• The Bothell Baseball Club is holding tryouts for the 2009 U14 Sandy Koufax season from noon to 2 p.m. Aug. 17 at Bothell High. Contact Mike Woods at (206) 730-7891 or e-mail BBCU14@Yahoo.com. Players must not turn 15 before May 1.
For longtime Bothell resident George Selg, who graduated from the Bothell High class of 1963, the Pop Keeney Field surroundings have always been home to him.
Many remarkable weight-loss stories begin by some sort of life-changing event that spurs someone into action.
But for Carolyn Lockmon of Bothell, it was a lack of events, combined with her husband being surrounded by “beautiful, thin” women thousands of miles away, that led her to making a marvelous transformation.
Balls were flying everywhere. Kids were joking around. And Bryan McNiel was loving every minute of it.
It’s been 20 years, and kids keep bouncing back to coach Greg Lowell’s doorstep — at his second home, the Inglemoor High gym — for some hoops action.
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A list of sports camps available in the Bothell area, as of July 9.
Bothell native Chelsea Feig isn’t a sports nut or a news junkie, but she does dig on once-in-a-lifetime opportunities.
That’s what prompted the 2005 Inglemoor High grad and Ithaca College student to apply for a summer internship with the Olympic News Service (ONS).
A list of sports camps available in Bothell, starting July 2.
Caitlyn Hynes, 18, of Kenmore and Sadie Sheller, 8, of Brier recently received their black belts at Shin’s TaeKwonDo Academy of Kenmore.
• The Cougar Soccer Camp, serving Northshore since 2004, will have three week-long sessions this summer, July 21, July 28 and Aug. 4 at the Pop Keeney Field grass pitch. For information, visit www.cougarsoccercamp.com or contact coaching director Alex Zahajko at cougarcamp@comcast.net.
Going into the final and deciding race of the 2007-2008 4A girls’ state swim meet at King County Aquatics Center in Federal Way, Inglemoor High head coach Monica Mayes was completely oblivious to the fact that the Vikings had a chance to tie Garfield with a win in the 400-meter freestyle relay.
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Not many high school coaches in any sport can say their team has made the state tournament for seven consecutive seasons. Cedar Park Christian School softball head coach Greg Salios, however, is one of a select few that can claim that record.
Salios has been at the helm of the Eagles’ softball program since its inception in 2001, and made the 1A state tournament every year since 2002.
Sage Speak, 12, from Moorlands Elementary in Kenmore left the other swimmers in her wake at the King County Aquatic Center during the annual PAC Coast Invitational meet. The sixth-grader took first place in the 100-meter breaststroke event out of 50 competitors and placed in the top five in all but one event she entered.
A listing of sports camps happening in the Bothell area.
Bothell High head football coach Tom Bainter recalled a story from a game at Pop Keeney Field when Johnny Hekker was a ball boy for the team and his older brother, Zach, an all-Kingco 4A tight end, played for the Cougars.
Sports updates and announcements from Bothell and surrounding areas.
Some athletic programs are so inherently strong year in and year out that they seemingly never go through a “rebuilding” process.
Instead, these powerhouse teams perform like well-oiled machines and simply take their talented student athletes along for the ride. The Inglemoor High girls swim-and-dive team has been that program for the past four years, having come out victorious at the 4A state meet every year since 2004.
A large part of the Vikings’ success in the pool has been due to a strong core of swimmers led by Inglemoor senior Chrissy Baumgartner.