Prep notes: Pasco Invitational to honor late coach

Lee Cave, who spent 53 years coaching track and field in Clark County, will be honored in Franklin County, as well.

The Pasco Invitational, one of the largest invitational high school track and field meets in the Northwest, will be called the Lee Cave Pasco Invitational. Now in its 51st year, this spring’s event is scheduled for April 14.

Cave died from complications related to cancer in September, 2010. He was 82. Cave was a teacher and a coach at Hudson’s Bay, Fort Vancouver, Columbia River high schools and then was an assistant track and field coach at Heritage.

He was inducted into the Washington State Hall of Fame for cross country and for track and field.

Dettorre honored — One of Lee Cave’s children, Heritage volleyball coach Chelinda Dettorre, also learned recently that she was named the 2011 WIAA Volleyball State Coach of the Year by National Federation of State High School Associations.

Dettorre led the Prairie Falcons to the 1998 state championship before taking over the then new Heritage program in 1999.