The Above and Beyond vaulting team from Snohomish won national titles in trot team and canter team at the American Vaulting Association National Championships held Aug. 8-12 in Denver.
Vaulting involves dance and gymnastics on a cantering horse.
The trot team included Sienna Pioli, Micah Avery, Abbi Cormier, Anna Christensen, Izzy Pioli, Andrea Friesen and Ava Grosjean.
The canter team was made up of Maleah Gallagher, Samantha Fehr, Leandra Essman, Camille Birch, Melissa Peterson and Natasha Cooper.
Both teams rode Curious George and were coached by Saacha DeAborossio.
Also winning a national title was the Warm Beach Revelation team from Stanwood, which claimed the reserve A division championship.
Red Raiders fall to Linfield
The Linfield junior-varsity football team pulled away in the second half to defeat the Everett Red Raiders, a team comprised mostly of students from Everett Community College, 45-27, on Sunday in McMinnville, Ore.
The game was tied 21-21 at halftime.
Everett quarterback Robert Calloway was 33-for-60 for 351 yards and four touchdowns, and Jermaine Jackson had 13 receptions for 98 yards and one touchdown, Meko Baca had four receptions for 84 yards and two TDs, and Ryan Lacoste caught five passes for 79 yards and one touchdown.
Everett’s Corwin Perkins had an interception and Wes Monger recovered a fumble.
WWU’s Donaldson tabbed
Western Washington University forward Sydney Donaldson was named to the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Women’s Preseason All-Star Basketball Team announced last week. The 6-foot junior was a unanimous choice.
Donaldson, a graduate of Edmonds-Woodway High School, averaged 6.2 points and 4.3 rebounds per game last season. She also shot 50 percent from the floor.
Bryant honored
Seattle Storm president and CEO Karen Bryant was inducted into the University of Washington Department of Communication Hall of Fame on Oct. 15.
“To be in the same coversation as the past honorees of the award’s history is very hunbling,” Bryant, a graduate of Woodway High School, said in a statement released by the Storm. “This is a reflection of the work that has gone into making the Storm one of the most successful women’s professional basketball teams in the history of the sport.”
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