Rodger Holloway will travel just about anywhere for a pick-up basketball game. Last year, he drove 2,400 miles to Charlotte, S.C., to play in a 3-on-3 tournament. However, he won’t have nearly as far to drive this year when he participates in the 3-on-3 X-travaganza Basketball Tournament.
Shake N’ Bake coach Jake Wetzel has had his eyes on the Marysville Parks and Recreation Kickball Championship trophy for the past two seasons. On Tuesday, July 26, he was finally able to get his hands on it.
Last season Davis Lura coached football at West Seattle High School which has been around since 1902. In April he joined a team that has never even taken a varsity snap when he signed on as the Marysville Getchell football coach.
The crowd at the Pacific Rim cheered, jeered and flat out set the tone for a night of rowdiness at the Tulalip Championship Wrestling Event, Saturday, July 22. The 60 or more fans rooted on their favorites and harassed the ones they despised.
Robert Spreine doesn’t own a computer. He doesn’t have email or a TV. What he does have is a tricked-out bicycle, and it’s taken him all over the Northwest. On July 9, he began a trek that would add 200 more miles to his ever-growing mileage log. Joined by more than 2,000 first-timers, Spreine participated in the Group Health Seattle-to-Portland Bicycle Classic.
For Randy McDanold, the Marysville Parks and Recreation coed softball league is more of a family get-together than anything else. When the team hit the field Wednesday, July 20, for the Marysville Parks and Recreation softball league season opener, McDanold’s roster included his two daughters, McKinzee and Kalina McDanold. Also on the team are Randy McDanold’s two nephews, Aaron and Andy Taylor, and their dad Don Taylor.
By day, Marysville-Pilchuck High School graduate Tracy Fulton teaches computers at Providence Hospital in Everett. By night, her alter ego Morticia Militia takes over, unleashing a roller derby warrior. Fulton and a friend saw a banner advertising roller derby, but at the time her plans did not include zipping around a rink with nine other rough-and-tumble women.
Boys and girls from all over Snohomish County gathered at Totem Middle School to improve their tennis skills and compete as part of the Marysville Thunderbirds junior tennis team. Leading the way is tennis coach Arnie Moreno, who has more than 30 years of teaching and coaching experience. During the school year, Moreno coaches Shorewood High School’s boys and girls varsity teams.
arred Rome can heave a 4.4-pound discus half the length of a football field. Perhaps that’s why he’s one of the best discus throwers in the world. The Marysville-Pilchuck alumnus and 2004 Olympian proved that when he won his second national title at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships held June 24, in Eugene, on the campus of the University of Oregon.
ARLINGTON — Hunter Whitney’s first-inning grand slam gave the Marysville American Majors All-Star team a lead it would never surrender.
Marysville escaped elimination by defeating the Mukilteo American All-Stars 14-7 in the District 1 All-Star tournament Thursday, July 7, played at Quake Field in Arlington.
The sport of kickball knows no age limits, umpires don’t roam the diamond and you can’t strikeout. It’s the same game you grew up with, except there’s no recess bell. “You basically have a bunch of adults playing what is known as a kids’ game,” Marysville Rotary coach Chris Nation said. “But it is so much fun.”
Firefighters rarely get mistaken for accountants or writers. They’re the brawny heroes who run toward danger while most of us run the other way. Certainly Marysville firefighters Noah Pester and Ryan Swobody fall into that category.
he Marysville 9-10-year-old All-Stars received the message loud and clear — come to play or stay home. The South Everett All-Stars made that declaration in form of a 17-2 victory over Marysville, Saturday, July 2, in the first round of the District 1 All-Star tournament at Cedar Field.
