The players that took to the Marysville-Pilchuck High School football field on June 17 were a bit older and less practiced than the usual teams, but they took the game seriously enough to impress their coaches, and they helped raise money for the regular players.
After two superstar softball seasons at Everett Community College, Arlington High School graduate Allie Milless had no intentions on playing out the rest of her collegiate career at a four-year school.
Anthony Allen picked up a golf club when he was 8 years old. Jack Lindley took his first swing when he was in eighth grade. Although the Arlington High golfers started out differently, they finished the high school season as the top two players respectively on the Eagles’ golf team.
Arlington junior Alexis Sarver has been a competitor ever since she was born — there were no other options.
Sarver was diagnosed with cancer at birth, which had penetrated her stomach and filled nearly 90 percent of her spinal cord.
But after six grueling years, one surgery and several bouts of chemotherapy, Sarver beat the life-threatening illness and has been in remission for more than a decade.
Five months ago, Lakewood senior Andre Scott found himself lying on the side of a mountain writhing in pain following an ill-fated snowboard trick. And the only thing coursing through his mind was whether or not his final track and field season had come to a pre-mature end.
Marysville versus Lakewood won’t be the only powder puff football fundraiser kicking off at 7 p.m. on June 17.
The Arlington Youth Football Association is once again sending Arlington Eagle moms out onto the field, this time against Stanwood Spartan moms in what’s already been dubbed the “Battle for the Stilly Puff Cup.”
Marysville and Lakewood moms are going head-to-head to help their kids stay in the game.
The Marysville “Tomamamas” and the Lakewood “Cougar Mamas” are already gearing up for a Powder Puff football game on June 17, starting at 7 p.m. at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, to raise funds for the Marysville Youth Football League and the Lakewood Youth Football Athletic Association.
Coming this month, Arlington’s youth basketball program will be conducting its annual basketball camps for local boys and girls.
With just one high school football season ahead of him, Lakewood’s 6-foot, 6-inch, 219-pound tight-end Dustin Stanton has seemingly sewn up his future, at least for the next few years.
Arlington softball pitcher Veronica Ladines struck out back-to-back batters in the seventh inning to cap off a 1-0 victory over the Cascade Bruins in a loser-out 4A District 1 playoff game Thursday, May 19, played at Sky River Park.
John Decker never set out to qualify for the Boston Marathon, but his years of commitment to distance running yielded an unexpected dividend when he entered the Tacoma City Marathon for the first time this year.
Having already clinched a spot in the upcoming Districts playoffs, the Arlington Eagles girls softball team faced off against Stanwood, May 4, and battled back from an early deficit for a 11-10 victory.
Most of the members of the new Lakewood High School Mountain Bike Club started without a cycling background, according to head coach Kristi Berg, but in two months’ time, they progressed from learning the basics of mountain biking to racing successfully enough to be recognized as among the best in the state.
