Knowing the background of The Overlake School senior Jessica Elliott, it’s a no-brainer as to why she began her love affair with the game of basketball at a young age.
“My dad grew up in Indiana and graduated from Indiana University, so he was really into basketball,” Elliott recalled. “He started me when I was really young, and I’ve been playing club teams since I was in third grade.”
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Over the past four years at The Bear Creek School in Redmond, the name Jamie Meyer has become just as synonymous to the Grizzlies’ basketball program as a player like Kobe Bryant is to the Los Angeles Lakers.
Meyer, a pure shooter, excellent ball handler and a three-time Sea-Tac 2B League MVP, led the Grizzlies to their second state appearance in the last three seasons by averaging 19 points per game in 28 games last winter, leading the team to a 26-2 record.
The Redmond High School (RHS) football program came out the big winners after last Saturday’s “Test Drive a Ford, support the Mustangs” fundraising event, put on by the RHS Football Booster Club at RHS.
The Overlake School’s Lana Robins was the definition of dominance as the Owls edged Charles Wright, 20-17, to claim the Class 1B/2B/1A state team title last weekend in Yakima.
Robins, last year’s third place state finisher, won three of her four matches via 6-0, 6-0 sweeps, including the title match against Brittany Webster of Brewster.
Playing shorthanded for most of the game, the Overlake Owls were outmatched by the Wahluke Warriors, 3-0, in the 1A state soccer title game Saturday afternoon at Sunset Chevorlet Stadium in Sumner.
The Redmond High girls’ golf team, undefeated since 2003 in 4A Kingco matches, finished strong on Wednesday to place fourth at the 36-hole state tournament at Sun Willows Golf Course in Pasco.
Redmond baseball’s head coach, Dan Pudwill, had six seniors on the varsity team this year who recently played their final game in a Mustang uniform. The Reporter caught up with Pudwill and asked him to share his thoughts on the stellar senior class of 2010.
The Overlake School’s longtime head boys’ soccer coach, Bob Bristol, knows his team is at a distinct disadvantage when it comes time for the 1A state soccer tournament each May.
The Owls’ league, Emerald City, is the only one in the state that plays its season in the fall at the 1A level due to scheduling conflicts, but that doesn’t faze Bristol’s determined squad, many of whom play other spring sports.
The Redmond High baseball team’s season ended with a bloop, but the future looks bright.
A bloop single in the seventh inning ruined the Mustangs’ hopes of playing at Safeco Field for the first time.
T.J. Horsfall’s check-swing single in the top of the seventh inning drove in the winning run as the Eagles beat the Mustangs, 6-5, in a Class 4A state quarterfinal contest at Kent Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
In high school baseball, it is all about getting your team to peak in the postseason, and no team knows that better than the second-ranked Redmond Mustangs as they prepare to take on Gig Harbor this Saturday at 10 a.m. at Memorial Stadium in Kent in the opening round of the 4A state tournament.
The Redmond High baseball team hammered plenty of home runs during the regular season — and it was the long ball that propelled the Mustangs past Skyline, 6-2, in the 4A Kingco championship game Thursday night at Woodinville High School.
Redmond High School junior Luke Lenihan beat out approximately 500 other cars last Friday afternoon at Pacific Raceways in Kent to place second at the annual High School Drags, an open event for high schoolers to drag race in a safe, controlled environment.
For the seventh straight year, the Redmond High girls’ golf team won the 18-hole 4A Kingco Medalist Tournament at Snohomish Golf Course on Tuesday, posting a phenomenal team score of 413.
But the Newport Knights caught fire on Wednesday to top Redmond in team points, 81-66, to earn the Sea-King District 2 title.
It hasn’t been easy this season for the Redmond Mustangs, faced with a new coaching staff, a relatively young team and the graduation of pitching ace Erika Hendron.
But still, the fastpitch team, despite a 6-9 league record with one game to go (at home against Ballard on Friday), has secured the No. 4 seed into next week’s 4A Kingco Tournament, where they will face off against the always-tough Inglemoor Vikings on Tuesday, May 18.
The Redmond High baseball team got another outstanding start from staff ace Zach Abbruzza and offensive production from all over the lineup in a 4-1 win over Bothell in the 4A Kingco Tournament semifinals Monday afternoon.
Katie Lord set a new personal-best and a new school record in the high jump Thursday as the Redmond High girls’ track and field team came out victorious in the four-team 4A Kingco meet.
The Mustangs won the meet with 285.5 points, beating Juanita (237.5), Lake Washington (113) and Eastlake (94).
Redmond got a fantastic pitching performance and just enough offense in the nick of time as the Mustangs edged Issaquah, 3-1, Tuesday night to clinch the 4A Kingco Crest Division title and earn the No. 1 seed to the upcoming Kingco Tournament.
After graduating four key seniors from the Redmond High girls’ golf team last year, a lot of buzz was generated early this spring concerning what coach Jake Crowley calls “The Streak.”
With a huge crop of juniors and sophomores that had been lurking in the shadows of former players like Kara Zitzman (4A Kingco champion, 8th at state in 2009) now needing to rise to the occasion, combined with an increased talent level across the league, Redmond would be hard-pressed to keep their amazing seven-season 4A Kingco match winning streak alive.
