Her body needed a break, but her mind wouldn’t listen.
Mind over matter?
For years, it had worked out exactly that way for former Kent-Meridian High multi-sport star Melanie Vertrees. From gymnastics to swimming, volleyball to basketball, cross country to track, Vertrees did it all growing up, and while attending the East Hill school.
The ball hasn’t bounced the way of the Kent-Meridian High football team for the last several years.
On Saturday, Oct. 2, however, the Royals finally had one go their way.
Defensive end Luke Barzie made the fourth-quarter strip of a Thomas Jefferson running back, and Brandon Harris swooped in for the recovery, helping the Royals secure a 38-34 victory over Thomas Jefferson in a South Puget Sound League North Division game.
MIKELL EVERETTE, Kentwood
Grade: Senior.
Sport: Football.
Accomplishment: Everette rushed for 211 yards and two touchdowns on 18 carries, leading the Conquerors past Puyallup 35-21 in a nonleague game.
Favorite class: English.
If you could invite anyone in the world to dinner, whom would you invite, and what would you serve: Wiz Khalifa (lobster and shrimp tails), Lauren London (funfetti cake), Michael Vick (ribs), (coach) Melvin Wells (seafood).
One of the biggest names on the local soccer scene will be appearing at French Field Wednesday night.
Roger Levesque, a starting forward for the Seattle Sounders FC, will be on hand from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at French Field Oct. 6 for the Kent Youth Soccer Association Community Night.
Ronnie Flowers had been waiting for this opportunity.
Friday night at a packed French Field, the moment finally came for the second-year Kentwood High senior.
Travis Toomey is the Seattle Thunderbird Player of the Week for Oct. 1: See the video
Things are finally coming together for the Kentridge High girls soccer team.
After a slow start to the season, the Chargers got on track last week thanks to a huge offensive performance by Katie Clayton.
Clayton scored one goal, and assisted on four others on Sept. 23, lifting the Chargers past Mount Rainier 6-2 in a South Puget Sound League North Division game.
They’ve been beaten up and bloodied.
Injuries have become an all-too common theme this fall for the Kentwood High girls soccer team.
“We’re just hoping we can compete with each other in practice and not knock each other out for the game,” said Kentwood coach Aaron
KIRA MILLER, Kent-MeridianGrade: Senior.Sport: Volleyball.Accomplishment: Miller pounded out 12 kills in a three-game sweep of Kentlake (25-15, 25-17, 25-15).Favorite class: IB English.If you could invite… Continue reading
Inside. Outside. Up and over.
When it comes to the Auburn High football team's rushing game, pick your poison. The Trojans have been successful — and then some — with all three options since returning to the South Puget Sound League North Division two years ago. In fact, since returning to the North, the Trojans have run the league ragged, winning the past two league championships without a loss.
The Seattle Thunderbirds defeated the Portland Winterhawks 4-1 Saturday evening in their home opener at the ShoWare Center in Kent.
Seattle (1-1-0-0) outshot Portland 15-10 during a scoreless first period.
The Everett Silvertips defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 4-3 Friday night at Comcast Arena in Everett in the season opening game for both teams.
The Kent-Meridian High football team needed this one.
Mount Rainier? Not so much.
Kent-Meridian quarterback David Jones rushed for six touchdowns and added a seventh through the air, leading the Royals past the Rams 64-0 on Friday night at French Field in a South Puget Sound League North Division game.
Parity?There hasn’t been much of it on the South Puget Sound League North Division boys tennis scene for many, many years.Kentridge has waltzed its way… Continue reading
Marcel NoebelsAge: 18Date of birth: March 14, 1992Place of birth: Tonisvorst, GermanyHt: 6-2 Wt: 192Shoots: LPosition: Right wing… Continue reading
More than at any point during the past decade, the race for the South Puget Sound League North Division title on the volleyball court appears to be up in the air.
“It really will be wide open,” said Kent-Meridian coach Michael Christiansen. “I think for a team to win our league, it has to go undefeated.”
Talk to Glen Goodall for just a few minutes, and the excitement is palpable. Through the twang of a slight Canadian accent, the former Thunderbird phenom’s voice goes up a few notches when he talks about his upcoming trip.
He’s going back to where it all started: to the team that retired his jersey after six glorious years of making fans sit on the edge of their seats.
She grew up in a soccer household.
But when push came to shove two years ago, Kailey Ulland chose cross country.
“It’s kind of a joke with my family that I chose cross country instead of soccer because we’re a soccer family,” laughed Ulland, a Kentwood senior.
She's taking her basketball — and signature headband — and heading east.
Kylie Huerta, Kentwood's diminutive point guard who is known as much for draining clutch jumpers as she is for wearing a variety of different colored headbands during the course of the season, verbally committed last week to play next year at Eastern Washington University in Cheney.
Burke Gallimore and Luke Lockhart had two goals each to help lead the Seattle Thunderbirds to a 7-6 shootout win over the Portland Winterhawks at ShoWare Center in Kent Saturday night.
