PRIEST RIVER — Priest River High will be hosting a shooting clinic for basketball players from third through 12th grade on Saturday, Jan. 17. The clinic, which will start at 10 a.m. and last until 12 p.m., will feature Jeff Fryer, former Loyola Marymount University (NCAA Division I) standout, as a special guest.

Fryer, founder of the Fryer Basketball Academy located in Costa Mesa, Calif., was a graduate of Corona Del Mar High where he was Orange County's leading scorer his junior and senior year. Fryer ended up attending Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, in which he was a 1990 graduate, and put together a storied career that included All-West Region tournament honors, two-time All-West Coast Conference honors and a 2007 induction into the Lions' Hall of Fame. Fryer, a 6-foot-2-inch guard, was a key member of the Loyola Marymount's run to the Elite 8 in 1990, averaging 22.7 points per game as the Lions averaged an NCAA record 122.4 points per game as a team. Across 112 games played, he finished out his career with 1,922 points, which ranks as sixth all-time in LMU History — 1,089 of those 1,922 points were scored from behind the 3-point line. Fryer still holds seven of nine three-point records at LMU, including a single-game record of 11 made triples in a second-round NCAA tournament win over Michigan in 1990... that record, which is also an NCAA tournament record, still stands till' this day.

Fryer eventually moved on to the professional ranks, where he played for the Houston Rockets in the summer of 1990 and then went on to play in countries such as Germany, Spain, Australia, and Canada across a 10-year span. Having founded his own Academy in 2013, he still actively runs camps, holds clinics, and gives private lessons to kids of all ages. 

Registration for the clinic at Priest River High will start at 9:45 a.m. and costs $10 per athlete. For more information, contact Priest River High head boys basketball coach Brian Hall at 208-380-1695.