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.
What’s summer without baseball? For these 13 Little Leaguers, that’s all there is.
For their age, they are the best ballers in their conference and they can prove it. The All-Star emblem on their uniforms wasn’t accidently sewn on by their mothers.
Arlington’s new Absolute Air Park Indoor Trampoline Park will have you bouncing like a rubber ball rocketing off a formica floor.
Now try throwing a cantaloupe-sized ball at an opposing player across from you. It’s not exactly you father’s dodgeball, but it’s close.
The players that took to the Marysville-Pilchuck High School football field on June 17 were a bit older and less practiced than the usual teams, but they took the game seriously enough to impress their coaches, and they helped raise money for the regular players.
As the seats at Cedar Field were filling up, more than 60 Little Leaguers were preparing for the highly anticipated Marysville Strawberry Home Run Derby and Fastest Base Runner Tournament, held Friday, June 10. “Our defending champion moved up in age,” tournament director Cully Preston said. “So, we will have a new champion tonight. It is going to be a lot of fun for the players and the fans.”
Marysville-Pilchuck softball coach KT Allyn is still replaying in her mind the final innings of the Class 4A State Championship game. And why not? The Tommies uncharacteristically left the bases loaded in their final at-bat and lost a nail-biter to Walla Walla, 1-0, May 28, at the Merkel Sports Complex in Spokane.
For the second time in as many years, the Jackson Timberwolves defeated Marysville-Pilchuck in the District championship game.
The Lakewood High School girls golf team captured their first Cascade Conference Championship, May 9, when they won the league tournament by besting last year’s champions King’s by one stroke and scoring enough points to jump from third place in the league standings to first place.
