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FALL 2018

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Model of ConsistencyCoach Dan Hogan leads Women's Soccer to another playoff berth

Death, Taxes and NIC Women’s Soccer earning a post season berth! Well maybe not quite that infallible, but pretty close. Under Head Women’s Soccer Coach Dan Hogan, the Lady Cardinals have qualified for the post season in every season but one since he took over the helm in 2003. The streak continued this season as the Lady Cardinals narrowly missed winning the East Region title, falling to Spokane, 1-0, in the home finale that decided the champion. Despite the setback, the Lady Cardinals finished in 2nd place and will host a first round playoff game at Eisenwinter Field on Wednesday, Oct 31 against Portland Community Col-lege. Hogan is in his 19th year as a member of the Cardinals soccer program staff, begin-ning when the program was created in 1996. He served as an assistant under legendary NIC Head Coach Bill Eisenwinter, who was tragically killed in an auto accident in May 2003. The NIC soccer field was dedicated in Eisenwinter’s honor in Fall 2003, and Hogan was promoted to head coach of both the men and women’s soccer teams. In a memorable season inspired by the loss of Eisenwinter, Hogan guided the Lady Cardinals to the 2003 NWAACC title and narrowly missed a title for the men, as they fell 1-0 in the NWAACC championship final that same season. The NIC soccer programs left the NWAACC and joined the NJCAA two seasons later and the Lady Cardinals soccer success continued on a national level. Serving only as the wom-en’s head coach since 2005, Hogan guided the Lady Cardinals to the NJCAA Women’s Soccer Final 4 in 2007, finishing 3rd in the nation. Hogan was twice named the SWAC Coach of the Year before the SWAC soc-

cer league was dis-banded. NIC soccer teams functioned as NJCAA independent programs for 5 years and the women’s program continued to make post season, which required a winning record. Per-forming well beyond the minimum post season criteria the Lady Cards were consis-tently in the NJCAA national polls, with the 2011 team finishing #7 in the polls with a 14-1-2 record.

NIC Soccer rejoined the NWAACC, now called the NWAC, in 2014, and the women’s soccer program has finished in the top 3 of the tough East Region standings in each season. The program has experienced suc-

cess in the post season as well, returning to the NWAC Final 4 in 2016 before fall-ing to eventual NWAC champion Peninsula College in the semi-finals. This season the goal is to again get back to Tukwila, WA for the NWAC Final 4. There was some uncer-tainty if the playoff streak would continue at the start of the season, as the Lady Car-dinals took some time to find an offensive rhythm, or any offense at all for that matter. The Cards started off 0-2-2 while only scor-ing 3 goals in their first four season matches. However, since that low point the Lady Car-dinals went 8-2-2 over the next 12 games, including an 8 game stretch without giving up a goal! So as the 2018 post season begins, you find your Lady Cardinals still practic-ing on Eisenwinter Field in preparation for another soccer playoff run! It may not be infallible, but that’s a pretty good model of consistency!

DAN HOGAN

pion South Plains CC (TX). The annual CDA INN-Vitational high-lights the home schedule, before the team departs to the San Jose City College tournament, featuring nationally ranked and defending California champion, City College of San Francisco. Women’s basket-ball could surprise some teams this year, with a young but talented ros-ter. Coach Carlson brings in nine new freshman and added a former standout from NCAA Division I Southern Methodist University. Unfortunately the SMU alum is re-turning Cardinal All-Region player

Korina Baker, who started at point guard for the Car-dinals 2011 NJCAA National champion team, and she is out of eligibility after a solid career at SMU! She will replace long-time women’s basketball assis-tant coach Carey Carlson, who retired from coaching this year to become a faculty member at NIC.

As usual Wrestling returns a talented roster in their annual quest for a national championships. Four wrestlers with NJCAA national tournament experi-ence and several top notch recruits buoy their efforts! Softball returns eight veterans that were key contrib-utors to last year’s NWAC championship, including three 1st team All-Region performers. Congratu-lations to NWAC Softball Player of the Year Madi Mott and 1st team All-Region outfielder Jori Kerr, for earning NFCA All-American Scholar-Athlete Honors. An athlete must earn a GPA of 3.5 or higher to earn this award. Both players will be back this sea-son to help the Cardinals defend their crown on the diamond! This is going to be fun!

