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Meg Wochnick specializes in high school sports coverage for The Olympian. She is a graduate of Pacific Lutheran University, where she was an NCAA Div. III All-American in track and field. She will provide insight on high school sports in South Sound. She can be reached at: mwochnick@theolympian.com.
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Who's ready for F-O-O-T-B-A-L-L?
It’s Wednesday, Aug. 20. Football practice begins today around South Sound and across Washington. Then, on Monday, the rest of the fall sports begin – girls swimming, volleyball, girls soccer, cross country, boys tennis, and boys golf.
Football teams will be practicing at various times today – some of the local teams are starting as early as 7 a.m., and some others won't begin until 3:45 p.m. We'll be making our rounds to various high schools, chatting with players and coaches.
This year, there are two new head football coaches in the area -- Randy Swilley at Yelm and Jeff Johnson at Rainier. Swilley came from North Thurston where he was an assistant coach, and Johnson was an assistant at Puyallup. Both have previous head coaching experience.
Starting Friday, we will be previewing area teams alphabetically in the daily sports section, along with putting together our annual football tab. That will be published Sept. 4.
Here’s the tentative high school football preview schedule.
Friday, Aug. 22: Black Hills
Saturday, Aug. 23: Capital
Sunday, Aug. 24: Centralia and Chehalis
Monday, Aug. 25: Elma
Tuesday, Aug. 26: Montesano and North Thurston
Wednesday, Aug. 27: Northwest Christian and Oakville
Thursday, Aug. 28: Olympia
Friday, Aug. 29: Rainier
Saturday, Aug. 30: River Ridge
Sunday, Aug. 31: Rochester
Monday, Sept. 1: Shelton and Steilacoom
Tuesday, Sept. 2: Tenino
Wednesday, Sept. 3: Timberline
Thursday, Sept. 4: Tumwater
Friday, Sept. 5: Yelm*For the second straight year, Mary M. Knight will not have football.
More fall sports: Following the football previews, we will preview girls swimming, volleyball, girls soccer, cross country, boys tennis, and boys golf.
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Welcome to the club, Monte!
Montesano High School has now been added to The Olympian’s high school sports coverage area. That means in all, The Olympian now covers a total of 20 high schools and their sports programs.
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Daily entries will resume Tuesday, Aug. 19
Starting Tuesday, Aug. 19, the prep sports blog will go back to daily entries. After launching the prep sports blog last August, it's been viewed by thousands and thousands of loyal readers.
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Capital PG signs with Hawai'i university
Ayla Mull, a recent graduate of Capital High School, signed a letter of intent with Chaminade University, an NCAA Div. II school in Honolulu, Hawai'i, to play on its women's basketball team. She will receive a scholarship for both academics and athletics.
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2 volleyball players represent USA Volleyball
Capital sophomore-to-be Kristyn Ross and Olympia junior-to-be Megan Triggs were recently players on the Girls National Youth volleyball team for ages 15 and 16, as they participated in the USA Volleyball High Performance Championships in Tucson, Ariz. The girls' team placed fifth overall and first in the silver division, and they represented the Puget Sound region on their team. Just last week, their team went up against the Peru National team at Shoreline Community College, but lost 5-0.
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Black Hills wrestler places 2nd at national meet
Black Hills High School senior-to-be wrestler Jimmy Belleville placed second at the Junior Freestyle wrestling nationals, a three-day tournament that ended Saturday at the Fargodome, on campus of North Dakota State University in Fargo, N.D.
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Timberline's Cameron Peck wins U.S. Junior Amateur
The remarkable summer Timberline golfer Cameron Peck has been having just keeps getting better. The senior-to-be won his fourth AJGA event this year, as he won the U.S. Junior Amatuer in record-setting fashion on Saturday afternoon, defeating Evan Beck of Virginia 10-8 in match-style play at Shoal Creek Golf Course in Alabama.
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Tumwater grad a prep fastpitch All-American
I received an e-mail an my Inbox with the subject line "Trio of Signees Named EA Sports All-Americans."
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NW Christian grad will play hoops at Corban College
Ryan Fox, a recent graduate of Northwest Christian High School in Lacey, has signed to play basketball at Corban College in Salem, Ore.
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AP All-state baseball teams
As voted on by sportswriters and editors from newspapers across the state, here are the entire all-state teams for all classifications for baseball, fastpitch and boys soccer.
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AP All-state fastpitch teams
As voted on by sportswriters from across Washington, here are the all-state fastpitch teams.
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AP All-state boys soccer teams
As voted on by sportswriters from across Washington, here are the all-state boys soccer teams ...
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Media's all-state baseball teams announced
Twenty-one South Sound baseball players were named to the all-state baseball team — either the first team, second team or honorable mention. Seven of the 21 were named to the first team, along with two coaches of the year. The voting was completed last week and is done by sportswriters from across the state.
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Coaching changes to announce
Last week, I had a story about former Olympia standout Curtis Medved being named the new boys basketball coach at Tumwater.
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P-Zone, Summer Ed. hits the golf course
After an exciting U.S. Open, Gail and I decided to head out and continue with the golf theme. We were able to head out to the Indian Summer Golf Course and chat/play golf with Cameron Peck, for this week's Prep Zone — Summer Edition, show. The Timberline junior recently won the AJGA FootJoy Invitational in North Carolina, which was one of the top junior golf tournaments in the country. He shot a closing-round, 4-under par 66 to win by six strokes. He’s now ranked 11th in the country among junior golfers, up from 40th last week.
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Did South Sound girls hoopsters get overlooked?
It's not too often that I go off on a rant. In fact, not sure if I ever have on the blog.
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'Prep Zone: Summer Edition' launches for the summer
That's right ... the Prep Zone is back, but a different twist. In its place for the summer is the Prep Zone: Summer Edition, which is a high school-age/recreational-style video for the next eight weeks or so. See the FAQs below for more details.
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From oddities to upsets: A statewide year in review
With the school/athletic year is officially over for high school sports, it's never too soon to reflect and look back.
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Rochester baseball wins 1A title
The Rochester Warriors won the Class 1A baseball state title after beating a familiar opponent -- Kalama 9-5 -- on Saturday afternoon in Yakima.
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Quest for perfection over for Timberline
A tough finish to Timberline's fastpitch season: The Blazers lose, 5-1, to Kennedy, ending their season at 26-1.
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Timberline leads, 1-0, in 3A fastpitch title
From Tacoma, some highlights from Timberline's 3A state fastpitch title game against Kennedy:
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Olympia's Conley ejected after scuffle
Lots to report in a wild finish in Olympia's semifinal baseball game with Snohomish.
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