While students are familiar with alpine skiing and snowboarding, many don’t realize the rewards of other lesser-known winter activities such as Nordic skiing, snowshoeing, snow tubing, snowmobiling, and ice-skating. Nordic skiing is a great alternative to alpine skiing, and it is far less expensive. Some trails are completely free; some have trail fees of $5-$20. [...]
With an undefeated season, the boys tennis team swept their competition this fall, winning first place in league. The team is sending four boys teams to districts in the spring. The doubles teams going to districts are Chris Gugliuzza (’11) and Stanley Peterson (’11) and Austin Kelley (’13) and Evan Valentine (’13). The singles players [...]
After an impressive season record of 9-4-2, the girls soccer team finished their post-season after a particularly difficult game against Overlake School Wednesday, Nov. 4 at Sammamish High School. The girls played Vashon High School in a seeding game going into playoffs. The competing teams were playing for third or fourth place. The girls lost [...]
Finishing with a season record of 5-15, the girls volleyball team had some promising wins but unfortunately faced elimination in the tri-district tournament, Nov. 5. After winning a seeding match against Orting 3-1, the girls were seeded 3rd going into tri-dristricts. In the tri-district tournament, the team faced a single-elimination round against Kings, but lost [...]
In addition to skis, boards, and boots, shoppers will find a number of very cool accessories this year to enhance their winter sport experience. For example, skiers and snowboarders can glide with the safety of a sports helmet in the new Bluetooth endorsed helmet from besportier.com, while listening to their favorite playlist using the helmet’s [...]
The snow has already fallen in the passes this year, giving many readers the need for new winter equipment. But before you shop, ask yourself these questions: Do you know enough about your needs to shop online? Do you need a local store? What is more important: price? quality? convenient location? After-sale services? Depending on [...]
From November through April CWA skiers have a number of excellent areas to ski and board, even without going out of state to exotic resorts, such as Whistler, British Columbia, the site of this year’s Winter Olympics. Locally, skiers can slide at Crystal Mountain, Stevens Pass, White Pass, and the Summit at Snoqualmie. The most [...]
Finishing with a record of 2-8, the football players can’t help but be disappointed, but believe that if few more things had gone their way, they would have had a better season. They hoped to make it to at least the first or second round of districts, but fell short of this goal due to [...]
The boys cross-country team has had a successful season with a second place finish in the league, a sixth place finish at the Tri-District meet, and a fifth place finish at state. The boys faced difficulties in districts since Max LaBerge (’10), Will Livingston (’10), and other varsity athletes were recovering from the flu. At [...]
Snow sports figure prominently in this year’s Winterim course offerings, February 17 through February 23, including a unique opportunity to visit the Vancouver Olympics. These winter sports include skiing, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, snowboarding, and Nordic skiing. Intermediate level skiers and boarders will be in Park City, Utah taking full advantage of the state’s dry snow [...]
