Five members of the Men’s and Women’s Basketball teams received All North Region honors for their effort on the basketball court, while three more student-athletes were recognized for their hard work in the class room.

Men’s Basketball won the North Region Title and swept all three major North Region awards. Dana Abe was named the North Region Most valuable Player after leading the league with 21.6 points per game. Abe also finished in the top 5 of the Region in rebounding and 3 point percentage.

Abdul Mohamed was named the Defensive Player of the Year after leading Shoreline to the best defense in the NWAC. The Phins lead the entire NWAC in opponents field goal percentage, opponents 3 point field goal percentage and opponents points per possession. Mohamed finished 3rd in the North Region in steals and was tasked with defending the best perimeter threat from each opponent.

Anddrew Hawkins was also recognized by the North Region coaches receiving All North Region Second Team honors. Hawkins’ influence on a basketball game can be found all over the stat sheet. He is the second leading scorer for the Phins with 12.5 points per game, second in assists with 3 per game and second in rebounds with 6 per game.

Head Coach Donald Brady was named the Coach of the Year for the North Region. Brady took over the Men’s Basketball program after the 2013-14 season in which Shoreline had a 2-12 North Region record. In his first two seasons Brady led the Phins to improved win totals but each season fell one win short of the NWAC Tournament. The 2016-17 season marked a major step in turning around the Men’s Basketball program as the Phins finished the regular season with a 17-8 overall record and a 10-4 record in the North Region.

Women’s Basketball star Enjunay Jones-Lee was named to the All North Region 1st Team. Jones-Lee was 4th in the Region with 19 points per game. Jones-Lee led the entire NWAC shooting 87% from the Free Throw line while finishing 4th in Free Throws made. Sophomore Point Guard Dani Hayes was honored on the All Defensive Team. Hayes averaged 2.64 steals on the season as she defended the opposition’s primary ball handler.

Enjunay Jones-Lee turned up on another awards list for her stellar work in the classroom. Jones-Lee and Men’s Basketball players Brady Anderson and Joe Ghebrehiwot were named to the NWAC All-Academic team. All three student-athletes have been committed in the classroom during their time at Shoreline and all three maintain a GPA above 3.5.

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Friday June 2nd was the 3rd Annual Shoreline Community College Intercollegiate Athletics Awards Banquet. It was a fantastic event which included live music, silent auction, a phenomenal catered dinner, inspirational speaker Phillip Ferrell, a few motivational words from President Roberts, Hall of Fame Inductions, a fantastic video tribute to SCC athletics as well as team and league awards. Below are the league wide and team awards that were handed out on Friday.