BOOSTER CLUB LUNCHEONSOur Booster Club luncheon speaker circuit has

been entertaining this Fall, with more to come. We heard from Bill Greenwood, the Director of Parks and Recreation for the City of Coeur d’Alene, who

BOARD OFFICERS

PRESIDENT Rich Dussell

VICE PRESIDENTRoger Stewart

TREASURERMark Hampe

SECRETARY

BOARD MEMBERS

Robert CliffJeannette Davidson

Janie GivasJennifer Jenkins

Tom MessinaFrank Darlington

Patty StewartJon ParsonJJ Jaeger

Tony MukhamediyevAl Williams (ex-officio)

aawilliams@nic.edu

PHOTOGRAPHSTom GreeneDon Sausser

CONTACTPatty: 208-769-3348

P.O. Box 492Coeur d’Alene, ID 83816patty_stewart@nic.edu

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The North Idaho College Booster Club is a nonprofit organization, committed to providing financial support to all recognized intercol-legiate athletic programs at NIC through various fund-raising and endowment activities for student athlete grant-in-aid and team ben-efits. Organized in the 1960s, the

Booster Club supports all NIC rec-ognized intercollegiate athletics as a lifelong learning experience that will enhance the value of sportsmanship and provide a positive experience for student athletes, students, and fans. The club also recognizes the commit-ment our athletes make to the young people of our community through

our athletic Cardinal Kids outreach programs. The Booster Club holds various fund-raising events through-out the year including an annual auction, awards banquet, 3-on-3 bas-ketball tournament, and golf tourna-ments. It also co-sponsors the Coeur d’Alene Crossing and operates a concession stand at all home events.

M I S S I O N S T A T E M E N T

Greeting Cardinal Fans! We have a lot of catching up to do since our last publication! I’ve missed reaching out to you by newslet-ter but fortunately I’ve seen many of you at our luncheons, Coach’s Showcase, soccer and volleyball games, and in the community! We are never too far away! Fall sports are heading into the playoff stretch and volleyball and women’s soc-cer are ranked high in the NWAC polls. Volleyball’s run as NWAC East Region champion will come to an end as they try to recover from some injuries to key person-nel, but a possible post season run is still in the works. Women’s soccer, reliable as ever, begins their annual quest for the NWAC Final 4 in the consistent man-ner of an experienced veteran. Men’s soccer fell just short of the playoffs, but showed some toughness and competitive spirit for a roster that included 16 fresh-men! The defending NWAC champion Men’s Golf team seems to be in prime position to capture a 3rd straight title after performing well in all 3 preseason tournaments, including a win at the Walla Walla in-vitational. Women’s golf needs to find a consistent performer in that number 3 spot in the order to get into contention position, but the talent is there!

Basketball fans should be in for a treat this season. After winning the NWAC crown last season the men’s basketball team reloaded with some outstanding tal-ent, led by returning NWAC tournament MVP Ray-quan Evans. Christianson gym has been busy this fall holding court for coaches from several NCAA pro-grams vying for the skills of Coach Symon’s talented roster. The team has arguably 7-8 legitimate Division I prospects, and the roster has depth, balance, size and experience. They will be tested early against NJCAA competition and nationally ranked opponents in the prestigious Fiesta Bowl Junior College Shoot-Out in Mesa, Arizona featuring defending NJCAA Cham-

