People may not catch their dinner or vanquish a foe with spears anymore, but some high school students make it a part of their everyday lives.
The javelin throw, mainstay of track and field, harkens back to the earliest organized sports competition in the western world. Originally used for hunting and warfare, it is a prehistoric skill developed by foot soldiers and those looking for a meal.
Now, the two-and-a-half meter long spe
The 2011 All-Kitsap County Boys Basketball Team was compiled by the sports writers for the Bremerton Patriot, the Central Kitsap Reporter, the North Kitsap Herald, Bainbridge Island Review and the Port Orchard Independent.
Candidates for the team are nominated by the writers for their respective areas. The nominees are then voted on by the writers; the top players make the teams. Honorable mentions are also selected from each school for each sport.
The teams include the best players from area schools that not only performed well individually, but played a role in the success of their team.
The 2011 All-Kitsap County Boys Basketball Team was compiled by the sports writers for the Bremerton Patriot, the Central Kitsap Reporter, the North Kitsap Herald, Bainbridge Island Review and the Port Orchard Independent.
Candidates for the team are nominated by the writers for their respective areas. The nominees are then voted on by the writers; the top players make the teams. Honorable mentions are also selected from each school for each sport.
The teams include the best players from area schools that not only performed well individually, but played a role in the success of their team.
Recovering from four painful back surgeries, Bill Armstrong wants to go back to school and work again, so he’s pumping iron – at 1 a.m. Tuesday.
Armstrong, a Bremerton native, works out at Anytime Fitness in Silverdale three times a week in the middle of the night because that’s the time he feels most comfortable in the gym. He plans to study to become a biomedic technician, and in order to work full-time again, Armstrong has to exercise to fulfill that goal. For Armstrong, working out late means avoiding inevitable, and discouraging, comparisons with those in better physical shape.
Recovering from four painful back surgeries, Bill Armstrong wants to go back to school and work again, so he’s pumping iron – at 1 a.m. Tuesday.
Armstrong, a Bremerton native, works out at Anytime Fitness in Silverdale three times a week in the middle of the night because that’s the time he feels most comfortable in the gym. He plans to study to become a biomedic technician, and in order to work full-time again, Armstrong has to exercise to fulfill that goal. For Armstrong, working out late means avoiding inevitable, and discouraging, comparisons with those in better physical shape.
Strolling into the Bremerton YMCA last week with a bright gold Lakers jersey and wide smile, I had all the confidence in the world.
My shoes were tied tight, undershirt tucked and hands ready to deal the biggest win of H.O.R.S.E. of my life. All that was missing was a matching headband to honor my hero, the fictional Los Angeles based journalist, Fletch, who also conjures up his own delusions of playing NBA basketball.
Strolling into the Bremerton YMCA last week with a bright gold Lakers jersey and wide smile, I had all the confidence in the world.
My shoes were tied tight, undershirt tucked and hands ready to deal the biggest win of H.O.R.S.E. of my life. All that was missing was a matching headband to honor my hero, the fictional Los Angeles based journalist, Fletch, who also conjures up his own delusions of playing NBA basketball.
It’s time to dust off the bases, lace up the cleats and take to the mound as Central Kitsap and Bremerton baseball and fastpitch teams start their seasons this week. The Central Kitsap High School baseball team is moving on without two of its 2010 stars, one of which was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays.
Meanwhile, both Bremerton High
It’s time to dust off the bases, lace up the cleats and take to the mound as Central Kitsap and Bremerton baseball and fastpitch teams start their seasons this week. The Central Kitsap High School baseball team is moving on without two of its 2010 stars, one of which was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays.
Meanwhile, both Bremerton High
Crouched in the dirt with her eyes sweeping across the diamond Monday evening, catcher Sydney Thompson is a field general.
She runs the game to her pace and coordinates with eight teammates at all times, a demand of the position. But the junior Olympic High School fastpitch player never forgets to take care of her most sacred possession in the game – home plate.
Her message for opposing runners looking to come into her home?
“Don’t think about coming here,” she said. “That’s my territory out there. I don’t want anyone messing with my base. I’m going to put up a fight for my team to make
Crouched in the dirt with her eyes sweeping across the diamond Monday evening, catcher Sydney Thompson is a field general.
She runs the game to her pace and coordinates with eight teammates at all times, a demand of the position. But the junior Olympic High School fastpitch player never forgets to take care of her most sacred possession in the game – home plate.
Her message for opposing runners looking to come into her home?
“Don’t think about coming here,” she said. “That’s my territory out there. I don’t want anyone messing with my base. I’m going to put up a fight for my team to make
Nehemiah Salo walked the hallways of Klahowya Secondary School Monday, passing trophy cases on his way to lacrosse practice Monday.
In the cases are trophies which bear his name. But Salo, a three-season athlete who is home-schooled by his mother and Running Start student at Olympic College, has never attended class at the school.
“Actually coming here and doing sports is all I really know,” said the senior. “At first, nobody really knew me, but now I think it’s pretty normal.”
