Loock is the first local player to win one of three individual competitions (Home Run Derby, Road Runner and Golden Arm) since they were started in 1996.
Resident nets sports information director job: Occidental College athletic director Jaime Hoffman has named Michael Wells as the school's new sports information director.
Wells lives in Burbank with his older brothers John and Todd.
Wells, whose mother Jodie Burton and father David Wells were longtime basketball coaches for Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, graduated from Dominican University of California with a bachelor of arts in communications in May and had been working as a sports reporter for the Marin Independent Journal for more than a year before arriving at Oxy.
During his time with the daily newspaper in Marin County, he covered college, high school and youth sports, as well as designing pages.
Wells, 23, takes over for Tracy Maple as the person in charge of covering, writing and disseminating news and statistics for the liberal arts institution's 21 intercollegiate athletic teams, which participate in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
At Dominican University, Wells helped pioneer an effort to start ducnews.com, a student run news website and served as the site's managing editor while holding a position as the sports editor for the campus newspaper. He also hosted sports talk radio shows on the school's campus radio stations and broadcasted women's basketball, women's volleyball and men's and women's soccer games.
When the San Rafael university hosted one of the 2010 California Gubernatorial Debates, Wells worked for NBC Universal as an assistant to the executive producer.
