The Recreation Calendar lists recreational and participation sports submitted by nonprofit organizations. Mail to: Recreation Calendar, Reporter Newspapers, 18080 NE 68th St. #A150 Redmond, WA 98052, fax to 425-867-0784 or e-mail to sports@reporternewspapers.com.
Finally, a sport that doesn’t disappoint.
Bellevue West Little League ended the season with two championships in this year’s three-division City Tournament. Both the AAA and AA Bellevue West Diamondbacks beat out the AAA Bellevue Thunderbird Tigers and the AA Bellevue East A’s to take the title of their respective divisions. The Mercer Island Tigers won the majors division.
For once in my life, I’m speechless. So I’ll make this brief, because each word typed out on this keyboard makes me sick to write.
In the quiet, early morning hours, oars slip cleanly in and out of Lake Sammamish. A team of master rowers powerfully propels a shell across the water.
The sun was shining, the runners were trained and ready, but due to a organizational snafu, some participants in the Virginia Mason Team Medicine Seafair Marathon were left out of the race.
Emily Nordhoff, an Eastside resident and Holy Names Academy graduate, was named to the Class 3A All-State softball team as an infielder. Nordhoff’s teammate Candy Button, a junior, earned honorable mention honors as an outfielder.
New York Knicks guard and former University of Washington star Nate Robinson will host his first-ever “Nate Robinson Basketball Camp” from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., July 29-Aug. 1 at Mercer Island’s Community Center at Mercer View.
Registration is under way for the Bellevue summer parks programs.
The popularity of lacrosse in the Northwest has led to more and more high school players going on to play in college. That popularity brought Team USA’s U-19 national team to Mercer Island Sunday for a clinic and an exhibition game against the Northwest college All-Stars.
Alexa Linger wanted to do more.
The Bellevue High grad and UW freshman had been volunteering with the Seattle Union Gospel Mission since November of 2007, and was looking for a way to do something bigger for the Mission, but struggled to figure out what that might be.
After tragedy rocked both the Bellevue and University of Washington communities, Linger realized she could wait no longer. When Chase Anderson, an ex-boyfriend and friend of Linger’s from Bellevue High School, was tragically killed April 25 while longboarding on the university’s campus, it changed the way Linger approached life.
The Bellevue East Blaze recently finished its season 19-1, winning the Little League Juniors Baseball Division Bellevue East, Bellevue West, Bellevue Thunderbird Division Championship.
The All-state selections for baseball, softball and boys soccer, as voted upon by a poll of the state’s reporters, have been released.
Bellevue roller skating champion Katarina DeMello continued her winning ways by earning three gold medals at the Northwest Regional Championships in Portland, Ore.
When the Bellevue Blue 7/8 lacrosse team traveled to Philadelphia last week, they were able to taste some authentic Philadelphia cuisine in addition to the competition of a large East Coast lacrosse tournament.
After swimming a quarter mile, biking for 14 miles and finishing up with a 5-kilometer run, Blaine Lints had only one feeling – regret.
The Recreation Calendar lists recreational and participation sports submitted by nonprofit organizations. Mail to: Recreation Calendar, Reporter Newspapers, 18080 NE 68th St. #A150 Redmond, WA 98052, fax to 425-867-0784 or e-mail to sports@reporternewspapers.com.
