Prep star commits to OSU.Byline: The Register-Guard Claire Pallansch, a 6-foot-2 forward/center from Redmond (Wash.) High School has verbally committed to enrolling at Oregon State next year on a women's basketball Women's basketball is one of the few games which developed in tandem with men's. It became popular, spreading from the east coast of the United States to the west coast, in large part via women's colleges. scholarship. The senior athlete, whose team finished sixth in the Class 4A state tournament and had a 25-2 overall record, said on Thursday she plans to sign a national letter of intent with the Beavers in November. Pallansch averaged eight points and eight rebounds last season. She led the state tournament in rebounding by averaging 10 boards a game for Redmond, which won the Kingco league title. REGIONAL ROUNDUP "Oregon State was the first school I visited and has been my first choice from the beginning," said Pallansch, who also made official visits to Cal State-Northridge and UC Irvine. OSU (Open Source UNIX) Refers to the Unix variants that are maintained as open source, which were primarily BSD Unix and Linux until Sun made its Solaris operating system open source in 2005. hires Liebowitz as swimming coach CORVALLIS - Larry Liebowitz, who spent the last eight seasons as an assistant coach at Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , is the new women's swimming head coach at Oregon State, OSU athletic director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic Bob De Carolis announced Thursday. Oregon State posted its best finish ever in the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Championships this past season, tying for 25th place under coach Mariusz Podkoscielny, who left OSU after seven seasons to become the head coach at Miami. Liebowitz, 53, is in South Korea serving as the head coach of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. men's team at the World University Games. He also served as an assistant coach for the U.S. men's team at the 1999 Pan American Games Pan American (Sports) Games Quadrennial sports festival. The games, conceived in 1940 as an event for the nations of the Western Hemisphere, were first held in 1951. and was an assistant coach at the 1997 World University Games. He was coach of the U.S. men's team in the 1995 Pan Am Games and the 1988 Costa Rica Olympic team. "Larry is an excellent addition to our coaching staff," De Carolis said. "He has an impressive background in the key areas needed to keep our swimming program improving." OSU women's soccer team blanked, 3-0 SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Oregon State's women's soccer team gave up three second-half goals in a 3-0 loss Thursday to Costa Rica's national team. The Beavers, 3-1 on their five-game tour, will play the national team again on Saturday before returning to Corvallis on Sunday. Oregon State begins its regular season Aug. 29 at San Diego State. Beavers picked fifth in men's soccer poll WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - The Oregon State men's soccer team was picked to finish fifth in the Pac-10 in a recent poll of conference coaches released by the conference office. The Beavers received 11 points and were selected to finish ahead of Fresno State in the six-team conference. Defending NCAA champion UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX was picked to finish first, followed by NCAA runner-up Stanford, California and Washington. Camp Fire benefit golf tournament today Camp Fire USA
Camp Fire USA is a nationwide youth organization that began on March 17, 1910 as Camp Fire Girls. The organization has been co-ed since 1975 and has youth from pre-kindergarten through age 21. Wilani Council will benefit from the inaugural Camp Fire USA Benefit Golf Tournament, to be held today at RiverRidge Golf Course. Registration is at 1 p.m. for the 18-hole event, with play beginning at 2 p.m., and an awards dinner at 7 p.m. Cost per foursome is $320. For more information, call 342-6338, Ext. 111, or 953-3625. |
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