Roughriders hosting volleyball camp
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles High School volleyball team is holding a camp July 13-16 at the high school gymnasium.
Head coach Christine Halberg along with the Roughriders’ coaching staff and players will serve as coaches at the camp.
Campers will learn volleyball fundamental skills and play mini-competitions.
The camp is Monday through Thursday, July 13-16, and will consist of two sessions, which are based on the camper’s year in school as of the fall of 2015.
■ 9 a.m. to noon: kindergarten through fifth grade.
■ 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.: sixth through ninth grade.
The cost is $50 and includes a T-shirt. Register by today to ensure T-shirt.
To register, phone Halberg at 989-506-2263.
Adult coed softball
PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles Parks and Recreation’s adult coed slowpitch softball season will start the week of July 20.
Each team will play 12 games in the six-week season.
There is a sponsor fee of $415 along with individual player fees. Fees need to be turned in by Tuesday, July 14.
Team packets are available at the Port Angeles Parks and Recreation office.
There also is a free agent list for players who don’t already have a team lined up.
For more information, or for a team packet, contact Dan Estes at 360-417-4557 or destes@cityofpa.us.
BMX events
PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles BMX is joining USABMX’s Race for Life campaign to raise money for lymphoma and leukemia.
At the Port Angeles BMX Track on Saturday, July 11, there will be a $10 race fee plus a $10 minimum donation. One-day memberships will not have to pay the race fee, just the donation.
USABMX will reward patches and more for larger donations. Port Angeles also will reward prizes.
Riders who raise $500 or more will earn a free day and night at the Port Angeles BMX Track.
The Port Angeles track also is hosting a BMX camp Tuesday through Thursday, July 7-9, put on by coach Chrissy Williams from noon to 3 p.m. each day.
The cost is $125 for the entire camp or $50 for each day. Cost breaks are offered for families with multiple campers.
Parents do not have to stay but must leave a phone number in case of emergency.
For more information, contact Geri Thompson at 360-461-9103
Port Townsend surf event
PORT TOWNSEND — The second occasional Surf Culture of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Salish Sea Event will be held Saturday, July 11, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Port Townsend Public Library Carnegie Reading Room at 1220 Lawrence Street.
The free event will celebrate surfing culture and will bring together some of the Northwest’s surfing writers and visual artists for an evening of readings, art and music.
Justin Hocking, the Portland-based author of “The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld: a memoir about surfing, obsession and Moby-Dick,” and Drew Kampion, author, surfing historian and former editor of Surfer, Surfing, Wind Surf and Wind Tracks magazines, will make appearances.
All ages are welcome at this free event sponsored by the city of Port Townsend, Port Townsend Public Library and Northwind Arts Center.
Free refreshments will be offered.
All-Star runners
MILL CREEK — State champion Ryan Clarke leads the list of seven North Olympic Peninsula high school cross country runners have been invited to the 2015 East-West Senior All-Star race on Saturday, July 11.
Clarke, of Port Townsend, Sequim’s Mikey Cobb and Peter Ohnstad and Port Angeles’ Simon Shindler were invited to the boys race.
Kari Larson and Tristen Williams, both of Forks, and Port Angeles’ Annika Pederson received invitations to the
girls race.
All-Star runners who compete will receive a team uniform, and all senior runners are eligible to apply for one of many Senior All-Star Race scholarships that will be handed out at this year’s race.
Madison honored
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Port Angeles High School graduate Jessica Madison was honored at the University of Alaska-Anchorage’s end-of-year sports banquet.
Madison, a junior guard for the women’s basketball team, received the Fourth-year Academic Achievement Award for maintaining a 3.0 or better GPA all four years.
Earlier this spring, Madison was named to the GNAC All-Academic Conference Team with a 3.32 GPA.
Madison will enter her senior season this fall with 890 points, which is just two points shy of 15th place on the Seawolves’ career list. She also is ranked on other school career lists: third in free-throw percentage (.824), fourth in 3-pointers made (142) and seventh in 3-pointers made per game (1.65).
