For first-year Marysville Getchell baseball head coach Gerry Klep, the 2012 season presents a worthy challenge, even for someone with 22 years of coaching experience.
Over the course of a long fastpitch softball season, it is incredibly unlikely for a player to record more hits than outs at the plate.
Not many programs can say that they’ve never lost. Marysville Getchell’s girls soccer club could after opening its inaugural campaign with a 1-1 draw against Mountlake Terrace at Edmonds Stadium Sept. 6.
For recent Marysville-Pilchuck graduate Levi Cartas, the past month and a half has represented the opportunity of a lifetime. On June 11, a scout for the Kansas City Royals called Cartas and told him that they would like to send him a contract to play for the organization, a move that took the 19-year old by surprise.
According to a recent state study, Marysville has added more people than any Snohomish County community since the year 2000, and is about to get much bigger due to the proposed Central Marysville annexation, which will bring in a large, unincorporated residential area east of Smokey Point Boulevard, home to approximately 20,000 residents.
