Bruce McDonald, a radio play-by-play voice of the Seattle Thunderbirds hockey team for the past 11 seasons, died Wednesday of leukemia at age 41.

McDonald was diagnosed in April and underwent several rounds of chemotherapy.

McDonald, who had cerebral palsy, had been a hockey fan since he was 12 and regularly attended Seattle Breakers games in a wheelchair.

In 1983, Breakers coach Marc Boileau asked McDonald to help the team keep statistics, and he was a member of the organization since then. He joined the broadcast team for the 1998-99 season and later began doing play-by-play.

"This is a sad day for the Thunderbirds family and our fans," said Russ Farwell, president and general manager. "Bruce loved the T-birds, and his dedication to the team rubbed off on every person Bruce came in contact with."

Memorial services have not yet been announced.

Notes

• Washington State's Stephan Scott-Ellis finished fifth in the men's long jump on Day 1 of the NCAA Track and Field Championships in Des Moines, Iowa. The junior from Tacoma, the Pac-12 champion, went 25 feet, 7 ¼ inches.

Oregon's Mike Berry, a sophomore from Rainier Beach High School, won his men's 400-meter semifinal in 45.05 seconds.

• Seattle Pacific women's soccer player Kelsey Jenkins, a senior from Kentwood High School, was named Great Northwest Athletic Conference Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year. The political science student had a 3.94 grade-point average.

From sports-information reports.