Former Sweet Home star Ally Tow (2018) signed a letter of intent Feb. 19, during halftime at a Linn-Benton Community College basketball game, to play volleyball at Corban University.
Tow led LBCC with 382 kills last season and was second in digs with 343 last season.
Corban finished last season with a 22-10 record, the sixth-best record in team history and ranked No. 14 nationally after making its fourth-straight appearance in the NAIA Final 16. The squad’s two losses in the national tournament came at the hands of the No. 2 (Northwestern) and No. 1-ranked programs in the country. Head Coach Kim McLain achieved a milestone of her own by eclipsing the 100-career-win mark early in the season.
The Corban roster is set to return 10 of its 11 members who played in at least 100 sets during 2019.
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Kobe Olson (2017), a sophomore wrestling for Umpqua Community College, finished fifth in the National Junior College Athletic Association Region 18 Championships, held Feb. 15-16 at Southwestern Oregon Community College in Coos Bay. U
Clackamas Community College won the regional title with 158.5 points. Umpqua tied for fourth with Highline, with 86 points.
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Luci Davis (2017) earned two All-Mountain West Conference honors, one of five Boise State swimmers to do so this season. A junior out of East Linn Christian Academy, who swam for Sweet Home for four years, Davis placed third in the 500 Freestyle (4:49.04) and fourth in the mile (16:52.28) during the conference finals held Feb. 19-22 in Minneapolis, Minn. The Broncos placed seventh overall with 807 points, 96 points out of third.
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Spring action in women’s golf kicks off March 7-8 for sophomore Haley May (2018) and her Corban teammates. Corban has five players – one a senior, two sophomores and two freshmen. As a freshman May played 14 rounds for the Warriors, who finished third in the CCC Championships.
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Sophomore Bethany Gingerich (2018) anchored the winning George Fox 4×400 Relay team at the Bruin/Pilot Indoor Meet held Feb. 22-23 at the University of Portland. The Bruins finished three seconds ahead of Southern Oregon, in 3:53.94.
George Fox kicks off its outdoor season March 6-7 at the Linfield Ice Breaker.
Also on the Bruins roster is freshman Lance Hanson (2019).