Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Coach Speck gets her 300th WIN

Women’s Basketball Coach Betsey Specketer wins her 300th game

SALT LAKE CITY(November 24, 2009) – Salt Lake Community College would like to congratulate Head Women’s Basketball Coach Betsey Specketer on her 300th win of her career. Coach Specketer has been the head woman’s basketball coach at SLCC for 14 years compiling a record of 300 wins and 130 losses. Her team is currently ranked third in the NJCAA with a record of 7-1 overall and 2-0 in the Scenic West.

Specketer has coached fourteen 1st Team All-Conference players, fifteen 2nd Team All-Conference players, nine NJCAA All-Americans, three SWAC Conference MVPs, and six WBCA All-Americans. On top of her team’s successes, Specketer garnered the Region 18 Coach of the Year award in 1996-1997, 2001-2002, and 2006-07, a WBCA Region 7 Coach of the Year in 2000-2001 and an NJCAA District M Coach of the Year in 2005-06 and 2006-07.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

National Tournament Time!!!

SLCC Volleyball Grabs Top Seed at the NJCAA National Tournament
The NJCAA released the seeds for the Division I NJCAA Volleyball National tournament today. SLCC Volleyball is seeded number one for the tournament with a record of 27-7. This is the first time is SLCC athletics history that a team has received the number one seed in a National tournament. During the season SLCC assembled wins over top ranked teams in the NJCAA including #1 North Idaho, #3 Western Nebraska, #6 College of Southern Idaho, #8 Missouri West Plains and #17 Frank Phillips College.

The top seeded Salt Lake Bruins will open up the NJCAA tournament against Spartanburg College (10-17) on Thursday November 19 at 1 pm CST.


Coach Norm Parrish gets his 400th Win
Salt Lake Community College would like to congratulate Head Men’s Basketball Coach Norm Parrish who won the 400th game of his career. Over the past two seasons Coach Parrish has led his team to 63 wins while suffering only 10 losses. In 2008, his team placed second at the NJCAA National Tournament; then in 2009 Coach Parrish led SLCC to the school’s first ever NJCAA National Championship, beating Midland College 87-80. Following the National Championship, Coach Parrish was named NJCAA Coach of the Year.

During his career at SLCC, he has produced 10 NJCAA All Americans. More than 200 players have worn the Bruin uniform for Parrish since he became the head coach in 1991, 80 of whom have moved on to the NCAA Division I ranks, with several now playing professionally overseas as well as in the NBA. 19 of Parrish’s players have been named NJCAA All-Americans and 24 have been Academic All-Americans.