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November 15, 2005
Release: #0520
News Release
For Immediate Release
COA Launches Championship Festival in Fresno;
Women's Golf Championship Opens Inaugural Event
SACRAMENTO, CA .
. . The California Community Colleges
Commission on Athletics (COA) launched the 2005-06 COA Championship Festival
Presented by U.S. Bank this week in Fresno, CA.
The California Community
Colleges Commission on Athletics Women's Golf Championship Presented by U.S.
Bank marked the official opening of the Festival, during which over 1,500 student
athletes will compete in twelve state championship events over eleven days of
competition throughout the Fresno region in November and December 2005, and
March 2006.
Next on the Festival schedule
are the women and men's water polo championships and women and men's cross country
championships, which will crown champions November 18-19.
The busiest weekend of the
Festival is December 9 - 11, when the state's top women's volleyball, wrestling,
football, women's soccer and men's soccer teams contend for a COA championships
in Fresno. The women and men's basketball championships, held March 9-12, 2006,
will close out the Festival. The Festival also features several youth clinics
and community events in addition to the championship competition.
The Festival concept evolved
from the efforts of the COA Management Council Subcommittee on Championship
Site Selection. The committee, comprised of COA staff, COA management council
representatives and COA sport coach's association representatives, was charged
with the task of developing standards and procedures for the COA's championship
site selection process.
At the Festival's opening
event at Riverside Golf Course, Mt. San Antonio College's women's golf team
won its second consecutive state championship. Shonna Clark led the Mounties
with a two-day score of 157, followed by Tina Eng (167), J. J. Jinawanit (176),
Mindy Kimura (177) and Alexis VanSickle (181).
Pam Arjarayutt (Long Beach
City College) won the individual title with a two-day total of 155, followed
by Tiffany Derken (Fresno City College, 157, second place via tie-breaker),
Shonna Clark (Mt. San Antonio, 157), Kim Keaton (Long Beach City College, 158,
fourth place via tie-breaker), Belinda Diamond (College of the Desert, 158),
and Kristen Janis (Butte College, 163, sixth place via tie-breaker).
To view the latest news,
information and updates of all 23 COA-sanctioned sports, and for comprehensive
COA Championship Festival information, visit www.coasports.org.
COA
COA
Championship Festival Competition Schedule
COA
Championship Festival Non-Competition Event Schedule
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