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By Megan ManaganMercer Island Reporter

Four years in the making — that’s what a high school

graduation is to many students. The chance to say goodbye to class-mates and teachers, and a moment in time to cel-ebrate a great accom-plishment. Three Mer-cer Island High School students are forego-ing the celebration to work on a dif ferent ac-complishment, rowing at the national rowing competition in Cincin-nati, Ohio.

Thomas Ehlers, Ai Tanaka and Robert Capelluto, all seniors at MIHS, are members of the Mt. Baker varsity 8s crew team, which qualified for the na-tional competition after regionals in Vancouver, Wash., in the middle of May.

“I found the conflict-ing dates last fall, but I didn’t really think about it,” said Ehlers.

“Actually, the team made a goal not to even talk about it until re-gionals,” said Capelluto of the competing dates for graduation and na-tionals.

The team, along with coaches, family mem-bers and other crew teams from Mt. Baker that qualified, headed off to Ohio yesterday and will spend today and tomorrow prepar-ing for the races which take place all weekend.

“The reason it’s a big deal really is because it’s the last time we’ll all be together,” said Capelluto of missing graduation. He added that the actual gradua-

tion ceremony, sitting in the Convention Cen-ter for hours, seemed like it might be kind of boring. The group cares more about missing the senior assembly and graduation party.

“But it should be worth it,” said Tanaka.

“The whole experi-ence, when you weigh it out — it’s more of a life experience. A lot of people say we’re crazy for missing it,” said Capelluto. All three said that in many ways, they worked harder at crew over the last several years than perhaps dur-ing high school. But the trio said that despite be-ing thousands of miles away, they still plan to celebrate, at least a little. A small gradua-tion party is planned for them while in Ohio.

The journey to Ohio began four years ago when Ehlers joined the team upon a friend’s suggestion during his freshman year at MIHS. Tanaka and Capelluto joined the sport the following year, as sophomores, look-ing for something new and at the sug-gestion of friends.

Competing against the best rowers in the nation was an easy addition to the group’s list of favor-ite high school ex-periences, in many ways because hit-ting this level highlights years of strenuous work. Capelluto said he feels that rowing at na-tionals outweighs any-thing else he has done in the academic arena. The one downside: the team has been working

twice as hard for the up-coming races while ev-eryone else is winding down.

“Everyone else gets to enjoy summer, and we’re working twice as hard with two practices a day,” said Capelluto. Occasionally, the hours of back-breaking work, staring at the same per-son’s back day after day while skimming across the water, can get a little old, Capelluto said. But the group agreed that the end result is more than worth it.

All three said that the best part about being out on the water is the feeling of going fast, which helps to over-come the sport’s more painful aspects.

“It’s hard to describe why we like [crew] because it can be so extremely painful. It doesn’t make sense to a lot of people,” said Capelluto of the intrigue of rowing. For endur-ing the pain, the team gets some pretty amaz-ing views, often from

a place where many don’t travel: the middle of Lake Washington. Ehlers said his favorite place to row is heading north on Lake Wash-ington toward Highway 520, along the Seattle shoreline, seeing the

sights. “I like watching the

sun rise and seeing Mt. Rainier over the wa-ter,” he said. One of the places where the team spends a lot of time is

the area around the I-90 floating bridge. As it turns out, the bridge just happens to be 2,000 meters long, the ex-act length of most race courses, including the course in Cincinnati.

After regionals, the team discussed what qualifying for the nation-al competition meant.

“Our coach said he completely understood if any of us choose grad-

uation over nation-als,” said Tanaka. While Tanaka and Capelluto said it was a pretty easy choice for them, Ehlers admitted that the idea took a little while to get used to.

“Honestly, I re-ally wanted to go to graduation,” he said. But in the end,

the chance to row at na-tionals with the team he had been a part of for the past four years took top bidding.

This week is the end of two eras for the group — finishing high school

and saying goodbye to the first rowing club that they belonged to. Ehlers will head south to attend the University of California at Berke-ley, where he will row as a member of a team currently ranked No. 2 in the nation. He said he will spend the sum-mer training for the fall, as well as prepping for a nationals selection team. If chosen, he would rep-resent the United States in August at the junior world championships in France.

Capelluto will be mov-ing north to Belling-ham to attend Western Washington University and to become a mem-ber of the men’s club crew team. He said that while the rowing will not be as intense as what Ehlers is gearing

up for, he is excited to continue in the sport. Tanaka is staying close, going to the University of Washington, where he will be a coxswain with the Huskies.

“I’m going to miss Se-attle, just as a city,” said Ehlers of the move to college. “Going to San Francisco, it’s going to be dif ferent.”

“I’ll miss my team-mates,” said Capelluto. “There is a special bond we form, knowing they push themselves as hard as you do.”

The 2009 U.S. Rowing Youth National Championships will be held June 12-14 on Harsha Lake outside of Cincinnati, Ohio. MIHS commencement beings at 7 p.m. at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center tomorrow, June 11. Tickets are required. Doors open at 6:15 p.m.

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Just because the tem-peratures climb during the summer months doesn’t mean that the recreational opportuni-ties slow down around the Island. There are a variety of options for anyone looking to get outside over the next three months to watch, play and enjoy outdoor or indoor sports.

While some leagues, such as the softball league administered by the Mercer Island Parks and Recreation Depart-ment, have formed teams and are already compet-ing, there are others still available, according to NeSha Thomas, the rec-reation coordinator with the Parks and Recreation Department.

Parks and Recreation has tennis lessons avail-able for every skill set in two-week increments, from June 23 through the summer until Aug. 20. The lessons, Thomas said, run for two-hour time periods between 6 and 8 p.m., and are open

to anyone.For tennis players look-

ing for more than les-sons, the department also sets up women’s tennis matches. Thom-as said these doubles matches will be starting up in the next week, and the cost is $12 per per-son for the entire season. There are two separate flights, competitive or casual games, Thomas said. Interested parties can contact Thomas, who schedules and ad-ministers the different matches.

The 50 and older softball league games are already underway, Thomas said, but any-one interested in watch-ing games can catch the matches at the Lid Park on Tuesday and Thurs-day evenings between now and Aug. 6. A sec-ond softball league, a co-ed and men’s league, is also competing. Games run Mondays through Thursdays from 6 to 9:30 p.m. at Homestead Park.

