Newlee to speak at

NIC Booster luncheon

Jon Newlee, head women’s basketball coach at the University of Idaho, will be the guest speaker at the NIC Booster Club Luncheon at noon on Tuesday at the Coeur d’Alene Resort.

Newlee was hired as the ninth head coach in University of Idaho women’s basketball history in 2008. Newlee inherited a team that won just four games the season before his arrival and has since become Idaho’s all-time leader in wins with 169. He has led Idaho to six postseason bids — including three NCAA tournament — in his 10 seasons at the helm. Newlee has won three conference tournament championships, 102 conference games, 15 conference tournament games and two Western Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors. He led the program to its first postseason appearance in 25 years with a Women’s Basketball Invitational bid in 2011 and its first NCAA bid since 1985 by winning the 2013 WAC tournament.

Newlee coached the Vandals to a return trip to the Big Sky Tournament championship in 2018. The Vandals earned the No. 2 seed in the tournament after going 13-5 in the conference (19-14 overall). Idaho was awarded the Big Sky’s automatic bid to the WNIT, returning to the postseason for the third straight season.

The public is welcome to attend the luncheon. The NIC Booster Club meets on the second and last Tuesday of each month at noon at various locations in the community. Check out the NIC Athletics Department website for more details at www.nic.edu/athletics or contact the NIC Athletics Office at (208) 769-3348.

SWX to broadcast four Eastern football games this season

Eastern Washington University football fans throughout the region will have four more opportunities to watch the Eagles on television this fall.

SWX, the sister station of KHQ in Spokane, will begin the year by broadcasting EWU’s opener versus Central Washington on Sept. 1 at 1:05 p.m. at Roos Field in Cheney. Eastern’s next game at Northern Arizona on Sept. 8 at 4:05 p.m. will also be broadcast by SWX.

The other games being broadcast by SWX are EWU’s Hall of Fame game on Sept. 22 at 1:05 p.m. against Cal Poly, and Senior Day on Nov. 10 versus UC Davis at 1:05 p.m. Both of those games will take place at “The Inferno.”