d’Alene Crossing swimming event. Their efforts helped in the success of this event, now its third year, which has become a tremendous fundraiser for the NIC Booster Club.
We hope to see you at the upcoming Booster Club luncheons, the second and last Tuesday of each month, beginning August 26 at the CDA Re-sort. Cruise tickets are still available for our An-nual Booster Club Sunset Cruise on Wednesday, September 3rd. Call the NIC Athletics Depart-ment for your tickets. 208 769-3348.
BOARD OFFICERS
PRESIDENT Jon Parson
VICE PRESIDENTRoger Stewart
TREASURERMark Hampe
SECRETARYRann Haight
BOARD MEMBERS
Robert CliffTom Messina
John MarchesoJon Berger
Frank DarlingtonPatty StewartCasey IrgensMike O’Brien
The North Idaho College Booster Club is a nonprofit organization, committed to providing financial support to all recognized intercol-legiate athletic programs at NIC through various fund-raising and en-dowment activities for student ath-lete grant-in-aid and team benefits. Organized in the 1960s, the Booster
Club supports all NIC recognized in-tercollegiate athletics as a lifelong learning experience that will enhance the value of sportsmanship and pro-vide a positive experience for stu-dent athletes, students, and fans. The club also recognizes the commit-ment our athletes make to the young people of our community through our
athletic Cardinal Kids outreach pro-grams. The Booster Club holds vari-ous fund-raising events throughout the year including an annual auction, awards banquet, 3-on-3 basketball tournament, and golf tournament. It also sponsors a booth each year at the North Idaho Fair and operates a con-cession stand at all home events.
M I S S I O N S T A T E M E N T
AL WILLIAMS
Welcome back to the start of another year of Cardinal Athletics! Our summers keep getting busier with more camps, fundraisers, and yes, golf tournaments! We’ve hired new coaches, gradu-ated many student athletes, and seen changes in our Booster Club board.
We bid farewell to our friend and family mem-ber Ginni Lenz, who served on our Booster Club Board for many years and was recognized as the Booster Club Member of the year in 2010. After a long battle with Cancer, Ginni is now at peace, but wow did she “FIGHT LIKE A GIRL”. That was the battle cry during Ginni’s bout with Cancer, and in her true fighting spirit she defied the odds for more than two years after being diagnosed. Several fundraisers for Cancer Awareness were established on her behalf in the Coeur d’Alene area, includ-ing a softball tournament named, of course “THE FIGHT!” Go to https://www.facebook.com/team-FIGHTlikeAgirl for more information on this soon to be annual event, and other cancer awareness links on Ginni’s behalf. She was a true fan of all sports, and loved providing the most for student-athletes! We will miss her!
We give a big Thank You to departing Boost-er Club Board members Julie Stark, Mike O’Brien, and Steve Casey! All served on the Board for many years and many committees, and served us well. We know we will still see you at the games! Mike O’Brien will relocate to Mos-cow to take over operations of the Best Western- University Inn, so his commute may be a little tougher!
We say Hello to two new Board members Casey Irgens and Rann Haight. Casey is a for-
Tradition of Excellence
Sept. 3 6:00 PM Booster Club Cruise - Boarding at Independence Point
Sept. 9 11:30 AM Coaches Showcase at the CDA Resort
Aug. 22 4:30 p.m. M. SOCCER vs Trinity Western Univ. (Exhib.)