Indoor activities at the Community Center include drop-in sports

such as pingpong, pick-leball, volleyball and badminton. Pingpong games are Friday after-noons from 3 to 9 p.m. and Saturdays from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Pickleball, a game invented in the Northwest, takes place on Mondays, Wednes-days and Fridays from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., and Sundays from 4 to 6 p.m. for guests 18 years and older. Senior drop-in volleyball games for peo-ple 55 years and older are offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Com-munity Center. Drop-in badminton games are on Fridays from 7:30 p.m. to midnight at the North Mercer Gym and Satur-days at the Community Center from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Drop-in sports are $2 for senior and youth resi-dents, $3 for youth and senior nonresidents, $3 for adult residents and $4 for nonresident adults.

For more information, visit www.myparksandrecre-ation.com or call 275-7609.

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Members of the 2009 Mt. Baker men’s varsity 8s team will compete in Cincinnati, Ohio, this week at the U.S. rowing competition. Back row: Bailey Willis, Thomas Ehlers, Grant Carlson, Davis Lockett and Coach Stefan Koch. Middle: Ai Tanaka. Front row: Henry Cryst, Cole Johnson, Luke Gering and Robert Capelluto.

Trio says goodbye to high school 2,500 miles from homeRowers choose to compete rather than attend graduation

All-Island track meet Opportunities for summer recreation indoors and out

Chad Coleman/Mercer Island Reporter

Runners take off down the track at Mercer Island High School during the 100-meter dash at the annual all-Island track meet at MIHS on Friday, June 5. Fourth- and fifth-graders from Lakeridge, West Mercer and Island Park Elementary Schools gathered to participate in running and field events at the annual celebration. The event is co-sponsored by the City of Mercer Island’s Parks and Recreation Department.

‘The whole experience, when you weigh it out – it’s more of a life

experience. A lot of people say we’re crazy for missing it’

Robert CapellutoMIHS senior

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Surrounded by water as Mercer Island is, water

sports have long had a strong foothold here. Rarely, though, does a new sport gain unprece-dented traction based on an Island event. Stand-up paddle surfing is a hybrid of kayaking, surfing and, if not balanced correctly, swimming, which comes with a moniker befitting the surfing culture: SUP.

It may be a fairly new concept for the Pacific Northwest, but it’s grow-ing rapidly. So fast, in fact, that this weekend will boast the largest SUP race in the Pacific Northwest, the ’Round the Rock race held on the

Island at Luther Burbank Park on Sept. 27.

Jeff Underwood, an Is-land resident, and friend Dan Eberhardt, who lives in Manhattan Beach, Calif., but is from the Eastside, are longtime surfers and recent SUP enthusiasts who decided to organize a local race for the sport to benefit a local water charity.

At 8 a.m. on Sept. 27, paddlers will assemble at the Luther Burbank swimming beach to take off around the Island in the largest event that the sport has seen north of California. Underwood said that 80 racers have already signed up for the event and more are ex-pected on the morning of the race. Later in the

afternoon, the guys will host a “sprint” race, start-ing at the park and pad-dling to the East Channel Bridge and back for a 1.25-mile race.

The sport, like most branches of surfing, has origins from Hawaii, where Underwood first gave it a try and fell in love with the unique hy-brid. Eberhardt, another longtime surfer who lives on the beach, said even though he surfs as much as he can, paddling offers a different take on one of his favorite pastimes.

“I tried it and imme-diately I was hooked,” he said. “I’m addicted.” Both have seen a huge groundswell of support for their race, highlight-ing the recent popularity

of paddle boarding.Months ago, Under-

wood said he would go out and paddle around the Island, or even in Puget Sound, and see maybe one or two paddle surfers cruising in the summer sunshine. Now they are everywhere. Boards can even be rent-ed on Lake Union near Gas Works Park.

True to surfing stan-dards, most paddlers in the area can be found on the ocean, catching fer-ry wakes and sometimes p a d d l i n g between is-lands, but Under wood said surf-ers are only beginning to scratch the surface, paddling on in-land waterways such as Lake Washington. The boards themselves are typically a little thicker and longer than tradi-tional surfboards, but the style and length vary as much as the people on the water. Underwood said typically beginners will start out on a long board, as it gives more balance support, but for surfers who are well versed at getting up on their boards, a shorter version works just as well. There are also race boards which can help the paddlers reach five to seven miles per hour on the water.

“The boards were get-ting smaller and smaller, but now we’re seeing these long, light, fast boards made with new technology. They’re still trying to figure out what fits,” said Eberhardt. The SUP community, which remains fairly small, pass-es around information about what is working, and what isn’t, quickly.

Besides being another reason to get out on the water, rain or shine in

their cases, Eberhardt and Underwood said SUP provides an amaz-ing body workout while rewarding paddlers with views you can’t find any-where else.

“I haven’t found any-thing that’s more of a to-tal workout,” said Under-

wood. “The best thing about it is you don’t even realize you’re work-ing out.” The balanc-ing and pad-dling pro-vides for a strong core w o r k o u t , E b e r h a r d t said.

What real-ly gets them going is not the workout or the fact that they are cruising

around on the water, but the chances to see the world of water from a fresh perspective.

“It’s a new way to expe-rience being out on the water,” said Underwood. “It gives a new perspec-tive, and you can see into the water. You can see the fish and sea life,” said Eberhardt. “I’ve been surfing for over 20 years, but you can’t have the same experience surfing you have out there. It’s a totally different deal.”

The idea for Paddle ’Round the Rock devel-oped mostly because Un-derwood and Eberhardt were looking for another reason to paddle all the way around Mercer Is-land. Underwood said he rarely has enough time to make the complete loop, and once the race idea got underway, it took off; in a big way.

Proceeds from the race will benefit the Surfrider Foundation, an interna-tional nonprofit group which has chapters in Seattle and the South Sound. The local chap-ters will be using the

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Above: Jeff Underwood, foreground, and Dan Eberhardt are the co-organizers of the debut ’Round the Rock race for paddle surfers. Left: The duo of Jeff Underwood (left) and Dan Eberhardt each has over 20 years of surfing experience and hope to make paddle surfing better know to locals.