Volleyball

2016 NWAC Volleyball All-Stars, Northern Region MVP: Taylor Alexander

2016 Fall Quarter Academic Excellence: Taylor Alexander

2016 Fall Quarter Academic Excellence: Carlie Howard

2016 NWAC Volleyball All-Stars, Northern Region First Team: Carlie Howard

2016 NWAC Volleyball All-Stars, Northern Region Second Team: Kristina Nielsen

2016 Team Awards:

MVP: Taylor Alexander

Most Improved: Sydney Keller

Most Inspirational: Josephine Dalrymple

Men’s Soccer

2016 NWAC Men’s Soccer All-Stars, Forward: Angel Alcaraz

2016 NWAC Men’s Soccer All-Region team: Noe Ellen

2016 NWAC Men’s Soccer All-Region team: Callahan Gobel

2016 NWAC Men’s Soccer All-Region team: Jorge Talavera

2016 Team Awards for Men’s Soccer:

Offensive MVP: Angel Alcaraz

Defensive MVP: Callahan Gobel

Coaches’ Award: Angel Alcaraz

Women’s Soccer

2016 NWAC Women’s Soccer All-Stars Northern Region, Mid-Fielder: Rikki Quintero

2016 NWAC Women’s Soccer All-Stars Northern Region, Defender: Lex Simmons

2016 Women’s Soccer Northern Region team: Dani Hayes

2016 Women’s Soccer Northern Region team: Naza Hernandez

2016 NWAC Academic Excellence, Fall Quarter: Nazarena Hernandez

2016 Women’s Soccer Northern Region Team: Maddy Lowdon

2016 NWAC Academic Excellence, Fall Quarter: Tayler Lime

2016 Team Awards for Women’s Soccer:

MVP: Naza Hernandez

Most Inspirational: Shey Thompson

Coaches’ Award: Rikki Quintero

Men’s Basketball

2016-17 NWAC All-Region, Northern Region Coach of the Year: Donald Brady

2016-17 NWAC All-Region, Northern Region MVP: Dana Abe

2016-17 NWAC All-Region, Northern Region Second Team: Anddrew Hawkins

2016-17 NWAC All-Region, Northern Region Defensive Player of the Year: Abdul Mohamed

2016-17 NWAC Academic Excellence, Winter Quarter: Brady Anderson

2016-17 NWAC Academic Excellence, Winter Quarter:  Joseph Ghebrehiwot

Team Awards for 2016-17

Coaches’ Award: Ben Steinbrueck

Coaches’ Award: Will Luckett

Coaches’ Award: Derrik Dean

Women’s Basketball

2016-17 NWAC All-Region, Northern Region First Team: Enjunay Jones-Lee

2016-17 NWAC Academic Excellence, Winter Quarter: Enjunay Jones-Lee

2016-17 NWAC All-Region, Northern Region All-Defensive Team: Danielle Hayes

Team Awards for 2016-17

MVP: Enjunay Jones-Lee

Defensive MVP: Dani Hayes

Coaches’ Award: Paris Sanders

Most Improved: Janaya Williams

Men’s Baseball

2017 NWAC All Region First Team Outfield – Kory Longaker

2017 NWAC All Region Gold Glove Outfield- Kory Longaker

2017 NWAC All Region First Team Utility – David Becker

2017 Academic Excellence Award – David Becker

2017 NWAC Gold Glove Catcher- Zach Zurbrugg

Team Awards for 2016-17

Most Improved: Chris Watkins

Coaches’ Award: Connor Walker

Fireman Reliever: Tyler Wingert

Rookie of the Year: Brice Foster

Cy Young: Trey Lopez

Team MVP: David Becker

Silver Slugger: David Becker & Korey Longaker

Softball

2017 NWAC Northern Region Outfield Second Team

Academic Excellence Award – Alyssa Giesbers

Academic excellence Award – Cheyanne Garcia

Team Awards for 2016-17

Most Improved: Shey Thompson

Cocahes’ Award: Cheyanne Garcia

Defensive MVP: Jeralyn Pasoquen

Team MVP: Cheyanne Garcia

We were very fortunate to celebrate the induction of former Athletic Director Ken Burrus into the SCC Athletics Hall of Fame. We also welcomed two new scholar athletes to our Hall of Fame, Taylor Alexander and David Becker.

It was a great night had by all and we can’t wait to see what 2017-18 has in store for Phin Nation!

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Shoreline Community College Athletic Department is excited to announce our newest member to our Head Coaching staff, Amy Donovan.   On September 18th Amy joined our team as the Head Women’s Basketball  Coach.  Amy has 10 years of coaching experience from select, high school and division one college basketball.   Amy was a graduate assistant at the University of Washington Women’s Basketball program working with Head Coaches Kevin McGuff and Mike Neighbors.   She was a head coach for Holy Names Academy in 2015-16, and served as an Assistant Coach at Northern Arizona University in 2016-17.   Please join us in welcoming Amy to Shoreline Community College — Go Phins!

