Pumping a keg and ordering pizza are not two activities normally associated with tennis. But when a men’s tennis league, consisting of over 150 members, convenes for its annual league championship tournament, all bets are off, or maybe on.
The Mercer Island boys basketball team lost to Bellevue Tuesday 58-53 despite Peter Zajac (12) and Quinn Sterling (11) scoring…
The Mercer Island girls basketball team took a huge step toward its first ever KingCo title Wednesday night, with a…
How does a wrestling program top winning the league title by one point during the last meet of the season? By hosting its first ever tournament in memorial of one of the sport’s biggest names.
For 12 years, Paul Lagerstadt made the drive from Tacoma to Mercer Island as an assistant coach for the Mercer Island High School boys basketball team before calling it quits after last season. He returned to the Island on Wednesday with his new team, Thomas Jefferson High School, and received a red carpet return off the court and a loss on the court, 50-44.
Ben Neary is just like all of his teammates on the Mercer Island High School boys swim team. He has been swimming most of his life, loves to compete, and he finds solace in his teammates’ friendship, as well as being in the water.
The defensive battle that the Mercer Island boys basketball team faced against Thomas Jefferson Wednesday was fitting, as former Islander…
The Mercer Island boys swim team destroyed two more opponents this week, including 4A school Lake Washington on Jan. 20, and Roosevelt, Friday.
Former Islander Ken Ankrom loves lacrosse. He began playing the sport in middle school while living on Mercer Island. But when he graduated from Mercer Island High School in 2006, the opportunity to play the sport ended.
The Mercer Island girls basketball team has had its share of standout players during the past decade. Islanders Beth Richards and Georgia Gier not only led their teams but brought a modicum of success to a program that has traditionally struggled.
The learning curve for the Mercer Island boys basketball team this season has been sharp. Only three players had varsity experience entering this season and even their minutes were limited last year. But the rise of the underclassmen and the leadership provided by those with experience has led the Islanders to a 4-1 in-league record, and the team is still in the race for the KingCo title. That education for the young players continued on Friday when Mercer Island beat Liberty, 58-38, to take sole possession of second place in the division.
Mercer Island sophomore Jae Shin has been known to get the hot hand on the basketball court. But the fact that she didn’t melt the basketball during the third quarter of the Islanders’ 65-58 victory against Liberty might have been the most shocking part of the night.
The Mercer Island wrestling team will have a big meet on Jan. 29 when they take on Inglemoor and Woodinville at Bothell High School. The meet could determine the regular season 3A KingCo champion, but all involved have to get there undefeated — including the Islanders.
