Angie Gooding, professional bodybuilder and owner of Marysville’s INSPIRE Fitness & Training, has a challenge on her hands.
You’d never know it from talking to a Snohomish County school’s athletics department, but six different schools — Marysville-Pilchuck, Marysville Arts & Technology, Lakewood, Lake Stevens, Mariner and Cascade — have bowling teams and several have enough kids to make two teams each.
Lakewood High School paid tribute to 18 veterans in a special assembly on Nov. 9 in anticipation of the Nov. 11 Veterans Day holiday.
Lakewood hosted the Lindbergh Eagles in the first round of the 2A State Football Tournament looking to become the first 10-win Cougar team in the school’s history.
Marysville-Pilchuck junior diver Aryn Hoyt and senior Cherish Broker, accompanied by Tomahawk sophomore Melody Coleman and Marysville Getchell sophomore Rachel Hartmeyer, traveled to the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way for the two-day 3A and 4A Swim and Dive State championships on Friday, Nov. 11, and Saturday, Nov. 12.
MARYSVILLE — Lakewood seniors Kris Mugrage and Rachel Cundy, as well as Marysville Getchell senior Rachel Lefstad competed in respective 2A and 3A 5,000-meter state championship races in ideal conditions at Sun Willows Golf Course in Pasco on Nov. 5.
MARYSVILLE — Sometimes a team’s win-loss record doesn’t matter — especially in its inaugural season.
Getchell’s final game against Stanwood on Nov. 3 was by all means winnable — the Chargers forced turnovers and most certainly did not quit, but Quil Ceda Stadium’s foggy conditions symbolized Marysville’s first-year squad’s struggles in what would become a 24-0 defeat.
LAKEWOOD — The Lakewood Youth Football Pee Wee Cougars are back-to-back Super Bowl champions. What will they do now?
The younger Cougars will come back for a three-peat while the kids who turn 10 before the start of next season will move on to the Midget (10 and 11 year-old) level, that’s what they’ll do.
LAKEWOOD — Friday nights don’t get much better than Nov. 4 for Cougar football.
Exactly one year to the day after Burlington-Edison knocked Lakewood from the District playoffs with a 43-12 beating on Lakewood’s field, the Cougars sought revenge and a 2A State Tournament berth.
Seniors were out in force on both sides of the net when Marysville-Pilchuck volleyball visited Arlington on the Eagles’ Senior Night.
Marysville Pilchuck High School’s Corey Coombs and Jared Randall entered the Wesco 4-A North Divisional Tennis Tournament on Oct. 18 as the lone Tomahawks in the event, but made the most of their opportunities as Randall went deep into the consolation bracket and Coombs was valiant, falling only to Stanwood power Gergo Muller in the final.
Marysville-Pilchuck hosted rival Arlington on Oct. 20 in a game that both teams needed to win if either’s District Tournament dreams were to remain intact.
MARYSVILLE — Marysville-Pilchuck’s swim team has only two seniors, while Marysville Getchell’s oldest swimmers are just sophomores. Both teams had a single objective when they hosted Wesco 3-A opponent Shorecrest as a combo team in Marysville on Oct. 18 — get faster.