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DATE TIME EVENT

Oct. 31 2 p.m. W. SOCCER -vs- Portland CC -- NWAC PLAYOFF

Nov. 2 6:00 p.m. VOLLEYBALL -vs- Yakima Valley

Nov. 16 7:00 p.m. WRESTLING -vs- Clackamas CC

Nov. 17 12:00 p.m. WRESTLING -- Cardinal Duals

Nov. 17 7:30 p.m. M. BASKETBALL -vs- Peninsula CC

Nov. 29 7:30 p.m. M. BASKETBALL -vs- Shoreline CC

DATE TIME EVENT

Nov. 30 7:30 p.m. M. BASKETBALL -vs- Grays Harbor

Dec. 1 12:00 p.m. W. BASKETBALL -vs- Gonzaga University Club

Dec. 1 4:00 p.m. M. BASKETBALL -vs- Medicine Hat College

Dec. 11 5:30 p.m. W. BASKETBALL -vs- Fairchild AFB

Dec. 11 7:30 p.m. M. BASKETBALL -vs- Spokane Club / Gonzaga Alumni

Dec. 16 TBD W. BASKETBALL -- Holiday Inn Express Tournament

N I C C A R D I N A L S H O M E E V E N T S C H E D U L E

provided some insight into the ever chang-ing plans of the Memorial Field renovation project. Allen Allen, a former member of the USA National Volleyball team and 3.5 time All-American from the University of Hawaii, gave an inspiring talk at our luncheon at Out-back Steakhouse. You had to be there to ap-preciate Allen’s story of his family’s heritage and values as he traced his lineage from South Korea to his birthplace of Hawaii over 5 gen-erations. UPDATE: We will be rotating our Booster Club luncheons on the second Tuesday of each month to different locations this season, as Outback Steakhouse will soon be opening up for lunch daily and can’t accommodate our Booster Club for luncheons exclusively. We re-ally appreciate the staff at Outback Steakhouse, including the management team of Daniel De-harro and Tami, for their wonderful hospitality and support for the past 9 years as our lunch host! They will still continue to support our

Hague Memorial Cardinal Classic Golf tourna-ment In the Spring. Our next rotating luncheon site on the second Tuesday of the month will be Season’s Restaurant on 2nd Ave and Lakeside in CdA on November 13. We will continue to have our luncheon on the last Tuesday of each month at the CDA Resort. Don’t miss the fun. The public is welcome!

GREEN DOT Several members of the NIC ath-

letic program are participating in the annual Green Dot seminars hosted by the NIC Student Services Department. The Green Dot Bystander Intervention is a bystander education approach that aims to prevent violence with the help of bystanders. It is built on the premise that violence can be measurably and systemically reduced within a community. The mission of programs like Green Dot is to reduce power based violence

by being a proactive bystander and a reactive bystander. The NIC athletic teams have been participating in Green Dot training for sever-al years, and are very visible on campus with posters and banners promoting bystander inter-action to prevent violence.

Thanks to the Office of Vice President of Student Services, Graydon Stanley, for se-

lecting NIC student-athletes as ambas-sadors for the program.

SAVE THE DATEThe annual CARD-nival auction

and dinner is December 12, 2018 at the Coeur d’Alene Inn- Best Western Plus.

Festivities begin with a social at 5:00. Dinner begins at 6:00, including a silent and live auc-tion.

Tickets are available now or reserve a table. Call the NIC Athletics department (208) 769-3348.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALLThe Lady Cardinals took their game to

Centralia, WA on October 14 and scrim-maged three NWAC schools in the first an-nual Northwest Showcase event. The NIC women came away with three strong efforts, earning wins over Whatcom, Clark and Grays Harbor. There was plenty of good basket-ball for everyone at the showcase, and with a large number of four-year college coaches watching closely, it made this new event even better.

The Cardinals came home the following weekend to scrimmage Okanagan College (from Kelowna, Brit-ish Columbia) and Western Montana University. With 10 new faces on this young team, every scrimmage provides excellent opportu-nities for growth. Central Washington University is the next preseason scrimmage stop for the NIC women.

Keara Simpson continues to shine for the Lady Cards, while Heidi Sellman, Halle Eborall, Alex Carlton and Alivia Williams round out the top five for right now. The trip to Mesa, AZ is just around the corner as the NIC women officially begin their season with three games in the Phoenix area, begin-ning November, 16.

In the meantime, several members of our program attended the annual Green Dot train-ing program at the CDA Inn- Best Western Plus. To their credit, the ladies jumped right into this event without hesitation. We cannot train all of our students enough in areas of increased risk awareness and the proper steps toward interventions in our campus commu-nities. Our entire team looks forward to get-ting more feedback from this event.

MEN’S BASKETBALLThe men’s basketball team is near comple-

tion of a great preseason, recently returning from two of the top National JUCO Jambo-rees. The Cardinals first participated in the Rocky Mountain Jamboree and were one of only a few teams to come out undefeated,

with five wins. This Jamboree was the host to over 45 national junior colleges programs, with games played with two 20 minute halfs and a running clock. The Cardinals started off with a 48-21 win over Laramie County, followed by a 52-40 win over Snow College, 49-30 win over West Oklahoma, 53-42 win over Labette, and finished with a 50-44 win over North Platte.

The following weekend, NIC trav-eled to Salt Lake City to face off with from SWAC rival teams from NJCAA Region 18. The Cardinals started the weekend off with a tough last second 45-44 loss to Salt Lake Community College, ranked #5 by Street & Smith in the preseason polls. The Cards bounced back with a 58-48 win over #2 ranked College of Southern Idaho. The Cardinals finished their exhibition games with a 51-43 win over USU Eastern.

