More than 100 athletes competed in the XTERRA Vashon Off-Road Triathlon on Sunday, July 11, in Dockton.
Last month, 11 doubles tennis teams battled it out in the Vashon Tennis Club’s Winebledon Tennis Tournament. Each team played about 36 games in a round robin tournament. The top eight teams vied for the coveted Winebledon Cup, playing a single elimination tournament one night and concluding the next morning.
It’s summer — the butterflies and birds have migrated north — and the Vashon basketball community has migrated east for what has become a major event in the annual calendar: Spokane Hoopfest. This year was the 21st Hoopfest, and again saw a record number of players (26,000) and teams (6,700). Twenty-one Island teams competed, and all enjoyed the relatively cool weather compared with previous years.
On the weekend of June 25 through 27, the Vashon Island Rowing Club participated in its largest masters regatta of the year — the Northwest Regionals Rowing Championship, with 39 rowing clubs coming from as far away as Alaska, California and Colorado to race at Lake Stevens for three days.
Two high school coaches and their athletic director used to run after school to keep fit and talk about anything and everything.
The eighth year was the charm for Karl Olsen in the traditional July 4 hydroplane run around the Island.
Awards were presented June 7 to outstanding Vashon High School athletes.
The Vashon Ultramarathon and Trail Run took place under sunny skies on June 26. Forty-eight runners started, and 40 completed,…
Barefoot runner Ted McDonald, nicknamed “Barefoot Ted,” will offer a barefoot running clinic at 5 p.m. Friday, June 25, at the Vashon High School stadium.
Ahhh, the weather finally broke open the weekend of June 12 — it was sunny, sunny, sunny.
While Islanders toiled in their gardens under a cloudless sky, or lay shackled to a hammock with one of their Stieg Larsson novels, many swim team parents enjoyed the confines of the hermetically sealed Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Cen-ter.
The Vashon Island Rowing Club (VIRC) is celebrating its 20th anniversary this summer and will hold a party to mark the occasion.
Completing three days of competition in grueling heat, high humidity and torrential rain, Vashon Island Junior Crew rowers finished strong and placed nationally at the USRowing Youth National Championships held on Lake Harsha in Cincinnati, Ohio, over the weekend.
The Vashon Pirates girls’ 12-and-under fastpitch team wrapped up a memorable season last week with a tournament, where the team won two games and lost one.