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The Mercer Island girls soccer team nabbed its first and second league win in a convincing style, posting a 3-1 victory over the Juanita Rebels last Tuesday night and a 2-0 rout over Mount Si on Thursday. The Island-ers have started off the season with four wins and a loss to the 4A state champs, Skyline.

Tuesday’s game kicked off after senior captain Erin Bourguignon placed a kick into the top of the Rebels’ goal, sailing over Juanita’s keeper in the 27th minute of play to give the Islanders the lead they held onto for the rest of the night.

“We knew this goal-keeper was going to be absolutely amazing, and she was,” said Islander head coach Adam Gervis. “She was unbelievable, but we knew if we could hit it low, we’d be good.”

Minutes later, Bour-guignon was again at the center of attention, but this time for gaining a yellow card with 4:26 left in the first half after she protested the head referee’s decision not to call an earlier foul on her teammate. Despite Bour-guignon sitting out for the remainder of the half, MI upped the ante with an Ellen Haas goal in the last two minutes of play. She scored off a header

Islanders soccer nabs two league wins

Megan Managan/Mercer Island Reporter

Islander forward Ellen Haas sprints to get to the ball during Mercer Island’s home win against Juanita last Tuesday night. The final score was 3-1.

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placed into the Juanita goal box during a Mer-cer Island corner kick to give the Islanders a solid 2-0 lead heading into the half.

At the beginning of the second half, the Islanders continued to knock on the Rebels door, looking for a chance to bust into another goal. The op-portunity finally arose 10 minutes into the second half when Juanita fouled Celina Solomon, giving the Islanders a free kick just on the outside of the goal box. Bourguignon repeated her earlier mag-ic, sailing the shot into the top corner of the Reb-els’ goal for a 3-0 lead.

Gervis had absolute

confidence in his team on Tuesday night, say-ing that the front com-bination of Ellan Haas, freshman Alexi Odegard and Lean Johnson, along with support from the midfield and defense, kept pushing the Rebel defense, looking for op-portunities to score.

The Rebels were able to make an appearance on the scoreboard, earn-ing a point off a Tori Lee penalty kick with 8:24 left in regulation time. The goal, earned after a hand-ball in the Islanders’ own goal box, was just missed by freshman goalkeeper Corey Goelz to take the score to 3-1.

Gervis said that, most importantly, the win was about the team, setting each other up and get-ting where they needed to be across the field.

“It is a team; that’s the thing we focused on since we went to camp. They bought in and are doing a real nice job — they are playing for each other,” said Gervis. “We’ve never been able to get this com-bination, and we’ve really worked this year on all of the players being just where they need to be.”

Thursday evening was the team’s second home game of the week that the Islanders faced off against Mount Si, nab-bing a 2-0 win.

“Mount Si is always physical, and we hope — well, I know, we have a good ref. We’re just looking for more of the same,” said Gervis prior to the Thursday match.

Haas picked up another goal for the Islanders this season in the 55th minute of play on Thursday, off an assist from Laura Har-rison. Junior Claire Jens-en followed with an un-assisted goal in the 69th minute to give the Island-ers a 2-0 final score.

Gervis said that while the team wasn’t in top form on Thursday, play-ers still managed to get the better of their Wild-cat opponent.

“We worked well togeth-er and slowly wore down Mount Si, who could not counter our work ethic in midfield,” he said.

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The race started off as a way for local paddlers to get out on the water, but has quickly become an event to showcase the sport, attracting in-dustry booths, such as several of the big board manufacturing compa-nies that will be provid-ing information and ex-amples. It is turning into a great way for people interested in learning about paddle surfing to come check out the sport, see demonstra-tions and give it a try, Underwood said.

While the race around the Island is scheduled for a 9 a.m. start, de-

pending on the weather, Underwood said that people not participating are encouraged to come later in the morning to see the booths and talk with people in the indus-try. The fastest paddle surfers are expected to finish in about three hours. The race to the bridge and back will start at 1 p.m.

“There are other races in the area, but they have all been smaller. This is the biggest thing in the sport around here right now,” said Underwood. The duo expects ’Round the Rock to become an annual event.

“Based on the num-ber of contestants and booths, this is the big-gest thing north of California,” said Under-wood.

For more information about the event, visit www.roundtherock.com.

SURFINGContinued from page 9

SOCCERContinued from page 9

Megan Managan/Mercer Island ReporterSenior Beth Felker, left, tries to cut off Juanita’s Tori Lee during the Islanders’ home win over the Rebels last week.

Islanders football falls to Liberty in league opener

The Mercer Island foot-ball team faced its first league loss last week, fall-ing 51-13 to Liberty of Is-saquah.

In the first quarter, the Islanders gave up 23 unan-swered points, as Liberty quarterback Trey Wheeler threw for two touchdowns. The first was a 1-yard pass to Chandler Jenkins and the second was a 26-yard throw to Peter Wiggum. Both were followed by scoring kicks from Dean Byron. Later in the first quarter, Jenkins made another end zone trip fol-lowing a 20-yard run. The Patriots capitalized on their chances, making a two-point conversion play

before the end of the first quarter.

In the second 12 minutes, the Islanders made their debut on the

scoreboard for the night, but only after another two touchdowns from the Pa-triots. Wheeler threw a 7-yard pass to Jake Bainton before Jenkins ran for 55 yards to up the score 37-0. Mercer Island quarter-back Jeff Lindquist made a 2-yard run of this own in the second quarter, fol-lowed by a kick from Alex Wood to give the Islanders 7 points. Heading into half-time, the score was 37-7.

In the third quarter, Lib-erty’s Jay Chakravarty had two touchdown runs, the first an 11-yard run and the second a 3-yard sprint to the end zone. Mercer Is-land’s Kurtis Rosengreen answered with an 81-yard run in the third quarter to give the Islanders 13 points heading into the fourth quarter.

The defensive lines on each side held both teams

to zero in the last minutes of the game for a 51-13 fi-nal score.

Cross country takes on Issaquah, Garfield

Members of the Mercer Island cross country team traveled to Lincoln Park for a 3.1-mile race against Issaquah and Garfield High Schools on Wednes-day afternoon.

