Northwest Notes: June 16, 2022
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 4 years, 3 months AGO
Allison Kirby
Kirby signs to
continue
basketball career
in Germany
Former Idaho women’s basketball player Allison Kirby signed her first professional contract to play for Falcons Bad Homburger TG of the Bundesliga in Germany.
The Bundesliga is the second-highest women’s basketball league in Germany.
Kirby, a point guard, led Timberlake High to back-to-back state 3A basketball titles in 2016 and 2017. She also played soccer and competed in the pole vault at Timberlake.
A four-year starter at Timberlake, Kirby finished with 1,310 career points and a program-record 378 assists. Timberlake appeared in the state title game all four years, finishing runner-up twice.
Kirby played five seasons for the Vandals from 2017-22, totaling 133 games. She recorded 583 points, 569 rebounds, 339 assists, and 96 steals. She has the second-best career free-throw percentage (88.7) in Vandal history.
“I am so happy that Allison has achieved her goal of playing professional basketball,” head coach Jon Newlee said. “Allison is one of the most mentally tough players I have ever coached. She overcame injuries, ups and downs, yet continued to persevere through it all. There is absolutely no quit in her, she doesn’t know what that word means. She is a great example of someone working and working to achieve her dreams. She will make the entire Vandal Nation proud as she represents us overseas!”
Off the court, she graduated with a degree in exercise science and health and was a five-time academic all-conference selection for the Vandals.
Von Lossow, Gove tied for lead at Oregon Open
SUNRIVER, Ore. — Amateur Andrew Von Lossow of Manito Golf and Country Club in Spokane and PGA Professional Jeff Gove of The Idaho Club in Sandpoint are tied for the lead at 6-under 138 after the second day of the Oregon Open at the Crosswater Golf Course at Sunriver Resort.
North Idaho College golf coach Russell Grove and Amateur Reid Hatley from Hayden Lake Country Club are tied for 16th with an even par 144.
The tournament concludes today.