Monday, June 27, 2011

Rod's Monday Mid Day Sports Blog

Josh Monroy of Pierre has signed a national letter of intent to play for Otero Junior College in La Junta, Colo., this upcoming season. The 7-foot-2 post player prepped at T.F. Riggs thru his junior year and played summer AAU basketball with the South Dakota Heat. Monroy was heavily recruited in the early signing period by many Division I schools. He made official visits to Utah State and South Dakota State and also received interest from Brigham Young and North Dakota State among Division I schools. Monroy was also recruited by Northeast (Neb.) and Colby (Kan.) community colleges. The coach at Otero Junior College is Houston Reed, who played at Northern State from 2000-02.

The Pierre Athletic Booster Club will be be meeting Wednesday evening at 7 pm at the offices of Stulken, Peterson and Associates to send out letters to businesses and they are still looking for someone to volunter to become the new chairperson for the Sports Book project. The next Booster Club meeting is scheduled for July 12th at 5:45 pm at Pier 347 in downtown Pierre. Booster Club officials also want to remind all golfers that the Booster Club's annual Golf Tournament will be held as scheduled on July 30th at the Oahe Trails Golf Course north of Pierre. You can follow the Pierre Athletic Booster Club on Facebook and on their link on the Pierre school website at www. pierre.k12.sd.us and click on the Governor Sports link.

The Pierre Swim team has had a busy month as swimmers competed at 3 different meets at Chamberlain, Aberdeen and Bismarck, North Dakota. At Chamberlain on June 11th 4 Pierre swimmers won races. At Bismark, June 10th through the 12th, Sydney Theobold had 7 first place finishes and one second place finish in 8 races to have the top meet for the Pierre contingent. In Aberdeen, Talia Jorgenson had 6 first place finishes in 7 events, for the best meet by any of the Pierre swimmers.

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