Sports Shorts Sports Shorts (November 11, 2005)

COLLEGE CORNER . . . Gunn High grad Jennifer Wang of Swarthmore College (Pa.) has been named to the 2005 All-Centennial Conference volleyball team. Wang, a freshman outside hitter, was an honorable mention choice. She made an immediate impact on the Swarthmore team with 42 kills, 58 digs and 11 service aces in her first collegiate tournament - earning all-tournament honors at the Greyhound Invitational in September. For her efforts, she was named Centennial Conference Player of the Week. She had a team-high 14 double-doubles during the season while ranking sixth in the conference in total digs and seventh in kills. She held Swarthmore earn its first Centennial playoff bid in school history after finishing 6-4 in league.

OF LOCAL NOTE . . . Menlo Park resident Amir Bashti will compete in the boys' 8-9 division at the 2005 Sierra Mist MLS Dribble, Pass & Score youth skills competition Saturday in Frisco, Texas, a day before the MLS Cup 2005. Bashti advanced through three previous levels of competition to reach the national finals that feature 24 participants in three age divisions . . . The Palo Alto Pop Warner Football Pee Wee team (8-1) will meet Oak Grove on Saturday in the Peninsula Conference championships at Woodside High at 2 p.m. Following that game, the Palo Alto Jr. Midgets (8-1) will play Oak Grove for that division title at 4 p.m. The winners advance to the Northwest Regional Championships the following weekend.

FUNDRAISER . . . The Stanford women's gymnastics program will host its annual "Sips & Swings" fund-raising event on Saturday at Zibibbo Restaurant, 450 Kipling St., in Palo Alto. The event, which begins at 2 p.m., offers food and wine, wine-tasting seminars and a chance to bid on auction items. All proceeds benefit the Stanford women's gymnastics program. VIP tasting is from 2-3 p.m. (cost $100); food, wine and silent auction is from 3-5 p.m. (cost $60). For more information: Cardinal head coach Kristen Smyth at 725-6143 or kmsymth@stanford.edu.

T-SHIRT SALE . . . For a limited time only, 2005 Moonlight Run T-shirts are available for sale for $10 each. Come into our offices at 703 High Street (at Forest, downtown PA), between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5:30 pm, Monday through Friday.

COACHING CORNER . . . Palo Alto's new baseball coach, Joel Kaufman, is looking for assistant coaches for both the varsity and JV teams in addition to a head JV coach. He can be reached at palybaseball@pacbell.net . . . Gunn is looking for a JV girls' soccer coach. Contact Athletic Director Matt McGinn at 354-8214 . . . Woodside Priory is looking for a boys' junior varsity basketball coach and a varsity swim coach. Contact Mark Stogner, Director of Athletics at 851-6107 or mstogner@woodsidepriory.com . . . Sacred Heart Prep is looking for a baseball coach for the 2006 spring season, a girls' varsity basketball assistant coach, and a head coach for girls' JV basketball. Interested candidates should forward their resume with a letter of interest to Anthony Thomas, Athletic Director, Sacred Heart Prep, 150 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton, 94027 . . . Menlo School is looking for a girls' varsity basketball assistant coach and girls' frosh-soph basketball coaches. Call 330-2001 (ext. 2282) or e-mail bmckinney@menloschool.org . . . Menlo-Atherton is looking for coaches for the 2005-06 school year: wrestling, track and field assistant (shot and discus), girls' varsity and JV lacrosse, and frosh-soph softball. Those interested should contact M-A Athletic Director Pam Wimberly at 322-5311 (ext. 5706) or e-mail resumes to pwimberl@seq.org

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