Athletes receive all-league honors
May 21, 2013
As the spring sports season comes to a close, local athletes are being honored for their athletic achievements with the unveiling of the all-league teams. Players and coaches select all-league teams annually.
Note: Only athletes from Issaquah, Liberty and Skyline are listed.
Soccer
All KingCo 4A
- Coach of Year — Don Braman, Skyline
Brock O’Connor memorial scholarship awards $3,000
May 21, 2013
This year’s $1,000 recipients of the Brock O’Connor Memorial Scholarship are Corbin Powers, of Skyline High School, Garrett Hughes, of Liberty High School and Justin Vernia, of Issaquah High School, according to a press release.
The scholarship committee awards a $1,000 scholarship each year to three graduating senior baseball players; one from Skyline, Issaquah and Liberty. The recipients of the award must have made a commitment to play baseball at the college level and demonstrated attributes that Brock exhibited during his short life, the release said.
Paddling Festival is May 1
May 7, 2013
Lake Sammamish hosts the third annual Northwest Paddling Festival this weekend.
Experienced kayakers and stand-up paddleboarders will descend on Issaquah to celebrate all-things paddle sports, with a daylong festival May 11.
The event will feature paddling industry vendors, product demonstrations, kayak tours, stand-up paddleboarding lessons and a 6-mile paddle-craft race.
Issaquah hosts third annual Northwest Paddling Festival
April 23, 2013
For a single day in May, Lake Sammamish will become the elite destination for the region’s paddle-sports enthusiasts when it hosts the third annual Northwest Paddling Festival.
Experienced kayakers and stand-up paddleboarders will descend on Issaquah to celebrate all-things paddle sports, with a daylong festival May 11.
The event will feature paddling industry vendors, product demonstrations, kayak tours, stand-up paddleboarding lessons and a 6-mile paddle-craft race.
Skyline hangs on for win over Woodinville
April 9, 2013
WOODINVILLE – Cannon Gardner tallied four goals as Skyline pulled away in the third for a 13-11 boys high school lacrosse win over Woodinville on April 4 at Woodinville High School.
The win was the fourth of the spring for the Spartans.
Woodinville took a one-goal lead in the first-quarter, and then gave up five in the second to trail Skyline 7-4 at the half. In the third, the Spartans kept scoring, netting six goals to Woodinville’s three.
Eagle dancers bust a move
March 26, 2013
For a young team, every advance in competition becomes a first, and so the Issaquah High School Dance Team celebrated its first win in district competition, to be followed by a trip to state at the Sun Dome in Yakima on March 23 in hopes of winning a trophy at state for the first time.
However, that trophy was not to be.
Team Captain Raché Strand said the team performs and competes in the hip-hop category. Hip-hop is a style of dancing that finds it roots in street dancing in the 1970s.
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The Issaquah High School Dance Team poses March 2 at Eastlake High School with their Sea-King District 4A trophy in the hip-hop/military category before heading to Yakima for state competition March 23.
“Hip-hop is like thug or gangsta,” Strand said. “It is more like street dancing or like dance crew, lots of getting low and kind of aggressive dancing. We dance to popular music, like stuff you would hear on the radio for dancing party music.”
Liberty athlete gets patriotic for USA rugby
March 5, 2013
Ian Wright has Olympic aspirations
Liberty rugby player Ian Wright is used to donning the blue-and-green uniform of the Liberty Rugby Football Club.
The Liberty High School senior temporarily traded in the Patriots’ colors, though, for the familiar red, white and blue of USA Rugby, when he represented the country at an international competition in February.
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Liberty Rugby Football Club player Ian Wright attempts to evade a defender as he runs across the pitch. Wright was selected from a pool of more than 120 elite athletes to join the USA Rugby High School All-Americans.
Wright was selected from a pool of more than 120 elite athletes to join the USA Rugby High School All-Americans. Only 24 athletes were chosen to fill two teams that competed at the Las Vegas Invitational Sevens Tournament, going up against squads from Canada.
Explore state, national parks for free
March 5, 2013
Throughout the year, Lake Sammamish State Park and Tiger Mountain State Forest, plus national forests and parks, waive entry fees.
On such days, visitors do not need a Discover Pass to visit state parks, including Lake Sammamish and Squak Mountain.
Mount Rainier National Park waives entrance fees to the 235,625-acre park on holidays and special occasions. So does nearby Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.
Fish and Wildlife trolls for opinions on new ‘Fish Washington’ logo
February 26, 2013
Anglers and others can help the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife select a new graphic theme for its “Fish Washington” campaign.
People can help choose a pair of new logos that will identify Fish Washington on the Web and in other applications at www.wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/washington. Voting will be open through February.
Kip Brown wins heat at world championships
February 12, 2013
The familiar red, yellow and blue of the Miss Red Dot hydroplane was not present at the 2013 Oryx Cup UIM World Championship in Doha, Qatar, but that doesn’t mean that local crew, Our Gang Racing, wasn’t properly represented at the event.
Our Gang Racing, including driver Kip Brown, of Preston, competed as the 95 Spirit of Qatar team, donning the white-and-maroon colors of the Qatari flag.
Brown captured his first ever heat win for the Spirit of Qatar team, delighting the home crowd with a convincing performance, on Feb. 9.