In the two jamborees, NIC had great guard play from returning NWAC All-Region play-er RayQuan Evans, and freshmen Nate Pryor and Emmitt Taylor III. Taylor was exception-al from the field, shooting 28/39 from behind the arc. Also playing well through the tour-naments was Utah State University commit Alphonso Anderson, and our returning center Jarod Greene. Coming off the bench to play a big role for us were Lake City HS standout James Carlson, as well as Ismael Valdez and Iain McLaughlin.

We are really happy how our guys compet-ed in these two jamborees. We faced some of the toughest competition in the country, and competed at a high level. Now we have some film to watch and try and get better every day and get ready for our season to kick off. The Cardinals still have a red-white scrimmage scheduled at Wallace High school November 8th at 6:30pm. They will finish the pre-sea-son off with a home exhibition game against Lewis-Clark State College on November 14th at 7pm at Christianson Gymnasium.

The men’s basketball team is ranked na-tionally in preseason polls for the 5th consec-utive year. Coming off last’s year NWAC title

with a 25-8 record, the Cardinals are ranked #19th in the prestigious Street & Smith’s Na-tional College Basketball Edition. The Car-dinals are also ranked in the top 20 in The Sporting News Magazine, with two Cardinal players, sophomore Rayquan Evans and for-mer University of Washington signee, fresh-man Nate Pryor, listed as top players in the nation.

MEN’S SOCCERThe men hosted the Community Colleges

of Spokane in their home finale on Wednes-day, October 24, and ended the season with an exciting win in front of our Homecoming Day crowd.

Spokane took the lead in the 27th minute after Brennan Murphy found Arturo Bahena between the Cardinal centerbacks. Bahena was able to get a touch to the ball just ahead of Cardinal goalkeeper Luis Hernandez for the lead. Spokane did have some mo-mentum early, but the Cardinals’ depth served them well over the course of the full 90 minutes. In the 67th minute, Noah Dreves won a 50/50 ball in the mid-dle of the Cardinals’ defensive half and dribbled wide at full speed. After drawing pressure, he played the ball forward to Creed McKinnon who dumped it to Conner Wold. Wold took two touches at the goal and cut it back on his third touch, getting all four Spo-kane defenders to step to him. Wold’s fourth touch split the Spokane back line to McKin-non, who tucked his shot into the side netting on the right side.

In the 83rd minute, Dreves intercepted a pass in the right flank and one-touched it to Dorian Cornichuck. Cornichuck settled the ball just long enough to pull the defender off of Dreves and gave it back. Dreves took a touch forward and played Japheth Taylor running toward goal, but Taylor was knocked down by a Spokane defender resulting in a Cardinal free kick. McKinnon stepped to the ball from 26 yards on the left side of the goal and slammed it into the upper right cor-

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CHRIS CARLSON

COREY SYMONS

KEN THOMPSON

ner. Though Spokane’s Garbuio in goal had chosen to defend the far post, McKinnon’s shot was hit too hard to even get a hand to it. After McKinnon’s shot crossed the line for the goal, it rebounded off the back post and the side post ricocheting out beyond the goal area. The Cardinals forced five saves from Garbuio, and NIC’s Luis Hernandez made four for the win. The men finish the season with a 5-6-1 league record, but unfortunately don’t make the NWAC playoffs.

SOFTBALLThe softball team has wrapped up another

successful fall ball season. The Lady Car-dinals, with a roster of 10 freshman and 8 sophomores, con-tinued to improve weekly as we took advantage of the nice fall weather. Our pro-gram successfully hosted a 28-team youth Fall Ball Invi-tational with partici-pating teams com-ing from all over the

northwest. The Lady Cards played their full fall ball schedule this year, including great games against the University of Montana, University of Providence and Central Wash-ington University. The team will now go into individual training indoor while continuing to work in the weight room and class room.

GOLFThe men's golf team has gotten off to a

solid start this fall season despite losing our number one player. The team just got back from winning the Walla Walla In-vitational at Wine Valley G.C on Octo-ber 23rd. The guys played solid and ended up 8 under as a team for the two days. Five of the six men finished inside

the top 10 individually. Freshman Dawson Strobel led the way at -1 for a 3rd place tie

finish. Both freshmen Tyler Jones and Bo Knittel finished the event at level par to fin-ish tied for 5th. Sophomore Jesse Henderson and freshman Nick Roberts finished at +1 for the tourney which put them tied for 8th.