Aug. 30 12:00 p.m. W. SOCCER vs Lane CC
Aug. 30 2:15 p.m. M. SOCCER vs South Puget Sound CC
Sept. 2 4:15 p.m. M. SOCCER vs Tacoma CC
Sept. 9 2:00 p.m. W. SOCCER vs Walla Walla CC
Sept. 9 4:15 p.m. M. SOCCER vs Walla Walla CC
Sept. 12 2:00 p.m. W. SOCCER vs Chemeketa CC
DATE TIME EVENT
Sept. 12 7:00 p.m. VOLLEYBALL vs Great Falls University (JV)
Sept. 13 2:00 p.m. VOLLEYBALL vs University of Great Falls (JV)
Sept. 24 2:00 p.m. W. SOCCER vs Yakima Valley CC
Sept. 25 7:00 p.m. VOLLEYBALL vs USU - Eastern
Sept. 27 1:00 p.m. VOLLEYBALL vs Colorado Northwestern CC
Sept. 30 2:00 p.m. W. SOCCER vs Treasure Valley CC
Sept. 30 4:15 p.m. M. Soccer vs Treasure Valley CC
N I C C A R D I N A L S H O M E E V E N T S C H E D U L E
The third annual Coeur d’Alene Crossing, a 2.4 mile open water swimming event on Lake Coeur d’Alene, was held on Saturday, August 16th, and Kade Hern, 17, of Coeur d’Alene, was the top finisher. Kade swims with the Coeur d’Alene Area Swim Team (CAST) and rose from the water with a time of 48:59. Hern’s time was just off the record time set last year at 44:55, and only a few minutes ahead of the field.
Contributions for the CDA Crossing were raised from sponsors, private donations and participant registration. The proceeds from the event are equitably shared with the NIC Booster Club, Union Gospel Mission, and CAST. This year’s CDA Crossing attracted
nearly 200 registered swimmers and gener-ated additional donations close to $15,000.
Each not-for-profit organization involved should receive over $5,000 to support their respective charities after expenses. This year the CDA Crossing joined forces with two other local triathlon events, the CDA Mara-thon and the CDA Fondo, a 126 mile bike ride. Participants completing all three events in one calendar year will earn a medallion representing the Coeur d’Alene Iron Series.
The event begins from Discovery Marina at Arrow Point and ends at the Hagadone Event Center beach, and attracted swimmers from age 10 to 71. Go to www.cdacrossing.com for complete race details and results.
Coeur d’Alene Crossing
COACHES SHOWCASEJoin us on September 9 for the 5th
annual Coaches Showcase at the CDA Resort Shore Lounge. The special media day event features season outlooks and national predictions from all of the NIC coaches. There will also be raffles, give-aways and a season highlight video. The lunch begins at 11:30am and is open to the public.
BOOSTER CLUB CRUISEIt’s hard to believe, but it’s time
for the 12th Booster Club “Let’s Go Cruisin’” annual cruise! Come join us for this relaxing double boat cruise de-parting at 6:30pm for a 2 hour sunset cruise from Independence Point in front of the Resort. It’s a great way to meet Cardinal athletes, coaches and fellow Booster Club members. Invite a friend and join the fun! Tickets are only $25 for the cruise, with music on the boat and snacks are available. Boarding begins at 6:00pm. Call the NIC Athletics depart-ment for tickets. Booster Club Members receive a free ticket with your member-ship renewal.
VOLLEYBALLThe volleyball team had an excellent
training camp as we approach the start of the season. In a recap of last season I am excited to announce that all of our sophomores will be moving on and playing next year at four year schools. Alli-son Meehan, signed with Division I San Jose in California, Katie Schueman signed with NAIA, Webber International in Florida, Anyssa Matheson signed with Divis ion II Texas A&M Kings-ville in Texas, Tessa Sian signed with NAIA Dickinson State University in North Dakota, Russia Rob-inson signed with NAIA Lewis Clark State College and Leeta Grap signed with Divi-sion II New Mexico University.
I am super excited for the girls and look forward to hear how they do next year.
This year’s team has returners in key po-sitions beginning with captain Kennedy Chadwick as our starting libero. Maddi Seidl brings experience from the setter posi-tion, and Britany Aldridge is an explosive outside hitter. We are happy to welcome new Cardinals to the family, including Brenna Meehan from Post Falls. We have been lucky to have had her two older sisters and we look forward to see what Brenna brings to the court. Our inside presence comes from Dzeni Hadzisehovic, a 6’4” transfer from Western Wyoming College, and Matilda Altin, a 5’11” middle from Sweden.
