Robinson

Former Riverside football standout Spencer Robinson is entering his third season with Macalester  College in St. Paul, Minn.

Robinson has registered  9 total tackles for far this season with the Scots, who have dropped their first two games this fall.

“During my first two years Mac has grown to mean a lot to me,” Robinson posted on the school’s athletic website. “ I’ve met some of my best friends here, pushed myself both in athletics and academically, and become a stronger more focused person as a result of the rigors and benefits of Macalester College.”

Robinson is majoring in biology at the school.

The Riverside girls cross country team, the defending state Class A champions, received the most votes in the first Washington State Cross Country Coaches Association poll of the 2011 season.  King’s, which finished second at last fall’s state cross country championships was second in this week’s poll, followed by Lakeside, Cedar Park Christian and Bellevue Christian.

Riverside did not receive any votes on the boys’ side. Charles Wright Academy was ranked first, followed by King’s Colville, Lakeside and La Center.

The Deer Park boys, who finished 11^th last season, were ranked sixth in the WSCCA’s Class 2A poll this fall. Lindberg, Sehome and Cedarcrest earned the top three spots.

Deer Park was not ranked in the girls’ poll. Sehome, Cheney and North Kitsap were the top vote-getters,

Former Riverside boys basketball and tennis coach Brent Monroe has taken over the athletic directors duties at the high school and middle school.

Monroe takes over for Nick Hamm, who resigned at the end of the last school year after only one year on the job.

Monroe, who found out about his new job last week, started his tenure at Riverside in the 1991-92 school year after a six-year tenure at Chelan High School, where he worked as athletic director.

He served as boys basketball coach at Riverside on two separate occasions, leading the Rams to the state Class A tournament in 2006.

In addition to his time at Riverside and Chelan, he also coached eight years at Kendrick (Idaho) High School, where he won the state Class A-4 title in 1985.

Monroe attended Elk River (Idaho) High School and later played two basketball seasons with the University of Idaho.

He and his wife, Nancy, have two grown children.

The previous DPHS record of 2:21 was shared by Janet Kenney in 1977 and Jeannie Felton in 1981.

Gladhart’s performance was the second school record set this spring. Junior Bailee Jacka set a new pole vault standard of 10 feet, 9 inches earlier in the year.

The 1980 Deer Park High School graduate, who beat breast cancer in the fall of 2009, finished her 250^th marathon with the completion of the BMO Vancouver (B.C.) Marathon on May 1.

Dellinger began running marathons in July 1986 in Olympia. She passed the 100-marathon mark in April 1998 and the 200-marathon barrier in June 2006.

Dellinger had a mastectomy in November 2009 and completed a marathon eight weeks later (No. 234) in Phoenix, Ariz., in January 2010.

The regionals will now be a single elimination format. There was criticism last year that a team could lose an opening game during the regionals and still win the state championship the following week.

The board also decided to play all the boys regional games on Feb. 24 and the girls games on Feb. 25 next year. This will offset another criticism that parents who had children on the boys and girls teams had to choose who to see play since their regional games were scheduled at the same time in different locations.

The board has rejected similar requests in past years.

The latest request comes from Mercer Island, Issaquah, Seattle Prep, Forest Ridge High schools and Holy Names Academy. There is no groundswell of support on the east side of the state.

Under the proposal, high school boys and girls teams would be limited to 16 games along with a jamboree. A middle school team would be limited to 10 games.

Supporters of the sport note that outfitting a lacrosse player is equal to the cost of outfitting a baseball player, around $200.

Coaches must be certified by U.S. Lacrosse, the sports national governing body, pass a Washington State Patrol background check, and be trained in cardio pulmonary-resuscitation and first aid.

The senior averaged 1.75 points per game for the Orediggers, who finished the season with a 22-14 record and an appearance in the NAIA national tournament in Oklahoma City in mid-March.

Chris Snyder

Chris Snyder, who served as an assistant football coach the past two seasons, was named Deer Park High School’s new athletic director.

Snyder will replace Scott Carlson, who resigned effective in June to spend more time with his family.

In the interim, Carlson will help Snyder transition into his new AD role.

Ryan DesRoches

Cal Poly 165-pounder Ryan DesRoches (a three-time state champion while at Riverside) will join three Mustang teammates at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships on March 17-19 in Philadelphia.

DesRoches, a 2008 RHS grad, and 197-pounder Ryan Smith have been selected as at-large entries.

NCAA Division I Wrestling Committee made their at-large selections based on head-to-head competition, qualifying event placement, quality wins, results against common opponents, winning percentage, rating percentage index, coaches ranking and number of matches contested at that weight class.

DesRoches and Smith will join Cal Poly’s automatic qualifiers Boris Novachkov (141) and Barrett Abel (157) at the national finals.

DesRoches, making his second trip to the nationals, compiled a 33-6 record this season and finished third in the Pacific-10 Conference Championships two weeks ago at Oregon State. The junior pinned 14 opponents this season, raising his career total to 36, and will carry an 83-29 career record to Philadelphia.

DesRoches will face second-seeded Andrew Howe of Wisconsin in the opening round.