high school sports

(Runtime 3:37)Surrounded by verdant crops, many people drive through Ephrata on their way to somewhere else.It’s a small town in the heart of central…

What does it take to lead a championship-winning wrestling team? In this week’s StoryCorps Northwest, former coach Dick Deane talks to Jon Lane, a former student, about how Deane became a coach. Both are from Moses Lake.

Rescheduled fall sports seasons for high school athletes are kicking off this month in large parts of Washington state and Oregon. The general happiness this brought came with a dose of consternation among some coaches and families over strict COVID-19 safety guidelines set down by state health authorities.

The first Native American woman elected to the Washington State House of Representatives says she is drafting legislation to retire Native-themed mascots and team names at public schools. This has been a goal of Native American leaders for a while, but has new-found momentum in the wake of the Washington, DC, NFL football team’s name change.

The Colton Wildcats would battle their arch-rival, the Garfield-Palouse Vikings, in a game of 8-man football. Nothing more than bragging rights for the coming offseason were on the line, but hundreds had shown up to watch.