REDMOND HIGH GOLF AT A GLANCE Head Coach: Chris Zimmerman, fifth season Last Year: 10-0, 4A Kingco champions; 11-0 overall…
Just one year after the Bear Creek School volleyball team brought home an 8th-place trophy from their first-ever state tournament experience, the Grizzlies are ready and raring to make a return trip to Yakima.
The Bear Creek School Head Coach: Sherrie Brown, 7th year Last Year: 8th place at 2B state tournament 2009 turnout…
It’s never easy being a first-year head coach of a struggling football program, but former Eastlake head coach Jeff Chandler already has been showing signs of success as the new head honcho for Redmond High.
Walking the hallowed grounds of Pebble Beach Golf Links on California’s Monterey Bay is a dream that very few amateur golfers will get the opportunity to live in their lifetime.
Bur for Redmond High School junior Lyle Rudnicki, that dream is about to become a reality.
Redmond resident Heather Harper shined at the recent Speedo Junior National Championships at the William Woollett Aquatics Center in Irvine, Calif., placing 17th out of 115 swimmers from across the United States in the 100 meter breaststroke.
For many talented high-school baseball players, the annual AFLAC High School Baseball Classic represents the first major step towards a career in the major leagues.
For Redmond’s Doug Brathovde, it all began in 2004 after watching ‘The Lion King on Broadway’ stage production.
Although none of the costumes in the show contained the faux fur he works with today, Brathovde realized how creative, and fun, building costumes could be as a hobby.
Ever since she was three years old and first set foot on a soccer pitch, 13-year-old Kennedy Kieneker has felt right at home.
Like many youngsters, she started playing in recreational leagues in her youth and eventually joined a competitive club team, Crossfire, that pushed her game to the next level.
Zach Alleva, a Redmond resident who swims for Kirkland-based WAVE Aquatics, shined in the pool last weekend at the Pacific Northwest Swimming (PNS) Long Course Championships at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way.
After three days of taking notes and adjusting to the 100-foot cedar trees of Sahalee Country Club, the star-studded field in the 2010 U.S. Senior Open teed off Thursday morning in a quest for a championship, and a relative unknown sits at the top of the leaderboard.
For Redmond resident Jim Uyesugi, it was a project driven by his passion for the game.
As The Overlake School girls’ tennis coach and founder of the local non-profit Northwest Sports Foundation, he has been eager to build a tennis facility in the city of Redmond.
The Redmond Majors Softball All-Stars won the District 9 Championship earlier this month and followed it up with a third-place finish at the Washington State Majors Little League tournament at Valley Ridge Park in Sea-Tac last week.
Ever since the Eastside Basketball Club (EBC) opened last July, the organization has been drawing some of the area’s top youth basketball talent to train for success during the offseason.
This summer has been no exception.
For Chris Nazarenus, it’s all about living life on the edge.
Nazarenus, co-founder of media production company, Triple Nickel Films, and an avid motorsports enthusiast, and her crew got to do just that June 27. The Redmond resident was enlisted by Seth Schaeffer of Hoptocopter Films to shoot a short-form video of one of Hollywood’s top stuntmen, Greg Tracy, flying up famed Pikes Peak in Colorado on the newly released 1200cc Ducati Multistrada, one of the most technologically advanced racing motorcycles on the market, during the annual International Hill Climb.
One might think that grinding out a 10th-place finish at the 4A state golf tournament a little over a month ago would be a reason to take it easy during the summer months, in celebration of a job well done.
Not if you’re Charlie Mroz.
Q: You guys get off to this amazing start and were just mowing down the Emerald City League; at what…
It’s hard enough for The Overlake School boys’ soccer coach Bob Bristol that his team plays its regular season in the fall, and must cope with a six-month layoff before the state tournament begins in May.
But Bristol, who just completed his 15th year of coaching — longer than some of his players have been alive — had to deal with a much larger foe just as his team was coming back together to gear up for a state tournament run.
There have been some impressive winning streaks in high school sports. De La Salle High School’s (Calif.) infamous 151-game football streak, which began in 1992 and was snapped by Bellevue in 2004, is one of the most well-known.
The Redmond High School girls’ golf team, however, started an impressive run of their own back in 2003.
Jessica Elliott’s Overlake School coaches share some of their most memorable moments of her from the 2009-10 season: Luke Trier,…