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Alumni Notes: McKenna moves up to No. 3 in national rankings
By Staff Reports
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 | No comments posted.
Former North Bend tennis superstar Kelcy McKenna continues to take her singles game to new heights at Arizona State University, keeping a No. 3 national ranking in a March 3 poll.
McKenna, a sophomore, most recently led the No. 16 Sun Devils to a 5-2 victory over No. 23 Washingon Friday with a 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 win over 21st-ranked Venise Chan.
Arizona State is back in action today against Washington State.
McKenna was named the Pac-10 women’s tennis player of the week Feb. 2 for the second time after she beat defending NCAA singles champion Amanda McDowell of Georgia Tech, currently ranked 11th, and No. 35 Katie Rybakova of North Carolina, each in straight sets.
McKenna went to France in December to compete with the United States team in the International University Challenge of Tennis. She was selected for the honor after an outstanding fall season for the Sun Devils, including winning the Riviera/ITA Women’s All-American Championships this fall.
McKenna was a four-time state champion for North Bend from 2004 through 2007.
Alison Worthen
Marshfield alum and multi-event state track and field champion Alison Worthen set Great Northwest Athletic Conference records in the high jump and long jump recently at the GNAC indoor championships in Nampa, Idaho. Her performance earned her co-GNAC women’s track and field athlete of the week honors.
Worthen cleared 5 feet, 8 inches in the high jump and soared 18 feet, 6 inches in the long jump to win both events. She also finished second in the 60-meter hurdles, third in the triple jump and fifth in the 200. Her 38 points helped the Falcons claim their sixth consecutive team championship.
Worthen’s high jump mark on Saturday was good enough to automatically qualify her for the NCAA indoor championshops March 13-14 in Houston. She’s also an automatic qualifier in the pentathlon.
Krista Wooley
Reedsport graduate Krista Wooley became the first-ever volleyball player from the Oregon Institute of Technology to receive NAIA All-American honors.
The senior was named to the Cascade Collegiate Conference first team in volleyball after finishing first in the league with 408 kills and third with a hitting percentage of .337. She also was 14th in digs and made the all-conference team for the second time.
Wooley helped the Owls to a third-place finish in the standings.
She also was named player of the week for the Cascade Collegiate Conference twice during the season.
Cody Ferguson
North Bend graduate and Willamette University freshman Cody Ferguson was named Northwest Athletic Conference men’s athlete-student of the week the week of March 2.
He helped the Bearcats win Conference matches on Feb. 28 and March 1, improving Willamette to 4-1 on the season. Ferguson was 2-0 in singles and 2-0 in doubles play during the week. He’s now 4-1 in singles play this year and 5-0 in doubles with his partner, junior Micah Mack.
Willamette is now 5-2 on the season.
Denise Green
North Bend graduate Denise Green set a Boise State team record at the Western Athletic Conference Championships with a 56.29-second time in the 100-yard backstroke. She placed ninth in the finals in the event. Green now owns the top five times in the event in Boise State history.
She also was part of a relay team that set a school record during a recent dual meet against Oregon State University.
Green, Emily Irvin, Amber Boucher and Stephanie North combined for a time of 1:46.64 in the 200 medley relay.
Green, a sophomore, holds the Boise State record in every backstroke event and also is part of several school-record relay teams.
Amanda Johnston
Myrtle Point graduate Amanda Johnston scored 10 points in her final game in an Oregon Institute of Technology uniform, as the Owls fell to No. 14 College of Idaho 63-41 in the Cascade Conference Tournament quarterfinals Feb. 24 in Caldwell, Idaho. Johnston was the only Lady Owl to score in double figures in the game.
Johnston led OIT this season with a team-high average of 13.7 points per game, shooting 49 percent from the field on the season. Johnston scored 28 points against Corban College, 27 against College of Idaho and 24 against Bethany. She also averaged 5 rebounds a game and had a team-best 23 blocks for the Lady Owls.
OIT finished 14-16 on the season, 7-13 in conference play.
Janee Olds
North Bend graduate Janee Olds has played a starting role this season as a senior for the Northwest Nazarene women’s basketball team, helping the Crusaders reach the NCAADivision II tournament.
The Crusaders finished the regular season at 18-19 overall and 11-5 in Great Northwest Athletic Conference play.
Northwest Nazarene is the seventh seed in the West Region for the national tournament, which starts Friday in Seattle.
Starting at guard, Olds has averaged 10.3 points per game this season, third on the team, with 40 percent shooting from the field. She’s also third on the team with 4.6 rebounds per game, and her 42 steals this season are the second-best for the Crusaders. She’s averaging 1.4 assists per game.
