Fremont High alum Maggie Mendelson was named to the USA Volleyball Under-19 Training Team earlier this week.

It will be Mendelson’s second experience with a USA Volleyball team after helping the Americans win the bronze medal in last year’s FIVB U18 World Championship.

Mendelson, who’s headed to the University of Nebraska to play both volleyball and basketball, is a middle blocker who starred at Fremont High and graduated last month a year early.

This year’s U19 training team meets July 6-15 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Out of the 20 players selected to the training team, 12 will compete for Team USA at the U19 Pan Am Cup from July 18-23, also in Tulsa.

The Federation International de Volleyball, volleyball’s worldwide governing body otherwise known as FIVB, changed its age group classifications for girls volleyball to match those of boys volleyball.

Previously, the girls classifications were U18 and U20. Now, they’re U19 and U21, which means Mendelson could possibly represent team USA again for the U21 team down the road.

Overall, this is Mendelson’s third time representing Team USA in some fashion. She was on the bronze medal-winning USA Volleyball team at the U18 World Championship and helped Team USA basketball win the 2021 FIBA Americas U16 championship last year as well.

ALL-STAR BASEBALL THIS SATURDAY

The annual Utah high school baseball All-Star games are being held this Saturday, June 4, at Lindquist Field with four games.

Seniors from 6A, 5A, 4A and 3A schools all across the state will play on mixed teams against each other, with three such games at 11 a.m., 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.

There will be an underclassmen game at 7:30 p.m.

Admission is $3 per person.

LCA’S BOBBY PORTER TO RETIRE

Bobby Porter is retiring as boys basketball head coach at Layton Christian Academy after the 2022-23 season ends, the school announced Thursday afternoon.

Porter started at LCA in 2001 and is currently the dean of students at the school. His teams have won six state championships and 18 region championships in three different classifications.

“He has enriched the lives of so many and brought such excitement and love for the sport of basketball,” read part of a statement released by the school.

Most recently, the Eagles won both the 3A state and Region 13 titles for the 2021-22 season, their first year competing in 3A.

Next year, LCA’s boys basketball team is moving up to play in 4A as an unattached (not independent) school, meaning the team isn’t in a region, but is still eligible for the 4A state tournament and will be seeded into the tournament via the RPI system.

The 4A state tournament will be held at Utah State’s Dee Glen Smith Spectrum, the first time a state basketball tournament will be held there since 2016.

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