Northwest Notes: Thursday, May 24, 2014

NIC offers girls basketball

camps June 9-12

COEUR d'ALENE - North Idaho College women's basketball coaches Chris and Carey Carlson, and Cal DeHaas, along with players comprise the instructional staff for a camp set for June 9-12 at Christianson Gym.

Each camp costs $75 for one camp or $125 for two camps or two girls in the same family.

Comprehensive Fundamentals Camp, for grades 3-7, is offered from 10 a.m. to noon. This camp covers a wide range of basic, fundamental basketball principles.

Guard-Post Play Camp, for grades 6-12, is from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. This camp will develop individual position skills.

Shooting camp, for grades 6-12, is from 3 to 4:30 p.m. This camp will focus on extensive shooting instruction, basic fundamentals, advanced footwork and shooting mentality.

For registration forms, visit www.nicathletics.com, then click "Athletic Department," and then "Camps, Clinics, & Special Events." Registration will also be accepted at the door 30 minutes prior to camp start time.

Information: 769-3347 or 665-2758

WSU's Lacy headed to China

with Pac-12 all-star team

Washington State senior DaVonte Lacy was chosen as one of 13 Pac-12 men's basketball student-athletes to participate in a four-game all-star tour of China this August as part of the league's Globalization Initiative, the conference announced Friday.

Joining Lacy on the team are guards Andrew Andrews (Washington), Bo Barnes (Arizona State), Malcom Duvivier (Oregon State), Jacob Hazzard (Arizona) and Brandon Taylor (Utah); forwards Xavier Johnson (Colorado), Nikola Jovanovic (USC), Jordan Loveridge (Utah) and Roger Moute a Bidias (California); and centers Cheikh N'diaye (Oregon State), Jeremy Olsen (Utah) and Schuyler Rimmer (Stanford).

The team will be coached by Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak.

The 10-day tour will commence Aug. 10 and will be the first men's basketball all-star tour for the Pac-12 since the conference sent both a men's and women's all-star team to Japan in 1996. The team will start with pre-tour practice at San Francisco, Aug. 7-9, and play games Aug. 13, 14, 16 and 18, before returning to the United States around Aug. 19.

Ex-Coug Gesser lands job

in WSU athletic department

PULLMAN - Washington State athletics has announced several staff changes to the Cougar Athletic Fund (CAF), including the hiring of former Cougar quarterback Jason Gesser as an assistant director of development, WSU athletic director Bill Moos announced.

Gesser, who led Washington State to the 2001 Sun Bowl and 2003 Rose Bowl, will focus his duties on engaging former Cougar student-athletes to reconnect with WSU athletics.

Gesser was recently named analyst on WSU football radio broadcasts.

Riley promoted to men's basketball

assistant coach at EWU

CHENEY - Eastern Washington University director of basketball operations David Riley has been elevated to an assistant men's coaching position at EWU, fourth-year Eagles coach Jim Hayford has announced.

Riley, 25, takes the place on the staff of Craig Fortier, who left Eastern to become a women's assistant coach for his wife, Lisa, at Gonzaga. Hayford's other two assistants are Shantay Legans and Alex Pribble, and both received elevations in their positions with the recent changes.

Riley played for Hayford at Whitworth University from the 2007-08 season through 2010-11.