AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Future Riders youth football and cheer registration online now

Peninsula College athletes honored for academics

Peninsula Daily News

PORT ANGELES — In-person registration events for the Future Riders youth football and cheer programs are set for July 7-8.

Players and cheerleaders in first through sixth grades can be registered at the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St., from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. each day.

Players must be age 13 before July 31.

The cost is $150, with each additional child $125.

Registration also is open at https://www.pafutureriders.com/register.php.

An in-person late registration event will be held in August, and players also can sign up when gear is handed out before the season.

Practices will begin Aug. 16.

PC players achieve

PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College athletes were honored recently for their academic efforts by the Northwest Athletic Conference (NWAC).

Five Pirates received NWAC Academic Leadership Awards for posting a minimum grade-point average of 3.5 and completing 60 credits. Award recipients are men’s soccer players Kyota Hiate and Jeong Hyun Kang, men’s basketball player Issac Garcia and women’s soccer player Shyanne Change and Grace Johnson of Nordland.

Six Peninsula athletes were honored with Academic Excellence Awards for earning a minimum GPA of 3.25 and completing 60 credit hours. They are: Chunghwan Lee, men’s soccer; Ty Artis and Isaiah Sampson, men’s basketball; and women’s soccer players Adeline Becker, Carissa Miller and Port Angeles’ Kyrsten McGuffey.

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