The guys also recently finished second place at both the Rocky Mountain Invite and University of Puget Sound Invite, which were solid finishes considering the fields in those two events were mostly four year universities. We head to Seattle on October 28th for the last fall event, which is our first NWAC League Match of the year, hosted by Bellevue College.

The Women’s Golf team has struggled this Fall, also due to losing our number one player, however we will hopefully have her returning in the spring. The women just fin-ished 6th at the Walla Walla Invitational, 23 shots out of second place. Freshman Kaylie Hayes led the way for us with a solid 7th place tie individual finish.

The women also recently finished tied for 5th at the Rocky Mountain Invite and 6th at the Puget Sound Invite. Hopefully we can improve on our finishes and play solid at the first NWAC League Match at Bellevue.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

The leaves have changed on the trees and have started falling on the soccer field and that means only one thing, we are reaching the end of the regular season! NIC Women’s Soccer finished second place in the NWAC

East Region behind our rival CC of Spo-kane. The league title came down to a winner take all battle against Spo-kane in the season finale, and the 1-0 final score gave the title to the Sasquatch. Thanks to our friends at Columbia Ba-sin College earning

a 0-0 tie against Walla Walla CC, the Lady Cards earned the second seed after finishing tied with Walla Walla at 8-3-3 in the tough NWAC East.

The 2018 season has been good. NIC is leading the East in goals scored and goal dif-

ferential (goals scored minus goals allowed) and at times they have looked like they could beat anyone.

The nature of 18, 19 and 20 year-olds does lend itself to ups and downs and they’ve also had some tough games in which they have had trouble getting out of their own way. Re-gardless of the downs, the team comradery had remained good and the players are still working hard toward their goal of getting back to the NWAC Final Four.

VOLLEYBALLThe Lady Cardinals are reaching the end

of the season with a record of 9-4 in confer-ence and 21-10 overall as we go to print. Our

team has been strug-gling this year with many injuries and haven’t been able to have a consistent line-up in over three weeks. With regular season conference play winding down we are trying to re-gain focus and adjust to the multiple start-ing line-up adjust-

ments and finish strong. Hailee Etter, Kayla Neumann and Chloe Knudson have been outstanding thus far and we hope to see lots of leadership from them these last two weeks to get us to the NWAC Championships. The Cardinals are ranked #7 in the latest NWAC poll, despite currently sitting in 4th place in the region behind fellow ranked teams CC of Spokane, Walla Walla and Blue Mountain.

The Lady Cardinals are coming to the end of the home slate, with victories over Big Bend Community College, 3-0, as part of Homecoming festivities, then sweeping Co-lumbia Basin College to close out the Octo-ber home schedule. The CBC game was the Dig Pink game, with our team wearing PINK in support of Breast Cancer Awareness. Come out and cheer on your Cardinals in the home finale and sophomore night on Friday, Nov. 2nd against Yakima Valley College!

WRESTLINGYour Cardinal Wrestling Team is set to be-

gin their 2018- 2019 campaign after a very

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Coaches’ Reports

KELSEY STANLEYDON DON WILLIAMS

RUSSELL GROVE

DAN HOGAN

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Athletes!

successful pre-sea-son, concluding with their annual team mountain climb up Trestle Creek.

The squad will look to make this season their 15th NJCAA National Title campaign. The Cardinals return a strong group after a 6th Place finish last season at the NJCAA national tournament with 3 NJCAA National Qualifiers and an NJCAA All-American. The returners in the hunt for Individual All-Amer-

ican and National Champion honors include:

125: Esco Walker (2018 NJCAA All- American)133: Nick Hara149: Hasaan Hawthorne157: Cooper McCullough165: Izaiah Duran174: Trager Abatti184: Christian Grover285: Connor Sullivan

In addition to the strong group of return-ers, the Cardinals will also welcomed a stel-lar recruiting class this year. The incoming freshmen include a number of high school stand-outs with individual State Titles, six

of which also captured High School All-American and National Champion recogni-tion. Off the mat these young men also have proven themselves in the classroom, with this recruiting class coming in with a combined cumulative GPA of over a 3.0.

The Cardinals have another tough sched-ule with several match-ups with four-year school wrestling programs, and the presti-gious annual Cliff Keen invitational in Las Vegas.

Come check out the first home match of the year on November 16 against Clackamas CC, followed by the Cardinals Duals featur-ing Highline College and Umpqua CC on November 17.

PAT WHITCOMB

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