The Vashon Pirates girls basketball season kicked off with a bang last week with both the varsity and JV squads…
The 2009-10 Vashon High School wrestling team launched its preseason with grueling back-to-back events. Each wrestler competed in five matches in two days against some of the premiere 3A and 4A wrestling programs in the state.
With the falling leaves comes wrestling season, and the Vashon High School grapplers are preparing themselves for the challenge.
The Pirate varsity boys basketball team played in the Rainier Beach Jamboree on Saturday, beating one 3A opponent and falling to the other in 10-minute showcase games before beginning their regular season this week.
Two Vashon Island Soccer Club teams qualified for the Tacoma-Pierce County Junior Soccer Association post-season championship tournament — the Vashon Pirates FC, an under-11 girls team, and the Vashon Raptors, an under-12 boys team.
The Vashon High School boys started what promises to be another exciting season of basketball last week. They hit the courts ready to work hard to defend their state title.
The Vashon Seals Swim Team swam against some of the best teams in the Pacific Northwest Region Nov. 14 and 15 at the Q-Meet at the King County Aquatic Center. The team and coaches said they are proud of their showing after two back-to-back meets in as many weeks.
The football season came to an abrupt end for Vashon High School last Tuesday night as the exhausted Pirates could not keep pace with Nooksack Valley High School, its state tournament qualifying round contest at Civic Stadium in Bellingham.
On Nov. 7, the Vashon Island Junior Rowing Club traveled to Greenlake in Seattle to race in the 2009 Frostbite Regatta, a 1,000-meter sprint race from the north end of the lake to the south end.
Islander Mikie Hoffmann traveled to San Antonio Oct. 28 to compete in the 21st Annual Sporting Clays National Championship at the 630-acre National Shooting Complex in San Antonio, Tex.
The Vashon Seals Swim Team won its first swim meet in recent memory two weeks ago at the Second Honu Gathering at Mount Tahoma High School.
The Vashon Island Soccer Club (VISC) offered four distinct soccer programs to a fast-growing number of Island futbol players this year.
Vashon runners Savannah Krug and Tylor Heit competed at the State Cross-Country Championship, held Nov. 7 at the Sun Willows Golf Course in Pasco.