November 21, 2017

SHORELINE, WA

It’s a new era in Shoreline Women’s Basketball as new head coach Amy Donovan takes over. Donovan has 10 years of combined coaching experience, beginning as a camp counselor from 2007-2012 for the Pete Newell Tall Women’s Camps, which focus on footwork and efficiency in the low post position. From 2010-2012 Donovan was an assistant varsity basketball coach and substitute teacher at Battle Ground High School. In 2012-13, while completing her Masters of Education she assisted at the University of Washington with coaching and operations aspects of the team, including film breakdown, team travel, budget management, and advanced analytics/scouting. After graduating from UW in 2013, Donovan worked in the non-profit sector for the A PLUS Youth Program and Basketball Education in Action from 2013-2015, both of which focused on providing educational and life skills tutoring and high-level basketball training. During the 2015-16 season, Donovan was the head varsity coach at Holy Names Academy in the Metro League. 15 players that Donovan has coached at the high school level have moved on to play at the collegiate level, including the PAC-12, Ivy League, and several Division II and Division III conferences.

Most recently during the 2016-17 season, Donovan was an assistant coach at Northern Arizona University. The team exceeded expectations in the Big Sky Conference, going 9-21 and finishing in 10th place despite being picked to finish 12th in both pre-season polls. While at NAU, Donovan was also in charge of team travel, assisted with recruiting and academic monitoring, and helped implement a new defensive system for the 2016-17 season.

With years of division one experience the 2017-18 Dolphin squad will be Donovan’s first chance to make her name as a head coach at the collegiate level. The Phin’s return zero players from the team a year ago, consequently building the Women’s Basketball program back up will be a lot of hard work but as Donovan has proved in her past, she is not afraid to roll up her sleeves and get to work. Donovan loves the game of basketball and will be a great role model for the basketball community in Shoreline.

The Starting Five:

#12 Brittaney Carrington, 5’5″ Freshman Guard from Blaine High School, Blaine, WA

#10 Madison Dionisio, 5’8″ Freshman Forward from Roosevelt High School, Seattle, WA

#14 Alysha Gustafson-Savella, 5’9″ Freshman Forward from Ka’u High School, Ka’u, HI

#11 Tristan Davis, 5’8″ Freshman Forward from Ka’u High School, Ka’u, HI

#32 Cassidy Callihan, 5’7″ Freshman Center from Eastmont High School, East Wenatchee, WA

In Game 1 of the season the Phin’s dropped the game to Centrailia but the bright spot was Freshman Alysha Gustafson with a Shoreline scoring high of 14 points & 8 rebounds. Brittaney Carrington chipped in with 7 points, 6 rebounds and 2 steals.

The Phin’s next play on the road at Green River CC, Wednesday November 29th at 5pm, before coming home Saturday December 2nd vs. Big Bend CC at 3pm.

On twitter follow @ShorelineHoops for all things Shoreline Women’s Basketball.

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Shoreline Community College Suspends Women’s Basketball 2017-18 Season

Based on low participation and a multitude of athlete injuries, Shoreline Community College and the Northwest Athletic Conference (NWAC) mutually agreed that suspending the Women’s Basketball 2017-18 season would be best.

We highly praise the perseverance our student-athletes demonstrated under challenging circumstances, said Steve Eskridge, Director of Athletics. It takes time to develop a rhythm as a team, and these players showed amazing determination and spirit in facing off against more seasoned NWAC programs. We also greatly appreciate and want to thank everyone who supported the team this year.

“Newly hired Head Coach, Amy Donovan, is already at work building the 2018-19 Women’s Basketball PhinNation season,” said Eskridge.

We are pleased to announce that Coach Chris Weakley has accepted to become Shoreline Community College’s next Head Women’s Basketball Coach.  Coach Weakley has played professional basketball overseas and has a wealth of basketball knowledge and coaching experience.  He was an Associate Head Coach at Franklin HS, and he coached at Prince Avenue Prep in South Carolina, where he took his team to a national championship.  He has had the privilege and honor to learn from great coaches such as Don Casey, former L.A. Clippers coach, and Orlando Woolridge former WNBA coach and current ABA coach.   “We are excited to have Coach Weakley here at Shoreline Community College” – Steve Eskridge, Athletic Director.    

