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| Home / College Guide / FILER FEST: Brown signs with ISU, LeMoyne to Blue Mountain Community College |
| Posted on Thursday, April 25 @ 00:00:06 PDT |
FILER — One throw changed it all for Isabelle Brown.
A late night practice session in 2023 transformed into a then-personal best and a glimpse of Brown’s Division I potential.
“All I did was lean and it felt just easy and incredible,” Filer’s Brown told the Times-News. “I launched that thing and I could just see it.”
The throw solidified Brown’s confidence and talent that throwing coach Justin Brandsma saw for years. But it took Brown’s 130-foot throw to understand it all and she joined Karsen LeMoyne as Filer athletes who signed their National Letters of Intent on Wednesday afternoon.
Brown signed with Idaho State as a thrower and LeMoyne inked with Blue Mountain Community College men’s golf in Pendleton, Oregon.
Brown said she will need to hit a 140-foot throw in competition, a distance she said she constantly throws in practice, to earn a scholarship and is undecided on a major.
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“For the longest time for all of my life, I thought I was going to be playing volleyball in college,” Brown said. “Definitely not DI in throwing. I didn’t even really think I was going to be throwing in college until the end of the last season.
All of my coaches were just telling me that I have a future in this sport if I wanted. I love this sport.”
Brown called Idaho State “an easy pick.” Closer to home for a self-described family person and the Bengals boast Destinee Rose-Haas, the defending Big Sky Conference outdoor hammer and discus champion, who now serves as an assistant coach.
ISU will primarily use Brown as a hammer and discus thrower.
Brown joins a plethora of ISU-bound track and field athletes from the Magic Valley, including Twin Falls’ Saylor Erickson, Twin Falls’ Morgan Graham and Gooding’s Izzie Stockham.
Twin Falls Saylor Erickson conquered an injury which wiped out her sophomore cross country season and signed with Idaho State cross country/track and field on Tuesday.
Twin Falls Morgan Graham signed with Idaho State University track and field on Tuesday afternoon as a multi event athlete.
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“I don’t know why I hated it. It was very frustrating and hard because once you’re at the lower heights you feel like, Oh I’m not as good.
Brown, a two-time District IV discus champion and three-time state placer (twice in shot put), placed third in discus in the 2023 3A state championships.
“Shot put just frustrates me,” she said. “It is definitely harder for me. It challenges me more but discus is where my heart is.”
Her 128-8 discus throw at Filer’s Angie Wyatt Invitational ranks second in 3A this season.
Brown remains undefeated so far this season in the discus with shot put wins at the Kimberly quad meet and Declo’s Brad Matthews Invitational.
“The sky is the limit for Isabelle and she has now put the rest of the state on notice as she is not only one of the best female throwers in 3A but the entire state of Idaho,” Brandsma said.
Loud applause from dozens of Filer students and supporters filled the gym as each athlete signed their letters, signifying separate journeys for the Wildcats.
LeMoyne figured something would hit.
He sent form after form to prospective colleges, hoping for a shot at collegiate golf.
He found it with a once-lost Blue Mountain Community College program which disbanded in 1978, according to the East Oregonian, but begins play Aug. 1.
“It means a lot,” LeMoyne told the Times-News.
“I have always dreamed of playing collegiate sports whether it is for basketball or golf. Just chose golf.”
LeMoyne will attend BMCC on scholarship and study business.
The school will also offer its first women’s golf team and former Pilot Rock High School (Oregon) golf coach Jeremy Talbot will lead the programs, according to a BMCC press release.
LeMoyne tied for eighth in the 2023 2A Idaho High School Golf Championship with Wendell before he transferred to Filer for his senior year.
“It has been an amazing experience,” he said. “The team atmosphere has been fun and the coaches. It has been great.”
Childhood trips to the Clear Lake Country Club in Buhl with his parents, Kali and Tanner, fueled LeMoyne’s affection for the game. He stepped out of the golf cart, blasted a few shots then followed his parents around the course.
LeMoyne will conclude his prep career and less than a month and looks for another top 10 finish at state. His routine remains the same no matter the tournament.
“I’ll have a lucky polo or a lucky hat I might wear,” he said.
He said he always hits the driving range for 30 minutes and rotates through each club before he improves his short game at the putting green.
LeMoyne joins Declo’s Alex Gailey as future BMCC teammates. LeMoyne encouraged Gailey to fill out an online recruitment form which led to Gailey’s addition to the squad.
Alex Gailey added to the list of college-bound Hornets when he signed his National Letter of Intent with Blue Mountain Community College on Wednesday afternoon at Declo High School.
“Karsen is positive everytime I talk to him,” Filer head golf coach Jenna Whitaker said. “He’s like, ‘Yeah, I’m getting there coach. I’ve had a couple bad balls but we’re gonna do better.’ It is so refreshing because I know I can count on Karsen.”
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