Stansbury softball

For all Tooele County girls interested in playing accelerated softball, tryouts will be held for the Stansbury Stallions accelerated softball teams for 10U and 12U on Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 4-5 at 6 p.m. at the Stansbury High School softball field (Approx. 5333 Cambridge Way). For more information contact Bridget Clinton 840-3037, Casey Allie 843-0111 or Angie Strickland 840-5204.

Stansbury volleyball

Stansbury High School is holding a youth volleyball camp on Tuesday, Aug. 4 and Wednesday, Aug. 5. The camp is for players in sixth through eighth grades and will be hold on Tuesday from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and on Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon. The cost is $20.

THS girls tennis

Girls in grades ninth through 12th who will attend Tooele High School this year are invited to try out for the tennis team. Tryouts will be held on Monday, Aug. 3 from 6:30-8 p.m. at the high school tennis courts. Questions about THS girls tennis should directed to coach Terry Weddle, 882-7144 or 841-7735.

THS golf tryouts

Tooele High School boys golf tryouts will start on Monday, Aug. 3 at 8 a.m. at Overlake Golf Course. Players can show up or call coach Fred Killpack for more information (435) 830-1258. 

GHS golf tryouts

First day of tryouts for the Grantsville High School boys golf team will be held on Monday, Aug. 3 at 8 a.m. at Overlake. Call Jimmy at 224-2752.

SHS golf tryouts

Stansbury High School boys golf team tryouts will be held beginning Monday, Aug. 3 at Stansbury Golf Course at 11 a.m. Those interested in participating should contact Gary Mathie at 882-6467 or 830-7793 for further information and registration.

THS girls soccer

Tryouts for the Tooele High School girls soccer team will be held Monday through Wednesday, Aug. 3-6 and will run from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. each day at the soccer field. Players should bring cleats and shin guards. Call coach Kimberly Palmer with questions at 435-841-1448.

Physicals for athletes

The local physicians from Northpointe Medical Park and University Healthcare Stansbury Center are working in part with the therapists and trainers from Mountain Land Rehabilitation in offering sports physicals on Saturday, Aug. 8. They will be held at Northpointe Medical Complex at 2356 N. 400 E. Tooele from 8 a.m. until 10 a.m. and at the University Healthcare Stansbury Center 220 Millpond Suite 100 from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. The cost is $20. Athletes need to have a signed disclosure and parental consent form which can be found at www.uhsaa.org. If you have any questions call Granstville High School at 435-884-4500, Tooele High School at 435-830-3094, Stansbury High School at 435-833-1900 or Mountain Land Rehabilitation at 435-882-4144. All proceeds are donated back to the local high schools’ athletic departments.

Phelps sets record

Multiple Olympic champion Michael Phelps bounced back on Wednesday to set a world record in the 200 meter butterfly after suffering his first defeat in international competition in four years a day earlier at the world swimming championships in Rome. Phelps touched the wall at one minute 51.51 seconds, nearly 2 seconds ahead of his closest competitor. He bested his previous world record, set at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, of one minute 52.03 seconds. The win comes after Paul Biedermann convincingly beat Phelps in the 200 meters freestyle final on Tuesday. Phelps, who has won 14 Olympic gold medals in his glittering career, last failed to get gold when he was edged out by fellow-American Ian Crocker in the 100 meters butterfly at the worlds in Montreal. Phelps had not been beaten in the 200 meters freestyle since the Athens Olympics in 2004. “I wanted to step on it in the first 100 to get out there in the clean water, and that’s pretty much what happened,” Phelps said. ‘It was a lot more pain last night than tonight.”