Seventh-grade girls basketball tryouts Sunday
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Girls Basketball Association and the Olympic Avalanche have joined forces in creating basketball opportunities for girls on the North Olympic Peninsula in grades 5-8.
Tryouts for seventh-graders is Sunday at 6 p.m. at the Peninsula College gym. This session was previously slated solely as the Olympic Avalanche tryout, but it also is for girls who played with the Port Angeles Girls Basketball Association last year.
Tryout sessions for other grades will be announced soon.
For more information regarding the seventh-grade tryouts, contact Avalanche head coach Joe Marvelle at avalancheaau@icloud.com or 360-460-4746
For more about the Port Angeles Girls Basketball Association, contact Roxi Baxley at roxi@straitwebsolutions.com or 360-797-3799.
Forks soccer shoot
FORKS — The Forks Elks Lodge No. 2524 had 34 participants in four age divisions at its annual soccer shoot last week.
The first-place winners in the under-8 category were Dylan Deslauriers (boys) and Alyna Brianna Centeno (girls); under-10 winners were Jai Alexander Leavitt-Ward (boys) and Katelynn Wallerstedt (girls); the under-12 boys winner was Ruben Mayen-Jorge (no under-12 girls participated); under-14 winners were Luis Rafael Zaragoza (boys) and Annhelica Wells (girls).
All of these winners will advance to the state contest in Mount Vernon on Oct. 25.
Dinius now coaching
BOSTON, Mass. — Former Sequim High School runner Stephanie (Marcy) Dinius has joined the men’s cross country coaching staff at Wheelock College, the school announced this week.
After concluding her high school career with a state championship, Dinius, then Stephanie Marcy, moved on to Stanford University.
Dinius ran varsity for the cross country, indoor and outdoor track and field teams for four years at Stanford, where she earned three Academic All-American honors and four Athletic All-American honors.
Dinius recently served as a sport psychology intern with Wheelock athletics as she works towards her Master of Education degree in Counseling: Sport and Performance Psychology at Boston University.
Dinius is currently training for the Olympic Trials in the marathon and 10,000-meter and a spot on the United States National team.
In 2014, she placed in the top 10 at the U.S. Half Marathon Championships and U.S. 10,000-meter championships.
She also competed for Team USA Cross Country in Scotland and Trinidad and Tobago.