The beauty of having a predominantly junior squad, according to White River baseball coach Mike Williams, is players know the fundamentals and what position they are going to be playing.
With a strong core of returning players, a postseason appearance certainly seems possible for the 2009 edition of the White River High soccer program.
New coach Jerry Scheidt has plenty of returning faces as he takes the helm of the White River High track and field program.
The White River High fastpitch squad is looking to buck a depressing trend, having served as the South Puget Sound League 3A doormat with a 1-13 record two years running.
The Sumner Spartans girls tennis team starts the season having lost no players since last year and coach Chris Heacox is proud of the skills his players have shown.
Gone from the Sumner Spartans are players who scored all of the team’s goals in 2008, so coach Peter Voiles is looking for several players to step up and provide offense for his young squad.
First-year head coach Kristin Martin will have big shoes to fill this season. She takes over the Sumner girls track program from longtime head coach Louise King-Taylor, who retired.
Third-year head coach Maurice Dudley expects big things from the Sumner Spartans boys track team this season.
If it wasn’t for bad luck, the Sumner High fastpitch squad wouldn’t have any luck at all, as it is having a rough go of it personnel-wise early this season.
Coach Skip Ashley is cautiously optimistic about what the coming soccer season will bring for his Enumclaw High Hornets.
Enumclaw High girls tennis coach Rick Carel called the conclusion of the 2008 season “phenomenal.”
The Enumclaw High fastpitch team, which contended at the Class 3A state tournament last season, lost second baseman Jill Parker to graduation and bid farewell to longtime coaches Loran Zenonian and Lee Reichert, but there are two silver linings in those dark clouds.
Enumclaw High baseball mentor Eric Fiedler is living what would normally be considered a coach’s dream right now, with 75 hopefuls arriving for the first day of baseball tryouts. For Fiedler’s money, though, it has been more like a screaming nightmare.
