With virtually the whole team returning, first-year coach Rich Valdez walks into the White River High girls wrestling room with high expectations for the coming season.
Just when wrestling fans started memorizing the 14 weight classifications, the National Federation of State High School Associations Wrestling Rules Committee switched them.
“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” It’s the slogan Enumclaw High wrestlers picked for their team T-shirts this season.
The White River School Board was not one of the two groups selected as the 2011 School Boards of the Year by the Washington State School Directors’ Association during its conference Nov. 19 in Bellevue; however, Mike Jansen, Jean Lacy, Susan McGuire, Cassie Pearson, Denise Vogel and Superintendent Tom Lockyer were one of the 16 board of directors nominated.
Plateau school leaders are not optimistic about the outcome of the special session Legislators headed into Monday.
There’s a 3-foot trophy with a ready-to-be-stuffed turkey on top headed to Dick’s Barbershop in Enumclaw. Kara Mathiason McKay won it, along with a $1,000 Whole Foods gift card and bragging rights for her rollover recipe using holiday food favorites, during a friendly competition on the Nov. 23 Rachel Ray television show.
“What a cool thing to do,” was the response as Enumclaw High students Ryan Chynoweth, Tyler Salsbury, Sara Mongrain and Michelle McKinlay and White River students Jeff Lind, Hannah Miltimore, Janet Groves, Brittany Walker, Micah Athey, Andrea Entz and Tino Hice joined forces and chain links together Nov. 22 at the bridge on state Route 410 that joins the communities of Enumclaw and Buckley.
Misplacing things more often? Forgot where you are or where you’re going? Trouble recalling words or names in conversation? It may be time for a simple memory screening.
Diver Erica Bonthuis closed out her senior year with the Enumclaw High team with a ninth-place finish at the state meet Saturday.
“This is the day my life will be overturned forever,” Enumclaw High senior Tyler Carlson wrote in a class paper in October.It was spring when the Hornet football and baseball letter winner and his family learned the cramping and intense stomach pain he’d been dealing with for weeks was Crohn’s disease.Carlson calls it a life-changing experience that has brought out the best in him.He doesn’t take a day or person in his life for granted – he’s living every day to its fullest.”It’s not only a physical disease,” he said. “It’s a high mental disease so I try to take the good things out of life.””The biggest thing that makes it flair up is stress,” Carlson said. “I realized it, and every morning I thank God that I’m still here and kicking and try to remain positive through my life.”Crohn’s disease is a chronic disorder that causes inflammation of the digestive or gastrointestinal tract that most commonly affects the small intestine or colon.It is estimated as many as 1.4 million Americans have Inflammatory Bowel Disease – with that number evenly split between Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Crohn’s disease may occur in people of all ages, but it is primarily a disease of adolescents and young adults, affecting mainly those between 15 and 35. There isn’t usually a definitive cause attached to it.”I think he appreciates things more,” said his mother Jill Carlson. “It’s night and day how he’s feeling now compared to last spring.”It was spring and for Carlson that means baseball season.For about three months, he lost his appetite and started to lose weight. He was in and out of school, the doctor’s office and the hospital with diarrhea, cramping and bleeding.”I’d lay on the couch with a heating pad,” he said. “It turns on when it wants to. I never see it coming.”At first, Jill and Ted Carlson thought it was a lingering flu.”He never got well,” Jill said. “He was still trying to play baseball,” she said.
Enumclaw High drew the toughest bracket in the opening round of Thursday’s state water polo tournament at Rogers High in Puyallup and it proved deadly for the Top 10-ranked Hornets.
Defending state champion Curtis devoured the Hornets 19-2 in the first game. The Hornets’ goals were delivered by junior Mason Culp and freshman Quinn Warner.
The Hornets took a short breather and jumped back in the water to face Roosevelt.
EHS watched an early lead evaporate into a five-point halftime deficit. EHS pulled within four after three quarters, but the Roughriders went wild, coasting to a 17-8 final.
Junior Bennon VanHoof scored six in the loss. Junior Will Cooper and the Hornets’ only senior Gabe Sales each added a goal.
Bellevue was crowned champions Saturday at the King County Aquatic Center.
Finally, all the campaign fliers, door hangers, advertisements, yard signs and robo calls have paid off. This fall’s election campaign has helped me identify with my teenage children
The Enumclaw High girls’ 200-yard medley relay and individuals Katie Larrea and Erica Bonthuis will hit the water at the King County Aquatic Center Friday morning in the preliminary round of the 3A state swim and dive meet.
The medley relay of Bailey Sexton, Bella Davenport, Larrea and Erin Wessel finished fourth at Saturday’s West Central District meet to earn a spot at state. The foursome shaved nearly 3 seconds off their preliminary time to hit the wall in 2:03.91.
Larrea earned her lane at state with a third-place finish and a state-qualifying time of 1:12.39.
Bonthuis finished seventh in diving Saturday, but earned a state berth during competition earlier in the season.
There were several could-have-been chances.
Davenport gashed her foot Thursday during practice. She pulled out of two events, but swam the breaststroke leg of the 200 medley relay and the 100 breaststroke with stitches.
Sexton was edged out, finishing fifth in the 50 freestyle in 26.79.
The Hornets came close to taking their 200 freestyle relay. In an exciting at-the-wire finish, EHS edged Hazen and Foss for third place, posting a time of 1:48.35, but was disqualified for a faulty start. Foss and Hazen, with identical times, took the No. 3 spot.
The Hornets finished sixth in team points behind Hazen, Peninsula, Kennedy, Capital and Foss.
It was a good show for EHS in the consolation finals.
Junior Allie Larrea finished sixth behind Sexton in the 50 freestyle in 27.25. Wessel, a senior, was seventh in 27:15; all three dropping time from prelims.
Wessel also placed eighth in the 100 freestyle.
The junior foursome of Allie Larrea, Jamie Ritzdorf, Carly Hinman and Carlie Cairnes earned eighth in the 400 freestyle relay.
Cairnes finished ninth in the 500 freestyle in 6:09.90, knocking time off her prelim clocking of 6:12.79. Cairnes placed 10th in the 200 freestyle.
Katie Larrea was seventh in the 200 individual medley in 2:26.38. Freshman MacKenzie Bull finished 15th. Bull finished 11th in the 500 freestyle with a 6:19.58.
Hinman was ninth in the 100 breaststroke and 17th in the 100 butterfly. Senior Lori Lamm finished 18th in the butterfly.
Sexton finished 11th in the 100 backstroke. Senior Cassie Cook finished 14th in the 100 backstroke and Allie Larrea was 17th.
Junior Nicole Wilson earned a 14th-place finish in diving.
The Hornets will take Hinman, Lamm, Allie Larrea and Ritzdorf to state as alternates for the medley relay.
Bonthuis and Wessel also earned district scholar athlete awards for their 3.94 and 3.80 grade-point averages respectively. Scholar athletes are seniors participating on the team with a accumulative grade-point average of 3.75 or higher.
