After four meetings in as many years as football coach Dan Teeter has been at Lakewood High School, Teeter finally got the best of his alma mater and the Cougars defeated Lynden Christian 38-21 on Sept. 11.
Any teams who were planning to look past the Tomahawk girls soccer team this fall should reconsider that strategy.
In all four of their games against Snohomish, the Marysville-Pilchuck girls were the first team to five points, a goal pushed by volleyball coach Shelly Johnson every year.
The Tomahawk football team stormed out to 1-0 start thanks to a shutout in the team’s Sept. 4 season opener at Shorecrest.
Turnout is steady for the Marysville-Pilchuck boys tennis team, which is looking to build upon a third-place finish in Wesco North last year despite the loss of five seniors to graduation.
Small, private schools aren’t the ones whose athletic programs are feeling the sting of the economic times.
After struggling defensively much of last season, Lakewood football turned in a shutout second half against a bigger school, defeating Lakeside of Seattle 41-21 in the team’s first game of the season Sept. 4.
Last year, the Lakewood girls soccer team had three seniors. This year, it has just one who will play a lot of varsity time.
Still a young team after graduating a large senior class two years ago, the Marysville-Pilchuck girls soccer team returns 11 players from last year’s varsity squad.
While Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt stole the show with his world-record performance in the 100- and 200-meter dashes Aug. 17 and 20 at the IAAF World Championships, at least one American athlete in Berlin had ties to Marysville.
Listening to an afternoon of practice, it sounds like Lakewood volleyball is trying to take their game to another level.
With six state tournament appearances since 2000, the Tomahawk volleyball program has always had a history of success.
Rows of swimming records look down over the starting blocks at the Marysville-Pilchuck pool, many more than a decade old.