Members of the Island-ers boys team fared well against the men’s field of 119 runners. Junior Nick Ford finished fifth overall with a time of 16 minutes and 41 seconds. Senior captain James Kashima finished in 17:03 for ninth place, and Wil Clausen was just moments behind in 10th place with a time of 17:04. Rounding out the top 20 in the boys race for the Islanders was Leo Phil-lips in 11th with a time of 17:20, Robbie Frankel in 15th at 17:46 and Andy

Wingerson in 18th with a time of 17:58. The fastest boys time was 16:20, run by Kevin LeMond of Is-saquah.

The Islander girls team finished with seven run-ners in the top 10 overall, and sophomore Lindsay Benster had the team’s best time with a second-place finish of 19:37.

In fifth place was senior Molly O’Callahan earning a time of 19:44, followed by teammate Stephanie Pedreira in seventh at 21:13, Gabrielle Goyette in eighth at 21:19, Zoe Spranger in ninth with a time of 21:32 and freshman Julia Davis in 10th place at 21:40. Sophomore Carly Andersen finished 11th

with a time of 21:43. The fastest girls time was 19:11 by Anna Dailey of Garfield High School.

The next cross country meet will be on Sept. 30 at Marymoor Park against Bellevue, Bothell, Ballard, Skyline and Interlake in a 3A/4A KingCo league face off. A full list of the cross country meet results can be found at www.athletic.net/crosscountry/School.aspx?SchoolID=410.

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Luck plays a surprising role in sports. Sometimes, the stars align, things click and before you know it, goals are accomplished. That pretty much sums up most of the Islander boys golf season, except that they had more than luck on their side. The team, which took second at dis-tricts to end its regular fall season, also ended the sea-son undefeated.

“It’s interesting because if you’d asked me if I thought we could do what we did, I would say yes, but at the same time, there are always so many variables that come into play, so it’s whether or not it happens,” said Tyson Peters, the head coach for the boys golf team. “We set goals at

the beginning of the year and those goals are always meant to be what we hope to achieve, but maybe we don’t get there.” In hind-sight, Peters had nothing to worry about, thanks in large part to how the team came together at the per-fect time, just before the playoffs.

“The team really started playing really well togeth-er and came together as a team. It was really exciting because it wasn’t an individ-ual thing, it was ‘we’re do-ing this together,’” he said. “Every single goal I set for them and that they set for themselves — which was winning KingCo, going un-defeated, winning the med-alist tournament, finishing well at districts and getting the team qualified for state — were all accomplished. The only real thing that I had on my goal sheet that didn’t get accomplished was taking four guys to state, rather than three, but that’s minor compared to all the others.”

Minor indeed, especially after last fall, when only one team member quali-fied for the spring state tournament. Peters said

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Contributed photoMembers of the second-place Sea-King District Mercer Island boys golf team included: Kirby Ingram (left), Charlie Kern, Grant Otter, George Jiranek, Kyle Code and Crawford Leeds. The team was coached by Tyson Peters, left, and Tim Proctor.

Boys golf ends season with check marks next to all team goals

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Bob Solomon/Contributed photoThe MIHS girls soccer team celebrates after the KingCo trophy presentation during the conference tournament. The girls won the league for the first time since 2002.

Islanders soccer wins final game before state

MIHS boys cross country team qualifies for state

The Mercer Island boys cross country team quali-fied for the state cross country meet in Pasco last weekend after its fourth-place finish at the Sea-King District race last week. The top four teams in both the boys and girls events earned state berths, but the Is-lander girls fell just short of making an appearance, finishing fifth.

“The girls just missed it by four points,” said co-head coach Erica Hill. “There were really strong efforts by every-one, and they all should be extremely proud of themselves.”

The boys team finished behind Bishop Blanchet, Bellevue and Seattle Prep to nab the last qualifying spot. All the boys team runners who competed at the district event will trav-el to Eastern Washington for the state meet. Aaron Elefson had the team’s top time, finishing in 16 minutes and 15 seconds for fifth place overall. Nick Ford was 15th over-all at 16:51. Andy Winger-son was 25th at 17:05, Wil Clausen finished in 30th place with a time of 17:13, James Kashima was 34th at 17:19, Matt Wotipka was 38th with a time of 17:26 and Leo Phillips came in at 58th in a field of 88 runners with a time of 18:04.

Despite the fact that the girls team as a whole did not qualify, Hill said that both Lindsay Benster and Molly O’Callahan qualified for the state meet, as they finished in the top 10. Benster had a second-place finish with a time of 19:07, almost a minute behind Tansey Lystad of Juanita, who won the title with a time of 18:16. O’Callahan fin-ished seventh at 19:48.

Other Islander girls who competed at district include: Gabi Goyette, in 28th place; Carly An-dersen, 43rd; Stephanie Pedreira, 44th; and Zoe Stranger, 51st.

The state meet will take place on Nov. 7 at the Sun Willows golf course in Pasco, Wash.

Boys tennis earns singles, doubles KingCo wins

The Mercer Island High School boys tennis team finished the King-

Co tournament with both the doubles and singles KingCo titles.

Jordan Smith brought home the singles cham-pionship after beating Leo Gebhardt, 6-0, 6-2, in the title match. The Islanders doubles team of Max Franklin-Andrew Smith beat Bellevue’s Zach Kosanke-Colin Dresser, 6-4, 5-7 and 7-5, to earn their own title. All four of the top finish-ers at the KingCo event earn state berths for the tournament, held in the spring.

The second Mercer Island doubles team of Matt Sedlacek-Jared Thomas also earned a place at state after their third-place finish at KingCo. They beat Ben Liang-Eugene Chon of Bellevue, 6-1 and 6-1, for the win.

Head coach Joyce Hed-lund said she was very pleased with the team and individuals’ finishes this season.

She said the team got stronger mentally throughout the season and took on challenges knowing that each day they gave it their best.

Hedlund also thanked the players’ parents and friends who came along for the tournament and the season to cheer the players on.

The state tournament will be held at the end of May in Vancouver, Wash., along with the girls ten-nis state tournament.

The Mercer Island girls soccer team netted its final regular season win last Thursday, down-ing Interlake 2-0. The Is-landers will now have an almost two-week break before their next game, during the first round of the state tournament.

