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Show SPORTS — GIRLS 5A STATE coaching jobs at Salem Neil K. Warner DAILY HERALD Bruins beat Riverton to reach semis So far the American Leadership Academy,a charter based in Salem, has just onecoachin place for next season whenthe schoolwill join the Utah High School Activities Association and participatein athletics at the 2A level. Today the coaching staff could double. . American Leadership Acad- Avot tment Country Total Germany 24 5 United States 20 MTN. VIEW 49 RIVERTON ny al lake Cnn —39_ nity College. Behind senior Austria Canada Russia Norway Switzerland 19 19 19 18 13 Sweden 11 Italy 10 center Michelle Harrison's solid Frange 9 play, the Bruins put a fourth local China 9 I trust my teammates and the Fletcher team in the semifinals by beating Riverton, 49-39. “I thought we played decent basketball,” Mountain View head coach Laura Romosaid. “We saw the floor andpassed theball well. It was unselfish basketball that got us the win.” TheBruins totaled 17 assists, most leading to wide open layups. Whenthey couldn't get the easy one under the basket, they got the ball to Harrison. The Mountain View star scored 21 points on 9-of16 shooting. “|just tried to stay relaxed and calm,” Harrisonsaid. “I know how muchthe team looks to me and I thrive on the pressure. The more pressurethereis, the better I play. coaches, and we've been clicking eehevadhHlateion probably got the most attention for her scoring, the other things she did madea big difference. She blocked four Silver- wol'shasandafecedanimber| ofthe floor. “The coacheshavetold methatI needto be solid on defense,” Harrisonsaid. “I've been working hard to stay outof foul trouble. We've been well prepared for the teams we've played,so feellike 1 know whatthey're going to do. Then I just go out and play as big and solid as I can.” * But Brumfield said on Thursday he wantsto coachin this area, but it won’t be at the Academy. “I don’t want to hurt Spanish Fork and I think if | went over there to coach, it would hurt SpanishFork,” hesaid. “I want to coach, I'll coach somewhere at somelevel. If someone needs an offensiveline coach for a ninth grade team orlittle i See HOULE, C2 MEDAL Area basketball teams could only manage four wins in eight attemptsin the first rounds of the 4A. and 5A tournaments. But after Orem, Timpview and —=s Scott Brumfield, who left Spanish Fork totake ajobas an assistant at Dixie State College before head coach Greg Croshaw was fired. Hall coached with Brumfield for three years at Spanish Fork. “I wouldlike to have Scott comeover. I think he’d do a greatjob,” Hall said. “We will havebyfar the best field in Utah County whenour sports turf is installed the end of June.” school Silver for Sasha COUNT ore as on esday, Mountain View Eisheofthe quarterfins sweepfor Utah Noe nN ake i The Daily Herald has learned that former Mountain View coach Dave Houle pave Houle will be named girls basketball coach andwill also head the track and cross country programs.Hewill also be an assistant principal. * Houle will join Darrell Pruitt of Spanish Fork, who was hired to take over the baseball program. Coaches for the other programs have not been hired. Another coach on the school’s wishlist is former Spanish Fork football coach charter OQ9 torino 2006 Jared Lloyd DAILY HERALD a Daily FEBRUARY24, 2006 SPORTS EDITOR | Damell Dickson - 344-2555 - ddickson@heraldextra.com PREP SPORTS Houle lands MATT SMITHDaily Herald Mountain View's Michelle Harrison, top, blocks a shot attempt by Riverton’s Kim Gamblin during thefirst half of Thursday’s game. DailydHerald CHARLES KRUPA/AP wiins b bronze D The bronze went to American Rosey Fieene, doe,” in theparallel giant slalom on Thursday, The 30year-old Fletcher wasthefirst U.S. womanto climb on the podium for the parallel, the Olympics’ final snowboarding event, page C4. KEVORK DJANSEZIAN/Asscciated Press USA's Sasha Cohen holds up her silver medalfollowing the medal ceremony for the women’s figure skating final at the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Gamesin Turin, Italy, on Thursday. Russia’s Irina Slutskaya, winner of the bronze medal, skatesin the background. Cohen falls, stumbles, surrenders gold to Japan’s Arakawa cayHeras THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS TURIN,Italy — On the big night, underthe blazing lights, the top-billed showdownfizzled as a new era madeits entrance. The long-awaited women's Olympicfree program didn't go right for the two super-hyped skaters Thursday. througho ut, Cohen, whohadled after the Taking advantageof mistakes short program Tuesday, was so by U.S. champion Sasha Cohen certain thatherinitially ragged and Russian Irina Slutskaya, free skate had not been an Shizuka Arakawa won Japan's first Olympic figure skating gold Olympic medal-winnerthat she changed out of her burgundy medal with a program free of falls. She did not perform every costumewhile the competition continued. She had entered difficult jump combination she the night leading Slutskaya, had planned but was elegant the reigning world champion, by just .03 points in the Turin Games’ most glamorous competition. But then Slutskaya,skating last in the 24-womanfield,fell ona triple loop. The jump she normally finds simplefoiled the See OLYMPICS, C4 See BRUINS, C5 BYU FOOTBALL FILE/Daily Herald Cornerbacks coach BrianMitchell (left), whorecently left BYU to coachat Texas Tech, was valuable to the team notonlyfor his experience and coachingtalent, but also because he was amentor to BYU's blackplayers. Some of those players on the currentroster consideredleaving the program after learning of Mitchell's departure. With Mitchell headed to ‘Texas, BYU needs to hire another black coach oes BYU need to hire a black assistant coach to replace Brian Mitchell? The short answer? Yes. ten long answer? It’s compliaNtchel, the only black assis- tant football coach at BYU for the 12 years,left for Texas Tech this Weak to coach Mike Leach’s cornerbacks. Mitchell gets anice pay raise goi Big 12 he’s from Texas (Waco), so the move makes sense. Privately, black players on the BYU team are very con- cerned. The knee-jerk reaction by some players was to cona transfer. Mitchell was a it was com- Darnell Dickson The Front Row forting to know someone on the staff underst: ‘ood them. Tico Pringle, a black junior college cornerback who joined Mitchthe team in January, \WWW.HERALDEXTRA.COM’ — CALL 375-5103 TO SUBSCRIBE ? ell was importantin his decision to come to Provo. Wouldit have been hard for Pringle to choose BYUif Mitchell hadn't been there? “Probably,” Pringle said. “It would havebeen like that for a lot of the players on the team. He (Mitchell) was the only one who sawthe talent in me and gave me a chance.” Zac Erekson is a redshirt sophomore cornerback, a black player who grew upin Springville. He's knownMitchell since he was 10 years old and wanted thea to play for him. T think the most important thing is to get the best coach wecan,” Erekson said. “But at same time, not having a black coach on the staff can hurt recruiting. Someof the people I played with in junior college would say, ‘They only have one black coachonthe staff.’ To us here,it’s not a big deal but to kids who getrecruited,it's a big deal.” BYUhead coach Bronco Mendenhall has somedifficult decisions to make. The phrase you'll hear around the program in the weeksto comeis that they will hire “the most qualified candidate.” So whatare the qualifications? Mitchell played at BYU as a non-LDS athlete, so he understood the uniqueness of See Di.<3ON, C6 ae] |