It has become typical for a guy who divides his time between two schools and wrestling, football and lacrosse in the evenings. But what isn’t typical is that unlike other students whose lives revolve around long hours on campus, Salo, a devout Christian, is proving that home school kids can contribute as much, if not more, to their home teams. Instead of classmates, he has spent the last 11 years with five sisters and two brothers.
Bremerton High School senior Miranda Shearer wanted two things for her senior year: to hang out with two of her closest friends and play golf.
And with the resurrection of Bremerton’s golf program, starting March 15 against North Mason High School at White Horse Golf Course in Kingston, she has got her wish.
Shearer, along with seniors Allie Smith and Abigail Crawford, formed a friendship on the golf course as freshmen in 2008.
But then the program was cut because of budget
Bremerton High School senior Miranda Shearer wanted two things for her senior year: to hang out with two of her closest friends and play golf.
And with the resurrection of Bremerton’s golf program, starting March 15 against North Mason High School at White Horse Golf Course in Kingston, she has got her wish.
Shearer, along with seniors Allie Smith and Abigail Crawford, formed a friendship on the golf course as freshmen in 2008.
But then the program was cut because of budget
Nehemiah Salo walked the hallways of Klahowya Secondary School Monday, passing trophy cases on his way to lacrosse practice Monday.
In the cases are trophies which bear his name. But Salo, a three-season athlete who is home-schooled by his mother and Running Start student at Olympic College, has never attended class at the school.
“Actually coming here and doing sports is all I really know,” said the senior. “At first, nobody really knew me, but now I think it’s pretty normal.”
It has become typical for a guy who divides his time between two schools and wrestling, football and lacrosse in the evenings. But what isn’t typical is that unlike other students whose lives revolve around long hours on campus, Salo, a devout Christian, is proving that home school kids can contribute as much, if not more, to their home teams. Instead of classmates, he has spent the last 11 years with five sisters and two brothers.
Convincing Zack Thornton to try out for the Olympic High School baseball team Monday required several pleas from his friends.
But what made the difference was a conversation on campus between his mother, Diane, and head coach Nate Andrews.
The two met at a Trojans girls basketball home game last month and Andrews sold the idea of her son hitting the diamond this spring, an effort made easier by the fact that the head coach works in the building.
“It’s awesome to have a coach out here that’s a teacher,” said Zack Thornton, a sophomore who added that his mother was convinced the second she spoke
Convincing Zack Thornton to try out for the Olympic High School baseball team Monday required several pleas from his friends.
But what made the difference was a conversation on campus between his mother, Diane, and head coach Nate Andrews.
The two met at a Trojans girls basketball home game last month and Andrews sold the idea of her son hitting the diamond this spring, an effort made easier by the fact that the head coach works in the building.
“It’s awesome to have a coach out here that’s a teacher,” said Zack Thornton, a sophomore who added that his mother was convinced the second she spoke
Steve Polillo wanted to return Olympic High School to championship contention, even if it came out of his own pocket.
When the team’s trophies reached capacity in one case, he brought in another.
Unlike a trophy case, when one gets full you can buy another, a person only gets so many hours in a day.
Polillo, 50, resigned as the wrestling team’s head coach Feb. 24 after three seasons with the Trojans, citing time constraints with work. He led Olympic to three individual state titles, and in 2010, a fourth-place finish at the Class 3A state tournament.
But after balancing his work as a nuclear engineer at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and the full-time regimen as a varsity coach, Polillo chose to step away and leave the reins to another candidate.
“I’m going to miss it terribly,” Polillo said Monday. “That’s part of my identity. I say I’m a coach and an engineer, and one precedes the other. Honestly, when I sa
The second annual Wild West Showdown headlines the Kitsap Pavilion Friday through Sunday, with 17 women’s roller derby teams competing on three tracks. The squads are from across the country, including Philadelphia, Las Vegas and Chicago, jockeying for rankings in the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association.
Phillip “Phil the Pain” Whatley, the head coach of Bremerton’s Slaughter County Roller Vixens, said Tuesday that the roller derby bouts are important for Kitsap sports fans and businesses looking to cash in this weekend.
“This puts Kitsap on the map for roller derby,”
It’s hard to square the image of Jonathon “Ricco” Morales struggling to pick something up.
The 5-foot-4, 150-pound powerhouse, and Special Olympics weightlifter, has three national gold medals for doing just that, picking things up.
“He couldn’t pick up a penny,” said Gena Morales of her son’s physical therapy sessions when he was 4. “Now, he can lift 685 pounds combined weight.”
Ricco Morales still can’t grasp a penny. He struggles to conjure the motor skills necessary to wrap his fingers around small objects. Instead, he picks up much larger objects. And in doing so, he has realized a dream and defied early expectations of what kind of life he would lead.
Ricco Morales, 26, is a first alternate for the weightlifting team heading to the World Summer Games in Athens, Greece. He was born six weeks prematurely and sustained brain damage to the frontal lobe, resulting in delayed development of motor skills.
“When I lift the bar up, it feels like I conquered the world,” Ricco Morales said. “I guess sometimes it feels like I’m on cloud nine. Basically, it makes me feel that I’ve completed all my accomplishments. I like knowing how much I can push myself with the weights.”
From what she heard early on, his mother didn’t know what to expect.