Against the Saints, El-len Haas scored twice, bringing her league-leading season total to

18 goals, with two as-sists. Her first goal of the night was unassisted, while the second was off a pass from Rachel Pe-dreira, a fellow Islander senior. Freshman goalie Corey Goelz earned her sixth shutout of the sea-son, taking the lead in the league for keeping the other KingCo teams without points.

During the season,

Erin Bourguignon had five goals and one assist, while her teammate, Mary Hill, had two goals and four assists.

The team, which was 10-2 in the league and 12-3-1 overall, will next face the No. 7 team out of the West Central or Southwest Washington district at home on Nov. 10 in the first round of the state tournament.


The Mercer Island girls volleyball team captured the KingCo tournament championship after a five-game marathon against Mount Si in the title match. The Island-ers were able to edge out the Wildcats in their third meeting of the sea-son, 3-2, to take the tour-nament title. The final scores were: 12-25, 20-25, 25-19, 25-20 and 15-12.

“I had a really good feeling going into it,” said head coach Susan Rind-laub. “I really felt like we had a chance.” She said the two times be-fore when Mercer Island played Mount Si, she felt the team hadn’t been able

to play to their full poten-tial, but because the Is-landers came out calm and focused on Saturday night, they were able to bounce back from an ear-ly two-game deficit.

“In the first game, we came out and play really tentatively, almost hop-ing they would make mistakes,” said Rindlaub. By the third match when the Islanders found their groove, Rindlaub said they were on fire, and their enthusiasm helped earn them points while the Wildcats offense started making mis-takes.

Former head coach Dino Annest said it was an awesome match, and that by game five many

of the rallies were going back and forth over the net up to six times.

During the game, Kay-lia Balinbin had 11 kills and eight digs, Ariel Dewey recorded six aces and 36 assists, Renee Chiang had 16 digs, Ali-sa Owens had five aces, Sabrina Rasmussen had five kills and Lorial Yea-don recorded 11 kills and 12 digs.

The KingCo volleyball tournament is six years old and Mercer Island and Issaquah remain as the only two names listed on the trophy.

“It was a big goal for the girls to keep the trophy here for another year,” said Annest.

Starting tomorrow, the

Islanders will travel to Sammamish High School again for the Sea-King district tournament to determine who gets the chance to play at state. The Islanders’ first game of the tournament will be on Thursday evening, be-ginning at 7:30 p.m.

Rindlaub said she ex-pects the teams at dis-tricts to be taller, with a lot of offensive power.

“We’re going to have to work on hitting around the blocks. It will be tough and all the games will be close,” she said. “The rest of the games are going to be a chal-lenge, but after beating Mount Si, it was a huge confidence boost for the girls.”

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last season that the Is-landers were admittedly young, but now the core group of players is old-er, more experienced and is obviously learn-ing to play solid golf.

Charlie Kern, Kyle Code and Crawford Leeds will each repre-sent MIHS at state, giv-ing the Islanders a solid chance for a state place-ment. While it only takes two golfers to qualify a team for placement, Pe-ters said that typi-cally teams need three or four golfers in order to get past the first-round cut.

“ T h e three guys who are go-ing are all capable of making the cut if they play like they did at dis-tricts,” said Peters.

Peters said he never had much doubt of what the team was capable of doing; it was just a mat-ter of getting everyone on the same page, at the same time.

“I knew that the guys were capable of it, but at the same time was kind of surprised they did all of those things. I think one of those things that I was particularly proud of was just the fact that they came together as a team so well because teams are always dif-ferent every year, with different personalities, and these guys really gelled.”

Peters said the team started off in a variety of places at the begin-ning of the season, and that it wasn’t until the last two weeks of the season that the whole team found its rhythm.

“Until then it was kind of spotty, so I felt like all season long as a coach I was trying to get them all together at the same time and again that’s one of those things that we feel like we were very successful at this year, that it actually happened.”

Earlier in the season, Peters said the team was working on improv-ing the mental side of its game, focusing on playing the entire golf course. By the end of the season, Peters said he felt like the team had definitely stepped up the mental side of the game.

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really young team; a majority of them were sophomores. For those who weren’t [expe-rienced], the mental

side of golf was very new to them. It’s more than just hitting the golf ball — it’s think-ing your way around the golf course and be-ing able to deal with the pressure that goes with it. This year I felt like, finally, those guys had gotten a couple years of experience and a lot of the stuff that we had been teaching started to resonate,” said Peters. Because of that experi-

ence shift on the team, Peters said that next season he fully expects the team to be competi-tive across the boards.

But before Peters can even think about the fall 2010 season, the boys still need to finish this season. They just have a seven-month hiatus before the state tourna-ment in the Tri-Cities.

“It’s very frustrat-ing because basically you’re not allowed to have coaching time un-

til the end of April, so of course we had an end-of-the-season meeting, and with those three kids we said, make sure you’re getting to the range and get in some tournaments, but it’s just a flaw in the system,” said Peters. Along with boys tennis, the golfers wait to fin-ish their season at the same state tournament as the girls who play in the spring.

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golf is their primary sport, so it will be less difficult for them to stay sharp. But it’s definitely a challenge to keep them sharp, there’s no question.”

Peters said that all three of the players who are going to state will play in various tour-naments through the winter and early spring to keep up their games, but that doesn’t change the fact that seven months from competi-

tive play can make a big difference in how they finish at state.

“The guys are the sharpest they’ve been all season, and we just sort of have to pause. The state tournament always feels a bit more like a crapshoot, sort of,” said Peters. “The guys go out and you cross your fingers, but you never really know.”

Overall, the coach said he was extremely proud of this fall’s team, more than any other.

“I’ve had teams in the past that have had may-be more ability, and this team has accomplished more than them, and maybe that’s why. This team has a lot of ability, but when they needed to, they kind of rallied and showed what they were capable of. My as-sistant and I just have a lot of pride in what the team accomplished because it could have turned out differently.”

Six members of the varsity team were also recently named to the All-KingCo League team. Kern was named to the first team, while Leeds, Grant Otter and George Jiranek were named to the second team. Kirby Ingram and Kyle Code were each given honorable men-tions for their perfor-mances this season.

