The Skippers, Montana's only precision and competitive jump rope team, also finished 17th in the overall speed events.
Erin Williams led the way for the team qualifying for the Grand Nationals competition (held June 29) in the one-minute speed and single rope freestyle competition. She placed fourth in the one-minute speed event with 326 jumps and 6th in her single rope freestyle.
Super Skippers
National Jump Rope Competition
June 27-28 results
Orlando, Fla.
11-12 age group
Double dutch speed relay - Maura Wear, Mayah Vandewetering, Allie Trent.
13-14 age group
One-minute speed - 8, Riley Williams.
Single rope speed relay team - 10, Gilia Patterson, Tori Stavish, Riley Williams, Shea Mann.
Double dutch speed relay - 9, Tori Stavish, Riley Williams, Gilia Patterson.
Three-minute speed - 6, Riley Williams.
50-and-over age group
One-minute speed - 1, Jim Williams.
Three-minute speed - 1, Jim Williams.
MFRA brings racing to fairgrounds
The Montana Flat Track Racing Association is hosting the Northwest Shootout this weekend at the Missoula County Fairgrounds.
Races are set for Saturday and Sunday beginning at noon each day. Admission is $5, with children 12 and under free.
More than $5,000 in prize money will be on the line for roughly 100 racers ranging in age from 5 to 60.
Motorcycles, four-wheelers and winged outlaw karts will be racing. The open class karts will reach speeds close to 70 mph in the rodeo arena on the one-eighth mile flat track.
Plains native gets job in Coeur d'Alene
Plains native and former Montana Western basketball player Royce Johnston has been named the new head coach of girls' basketball at Lake City High School in Coeur d'Alene.
For the past seven years Johnston has served as the JV coach for the Timberwolves boys' and girls' teams and has compiled a coaching record of 228-54, he said.
The Lake City girls won the Class 5A state title two years ago and next season they'll return the Gatorade player of the year in 6-foot-1 post Katie Baker.
“It'll be her and a bunch of freshmen and sophomores,” Johnston said. “We'll be pretty young, but it's going to be fun.”
Johnston has taught science at Woodland Middle School in Coeur d'Alene for the past 10 years.
Lake City will travel to Kalispell to play the Flathead Bravettes next season.
Kalispell XC coach feted by NHSACA
KALISPELL (AP) - Flathead High cross country coach Paul Jorgensen has been named the national boys' cross country coach of the year by the National High School Athletic Coaches Association.
Jorgensen's FHS boys teams have won 11 state championships in his 35 years. He has had eight individual state champions and 43 of his athletes, boys and girls, have run cross country or track at the college level.
The award was announced at the NHSACA convention in Colorado Springs, Colo. Jorgensen didn't attend the convention.
Jorgensen has been named the Montana Coaches Association coach of the year 25 times, 12 for boys' cross country. He is a member of the National Coaches Hall of Fame in cross country and the Montana Coaches Hall of Fame.
Browning assistant to be honored
GREAT FALLS (AP) - Longtime Browning assistant coach Steve Linder has been named the assistant coach of the year by the Montana Coaches Association.
He will receive his award as part of the MCA Multi-Sports Clinic in Great Falls in early August.
Linder has been an assistant coach for 39 years, including 27 in boys' and girls' cross country. He has also been an assistant for football, boys' and girls' basketball, track and field and wrestling.
Since 1975, Linder has helped Browning High capture 20 state cross country championships - 14 with the boys' teams and six with the girls' teams.
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