AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Volleyball camps in Sequim and Port Angeles . . . BMX track hosting events . . . Special Saturday at Discovery Bay . . . Tennis clinic . . . Coughenour wins regional Emmy

Sequim hosting summer volleyball camp

SEQUIM — Sequim High School is hosting a volleyball camp for middle school and high school girls next week.

Featured coaches at the camps will be former Sequim volleyball standouts Taylor Balkan, currently playing at Valley City State University in North Dakota, and Haleigh Harrison, currently playing at Western Washington in Bellingham.

The cost is $75 per player. The camps will run Monday through Thursday at Sequim High School.

The camps has two sessions, divided by ages:

■ Middle school: 9 a.m. to noon. For girls entering the sixth through eighth grades this fall.

■ High school: 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. For girls entering the ninth through 12th grades this fall.

For more information or to register, contact coach Rachel Oden at roden@sequim.k12.wa.us.

PA volleyball camp

PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles High School will hold a volleyball camp for young players July 11-14.

The camp will be in the school gym and will be coached by Port Angeles head coach Christine Halberg and Roughriders players.

Campers will learn fundamental skills such as hitting, passing, serving and setting, while also working on agility and quickness, learning rules and regulations and participating in competitions and games with prizes.

The cost is $50 per player. Campers will receive a T-shirt if they register by Thursday, June 30.

The camp will have two sessions, divided by age group:

■ Incoming kindergarten through fifth-graders: 9 a.m. to noon.

■ Incoming sixth- through ninth-graders: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Contact Halberg at 989-506-2263 or chalberg@portangelesschools.org for more information.

BMX track hosts camp

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles BMX Track is hosting two events next week.

Tuesday and Wednesday there will be a mini-BMX camp from noon to 3 p.m. The cost is $100 for both days or $50 for one day. Discounts are available for families with multiple participants. Registration is from 11:30 a.m to noon.

Wednesday from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. is the track’s free Olympic Day. One-day free memberships and seven-day memberships are available at USABMX.com.

There also are seven more state qualifying races, including the one at the Port Angeles BMX Track on July 10.

BMX racing is for all ages. Strider bikes also can race with a $30 membership.

The Port Angeles BMX schedule can be found at USABMX.com.

The Port Angeles BMX Track is located near the Clallam County Fairgounds at the corner of Lauridsen Blvd. and L Street.

For more information, email pabmxtrack@gmail.com.

Discovery Bay news

PORT TOWNSEND — Discovery Bay Golf Club is having a Blowout Saturday this Saturday.

Green fees will be $10 all day.

Discovery Bay also has discounted 12:10 p.m. to 12:50 p.m. tee times for the remainder of the month to $36 Mondays through Fridays and $40 Saturdays and Sundays.

On Saturday, June 25, there will be a two-person best ball tournament. Prizes will include artwork by area artist Gary Griswold, a print of the No. 7 green at Pebble Beach, valued at $350, and an new Ping Anser putter.

PA tennis clinic in July

PORT ANGELES — Gilbert Stockton, head coach of the Port Angeles High School boys tennis team, will again hold a free tennis clinic the last two weeks of July.

Those in seventh and eighth grades will play from 9 a.m. to noon, and those in high school from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

The clinic will be held at the high school tennis courts. Participants should bring plenty of water and wear sunscreen.

PA native wins Emmy

Port Angeles native Ty Coughenour received a 2015 Northwest Regional Emmy Award for Interactivy.

Coughenour earned the award for the Episode 102 of Fan Face Off, a TV show that aired last fall on KOMO (Channel 4).

Coughenour served as a producer on the show.

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