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‘I was particularly proud of ... the fact that they came together as a

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Boys golf head coach

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As a member of the Washington Stealth, the area’s professional Na-tional Lacrosse League (NLL) team, Bloom also is able to take a break from earning quite as many frequent flier miles as in the past couple of years. After graduating from Ohio State and mov-ing to Florida to pursue a graduate degree in psy-chology Bloom played for NLL teams in Den-ver and Boston, neces-sitating flying across the country most weekends for practice and games. This summer that all changed when Bloom was traded to the Stealth, taking his commute from thousands of miles to just 30 miles.

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so things kind of fell into place and it worked out perfectly. It’s going to be great this year to be able to practice and play in the same city I live in without having to fly across the state or the country to practice.”

One thing Bloom has found in the last four sea-sons playing professional lacrosse is the sense of community established through the game.

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Last weekend the Stealth hosted their sec-ond training camp of the season, narrowing the roster and letting the players get to know each other’s playing styles.

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Long passes and fast steals with even faster footwork dominate the Mercer Island boy’s bas-ketball games. Against Interlake it worked as the Islanders powered past the Saints, beating the Bellevue team by 20 points. The final score was 68-48.

Mercer Island exploded out of the gate, putting up 17 points to the Saints’ four in first quarter as the Islanders knocked down shots and made numerous steals to gain the upper hand early on. Against the smaller In-terlake team the Island-ers used well established passing lanes down the court to transfer those early game steals into points, which came in handy later in the game as Interlake found ways to combat the Islanders game. But Mercer Is-land successfully added up free throw points to end the half with a 37-22 lead.

In the third quarter the Saint’s made 12 point, trying to close the gap in the score, but let the

taller Islanders under the basket for rebounds which ensured Mercer Island held on to their lead. Despite each team scoring 14 points in the final eight minutes, In-terlake could not catch the Islander's early game lead.

The Islanders are now 3-2 this season with a 2-0 league record.

In the game against the Saints, nine members of the Mercer Island team had two or more points, with Kaj Sherman put-

Broker, new dad leads new pro lacrosse team


Jason Bloom plays for the Washington Stealth professional lacrosse team. The British Columbia native has spent the last four seasons of his career flying around the country just to practice, but now gets to live and play in the same place.

See Lacrosse page 9

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Quinn Sterling (22) goes up for two as the Mercer Island boys basketball team dominates against Interlake last Friday night. The Islanders won 68-48 and Sterling scored 13 points during the win.

Mercer Island explodes past 2A Interlake

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Wednesday, December 23, 2009 • Mercer Island Reporter 9www.mi-reporter.com

Islanders go big against Interlake

The Mercer Island girls basketball team kept In-terlake from the basket during the Islanders 90-43 rout over the Saints on Monday, Dec. 14.

Every member of the Islanders team who took to the court scored, while the team out scored their opponent in every quar-ter of the game. The Is-landers hit the floor with a 19-6 lead and added an-other 22 points in the sec-ond quarter to Interlake's 14 for a 41-20 lead at the half. Mercer Island con-tinued their domination in the second half, scor-ing 25 points in the third quarter and 24 points in the fourth.

Hannah Lilly had the team's high with 18 points during the win, while teammate Heidi Black scored 14 for the Islanders. Hailey Gull-stad had 13 overall, Kris Brackman put up 10 for the team, Carly Ander-sen and Jae Shin each scored eight points, Kaylia Balinbin had six, while Kate DaPron and Christina Williamson had four points. Lauren Ellis scored three and Sarah Taylor added two points for the team's total.

Gullstad has the league's second highest scoring record at this point in the season, aver-aging 15.8 points a game, while Lilly takes the fourth spot with 13.6 per game. Jae Shin also has made the leaders list with an average of 10.2 points this season per game.

The team spent the weekend participating in the Nike Tournament of Champions in Phoe-nix. They played their first game on Saturday afternoon, after Reporter deadline.

Boys swimming takes down another opponent

The Mercer Island boys swim team earned another win, taking down Ballard in a league meet 140-45.

The team, which is preparing to head east

for the Southwest Invite in Minneapolis on Jan. 2, won all but one event against Ballard, the 100 breaststroke race.

Following the team's trip to Minnesota they will take on Woodinville on Jan. 7 and will head to the Kentwood Invite on Jan. 9 before hosting Bel-levue on Jan. 19.

Mercer Island 140, Ballard 45

200 medley relay - Mer-cer Island (Ian Piper, Evan Molina, Robbie Homchick, Wick Kamin-ski) 1:52.51. 200 free - Ga-briel Tse 1:55.36. 200 IM - Theodor Danciu, 2:14.89. 50 free - Homchick, 23.33. Diving - Bryan Maruhashi, M, 156.40. 100 fly - Homchick, 59.26. 100 free - Danciu, 50.58. 500 free - Tse, 5:13.12. 200 free relay - Mercer Is-land (Danciu, Homchick,

Evan Molina, Brian Wil-liamson) 1:36.64. 100 back - Samuel Chong, 1:01.81. 100 breast - Caleb Jaeger, Ballard, 1:12.17. 400 free relay - Mercer Island (Williamson, Dan-ciu, Ian Snyder, Chong) 3:32.40.

Islanders wrestling takes Lynnwood Classic title

The Mercer Island wrestling team won the Lynnwood Classic wres-tling tournament last Sat-urday, beating the second place team by 24 points.

Three wrestlers from Mercer Island won their brackets and six ad-vanced to the champion-ship round.

Kyle Shanafelt finished first at 125, as did Blake Johnson at 140 and Col-ton Knebel at 189.

The Islanders will next compete at Roosevelt on Jan. 6.

See www.mi-reporter.com for a full list of results and pictures.

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Learning the tenden-cies of your teammates is just one of the chal-lenges for any of the teams in this league. It was a good camp a couple of weeks ago, we look like we have a really strong team, a little bit younger, but a lot of guys are pretty ex-cited.”

Going along with the accessibility in the sport is the fact that many of the players want to give back to the sport, in whatever way they can.

“Guys want to give back to the game,” said Bloom, who has helped coached during his downtime at the Over-lake School. “Guys are coaching all throughout the ranks.”

This is part of the reason, Bloom said, he believes the sport has grown so much, espe-

cially in Washington and on the West Coast. Once known as an East Coast sport, lacrosse has ex-ploded onto the scene with local high schools building impressive programs that dominate in state and inter-state competitions.

