Kentlake junior Ashley Pernell returns to the gym after ACL injury sidelined her
Strong swims by sophomores and juniors for Tahoma and Kentwood at last weekend’s state swim meet have their coaches looking forward to next season.
A trio of Tahoma wrestlers competed in their respective weight class finals at Mat Classic XXV, the state championship tournament at the Tacoma Dome.
Kentwood girls move on, Kentwood and Tahoma boys and Tahoma girls eliminated.
As of 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Tahoma was in second place in the 4A team title hunt behind Lake Stevens, which had tallied 150 points to the Bears’ 120.
Tahoma’s boys take on Thomas Jefferson tonight at 7:45 at Mount Tahoma High in a winner-to-state, loser-out matchup.
KW’s Silver and Black squads competed at the National High School Cheerleading Championships in Orlando, Fla.
Kentwood senior wins girls 124 pound final, Bears qualify 11 boys to state.
With both girls and boys teams from Kentwood and Tahoma playing in South Puget Sound League seeding games, the results were a mixed bag.
Ally Irwin and Sterling Peterson, both members of Kentwood High’s girls soccer team, both committed to play collegiately on National Signing Day Feb. 5.
The Kentlake gymnastics team finished fifth at the Class 4A districts meet on Feb. 9 at Mount Rainier.
Sarah Toenia of Kentwood, Stephanie Luce of Kentlake and Chardonae Miller of Tahoma were all named to the first team.
Coleman Wooten, a junior at Tahoma High, was named the most valuable player in basketball for the North division of the SPSL.
The Northwest’s premier horse racing venue will be a basketball hotbed this summer when Emerald Downs introduces EmD 3-On-3, a two-day hoops extravaganza on 30 courts in the north parking lot.
There were 14 seniors who committed to play collegiate sports next year.
Kentwood’s Reese McGuire was named USA Baseball’s 2012 Athlete of the Year Feb. 1.
Cassidy Meyers started the final post-season of her wrestling career with a win at the South Puget Sound League girls subregional tournament Feb. 1-2 at Kent-Meridian High.
Speed, time drops, and two rare ties characterized the West Central District III boys swim meet last weekend.
Some things were settled at the end of the regular season in high school basketball while other situations still needed to be resolved.
Tahoma dominated the South Puget Sound League North sub-regional wrestling meet Feb. 1-2 at Kent-Meridian High, wracking up 411 points thanks to six individual champions.
