RE/MAX long drive qualifier set for June 23 at The Links

POST FALLS - A local qualifier for the RE/MAX long drive competition is scheduled for June 23 at The Links Golf Club, beginning at 8 a.m.

The competition will be held on the 18th hole.

Cost is $40 for six tee shots. Competitors can enter as many times as they like.

There will be two divisions - an open division, and a senior division for those 45 and older.

The event is a qualifier for the regional long drive competition in Billings, Mont. The finals are in October in Mesquite, Nev.

Information: Dillon Diemert, (208) 704-4535, www.longdrivers.com

Registration ongoing for Sting 3-on-3 tournament

The Coeur d'Alene Sting soccer club will hold a 3-on-3 "Just for Kicks" tournament next Saturday and Sunday at the Hayden Meadows Soccer Fields.

The tournament is open to ages groups from 7 to 14. Teams can consist of 3 to 5 players for $125 per team. Field size is 30x40 yards and there is no offsides or goalies.

To register, contact Jim Hoffman at (208) 691-8325 by June 11 or visit www.cdasting.com.

Dan O'Brien inducted into IAAF Hall of Fame

Olympic gold medalist, former world record holder and former University of Idaho track and field great Dan O'Brien will be enshrined as an inaugural member of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Hall of Fame.

O'Brien, a 2006 USA Track & Field Hall of Fame inductee and inaugural Vandal Athletics Hall of Fame inductee, is included among the 24 inaugural inductees into the IAAF Hall of Fame. The prestigious list includes athletic icons such as Jesse Owens, Carl Lewis, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Michael Johnson.

The inaugural members of the Hall of Fame are being announced throughout the season and will be formally inducted on Nov. 24 at the IAAF Centenary Gala in Barcelona. The inductees represent every major event group in track and field.

The Hall of Fame officially was created on March 8, 2012, to mark the centennial year of the IAAF, the international authority in the sport of track and field which is based in the Principality of Monaco.

O'Brien, the 1989 Big Sky Conference Indoor Track Athlete of the Year and Field Athlete of the Year honoree, holds the Big Sky Conference all-time record in the decathlon (7,988) and Idaho school records in the 55-meter hurdles and decathlon. He was a 1989 indoor All-American in the 55-meter hurdles with a school-record 7.25 in a seventh-place finish at the NCAA Championships.

After his time at Idaho, O'Brien went on to win three world championships and a 1996 Olympic gold medal in the decathlon - the first by an American in the event in 20 years at the time. He held a record six No. 1 world rankings in the decathlon by Track & Field News. In 1993, he won the world championship in the indoor heptathlon with a world-record score of 6,476 that stood nearly 17 years to the day until 2010.

Idaho dedicated its track and field facility to O'Brien in 1996 following his Olympic win, and re-dedicated the facility in 2012 after a complete renovation. The Vandal men's team opened the track in grand fashion with a WAC team title in May.