Oak Harbor and Coupeville high school fall athletes recently received letters and awards.
Coupeville High School graduate Tyler King earned All-American status by placing 40th in the NCAA Division I cross country meet in Terre Haute, Ind., Saturday, Nov. 22.
Down 1-0, the U-17 Islander soccer club stormed back for a 3-1 win at Vashon Island Sunday, Nov. 23.
Maybe it was fate.
Three days after John Weston accepted a teaching position with Oak Harbor High School, Wildcat head basketball coach Mike Washington resigned. Shortly after, Weston was named the new coach.
Oak Harbor High School’s John Rodeheffer and Jonalynn Horn competed for Washington in Nike’s 16th annual BorderClash cross country race in Beaverton, Ore., Sunday, Nov. 23, helping Washington win the all-star race over Oregon.
For the third consecutive year, Oak Harbor High School football player Tyler Adamson, cross country runner John Rodeheffer and swimmers Mollie Briddell and Marissa Morris earned all-league, first-team honors when the Western Conference announced its awards this week.
The Oak Harbor High School boys and girls basketball teams will host “Late Night with the ‘Cats” at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21.
The Whidbey Wildcat Wrestling Club competed in two tournaments at Anacortes last weekend, producing five champions.
The U-17 Islanders played to a 2-2 tie at Issaquah Sunday, Nov. 16.
Molly Vagt, Marissa Morris and the 200 medley relay team all scored points for Oak Harbor High School at the 3A state swimming championships at Federal Way Friday and Saturday, Nov. 14 and 15.
Josh Bayne leads a group of 10 Coupeville High School athletes who received 1A Olympic League first-team honors for the fall of 2014.
These Seahawks wore a different shade of green, but their performance was reminiscent of the world champions from Seattle.
It seems even Olympic medalists have to do their own laundry.
Oak Harbor High School graduate Marti Malloy, who won a bronze medal in judo in the 2012 London Olympics, discussed her career during a phone interview last month in between folding clothes at a San Jose laundromat.