fter six years as head football coach at Vashon High School, Clay Eastly is stepping down. His announcement, made last week, ends another chapter of an association Eastly has had with island football that spans decades: first as a player in the early 1980’s, then as an assistant coach at VHS, a youth football coach, McMurray head coach and the past years heading up the program at VHS.
There’s a little engine that could that keeps this Island chugging merrily along: volunteers.
There’s a little engine that could that keeps this Island chugging merrily along: volunteers.
Last week the Vashon Valkyries girls lacrosse team split its two-game week, defeating Overlake but then falling to Stadium two days later.
The Vashon Valkyries girls high school lacrosse team earned back-to-back wins last week, taking down teams from Kennedy High School and Klahowya.
The Vashon Valkyries high school girls lacrosse team dominated in an away game against Curtis on Thursday, March 26.
The Vashon Lacrosse Club’s high school girls team, the Vashon Valkyries, took to the field last Wednesday against Roosevelt High School. It was the first time in 15 years that a girls’ high school lacrosse team has represented Vashon.
For the first time in over a decade, Vashon will field a high school girls lacrosse team, the Vashon Valkyries. The team will compete in the Washington Schoolgirls Lacrosse Association’s JV league as part of the Vashon Lacrosse Club. In addition, a team for fifth- and sixth-grade girls team is also being formed and needs players.
There are some things that we have to learn by doing and others we try to teach that really can’t be taught.
My first waking thought today was of Tracy Bennedsen.
In that vulnerable twilight between sleep and lucidity, my grief for her was profound. I realized this was the third day Tracy woke knowing she’d never again kiss and hug her son Robert. My heart dropped through the bottom of my stomach and cracked open a flood of sadness.