I not only look forward to the develop-ment of this team, but also the opportunity of being their new head coach. I thank ev-eryone for their support and hope to see you all in the stands at the Spokane Travel NW Invitational at the HUB, August 21-23, and this coming fall cheering your Cardinals on!
MEN’S SOCCERMen’s Soccer’s Christian Botuli and
Adam Talley have represented the Cardi-nals well so far in the Evergreen Premier League. Talley earned minutes in each of the Spokane Shadow’s first three games. Talley
and Botuli both started against Westsound FC as Talley scored a goal in the Shadow’s first win of the season. Botuli also started against South Sound FC the following day as a defensive midfielder. Will Mecier and Tanner Jones have signed with Concordia University, and Dylan Allen is committed to Carroll College.
The soccer sea-son is well underway with preseason train-ing and exhibitions coming quickly. We had a solid season of recruiting. Lo-cals Aaron Cross-ingham , Braden Ridgewell, and Tony Quesne l l s igned in May. Mitch Markovetz, a goalkeeper from Boise also signed earlier in the month. Macoy McClaughlin of Great Falls, MT, and Taylor Haman and David Geske of Twin Falls, ID have now signed as well. McClaughlin and Geske are both defenders, Haman is a crafty, athletic attacker. Men’s Soccer has completed their fall schedule which includes three matches against four year schools. In pre-season, NIC will host Trinity Western on August 22nd and travel to Whitworth on the 23rd. The Cardinals’ first league match is August 30th against South Puget Sound CC at home. Come enjoy some high energy soccer with a tough NWAC schedule.
WOMEN’S SOCCERMost of the Spring was spent scram-
bling to get geared up for playing in the NWAC this Fall, and a big part of that was working with current players and commit-ted players to adjust their scholarships to conform to the NWAC standards. We were able to get our entire roster within NWAC limits so we can now com-pete in the NWAC playoffs this season. The change of conferences may actually help
us sign more players from Seattle or Port-land as now we’ll be playing games closer to those locales and families will be able to watch daughters or sisters play more often than in past years.
We have a full schedule of games this season complemented by league rivals in the NWAC. Our season opens up over Labor Day Weekend with a tough match-up with Lane College on August 30. Lane returns an experienced roster from a 14-5-3 sea-son and an NWAC playoff berth last year. We return to action on Tuesday September 2 with an afternoon game against Tacoma Community College. This season we have a balanced schedule, with 10 home games and 10 road contest, without any games versus Club teams.
I hope all of you enjoyed your Summer, played a little golf, and are ready for NIC soccer this Fall.
Go Cardinals!
WRESTLINGThe Wrestling program issued its
13,000th book this summer when we visited Sorenson Magnet el-ementary school in June. Mayor Steve Widmyer was a guest reader for the students, and each student received a personal book. The only requirement is the student must read the book to some-one! The reading program was estab-lished in 2002 in a partnership with Parker Toyota. It was named in honor of Doug Parker’s late wife Shirley, who was a big supporter of reading and wrestling. The pro-gram puts at least one book in the hands of every first grader in the Coeur d’Alene school district each year.
As the school year is about to kick off, the Wrestling program would also like to give back to the community by sponsor-ing the 2nd Annual Free School Supplies to School Age Kids . On August 27 from 10:00am – 2:00pm (or as long as supplies last), the NIC Wrestling team will be distrib-
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DAN HOGAN
KELSEY STANLEYKEN THOMPSON
PAT WHITCOMB
uting school supplies in the Village at Riv-erstone, across from the Aeropostale store. Special thanks to our many sponsors that have donated to this worthy cause to help the youth of our community. For more infor-mation call (208)755-1634.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALLWe are pleased to announce that we
have signed five top recruits for the 2014-2015 season. They will be joining returning guards Katie King (Post Falls, ID), Bailey Schroeder (Benton City, WA), Kara Staggs (Okanogan, WA), and Ryleigh Swagerty (Burlington, WA). Returning at the forward position is Sabrina Earle (Medical Lake, WA) and medical redshirt Mariah Swanson (Burlington, WA). Caitlyn Behymer (Okan-ogan, WA) and Panisesi Taimani (Kenne-wick, WA) return as veteran post players.
