WENATCHEE — Wenatchee senior point guard Garrett Long has a routine. One he’s kept even before COVID-19 upset everyone’s applecart in March, and one he’s also maintained throughout the pandemic, even with a lack of resources at times.
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WENATCHEE — The North Central Region athletic directors put out the official prep football schedule for the entire region Monday, agreeing to a six-week slate of games (including jamboree) starting on Feb. 27.
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WENATCHEE — The North Central Region athletic directors came to a tentative agreement late Wednesday evening for a season schedule for prep sports.
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As the Wenatchee Wild continue to prepare for the coming 2021-22 season, they’ve taken another step toward building their roster with the addition of goaltender Andy Vlaha.
EAST WENATCHEE — After the WIAA Executive Board voted last week to amend its prep sports schedule, the question for Big 9 athletic directors became: how do you schedule games when schools are in four different counties and two separate regions, per Gov. Jay Inslee’s “Healthy Washington - Roa…
RENTON — The WIAA Executive Board voted Wednesday evening to again amend its season schedule, moving traditional fall sports — football, girls and 1B/2B boys soccer, girls swim and dive, volleyball and cross country — to Season 1, while choosing to review winter and spring sports at its Jan.…
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WENATCHEE — Wenatchee senior point guard Garrett Long has a routine. One he’s kept even before COVID-19 upset everyone’s applecart in March, and one he’s also maintained throughout the pandemic, even with a lack of resources at times.
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Elven Thomas Worley was so much more than a football player.
California has a long history of producing high caliber athletes.
RENTON — The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association Executive Board delayed its plans to make a determination on winter sports.
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The Executive Board of the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association is set to make a decision on the start of high school sports in the state next week.
Circle Jan. 4., on the calendar. Prep sports will again be on the chopping block.
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When hockey is in your blood, it doesn’t matter where you’re born, or where you live. Either you find the game, or the game finds you.
Following a weekend tournament in Dallas over the first weekend of December, the Wenatchee Wolves U18 AAA and Wenatchee Wilderness U16 AAA clubs traveled to Phoenix, Ariz., for a slate of midweek games.
MISSOULA, Mont. — These past few months have been wild, said former Wenatchee Panthers QB Camden Sirmon, who last month led Missoula Sentinel to a perfect 10-0 season and its first State AA football championship in 48 years.
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WENATCHEE — There was a point, not long ago, when Wenatchee senior Gracie Benrud thought her volleyball career was over.
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BURNABY, B.C — The start of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) regular season has been pushed back a week, the league announced in a press release Monday.
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RENTON — High school winter sports have been pushed back again.
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WENATCHEE — Open coaching for winter sports, originally scheduled to begin this week, was put on hold Monday after Gov. Jay Inslee on Sunday announced a four-week set of restrictions due to rapidly rising COVID-19 rates around the state.
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The first day of soccer practice for both Wenatchee and Eastmont girls soccer teams was pure bliss.
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High-school state championships in Washington could be the latest thing lost to the COVID-19 pandemic.
EAST WENATCHEE — Eastmont swimmer Evan VanderSluis has aspired to go to BYU since he was a kid. After committing to the Cougars swim team last month, he’ll get to realize that dream.
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WENATCHEE — During a typical fall season, this week would have been one of the biggest of the year for both Wenatchee and Eastmont football teams as they prepared for the annual Bridge of Sportsmanship (or Battle of the Bridges) rivalry game, which the Wildcats have won the past two years.
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WENATCHEE — James Elwyn will forever be emblematic of Wenatchee swimming after the district on Tuesday approved a resolution to rename the pool the James Elwyn Aquatic Center.
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COEUR d'ALENE, Idaho — For the first time in seven months, the Wenatchee Wild dropped the puck Thursday and got some live game action.
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WENATCHEE — There is no question Kara Melton, the new girls’ swim and dive coach for Wenatchee, has some big shoes to fill when the season gets underway in March. She’s taking over for a legend in James Elwyn and will lead one of the premier girls’ swim programs in the state.
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Wild announced its upcoming scrimmage schedule Friday morning as the team continues training camp, which began this past Monday.
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Turner Gebers, 13, was disappointed with his first run in the World Wake Surfing Championships at Lake Pleasant, Arizona, in mid-September.
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Tracy Ford doesn't mince words explaining his motivations for lobbying to get high school football players back on the field.
CHELAN — It’s been quite a year for senior volleyball players Katie Rainville and Elly Collins.
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WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Wild officially made Chris Clark their head coach Wednesday afternoon, lifting the interim tag that had been in place since Bliss Littler elected to step away from the bench last December, citing health concerns.
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WENATCHEE — Last week, the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) issued a release outlining the steps needed for a return to prep sports.
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FLOWOOD, Miss. — Dawson Pike, the former Wenatchee Panther QB/DB, is playing football right now.
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WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Wild are pitching in to assist with the wildfire relief effort in Bridgeport.
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BURNABY, B.C — The British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) Board of Governors on Friday unanimously approved a COVID-19 alternative plan for the 2020-21 season.
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A group of football players on the west side of the state, calling themselves the Student Athletes of Washington (SAW), have organized an online petition asking Gov. Jay Inslee to lift COVID-19 restrictions and allow fall sports to resume as originally scheduled.
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WENATCHEE — Wenatchee High School has hired former Velocity Swim Coach John Pringle to coach the boys swimming team. He takes over for longtime friend James Elwyn who tragically passed away last July.
WENATCHEE — When Marni McMahon stepped away from coaching volleyball at Cascade in 2017, she walked away as the most successful coach in school history. In 16 years, she had an impressive record of 221-46 with eight Caribou Trail League titles, seven District titles, six state trophies, and …
WENATCHEE — When David Vasquez was named the new girls’ soccer coach Wenatchee this past spring, he had one-on-one meetings with each girl to talk about areas of improvement.
WENATCHEE — As the summer winds down, high school girls soccer teams would be set to play their normal fall season. But, of course, 2020 has been anything but normal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
ZILLAH — Nearly a year after transferring from Cashmere to Zillah, Mason Landdeck announced on social media last Friday that he was moving to St. George, Utah and transferring to Desert Hills High School for his senior year.
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WENATCHEE — Normally, high school girls would be preparing for their fall swim season with summer meets with the Velocity Swim Team. But there has been no summer swim season.
EAST WENATCHEE — Unless Eastmont Lanes, a staple in the Wenatchee Valley since the mid-1970s, can raise some money over the next few months they are facing the possibility of closing for good.
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WENATCHEE — Ski building has been a part of Doug Merrill’s Auto-Cad (pre-engineering) class at Wenatchee High School for the past seven years.
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WENATCHEE — During a normal summer, it would not be unusual to see groups of runners from a local high school running in groups around town. But with the COVID-19 pandemic, there is not much of that.
WENATCHEE — With all the uncertainty surrounding high school football in the state of Washington, Wenatchee Panther senior quarterback Camden Sirmon, with aspirations of a college career, has decided to transfer to Missoula, Montana.
WENATCHEE — The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association issued further details on Tuesday about plans for high school sports in the upcoming season. Wenatchee Athletic Director Jim Beeson said there were no big revelations.
EAST WENATCHEE — High school football teams around the state are preparing for spring football. The latest guidelines from the WIAA moved football to the spring due to high COVID numbers around the state, including Chelan and Douglas counties.
EAST WENATCHEE — Coaches and athletes were informed Thursday that summer-training activities at Eastmont High School were suspended due to rising COVID numbers in Douglas County. As of Friday, Douglas County had 240 new cases over the past 14 days or 552.6 per 100,000 residents.
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