SEATTLE -- University of Washington basketball coach Lorenzo Romar announced Monday that 6-foot-9 sophomore forward Brendan Sherrer had made the 14th-ranked team as a walk-on.
The Huskies found Sherrer in a walk-on tryout camp held last month while seven of their regular players were out sick.
So many were missing, the team couldn't fully begin practicing until a week after it had planned to.
The 240-pound Sherrer is from Monroe, and played for Archbishop Murphy High School in Everett.
He is the first walk-on to make the team since 2004.
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In addition to playing a pair of games on basketball's biggest stage, the Huskies will slip behind the Broadway curtains of a Tony Award-winning musical, watch the filming of a television drama and visit the Sept. 11 memorial.
"For us to spend a week in New York will be a great experience on and off the court," coach Lorenzo Romar said. "For some of these guys, it's their first time in the city.
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Today the Eagles will officially grab three of the top impact football players out of the Columbia Basin Big Nine conference.
Miquiyah Zamora of Chiawana and Joe Hunt of Kamiakin will sign on the dotted line during today's National Signing Day. They'll join several other Mid-Columbia athletes who will continue their athletic career at the next level.
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The commitment came from fullback Psalm Wooching of Kalakehe High in Kailua Kona, Hawaii, who was one of five recruits to visit Washington this weekend.
None of the others, including offensive lineman Jake Eldrenkamp of Bellevue, was reported to have committed.
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"Yeah, it did. There is no question," he was impressed, Wulff said Sunday of Connor Halliday's performance in Washington State's 37-27 upset win over Arizona State at Martin Stadium.
"The other part of it was the receivers making the plays for him as well."
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