Two Kentridge High School graduates and student-athletes at Western Washington University in Bellingham were named Great Northwest Athletic Conference players of the week.<\/p>\n
Sophomore Stephanie Sewell was recognized as women’s golf player of the week for Oct. 24-30, and redshirt freshman Mae Thungc was honored the defensive volleyball player the week for the same week. Both graduated from Kentridge in 2015.<\/p>\n
Sewell tied for 11th in the 31-player field at the Dennis Rose Intercollegiate at the Waikoloa Beach Resort King’s Course in Hawaii from Oct. 24-25, with a 54-hole score of 20 over par (236).<\/p>\n
She finished the fall season with a team-low average score of 77.9 in five tournaments (10 rounds) and placed in the top 15 in each of the last four tournaments – including a tie for fifth place at the WWU Invitational.<\/p>\n
The Vikings return to action to start up the spring season on Feb. 6-7, 2017, at the Point Loma Reach at the Riverwalk Golf Club in San Diego, Calif.<\/p>\n
Thungc<\/strong><\/p>\n Thungc helped anchor the Vikings defense in a pair of three-game sweeps against Western Oregon and Concordia in confernce play. Thungc averaged 5.5 digs per game (33 total digs) in the two matches.<\/p>\n For the season, the redshirt freshman ranks sixth in the conference averaging 4.71 digs per game. While at Kentridge, Thungc set a school record with 37 digs in one match against Kentlake High.<\/p>\n The Vikings (16-6 overall, 12-2 GNAC) have won 11 consecutive matches. WWU will complete the road portion of its regular-season schedule this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two Kentridge High School graduates and student-athletes at Western Washington University in Bellingham were named Great Northwest Athletic Conference players of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":22288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-22287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22287"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}