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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NCW — The North Central Region athletic directors agreed to a schedule for girls soccer, volleyball and cross country last week, setting the stage for a complete resumption of fall sports next month.
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NCW — This past week must have felt like Christmas for football coaches and players around the region as schedules were agreed upon and released by the area's athletic directors.
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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.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — University of Louisville women’s basketball freshman guard and former Cashmere star Hailey Van Lith was named Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Freshman of the Week for the second time Monday afternoon.
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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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Circle Jan. 4., on the calendar. Prep sports will again be on the chopping block.
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Kraken professional scout Cammi Granato didn't set out to create a grant program for young female hockey players just because of the financial impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on athletes' families.
The 2020-21 hockey season for the Wenatchee Wild never got a chance to get off the ground thanks in part to a global pandemic, but work has begun to construct the roster for the 2021-22 BCHL season.
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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WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Wild has canceled its 2020-21 season, the team announced Tuesday.
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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.
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.
Youth sports leagues across the state are gearing up for a traditional fall season — or at least something close to it — after new safety guidelines were approved by the governor's office and state health officials this week.
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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The calls and emails flowed into Jon Snyder’s inbox at Gov. Jay Inslee’s office, and there were times when he felt like a circus juggler trying to weigh the benefits of return-to-play options for youth sports leagues against the risks of doing so in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
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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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.
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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.
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WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee AppleSox finally acquiesced Tuesday morning, announcing on their website they were canceling their 2020 Training Camp; effectively closing the door for any kind of organized summer baseball at Paul Thomas Sr. Stadium this season.
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WENATCHEE — As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, no one really knows what prep sports are going to look like in the fall.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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EAST WENATCHEE — Eastmont High School head golf coach Pat Welch thought this was going to be Emilee Wentworth’s spring.
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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, …
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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,…
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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 …
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As the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association sees the athletic portion of its academic year end with no spring-sports championships, the natural question is: What about the fall?
WENATCHEE — When coach Jeff Zehnder got his first glimpse of Jared Rubash as a freshman, he was impressed.
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EAST WENATCHEE — This spring was supposed to be Kaitlyn Duncan’s comeback season.
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