Maci Benedict is a 5’7” combo guard from Lebanon, OR, and she led her team to three straight trips to the 5A Oregon state championships. Her senior year she aver-aged 12.1 points, 3.8 assists, 3.1 rebounds, and 2.4 steals per game. She was a unani-mous First Team All-MidWillamette League selection as well as Second Team All-State, and First Team All-Tournament in the 5A state championships.
Monica Landdeck, is an off guard from Brewster, WA. As a senior she was a repeat First Team All-Caribou League selection and the second leading scorer in the league while averaging 20 points, 6 rebounds, 2.3 assists, and 1.6 steals per game. She was selected to play in the WSGBCA All-State game and lead all scorers with 15 points. As a junior, she helped lead her team to a 26-1 record while winning the 1A Washington state title. In addition, Monica is a member of the Na-tional Honor Society.
Samara Hill, is a 5’8” combo guard from Frankston, Victoria, Australia. She led Row-ville Secondary College (High School) to the Australian School National Champion-ship where they earned gold medals while she was named MVP. She led them to silver in 2012 and gold in 2011. She was selected to the Victorian U18 State team and compet-ed with them in the Australian Junior Cham-pionships in Brisbane. In 2012 her U18 state team earned the bronze and in 2011 her U16
team earned the gold. This past season she averaged 16 points, 8 rebounds, 4.3 assists, and 3 steals per game.
Gracie Varcoe is a 6’2” center from Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia. She led the All Saints Anglican School as team cap-tain and top point scorer at the Queensland U18 All-State Champion Schools Tour-nament in 2012 and 2013 while averag-ing 16 points, 12 rebounds, 3 assists, and 2 steals per game. She has been named
First Team All-State Queensland, MVP and Top Rebound-er at the Indonesia Challenge.
Shelby Cloninger is a transfer from Utah State University where she started five games as a freshman. Shelby played at Ka-miah High School in
Idaho earning consecutive all-state honors. In 2013 she led Kamiah to the state cham-pionship and to the state finals the previous two years. Her senior year she averaged 14.5 points to go along with 1.4 blocks per game. She was a multi-sport athlete who also played volleyball and ran track.
We are also pleased to announce our team award winners for the 2013-2014 season as voted on by their teammates:
Most Improved Player: Sabrina EarleBest Defensive Player: Kara StaggsMost Inspirational Player (tie): Jansen
Butler and Renae MokrzyckiMost Valuable Player: Renae MokrzyckiJohn Wooden Character Award (tie): Bai-
ley Schroeder and Jansen ButlerCongratulations to the entire team on an
excellent season finishing 22-10. Coaches Chris and Carey Carlson have
been busy making an impact in the com-munity by putting on two very successful camps at NIC this past summer and coach-ing the North Idaho Elite high school team at eight highly competitive tournaments this past April – July.
They finished off this spring/summer sea-son with a 37-8 record winning three cham-pionships, finishing second twice, and third three times.
MEN’S BASKETBALLHope all of you have had a great summer.
It has been a little crazy in the Men’s Bas-ketball offices. As you are probably aware I have recently taken over the program due to coach Phay’s departure to CSI. We wish coach Phay and his family much success in his new position. This has been a great op-portunity for me and my staff to continue the success of the coaching staffs before us. I was fortunate enough to retain coach Thane Jackson who has been a vital part of our suc-cess over the past 2 seasons. This is our first win over coach Phay and CSI with hopefully
many more to come. Thane and I have been extremely busy this offseason try-ing to build a team of great student/athletes. We have a great core group re-turning, and have been successful on the recruiting trail.