“I remember coming down in high school and just playing pick up games against some of the high schools here and our teams would just absolutely annihilate the teams down here,” said Bloom. “I remember my first weekend liv-ing here, my wife and I were driving around the Island and we saw lights on at the high school. It was a state team from Oregon playing Mercer Island and it was a phe-nomenal lacrosse game. Ten years ago that was the last thing we ever thought. There’s just a ton of interest and I think the coaches have done a great job in giv-ing back to the game

and expanding that la-crosse IQ.”

Bloom said he has not thought much about specifically coaching a team locally, but that he plans on teaching some individual or private les-sons on the Island and in Bellevue when pos-sible.

“My goal more than anything is just to spread lacrosse and if I can give back, whether it’s through individual lessons or through coaching actual teams I’m all for it,” he said.

Growing up in Canada Bloom said lacrosse was just a part of life. He started playing around the age of 4, but also found time to play hock-ey as well.

“I think it’s pretty much the Canadian thing to do. Hockey in the winter and lacrosse in the summer.” Despite the background of hit-ting the ice Bloom said there is not much of a hockey influence in his

lacrosse game, except maybe preferring in-door lacrosse to field games.

“Typically there are more goals, it’s a rough-er game and it’s a faster paced game. There’s no downtime and guys are waiting for plays. It’s a phenomenal envi-ronment to play in,” he said. “You’re playing in a confined area where you can’t run and hide. Your nose is going to get dirty.”

The Stealth’s first game for the 2010 sea-son will be on Jan. 9 at Comcast Arena in Ever-ett when Bloom and his teammates take on the Colorado Mammoth, Bloom’s first NLL team.

“Just the interest that we’ve received already in Washington with the team has been outstand-ing,” he said.

For more information on Bloom, the Stealth and the game of lacrosse visit www.stealthlax.com.

ting up 14, Quinn Sterling nabbing 13 of the overall total and with Brian Mill-er placing nine on the board. Eric Stefanchick had eight points, both Sean Hughes and Gabe Fruchter had six points, Ben Emanuels and Jeff Lindquist earned five points, while Jeremy Ha-gen had two overall.

So far this season, Ster-ling and Sherman are two of the league's top scor-ers, earning 14.2 points a game for Sterling and 12.4 for Sherman.

With the school on break for the holidays the boys team will take a break until the day after Christmas, playing at Ca-thedral City on Dec. 26. Their next home game will be against Bellevue on Friday, Dec. 8, 2010.

LACROSSEContinued from page 8

BASKETBALLContinued from page 8

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Jae Shin (11) heads down the court during the Mercer Island girls win over Interlake last Monday 90-43.

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IMS wrestling report

The Islander Middle School wrestling team continued its unbeaten streak, extending its re-cord to 4-0 this season.

On Dec. 2, the Gators of IMS beat Snoqualmie 71-20, before beating Chief Kanim 76-21 on Dec. 7.

The Gators also domi-nated during a match against Issaquah 68-15. After the first four meets this season the middle school team has out scored their oppo-nents 262-98.

Against Snoqualmie: Jake Pruchno (Techni-cal fall), Luke Wilson (Forfeit), Trevor Gull-stad (Forfeit), Taylan Yuasa (11-10), Gabriel Andrews (8-3), Jack Vassau (Fall :44), Benji Rothenberg (Forfeit), Peter Mahony (For-feit), Kenji Walker (Fall 3:54), Eric Schulz (Fall 1:59), Chris Richards (Fall :29), Will Kane (:41), Shade McDaniel (Forfeit).

Against Chief Kanim: Hank Barenborg (For-feit), Jake Pruchno (Fall), Luke Wilson (Forfeit), Trevor Gull-stad (Fall), Taylan Yuasa (Forfeit), Jack

Vassau (Forfeit), Eric Rothenberg (Forfeit), Evan Condon (Forfeit), Peter Mahony (Fall), Eric Schulz (Fall), Brian Glant (Forfeit), Chris Richards (13-2), Shade McDaniel (Fall).

Against Issaquah: Hank Barenborg (Fall 3:40), Jake Pruchno (Fall :32), Luke Wil-son (Fall 4:42), Trevor Gullstad (11-0), Taylan Yuasa (10-9), Jack Vas-sau (inj. def. :1:37), Pe-ter Mahony (Fall 1:56), Kenji Walker (16-8), Eric Schulz (Fall :29), Chris Richards (Fall 1:14), Brian Glant (8-3), Will Kane (Forfeit), Shade McDaniel (Fall :31).

Mercer Island Little League registration now open

Mercer Island Little League Registration opened Dec. 9th for girls and boys ages 5 - 14 years. League divisions include T-ball, machine pitch, and player pitch. A Jr Baseball Division for 13U and 14U will also be introduced this year. The Mercer Is-land Little League pro-gram, run by the Mer-cer Island Boys & Girls Club serves nearly 800 children annually. Last year season highlights included State champi-onships for the Majors softball and baseball teams, and a trip to the Little League World Series for the Majors 12U team. To regis-ter go online to www.mi.positiveplace.org or call the Boys & Girls Club at 206-232-4548.

Islanders fifth grade basketball wins Newport shoot out

The Mercer Island fifth grade maroon girls team won the Newport Cold Turkey Shoot out on Nov. 29, beating Eastlake in the final game for the title.

The team was unde-feated during the tour-nament, taking down the Bellevue B team, Eastside Catholic and Monroe. The team also took first at the Wenatchee tournament in the spring and was second in the Skyline tournament, held in early November.

The girls are coached by Carrie Krause and Raymond Lam. The team includes: Ali Marinello, Macy Mounger, Anna Luce, Brooke Fitzwilson Kate Miller, Jessie Sten-berg, Claire Mansfield, Maeve Akins, Kayla Tsang, Kailee Yan, Josie Blakeslee and Nalani Ogawa.

MIHS update on Title IX work

For approximately two years, the Mercer Island School District, spe-cifically Mercer Island High School, worked on updating and becoming compliant with the fed-eral Title IX law. Since that time, the district has made changes to areas where it was told it was not in compliance and has continued to move forward with the process of making sure funds raised for various high school sports are distributed equally.