Olds scored a season-high 29 points against Cascade Nov. 21. She had 20 points Jan. 17 in a big win over Western Washington.
Olds was the 2005 Class 3A state player of the year and led North Bend to the state title.
Monique Tribble
Former Coquille basketball star Monique Tribble finished her junior year at Corban College averaging 7.74 points per game on 44 percent shooting. The 6-foot-2 center finished the season strong, posting a season-high 15 points Feb. 14 against Cascade College, and her season-high rebounding performance was 13 on Feb. 6 against College of Idaho.
The Warriors saw their season end Feb. 24 against No. 22 Southern Oregon in the first round of the Cascade Collegiate Conference tournament. Tribble had four points in that game.
Tribble was the second-leading scorer in Class 3A play for Coquille in 2005, earning first-team all-league honors and an all-state honorable mention nod.
Muriel Roberge, Amanda Boice and Inger Appanaitis
Marshfield graduate Muriel Roberge received a 2008-2009 Scholar-Athlete Award from the Western Athletic Conference.
Roberge, one of three sisters to win state titles in the pole vault for Marshfield, competes for the Univeristy of Nevada and was honored for track and field.
Also last year, Gold Beach graduate Amanda Boice and Brookings-Harbor graduate Inger Appanaitis, two more members of Nevada’s track program, were named to the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association’s All-Academic team.
Appanaitis was the WAC champion in the javelin and scored the most points of any athlete at the meet, and also competed in the U.S. Olympic Trials last summer. Boice placed third in the high jump at the WAC championships.
Nyika Corbett
Nyika Corbett, a junior from Myrtle Point, led Swarthmore to a seventh-place finish in the Division III Mideast Regional championship in Pennsylvania last fall.
Corbett finished 34th in the race, covering the 6,000-meter course in 23:37 to earn all-region honors.
Corbett placed 15th in the Centennial Conference championships, with a time of 23:32.
Rachel Scavera
North Bend graduate Rachel Scavera finished 150th at the NCAA Division III New England cross country championships, running for Wheaton College of Massachusetts.
Scavera was timed in 26:36 on the 6,000-meter course.
Earlier Scavera helped Wheaton to second place in the NEWMAC championships in Massachusetts, placing 46th on a 5,000-meter course in 21:00.
Heather Porter
Heather Porter finished the season with 126 kills for Southern Oregon University’s volleyball team as the Raiders came within one match of advancing to the NAIA national tournament.
Porter, a Marshfield graduate, also had 12 solo blocks and 47 blocking assists for the Raiders during her sophomore season .
McKenna, a sophomore, most recently led the No. 16 Sun Devils to a 5-2 victory over No. 23 Washingon Friday with a 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 win over 21st-ranked Venise Chan.
Arizona State is back in action today against Washington State.
McKenna was named the Pac-10 women’s tennis player of the week Feb. 2 for the second time after she beat defending NCAA singles champion Amanda McDowell of Georgia Tech, currently ranked 11th, and No. 35 Katie Rybakova of North Carolina, each in straight sets.
McKenna went to France in December to compete with the United States team in the International University Challenge of Tennis. She was selected for the honor after an outstanding fall season for the Sun Devils, including winning the Riviera/ITA Women’s All-American Championships this fall.
McKenna was a four-time state champion for North Bend from 2004 through 2007.
Alison Worthen
Marshfield alum and multi-event state track and field champion Alison Worthen set Great Northwest Athletic Conference records in the high jump and long jump recently at the GNAC indoor championships in Nampa, Idaho. Her performance earned her co-GNAC women’s track and field athlete of the week honors.
Worthen cleared 5 feet, 8 inches in the high jump and soared 18 feet, 6 inches in the long jump to win both events. She also finished second in the 60-meter hurdles, third in the triple jump and fifth in the 200. Her 38 points helped the Falcons claim their sixth consecutive team championship.
Worthen’s high jump mark on Saturday was good enough to automatically qualify her for the NCAA indoor championshops March 13-14 in Houston. She’s also an automatic qualifier in the pentathlon.
Krista Wooley
Reedsport graduate Krista Wooley became the first-ever volleyball player from the Oregon Institute of Technology to receive NAIA All-American honors.
The senior was named to the Cascade Collegiate Conference first team in volleyball after finishing first in the league with 408 kills and third with a hitting percentage of .337. She also was 14th in digs and made the all-conference team for the second time.
Wooley helped the Owls to a third-place finish in the standings.
She also was named player of the week for the Cascade Collegiate Conference twice during the season.
Cody Ferguson
North Bend graduate and Willamette University freshman Cody Ferguson was named Northwest Athletic Conference men’s athlete-student of the week the week of March 2.
