Green promoted
University of Idaho women’s basketball assistant coach Jordan Green was promoted to associate head coach on Monday as announced by Idaho coach Jon Newlee.
“It has been great seeing Jordan’s professional development over the years he has worked for me,” Newlee said. “After starting his career as a volunteer assistant coach at Idaho State and helping to build two separate championship programs alongside me, I know he is deserving of the responsibilities of an associate head coach. I appreciate all he has done and have no doubt his great work will continue in his new position here at Idaho.”
During his time at Idaho, Green has helped in recruiting and scouting. He has also helped coach Idaho’s post players, developing them into the top rebounding team in the Western Athletic Conference in the 2012-13 season.
Bykova top Vandal in Boise
Among an experienced Vandal women’s tennis team that includes four seniors and all but one player from a year ago, it was a freshman that dominated the team’s first tournament Friday through Sunday.
Idaho freshman Galina Bykova, from St. Petersburg, Russia, won her first four singles matches to advance to the championship match of the main draw at the Jack Taylor Classic in Boise. She lost the championship match in two sets, 7-5, 6-2 to Boise State’s Morgan Basil on Sunday. It was the opening tournament of the season for the women’s tennis team.
“That was a good performance overall,” Idaho coach Myriam Sopel said of Bykova. “She fought really, really hard. That last match she put up a great fight from the first to the last point.”
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Men’s tennis competes at Baylor
Spring tennis produces the team scores but fall tennis is individually scored and the individual atop the Vandals roster over the weekend was junior Cristobal Ramos Salazar.
Salazar won 24 consecutive games through the first two rounds of the Green Draw at the Baylor HEB Intercollegiate Friday before going 6-3, 6-1 to make the semifinals. He lost in the semifinals falling to Gonzaga’s Vicente Veras 7-5, 2-6, 6-0.
Idaho seniors Artemiy Nikitin and Jose Bendeck reached the round of 16 in the Gold Draw before falling 6-0, 6-4 and 7-5, 6-4 respectively. Bendeck lost to the eventual champion, Julian Lenz of Baylor.
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Women’s golf fifth through two rounds
After a disappointing finish in Minneapolis at the Minnesota Invitational, the Vandal women’s golf team is back near the top of the leaderboard, as it started play in Pullman, at the WSU Cougar Cup.
Through two rounds, the Vandals were 35 over par at fifth place overall out of 12 teams.
Leilanie Kim continues to shine for the Vandals and sits in fourth place with a three over par through two rounds. The next Vandal on the leaderboard is Kaitlyn Oster, who is tied for 12th place with a seven over par.
The Vandals finish play on Tuesday.