The Athletic Department is pleased to announce a new coaching structure for the 2018-19 Women’s Basketball team.  Following Head Coach Christopher Weakley’s resignation in December 2018, Assistant Coach Marvena Kemp and Rodney Walker have been appointed Co-Head Coaches for the Women’s Basketball team.

Coach Marvena Kemp brings over 20 years of basketball experience at all levels as well as hosting athletic events in Washington.  Some of the notable events Kemp directed was being the Northwest Event Coordinator for Elite Sports, Director of the 10^th Annual Battle at the Lake outdoor tournament, Director of the 15^th Annual Shawn Kemp “Reignman Classic,” and Co-Director of the 5^th Annual Northwest Collegiate Summer League. Coach Marvena Kemp also serves as the President of the Marvin Thomas Memorial Fund.

Coach Rodney Walker brings a wealth of basketball knowledge and has coached at many levels from AAU to Semi-Professional. Walker was an assistant High School Basketball Coach from 1998 through 2001 at Everett’s Cascade High School and was part of the coaching staff that twice sent teams to State.  Walker was later the Head Girls Basketball Coach at Sultan High School from 2006 to 2009, and led Sultan to 3 district appearances, and was named the Cascade Conference Coach of the Year.

“We are excited for this opportunity to have such an experienced and knowledgeable coaching staff.”  – Athletic Director, Steve Eskridge. Go Phins!

January 28, 2019

Shoreline, WA– Despite a rebuilding season for the Shoreline Women’s basketball team, Valerie Bell has managed to put up some impressive numbers. Bell is averaging 19.9 points per game good for 5th in the entire NWAC to go with 6 rebounds per game. Valerie has scored in double digits in 15 of the 16 games this season, also worth noting she has notched three 30 point games.  She scored 31 against Whatcom and Green River, as well as 35 against Columbia Basin. Valerie has also recorded three double doubles. (two-double digit stat categories) 31 points, 11 rebounds vs. Whatcom, 14 points, 10 rebounds vs. South Puget Sound and 18 points, 10 rebounds vs. Highline. Bell has established herself as a player to be reckoned with in the tough NWAC North Region and has taken advantage of her minutes on the floor and put up some big numbers.

Both the Shoreline Men and Women’s basketball teams’ are on the road this week: Wednesday, January 30th @ Peninsula for  5pm & 7pm tip off’s. #GoPhins

February 25, 2019

SHORELINE, WA

As the winter season winds down and the Women’s Basketball team is on the outside looking in at the playoffs, Freshman Forward Clara Hansen is developing into a star in front of Phin Nation’s very own eyes. Clara Hansen is averaging 12.6 points per game and 9.8 rebounds in conference play in 2019. Clara has 8 double doubles (double digit totals in both points & rebounds) in conference play with her best game coming on Saturday (2/23) against Whatcom Community College, where she scored 18 points, 16 rebounds and dished 6 assists.

Coach Rodney Walker describes her as “starting to find her footing.”

Hansen is a 5’11” athlete with great ability to rebound and block shots because of her size and strength. However, she is taking her game to a whole new level. As of late Clara is knocking down more three pointers and playing the point guard position at times. Clara has a very high ceiling as is indeed starting to find her footing.

May 7, 2020

Shoreline, WA-

Shoreline Community College is pleased to announce that Rodney Walker will be the next Head Women’s Basketball Coach. Walker brings a wealth of basketball knowledge and experience to the Women’s Basketball program. He has spent the last two years as Co-Head Coach for the Shoreline Community College women’s basketball program and was instrumental with the program’s improvements and successes.

“We are excited to have Walker be a part of our coaching staff” – Athletic Director, Steve Eskridge.  

For more on Shoreline Athletics check out our twitter handle @sccathletics

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