ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Former Port Angeles Roughriders and Peninsula College teammates Kyrsten McGuffey and Millie Long were both honored last week by the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.
Long was named GNAC athlete of the week in women’s basketball and she was feted for setting a conference record for steals in a game.
Long, now playing for Alaska-Anchorage, stole the ball 11 times in her debut against Simpson College that the Seawolves won 103-24. Long also had 21 points and 9-for-14 shooting, while adding six assists and a blocked shot. After two games, she is averaging 17.5 points a game.
Long transferred to Alaska-Anchorage to focus solely on basketball in her final year of college. She played soccer and basketball for Cal Poly, Humboldt in Arcata, Calif., after playing both sports at Peninsula College, winning an NWAC championship with the soccer team and winning an NWAC MVP award in soccer and North Region MVPs in both basketball and soccer.
For the Roughriders, Long won numerous Olympic League MVPs in both basketball and soccer, leading both teams to the state 2A tournament several times and leading the Riders to a 15-0 season during a pandemic-shortened season that had no postseason. She even won a state championship in the 300-meter hurdles.
Port Angeles’ Jon Madison and Jessica Madison were also big basketball stars for Anchorage-Alaska and are both members of the Roughriders Hall of Fame.
McGuffey, who also played soccer and basketball for the Riders, making all-Olympic League teams, and soccer for the Pirates, now plays soccer for Western Washington.
Last week, she led all GNAC players with four goals to help the Vikings win two matches and secure their 10th women’s soccer regular-season GNAC title. She was named the GNAC offensive player of the week.
McGuffey’s first brace of the season came on Halloween, as she found the net twice amid a downpour in Monmouth, Ore., to help WWU defeat Western Oregon 2-0. She followed with an equally impressive performance Saturday, finding the net two more times in the team’s 2-0 blanking of Saint Martin’s. McGuffey leads all GNAC players with eight goals this season, and her five game-winners are also the most of any player in the league.
Former Sequim soccer player Claire Henninger was an all-conference goalkeeper for Western Washington and helped the team win a national NCAA Div. II championship a couple of years ago. Henninger now plays professionally in Portugal.
McGuffey also played for the College of Saint Rose.
