Sports Shorts Sports Shorts (November 16, 2005)

FUNDRAISER . . . Olympian Anne Cribbs will be the guest speaker when the Gunn High Sports Boosters hold their annual fundraising dinner on Sunday at the Fremont Hills Country Club at 5:30 p.m. Cribbs, who earned a gold medal in swimming at the 1960 Summer Games in Rome, is an advocate of women's sports and speak on her experiences at the Olympics. Proceeds from the dinner will go toward improving Gunn's athletic facilities. The school is hoping to build a new pool, a second gym, add lights and artificial turf to the football field, build a new soccer facility and enlarge the baseball field. Tickets are $100 for the first adult and $50 for additional adults, $20 for students. Checks should be sent to c/o Gunn Athletic Director Matt McGinn at 780 Arastradero Road, 94306. Please RSVP to gsb@com or call Bob Cranmer-Brown at 949-2020.

COURTING SUCCESS . . . Spectators at the USTA Challenger in Wexford, Pa. saw a double does of Cardinal in the championship tennis matches on Sunday. Stanford product and former NCAA singles champion Lilia Osterloh defeated Galina Voskoboeva, 7-6 (5), 6-4 for the singles title, while Stanford grad Teryn Ashley paired up with Carly Gullickson to beat Ashley Harkleroad and Bethanie Mattek, 6-1, 6-0, for the doubles title.

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 . . . Woodside Priory is looking for 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. 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-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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