Craig Olson, the ath-letic director at the high school, said that overall, he felt it was a good pro-cess and that the dis-trict was making good strides toward meeting the law and making sure things are equal among the sports, but because of a lack of personnel

due to the district’s bud-getary woes, the school is unable to get as much done as before.

Olson said that at one point, there was the con-sideration of creating a unified booster club, which would oversee all sports, rather than individual sports hav-ing their own, as a way to level out the amount of money some groups raised compared to others. Olson said he felt it was something that would be possible, but that it would need strong support at the district level and, due to administrative changes, is something Olson has not been able to get yet.

He also said the dis-trict continues to work on the education piece to make sure all parties involved understand the law and the district’s ob-ligations.

“It’s easier to raise money for certain sports, like football, basketball and baseball, than others, just be-cause there is higher at-tendance and it’s easier to get sponsors because more people see it,” said Olson. “But that’s where we run into problems. It has to be even.”

During the original Title IX compliance re-view, it was found that certain sports were not receiving the same amount of funding and were therefore not in compliance. Olson said the school was able to even things out from various funds the school had access to, but be-cause of the economy it’s not likely that would be able to continue.

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The first thing that pops into my head when I tell people

about going to the Olym-pics is the people. It’s an obvious answer, but the sheer number of people who were in downtown Vancouver, and what it takes to make this type of event function, is mind-boggling.

Last Saturday was the busiest day in Translink history, according to the Canadian radio station that my friends and I were listening to on our pilgrim-age out of town to the U.S. border. That was the day before the U.S.A. vs. Can-ada men’s hockey game in downtown — which no doubt broke the previous day’s record. The second-ary factor of the gorgeous, warm February weather helped, I’m sure, enticing people — like the rest of my family, who said they’d rather skip the Olympics and avoid the crowds — to head north, even if just to wander around.

I, on the other hand, was for sure, no-matter-what going to make my way to Vancouver once I’d heard the Games were going to be just miles away. They will likely never be this close again, and through what seems like sheer luck, I managed to get men’s hockey tickets in the first round of the ticket lottery.

When I first got the tick-ets, the schedule hadn’t been released for who was playing when, and the teams slotted to play in the afternoon of Feb. 20 were Latvia and Slovakia. Not

really two countries I’ve ever rooted for, or knew much about, but it was the Olympics and I was going.

The day of, I was fully pre-pared, or so I thought, to face the masses in Vancou-ver. I’d read up on transit options, had mapped out a parking/transit route and

was head-ing north with the a t t i t u d e that we were go-ing to go with the flow.

The rest of my f a m i l y , who when asked in 2007 as I was put-

ting in a ticket request said they’d rather stay home during the Games, decid-ed last week to head north on Saturday “just to check it out.” They didn’t have any event tickets, but de-cided to wander through downtown and observe. They quickly discovered the same thing that my group did upon crossing the border and getting close to a Skytrain station. The city was packed.

My group headed to Surrey in hopes of find-ing something near the station that we usually use when heading into down-town Vancouver. It was so full; cars were sitting right on top of each other. My first option was a bust. We tried some side streets and searched in vain for a mythical underground lot advertised on street signs,

but could never find it, so we headed south and then north again to Richmond.

We had heard that the parking garage at the River Rock Casino and Resort was a safe bet, and as a bonus, it was actually a shorter Skytrain ride to downtown.

After navigating ourselves to the parking garage, our hopes sunk rapidly as we found that the seven-story garage was completely full, with a constant rota-tion of cars searching for a spot. After a quick turn

around the area, and with our search starting to get a bit desperate, we headed down a side street, home to industrial trucking and shipping companies that would, well, not be a street I’d walk down alone at night. Cars were pulling off on the side, barely over the white line. We decided to take the chance that the car wouldn’t be towed and hightailed it to the station, where because we had tickets, we were whisked onto the platform and squeezed into a train.

In downtown, it was im-possible to forget which country you were in. Ev-ery other person I dodged while getting to the sta-dium (and there were a lot of people dodging) was wearing something red with “Canada” plastered across their chest. Fans were cheering or excitedly yelling about the game they had just seen or the event they were on their way to see.

The game itself was a bit of a bummer if you were a Latvian fan. Their team lost 6-0, and played like it, but the fans never gave up, cheering LAT-V-IA even in the final minute. Slovakia might have won the game, but there was no denying that the Latvian fans were enjoying themselves.

The rest of my family braved the Olympic Caul-dron site, something we just didn’t end up having time for. My mom said the fence made things difficult because you couldn’t real-ly get very close at all, but it still showed up nicely in pictures. The free ice skat-ing rink on Robson Street had a wait, but nothing compared to the four-hour wait for a chance to ride the zip line. The lady man-ning the line enthusiasti-cally tried to get them to get in line, exclaiming four hours was a steal, since it had been nine hours ear-lier. They all decided they could live without a zip line ride.

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Kari Johnson competes in the beam competition during the WIAA state gymnastics meet last weekend. Johnson finished 41st overall in the all-around competition.


It was a long battle to get there, but three members of the Mercer Island gym-nastics team finished their season last weekend after competing in the state tour-nament. The team, which finished fourth at districts in its best meet of the sea-son, saw Kari Johnson, Meg Lindsey and Kristin Trumble go to Tacoma to try their skills against the best in the state.

Lindsey had the team’s best overall finish, taking 41st in the all-around com-petition, 8.6 points behind the winner, Taisha Duran of Hudson’s Bay. Lindsey finished 43rd in the bards, 84th on the beam, 59th in the floor and 51st in the vault for her final position.

Her Islander teammates also finished in the top 100 of gymnasts in the state, with Kristin Trumble tak-ing 62nd all around, and Johnson 86th.

Trumble was 32nd on the bars, her best overall individual event, 41st in the beam and 74th on the vault. Johnson finished 25th on the bars and 36th in the beam.

MIHS gymnastics concludes with three state competitors

Making an Olympic-sized impression

From the sidelines

MeganManagan Becky Managan/Contributed photo

Above, the Olympic Cauldron on the waterfront in downtown Vancouver. Below, the host country had flags everywhere. This building on the corner in downtown was a photo opportunity for everyone who walked by. Below left, members of the Slovakian and Latvian hockey teams warm up prior to their preliminary round game. Slovakia won 6-0.



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