by Laurie O’Brien For the second year in a row, a group of riders from the Olympia area has banded together to form a small but mighty high school mountain biking team. Since the inception of the Washington High School Cycling League in 2011, The Olympia Composite team has dominated the [...]
By Anne Larsen Rashon Smith has been running track since the 2nd grade at the Briggs YMCA, but back then he only ran the 400. Now that he is a senior at Timberline High School he competes in the 110 hurdles, 300 hurdles and 4×400. During his freshman year he [...]
LACEY, WA, May 11, 2012: Celebrate the 20th Annual National Trails Day on Saturday, June 2, 2012, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. Join volunteers from the Lacey Parks and Recreation Department at Woodland Creek Community Park, 6729 Pacific Avenue SE, to spread wood chips on trails in the park, pull weeds and invasive [...]
By Anne Larsen On Sunday, May 20th, hundreds of runners will converge on Sylvester Park in downtown Olympia. These runners have been training for months in the rain, wind, snow, and every other crazy weather condition the Pacific Northwest can throw at us! It’s early –really early. The majority of [...]
ELMA – Some 300 bicyclists ranging in age from 10 to 65 converged upon Satsop Business Park Saturday, May 1, for the 2012 Vance Creek Road Race. And it was one of Thurston County’s own – Jennifer Burtner from the Olympia Orthopaedic Associates Cycling Team of Olympia – who won the women’s elite contest. [...]
By Anne Larsen In his second year as the Tumwater High School (THS) Girls Golf Coach, Brent Bryant has one thing on his mind – win, win, win! With his passion, love, and motivation for coaching and the game of golf, the THS girls golf team will likely grow into [...]
By Anne Larsen Sally Otton is the coolest P.E teacher – EVER. Actually, I know a lot of cool P.E teachers, but she’s the only one that gets referred to lovingly by her students as “Malibu Barbie”…. and that’s cool in a funny sort of way. The kids love [...]
By Stacy Fisher Olympia may be known for many things, however, being a city famous for its hockey talent usually doesn’t top the list. No more. Meet local Tyler Brown, just 15 years old and playing elite level hockey. Sitting down with Tyler while he was in town for vacation, I had to remind [...]
By Anne Larsen The first 5k I ever ran was the Komen Race for the Cure, at Husky Stadium in 1998. Being a super active kid I fell hard off the health and fitness bandwagon in my teens and early twenty’s, and let’s just say I made a lot of choices leading up to [...]
By: Anne Larsen Last week I went out to Bush Middle School to check out the Tumwater High School (THS) Dance Team. I had heard that they were good….through the typical venue of “Facebook Dad Bragging” (go Greg Bert!), but really didn’t have a concept of what a high school dance team did (besides [...]
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