Current Edmonds-Woodway athletic coordinator Julie Stroncek and Angie McGuire, who filled the position on an interim basis during the fall semester of 2004, will serve as the Edmonds School District’s co-interim Director of Athletics.
Their duties will be divided in such a way that Stroncek will serve as high school rep and attend Wesco meetings as the district’s representative.
Edmonds-Woodway assistant principal Geoff Bennett will be taking over most of the athletic coordinator duties at Edmonds-Woodway at the start of second semester.
Larway rink moves on to nationals
Jason Larway’s rink (Jason Larway, Colin Huffman, Joel Larway, Greg Persinger, Steven Demlow) was one of six men’s curling teams that qualified on Jan. 6 for the U.S. National Championships. Larway’s rink won the Western Qualifying Round at the Fairbanks Curling Club in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Team Larway, representing Seattle’s Granite Curling Club finished the qualifying round at 4-1 and advanced by defeating the Ken Persinger rink (Fairbanks) in a tiebreaker. Jason Larway (Lynnwood) and teammates Huffman (Seattle), Joel Larway (Mukilteo, WA), Persinger (Fairbanks) and alternate Demlow (Seattle) will represent Washington in the Curling Nationals in Hibbing, MN, Feb. 16-23. The winner of the U.S. Curling Nationals will move on to represent the U.S. at the 2008 World Men’s Curling Championship April 5-13 in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
This marks the 6th straight National Championship appearance for the Larway brothers, who are looking for their fourth trip to world championships together. They last won the U.S. National Championship in 2004.
Other teams qualifying for Nationals this past weekend were teams skipped by Craig Disher, Todd Birr, Pete Fenson, Craig Brown and Willie Wilberg.
Two other curling teams with ties to Seattle’s Granite Curling Club can still qualify for the U.S. National Championship after advancing to the Challenge Round, Jan. 24-27 in Eau Claire, Wisc. Greg Romaniuk (Snohomish) and his brother Leon Romaniuk (Kirkaland) along with teammates Cory Yalowicki (Bothell) and Mike Calcagno (Kirkland) finished 5-2 in the men’s qualifier in Bismarck, North Dakota, but lost out on automatically advancing to Nationals to the Craig Disher and Pete Fenson rinks. The Disher rink finished at 7-0 in Bismarck to earn the automatic bid into Nationals. Fenson, the 2006 U.S. Olympic Gold medal winning team, finished the qualifying round at 5-2 and also advanced to the National Championship tournament.
A third team with ties to Seattle also has a chance to advance to the U.S. National Championship tournament. Granite Curling Club members Wes Johnson (Everett) and Steve Lundeen (Seattle) advanced to the challenge round out of the east by finshing 5-2 in the Schenectady, New York qualifying tournament. Johnson played third on a team skipped by Bryan Wight (Canandaigua, NY). The fourth player on Wight’s team is Mark Lazar (Toledo, Ohio)
The top four teams in the challenge round in Eau Claire, Wisc, will advance to the National Championship. If Team Wight and Team Romaniuk finish among the top four teams, they will join Team Larway and give the Granite Curling Club three teams with a chance at the 2008 U.S. National Curling Championship.
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