He helped the Bearcats win Conference matches on Feb. 28 and March 1, improving Willamette to 4-1 on the season. Ferguson was 2-0 in singles and 2-0 in doubles play during the week. He’s now 4-1 in singles play this year and 5-0 in doubles with his partner, junior Micah Mack.
Willamette is now 5-2 on the season.
Denise Green
North Bend graduate Denise Green set a Boise State team record at the Western Athletic Conference Championships with a 56.29-second time in the 100-yard backstroke. She placed ninth in the finals in the event. Green now owns the top five times in the event in Boise State history.
She also was part of a relay team that set a school record during a recent dual meet against Oregon State University.
Green, Emily Irvin, Amber Boucher and Stephanie North combined for a time of 1:46.64 in the 200 medley relay.
Green, a sophomore, holds the Boise State record in every backstroke event and also is part of several school-record relay teams.
Amanda Johnston
Myrtle Point graduate Amanda Johnston scored 10 points in her final game in an Oregon Institute of Technology uniform, as the Owls fell to No. 14 College of Idaho 63-41 in the Cascade Conference Tournament quarterfinals Feb. 24 in Caldwell, Idaho. Johnston was the only Lady Owl to score in double figures in the game.
Johnston led OIT this season with a team-high average of 13.7 points per game, shooting 49 percent from the field on the season. Johnston scored 28 points against Corban College, 27 against College of Idaho and 24 against Bethany. She also averaged 5 rebounds a game and had a team-best 23 blocks for the Lady Owls.
OIT finished 14-16 on the season, 7-13 in conference play.
Janee Olds
North Bend graduate Janee Olds has played a starting role this season as a senior for the Northwest Nazarene women’s basketball team, helping the Crusaders reach the NCAADivision II tournament.
The Crusaders finished the regular season at 18-19 overall and 11-5 in Great Northwest Athletic Conference play.
Northwest Nazarene is the seventh seed in the West Region for the national tournament, which starts Friday in Seattle.
Starting at guard, Olds has averaged 10.3 points per game this season, third on the team, with 40 percent shooting from the field. She’s also third on the team with 4.6 rebounds per game, and her 42 steals this season are the second-best for the Crusaders. She’s averaging 1.4 assists per game.
Olds scored a season-high 29 points against Cascade Nov. 21. She had 20 points Jan. 17 in a big win over Western Washington.
Olds was the 2005 Class 3A state player of the year and led North Bend to the state title.
Monique Tribble
Former Coquille basketball star Monique Tribble finished her junior year at Corban College averaging 7.74 points per game on 44 percent shooting. The 6-foot-2 center finished the season strong, posting a season-high 15 points Feb. 14 against Cascade College, and her season-high rebounding performance was 13 on Feb. 6 against College of Idaho.
The Warriors saw their season end Feb. 24 against No. 22 Southern Oregon in the first round of the Cascade Collegiate Conference tournament. Tribble had four points in that game.
Tribble was the second-leading scorer in Class 3A play for Coquille in 2005, earning first-team all-league honors and an all-state honorable mention nod.
Muriel Roberge, Amanda Boice and Inger Appanaitis
Marshfield graduate Muriel Roberge received a 2008-2009 Scholar-Athlete Award from the Western Athletic Conference.
Roberge, one of three sisters to win state titles in the pole vault for Marshfield, competes for the Univeristy of Nevada and was honored for track and field.
Also last year, Gold Beach graduate Amanda Boice and Brookings-Harbor graduate Inger Appanaitis, two more members of Nevada’s track program, were named to the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association’s All-Academic team.
Appanaitis was the WAC champion in the javelin and scored the most points of any athlete at the meet, and also competed in the U.S. Olympic Trials last summer. Boice placed third in the high jump at the WAC championships.
Nyika Corbett
Nyika Corbett, a junior from Myrtle Point, led Swarthmore to a seventh-place finish in the Division III Mideast Regional championship in Pennsylvania last fall.
Corbett finished 34th in the race, covering the 6,000-meter course in 23:37 to earn all-region honors.
Corbett placed 15th in the Centennial Conference championships, with a time of 23:32.
Rachel Scavera
North Bend graduate Rachel Scavera finished 150th at the NCAA Division III New England cross country championships, running for Wheaton College of Massachusetts.
Scavera was timed in 26:36 on the 6,000-meter course.
Earlier Scavera helped Wheaton to second place in the NEWMAC championships in Massachusetts, placing 46th on a 5,000-meter course in 21:00.
Heather Porter
Heather Porter finished the season with 126 kills for Southern Oregon University’s volleyball team as the Raiders came within one match of advancing to the NAIA national tournament.
Porter, a Marshfield graduate, also had 12 solo blocks and 47 blocking assists for the Raiders during her sophomore season .
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