FLOWOOD, Miss. — Dawson Pike, the former Wenatchee Panther QB/DB, is playing football right now.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
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.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
WENATCHEE — Last week, the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) issued a release outlining the steps needed for a return to prep sports.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
FLOWOOD, Miss. — Dawson Pike, the former Wenatchee Panther QB/DB, is playing football right now.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Wild are pitching in to assist with the wildfire relief effort in Bridgeport.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
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.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
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.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
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.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
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.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
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.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
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.
WENATCHEE — Local high school athletic directors are encouraged by the plan released this week by the WIAA for high school sports, but also know things will be challenged in this area due to COVID-19.
After weeks of speculation, the WIAA Executive Board took action Tuesday night, announcing on their website that football, girls’ soccer, 1B/2B boys’ soccer and volleyball will all be moved to the early spring.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
YAKIMA, Wash. — In case you haven’t deduced this by now, it stinks to cover sports these days.
EAST WENATCHEE — Eastmont High School is moving forward with summer athletic training activities while other nearby schools continue to wait. Wenatchee Athletic Director Jim Beeson said Wenatchee School District made the decision to wait until Chelan County reaches Phase 2 before resuming su…
I want to preface by stating that there probably aren’t many in the community who want prep sports to return more than World sports editor Ian Dunn and myself.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
EAST WENATCHEE — Eastmont High School’s high-flying Isaac Wellborn has signed to play basketball at Yakima Valley College next season. Wellborn averaged 20 points per game for the Wildcats last season. He was first-team, All-Big 9 this past year.
On Tuesday, the Washington Interscholastic Activates Association delayed the start of practices for fall sports until the first week of September, a holdup of more than two weeks from the original starting time for fall practices.
WENATCHEE — The WIAA Executive Board has decided to push back the start date for fall sports to Sept. 5 for football and Sept. 7 for all other sports. According to a news release from the WIAA, this would allow games to begin as early as Sept. 18.
WENATCHEE — Three individual swimmers and a relay team were named All America this past week by the National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association. Wenatchee senior Rae Ann Dressel earned All America honors with a 1:03.60 time in the 100 Breaststroke.
CHELAN — The Lake Chelan School District has hired Wenatchee native Scott Paine as their new athletic director. The 30-year old Paine beat out 30 applicants for the job. Chelan Superintendent Barry DePaoli they were surprised at the amount of interest, given COVID-19.
WENATCHEE — As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, no one really knows what prep sports are going to look like in the fall.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee School District has settled a negligence lawsuit with the families of two of three students assaulted in 2014 by a fellow student during a football bus trip.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
The Washington Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) released a set of health guidelines Monday afternoon, laying the groundwork for high school sports to return in the fall.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
On Monday, the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association issued guidelines for the state's high school sports to return to play this fall. It is a well-intentioned and necessary set of documents, but doesn't -- rather, can't -- answer the question everyone wants to know.
WENATCHEE — Former Wenatchee High School assistant swimming coach Brian Lee remembers head coach Jim Elwyn as a tremendous motivator of young people.
QUINCY — Greg McMillan, 54, has been named the new head football coach of the Quincy Jacks. McMillan has deep roots in North Central Washington, in Brewster and Leavenworth.
WENATCHEE — Wenatchee ski cross racer, Jack Mitchell on June 9 achieved an honor afforded to only 20 ski racers nationwide, selection to the Skicross Project Gold Camp. However, the email from the U.S. Ski and Snowboard team informing the 17-year-old of his selection also came with some bad news.
CHELAN — Tony Callero is taking over as boys basketball coach at Chelan High School. Callero, who owns a home in Chelan, has been an assistant coach at Auburn High School for the past 21 years.
The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association said Wednesday it was planning for high-school sports to return in the fall, but creativity will be key as it negotiates the coronavirus pandemic.
WENATCHEE — While most everyone else is desperate to get outside and adventure around the state freely and without restriction, the Wenatchee Wild and their incoming recruits are itching to get back inside — on the ice specifically.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
For at least one more season, the state high school basketball tournament will remain the same.
WENATCHEE — For Wenatchee seniors Logan Nelson, Freddy Reynaga, Carlos Viramontes and Colby Gillin, the torch had been passed. This spring was supposed to be their time to shine.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
CHELAN — The Chelan Goats looked to within to hire two new varsity coaches for next season. Former assistant coach Nick Longmire is taking over as head coach of the Chelan High School girls’ basketball team, while longtime assistant coach Pat Chism is now the new head wrestling coach.
EAST WENATCHEE — Eastmont High School head golf coach Pat Welch thought this was going to be Emilee Wentworth’s spring.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
WENATCHEE — For many years, Quincy High School was a member of the 1A Caribou Trail League. However, with rapid economic growth in the Quincy area came rising school enrollment numbers which pushed them into the 2A classification and the Central Washington Athletic Conference.
Authors Note: This is the third installment of a three-part story looking back at Wenatchee’s lone 4A state soccer title in 2016. It was a season to remember; not because of how effortlessly the Panthers maneuvered through their season. They didn’t. There were bumps throughout its entirety, …
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
Authors Note: This is the second installment of a three-part story looking back at Wenatchee’s lone 4A state soccer title in 2016. It was a season to remember; not because of how effortlessly the Panthers maneuvered through their season. They didn’t. There were bumps throughout its entirety,…
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
Eastmont High School event custodian Nick Turner tapes around black parts of the school's center court wildcat logo Thursday. Because of the COVID-19 closures for the school district, he says he is getting more time to do the detail work needed to restore the logo and all of the sports lines on the floor before he applies varnish.
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
Note: This is the first installment of a three-part story looking back at Wenatchee’s lone 4A state soccer title in 2016. It was a season to remember, not because of how effortlessly the Panthers maneuvered through their season. They didn’t. There were bumps throughout its entirety, even in …
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
On Feb. 28, the day before prospective college football players were allowed to start visiting campuses as part of the NCAA's "quiet period," an Alaska Airlines jet carrying three of the top 30 high school prospects in the state of Washington took off from Seattle and touched down in Pullman…
WENATCHEE — Come this fall, the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) plans to use selection committees to seed state tournaments for all team sports. Last season, this method was used for football, but it did not benefit Wenatchee and Eastmont from the Big 9, where both t…