For all of his life, first-year Bear Creek girls’ basketball coach Alan Dickson has proven to be a fighter off the court as well as on it.
While attending Mishawaka High School in Indiana at age 16, he was diagnosed with acute ulcerative colitis, which caused internal bleeding in the lower digestive tract.
The Redmond High girls’ basketball magical run at the Disney Wild World of Sports Tournament in Orlando fizzled in Tuesday’s championship game as Colt’s Neck High beat the Mustangs, 68-55.
The Mustangs (3-3) won its first two tournament games in overtime, but fell short to Colt’s Neck of New Jersey, which led 36-25 at halftime.
If your children are itching to try something new besides baseball or soccer, one of the city’s newest non-profit sports organizations may be just what they are looking for.
Redmond Lacrosse Club (RLC) was formed just last year when the only youth lacrosse organization on the Eastside since the 1980s split and formed a Northshore division, fueling the need for local kids to get back onto the field.
Due to recent weather conditions, all scheduled high school basketball games for Redmond High, The Overlake School and The Bear Creek School from Wednesday, Dec. 17 onward have been postponed until after the new year. The Reporter will provide updates with dates and times of rescheduled games as they become available.
The temperature at tipoff for Tuesday night’s 4A Kingco matchup between the visiting Inglemoor boys basketball team and the Redmond Mustangs was a bone-chilling 23 degrees.
Unfortunately for the home squad, the Mustangs’ shooting efficiency went into a deep freeze as they fell to the Vikings, 56-38.
Led by another strong performance from junior guard Jamie Meyer, the Bear Creek boys basketball team blasted Summit 61-36 at home in a Sea-Tac 2B League contest Tuesday night.
The Lake Washington Youth Soccer Association Panthers 16-and-under team was recently crowned state champion of the Dairy Farmers of Washington President’s Cup, which took place last Saturday at Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwila.
The visiting Bear Creek boys’ basketball team proved to be unwelcome guests as the Grizzlies opened up their Sea-Tac 2B League season with a 66-37 thrashing of Christian Faith School on Friday.
Playing in their first 4A Kingco contest of the season in front of a raucous home crowd, the Redmond Mustangs lost a heartbreaker to the Newport Knights, 45-44, in a thrilling Crest Division showdown Friday night.
Senior Danny Poplawski bounced back from a tough performance last week and led the Overlake boys basketball team to its first win of the season Tuesday night at The Overlake School.
Poplawski, a 6-foot-3 forward, poured in 27 points as the Owls flew past the Evergreen Lutheran Eagles, 70-55, in a nonleague contest.
With the win, the Owls improved to 1-2 on the season.
The Bear Creek boys basketball team survived a big-time scare by Seattle Academy Tuesday night.
The Grizzlies fended off a furious fourth-quarter comeback by the Cardinals and pulled out a 52-48 nonleague victory at home.
Bear Creek led 37-22 after three quarters, but the Cardinals stormed back before clutch free-throw shooting late in the game enabled the Grizzlies to sneak away with the win.
The Bear Creek School boys basketball team contained Overlake sharp shooter Danny Poplawski during Saturday night’s 61-50 nonleague win as the Grizzlies beat the Owls in their season opener for the second straight time.
Last December, Bear Creek beat Overlake, 58-53, for the first time in school history.
Following the 2006-07 season, Redmond High School was in grave danger of losing its gymnastics program.
Having gone through its sixth coach since 1999, Athletic Director John Appelgate sent a desperate plea to a man who formerly coached his kids at Eastside Gymnastics Academy in Woodinville.
Powered by an offensive outburst, the Redmond High girls basketball team blasted the Juanita Rebels, 79-54, in its nonleague season opener on Tuesday.
A sure sign of a strong wrestling program is when 33 athletes show up for the first team practice, yet the coach isn’t happy with the turnout.
“We could use a few more bodies,” said head coach Paul Mullen. “A lot of them are bunched up in the same weights.”
While Mullen is hesitant to use the term “rebuilding,” the team graduated a slew of highly successful seniors off last year’s 9-1 team, from which a school-record four wrestlers made the 4A state championships.
Last year’s Redmond Mustangs girls basketball team went as far as they could possibly go without reaching the big dance – the Class 4A state tournament.
After losing early at the Sea-King District tournament, they rallied and won three straight loser-out games against Lake Washington, Roosevelt and Eastlake before finally succumbing to Skyview, 58-32, in the winner-to-state, loser-out pigtail game.
The Bear Creek School boys’ basketball team is back on the court, ready to deliver some big-time results.
“Our theme this year is B.I.G.,” said fourth-year coach Scott Moe, who, last season, guided the Grizzlies to a school-best 24-3 record and fifth-place finish at the Class 2B state tournament. “We want to act big, live big, play big. … First we want to become brothers in God, that’s big. And then secondly, on the last day of the season come March 7, we want them to still think that basketball is great, again big.
“We want to be big in everything we do.”
There’s no rest for the weary if you’re Redmond High swim coach Julie Barashkoff.
Just days after nearly reaching the pinnacle of high school swimming by placing third at the Class 4A state meet with her star-studded girls’ team, Barashkoff was at it again, guiding the boys’ squad, a large, young group full of boundless energy and high hopes.
With this fall being my first official prep season as a sports writer, I must admit that the task of keeping up with and establishing contacts for all 13 teams I had to cover this fall for the Redmond Reporter (which included Redmond High, Overlake and Bear Creek) seemed quite daunting.
But once the ball got rolling, it was extremely rewarding to make it out to games, meets and matches for all three programs and watch some of the state’s finest high school athletes achieve excellence.
The Redmond High girls’ swim team posted a phenomenal performance on the grandest of stages on Saturday.
Led by sophomore Heather Harper’s golden swim in the 100-yard breaststroke, the mighty Mustangs placed third in the team standings at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way with 148.5 points behind Garfield (157.5) and Jackson, which won the meet with 190 points.