Returning for the Cardinals is Jamaal Robateau who red-shirted for us last season and will play a vital role in our team success this coming year. We also return 3 high school team-mates Will Dorsey, Jordan King, and Fuquan Niles as well as Ty Higbie from CDA. These returners played a big role in our overall success last season and we have high expectations for them in the coming year.
We are very pleased to keep incoming freshman Kyle Guice (6’8) in CDA. Kyle had a great career at LCHS and we look forward to the same at NIC. Often your best recruiters are your players. With the help of the 3 Rainer Beach returners, we were able to sign Minnesota signee Djuan Piper. Djuan (6’7) guard that is extremely excited to be a part of the Cardinal family.
On the foreign list will be incoming freshman Braian Angola (6’6) guard, Lucas Antunez (6’3) guard, both from Findlay Prep High School in Las Vegas, and D ’Adrian Allen (6’8) who is a transfer from Palm Beach State.
The Cardinals have also welcomed 2 other transfers Austin Pope (6’6) guard
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from Cerritos College CA, and David Baze (6’6) guard from Pierce CC WA. Both have been successful in their past seasons. Our recruiting class is rounded out by incoming freshmen Ziggy Satterhwaite (6’5) post, and Marcus Harris (6’3) guard, both from the Puyallup WA area, and Charlie Lock-wood, a 6’11’’ center from Inglewood, Calif.
We as a staff have worked hard putting this roster together. We are excited about the future of NIC Cardinal Basketball and look forward to getting to work with these young student/athletes. We truly believe that this upcoming season will be one that we will never forget. Thanks again for all your sup-port. Without the support of our great boost-er club none of this would be possible.
Go Cards!
SOFTBALLIn a season recap from the Scenic West Ath-letic Conference the softball team had four players selected to the SWAC All-Region teams. Sophomore Kylene Hatton earned 1st team outfield honors. Hatton hit .401 for the season. Hatton was also selected to play for the NJCAA All-Star team in the Canadian Cup in July. This team was made up of the top players in the country. Freshman Mad-
die Anthony earned 1st team All-Region honors for the infield. Anthony hit .392 for the season and was selected to the SWAC All-Tournament team for her performance at the regional tour-nament. Freshman Miranda Powless earned 1st team All-
Region honors as a pitcher with a 10-5 re-cord on the season. Freshman Marissa Tarin earned 2nd team All-Region honors for in-field with a .376 batting average. We are now finalizing our recruiting to fill our roster for the upcoming season.
GOLFThe NIC men and women golf teams fin-ished their final season in the NJCAA on a high, qualifying for the NJCAA national golf championships. The men ended the sea-son with the highest ranking in school histo-ry at No. 7, and finished 15th at the national tournament. Freshman Angus Montgomery earned NJCAA honorable mention recog-nition by individually finishing 12th place
overall. Prior to the national tournament several Cardinals re-ceived honors. Mont-gomery was selected for the Phil Mickel-son award, presented to the top NJCAA Division I Fresh-man, and 1st team All-American rec-ognition by the Golf
Coaches Association of American. He will be attending Gonzaga University on a golf scholarship next season. Teammates Chris Cremer, Tanner Martin, and Michael Por-ter were selected to the All-District team.The women’s golf teams entered the NJCAA tournament ranked No. 14 in the nation and finished in that position at the nation-al tournament in Daytona Beach, Florida. Sophomores Jennie Williams and Madison Hauck finished their Cardinal career with two national tournament appearances, and freshmen Elsa Goodsen and Jenna Kaik return after a solid tournament performance. Both the men and women’s golf teams will compete in the Northwest Athletic Confer-ence (NWAC) beginning this fall.
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AD Al Williams receives a donation of $5,000 from Chief Allen and the Coeur d’Alene Tribal Casino for student scholarships.
