Sports

While many Ballardites have been using the unseasonably warm winter to relax in the sun or stare wistfully at blue skies outside office windows, Ballard High School athletes have been preparing for the 2010 spring sports season.

Last year…MORE

The Evergreen Lutheran girls' basketball team made its eighth consecutive date to state official with a 35-28 winner-to-state, loser-out 2010 Class 2B Tri-District basketball victory against the Bear Creek Grizzlies of Redmond on the floor of the…MORE

Two Federal Way School District gymnasts earned medals with solid performances in state finals gymnastics.

Madi Kellar earned a spot on the medalist podium in a truly competitive Class 4A State Gymnastics event finals held on Saturday,…MORE

Kentwood defensive pressure collapsed Todd Beamer's hopes in a Conqueror West Central 4A district boys basketball 58-39 victory Friday night in a winner-to-state. loser-out game, at the Dalesky and Black gymnasium on the campus of Foss High…MORE

Girls and boys. That's right, both genders placed high for Highline, and Kennedy and Evergreen had one, too.

They were on the podium -- in third, fourth, seventh places-at the Washington Mat Classic XXII State Championships at the Tacoma…MORE

Photographer Kurt Howard captured these images from the Tyee vs. Union girls' basketball playoff game on February 27. CLICK ON THE PHOTO TO PLAY SLIDESHOW.

For the third time in three tries, the Evergreen Lutheran girls basketball team fell just short of toppling Tacoma Baptist in an exciting Tuesday, February 23, 41-37 semi-final loss at the Tri-District 2B basketball tournament being held at the…MORE

Mount Rainier carved out its own place on the awards stand at the state Class 3A boys swimming and diving championships, even if it wasn't the one the Rams are used to.

They took fourth place in this year's state finals held February 18-20…MORE

CLICK ON THE PHOTO TO PLAY SLIDESHOW. Photographer Kurt Howard captured these images of the Federal Way girls' game against Auburn-Riverside at the West Central 4A District Tournament at Showare Center in Kent.

Pretty representative.

Four schools in the Federal Way area and a state championship match representative from each one, and that's got to be a first that's happened in decades -- not years -- of state wrestling at the Tacoma Dome.

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