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BSU signs recruit

Boise State University gymnastics Head Coach Sam Sandmire announced the signing of Kelsey Lang to a National Letter of
Intent, Tuesday.

Lang, a native of Langley, B.C., was a silver medallist on beam at the 2007 Canada Winter Games. This year she also earned the beam choreography award and the outstanding vault award en route to recording the provincial championship in the all-around.

Competing in the all-around in 2006, Lang finished second at the provincial championships and 11th at the Canadian National Championships. She currently trains for head coach David Kenwright at the Calgary Gymnastics Centre in Calgary, Alberta and will compete in the 2007 Canadian National Championships at the end of May.

Eldred wins bronze

On Friday and Saturday, April 20-21, 2007, the USA Judo Senior National Championships was held at the Pharmed Arena on the campus of Florida International University in Miami, Florida.

Competing in the Male 73 kg category and representing the State of Idaho and Western Idaho Judo Institute, Michael Eldred looked to repeat his gold medal performance in this same venue from a month ago, when he won the National Collegiate Judo Championship.

Despite a tremendous performance, Eldred came one match short and earned the bronze medal. The major casualties along his road to the bronze included: #2 rated Bobby Lee of Florida; and 2-time Pan American Champion, Chuck Jefferson of California. Eldred demolished Jefferson with a beautifully timed kuchikitaoshi (leg pick) for an ippon (full point) win. With this bronze medal finish, Michael retains his rating as the #3 athlete at 73 kgs.

WAC reprimands Fox

Tuesday, Western Athletic Conference Commissioner Karl Benson issued University of Nevada men’s basketball coach Mark Fox a reprimand for two separate incidents that violated the sportsmanship provision of the WAC’s Code of Conduct.

The first incident occurred during a game against Utah State on March 1, 2007.  The second incident occurred March 9, 2007 following Nevada’s loss to Utah State in the semifinals of the WAC Tournament in Las Cruces, NM.

Fox also issued a public apology.

“I take full responsibility for my actions that resulted in this and apologize to all those involved”, Fox said. “I have renewed my commitment to adhere to the WAC’s sportsmanship policies in the future.”

“A public reprimand is just pretty much what it says,” WAC Commisioner Dave Chaffin told the Associated Press from WAC headquarters in Denver. “It’s not really penalizing. It would go in the file and next time something like this happens, more stringent penalties could occur.”

Dilaj earns Player of the Week Award

Piotr Dilaj has been named Western Athletic Conference Men’s Tennis Player of the Week for the week of Apr. 16-22.

Dilaj, a junior for Gdansk, Poland, won two singles matches and one double match for No. 23 Boise State as the Broncos went 2-0 against Eastern Washington and UC Irvine, Saturday, Apr. 21, at the Appleton Tennis Center.

Dilaj went 2-0 at the No. 2 position as he earned his second and third victories of the season at No. 2 singles. Dilaj opened with a three-set battle against EWU’s Kyle Schraeder prevailing 6-2, 5-7 and 7-5. Dilaj came from behind against Victor Lamm of UC Irvine for the win 2-6, 6-3 and 6-2.

In doubles Dilaj and Luke Shields, ranked No. 56 nationally, dominated EWU’s Jonathan Davis and Patrick Millican at No. 1
doubles 8-1.

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