Last season’s tough-luck 2-7 record for the Mustangs football team was not indicative of the talent Redmond had on the field.
The green and gold’s ill-timed mistakes made wins elusive. But head coach Mike Pluschke is ready to start anew in 2009 with an inexperienced squad brimming with potential.
Recent Redmond High graduate Alicia Valentine, a peppy point guard for the Mustangs last winter, recently signed to play basketball at Northwest College (NWC) in Wyoming under the program’s new head coach, Janis Beal.
Being that the newest blockbuster in the critically acclaimed Halo series for the Microsoft Xbox console, “Halo 3: ODST,” was…
The Junior Softball World Series (JSWS) ended in a loss for the Redmond/Eastlake All-Stars, but the chance to play against the world’s best was an opportunity of a lifetime, according to coaches and players.
The annual Mustang Open golf tournament will be held on Sept. 14 at Bear Creek Country Club, with a noon start time.
The proceeds from this event, which has annually raised money to support the Redmond High School golf teams and girls’ basketball teams, will also support football and wrestling this year.
They were down, but not out.
Through the first three innings, the Redmond/Eastlake All-Stars softball team, which earned a berth as the host team to the Junior Softball World Series by winning the District 9 Tournament last month, struggled mightily in all facets of the game.
Ever since the Redmond branch of Lake Washington Technical College Lake Washington Technical College (LWTC), located just outside the east…
For junior athletes looking to do something a little extra to maximize their potential, Redmond Pro Sports Club (PSC) General Manager Corey Weathers has the answer.
Weathers has spearheaded a new program, “High School and College Performance Training,” that uses top-level coaching and some of the best equipment in the industry to push athletes to their peak.
Tech City Bowl, located in the Bridle Trails Shopping Center on the border of Redmond and Kirkland, celebrated its 51st anniversary in style by hosting its second annual Tech City Bowl Days last Sunday.
According to Brian “Gerk” Gierke, the owner and founder of Gerk’s Ski & Cycle, the small two-story building that he now occupies on the corner of Leary Way and Redmond Way has been around for a while.
Eighteen years ago the original Alpine Hut was founded, and back in 2004 Gierke took over the failing business.
Redmond’s Chris Tremonte swam, biked and ran his way to back-to-back Seafair Benaroya Research Institute Triathlon titles last Sunday at Seward Park in Seattle after finishing the course in 58 minutes and 57 seconds, 12 seconds better than his winning time last year of 59:09.
To win a state championship in any sport is quite a feat, but The Bear Creek School’s Jake Imam’s accomplishment of winning the Class 1A boys tennis singles crown back in May borders on the extraordinary.
Imam, 15, just completed his ninth-grade year of high school.
Kaitlyn Parrott, who graduated from Redmond High School in June, has signed a national letter of intent to run track at NCAA Division II Central Washington University (CWU) next season.
Usually when playing sports at the collegiate level, it takes at least a couple years of experience to be able to reach the pinnacle of a sport.
If you’re a member of the University of Washington’s Freshman Eight crew boat, however, like Redmond resident and 2008 Redmond High School graduate Rob Munn, you’d be an exception to the rule.
It may be hard to believe, but everything was not smooth-sailing for the Redmond Mustangs boys’ basketball team, which capped an unbelievable season with a fifth-place trophy at the Class 4A state tournament in March.
As exciting as Redmond’s improbable run at the 4A State Tournament was, in particular the 70-64 double-overtime win against Lake Stevens to clinch the fifth-place trophy, Coach Larson and his players were all in agreement that the Mustangs’ Senior Night victory over rival Eastlake was their favorite memory of the 2008-09 basketball season.
Thomas Crosley, a 15-year-old Redmond resident who is about to enter Redmond High School, enjoyed a three-year sports career at Redmond Junior High unlike any other.
Crosley was able to play all six sports offered by the school: Football, baseball, tennis, wrestling, basketball and track and field, at the varsity level.
Fairwinds-Brighton Court resident Richard Vawter gets a debriefing on the rules of the Electric Cart Race by Fairwinds-Redmond PrimeFit instructor Rachel Lu. The course included a station where racers had to place three flags in vases on their way to the finish line. Nearly 200 seniors representing six different Fairwinds Retirement Communities in the greater Seattle area participated in this year’s Games, which included Wii Bowling, Beanbag Baseball, Balloon Volleyball, relay races and more.
It’s pretty safe to say that the Redmond Mustangs baseball team, which graduated 14 seniors off 2008’s 18-2 league-championship squad, did the unexpected this season.
The Mustangs were merely an afterthought in many preseason lists concerning the top teams in the state, much less the league.
Redmond High’s distance-running dynamo Sarah Lord is living proof that hard work and dedication pays off in the long run.
The accomplished senior who started running for the Cascade Striders of Bellevue in sixth grade, was known as one of the best in the state ever since she began running the trails and track as a sophomore.
Lord overcame a number of heartbreaks and close finishes to achieve every high school runner’s dream of winning a state championship last month at Star Track, the 4A State Championships held at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma.
