Mount Si is impressive at state track championship
May 29, 2013
By Greg Farrar
Bradly Stevens, Mount Si High School senior, poses with the javelin for his mom Collette Stevens after winning the event at the 3A state track and field championships May 24 with a long throw of 198 feet, 1 inch.
It takes a certain sense of synergy between teammates to be successful in a relay track event. It is not easy to develop that necessary chemistry.
The Mount Si High School boys 4×400-meter relay team, however, had no problem bonding, a wonder given that for three of the four members, it was their first year participating in Mount Si track.
Mount Si girls track wins 3A KingCo
May 15, 2013
Next stop for Mount Si’s softball team — the district tournament.
During the May 10 KingCo 3A tournament, the Wildcats secured the No. 2 seed by beating Interlake, 5-4, and losing to Juanita, 9-1.
Sam Isen in 400-meter race
May 15, 2013
By Greg Farrar
Sam Isen, Mount Si High School senior, bolts from the starting block during the 3A KingCo Championships May 10 in his 400-meter race to finish in second place with a time of 50.39 seconds.
Mighty jumps on the track and field
May 8, 2013
Ashley Jackson (left), Mount Si High School senior, and freshman Sarah Miller leap the fences in the 100-meter hurdles May 2 during the Wildcats’ track and field meet against Bellevue. Miller edged out her teammate in a friendly rivalry that has gone back and forth this season.
Ehren Eichler, Mount Si High School junior, lands in the sand with a 34-foot triple jump May 2. Eichler’s best jump for the day was 35 feet, 8 1/2 inches.
Sister act
May 1, 2013
By David Hayes
Maddie Hutchison (left), a Mount Si High School junior, and her sister, freshman Mackenzie, practice last week passing the baton in the 4 x 400 relay event for the Mount Si High School track team.
When Maddie Hutchison looks over her shoulder, lately, during relay events for Mount Si High School, it’s her sister Mackenzie who’s passing her the baton.
As a junior, Maddie has enjoyed a two-year head start on her younger sister, now a freshman at Mount Si.
But, with two competitive athletes under one roof, the Hutchisons are the rare exception that seems to have avoided the awkward sibling rivalry. Read more
Mount Si boys track team defeats Liberty
April 24, 2013
Girls team loses
Mount Si vs Liberty
Men’s results
100 — 1, Alex Olobia, L, 11.0; 2, Jimbo Davis, MS, 11.2; 3, Ehren Eichler, MS, 11.7
200 — 1, Sean Hyland, MS, 23.7; 2, Eichler, MS, 24.3; 3, Back, MS, 24.7
By Greg Farrar
Mikaelyn Davis, Mount Si High School sophomore, clears the pole vault bar at 8 feet even, to win and share first place with teammate Hailey Johnson during the Wildcats’ April 18 track meet against Liberty High School.
400 — 1, Hiron Redman, L, 52.6; 2, Sam Isen, MS, 53.3; 3, Hyland, MS, 53.6
Javelin thrower working on elbow after tear
January 9, 2013
State champion keeps working toward goals
With one hurl of his javelin last spring, then junior Bradly Stevens became the top thrower in the nation for his age group.
His 205-foot-10-inch throw broke his own school record, and earned a first place at the state meet in Tacoma.
Then he threw again, that same day.
By Sebastian Moraga
Bradly Stevens, Mount Si High School javelin thrower, broke his brother Kyle’s school record, his own record and was the best junior thrower in the state and the nation during his stratospheric 2012 season.
“Right about here,” he said lifting his arm sideways and flexing it 90 degrees so his fist was just above his temple, “I felt a pop.”
At first, he did not want to accept it, because he knew what lay ahead.
His brother, WSU javelin thrower and former Mount SI High School recordman, Kyle Stevens, had heard his elbow pop while throwing, and had been out a year.
Throwing the javelin is a family affair for state champion Bradly Stevens
June 7, 2012
It began with an innocent question between siblings Kyle and Bradly Stevens over the phone: How was your day?
Kyle, a junior at Washington State University, was asking Bradly, a junior at Mount Si High School.
Bradly said his April 2012 day went well. Had a track meet that day. Threw the javelin.
Kyle, a former javelin thrower at Mount Si, asked Bradly the question on both of their minds.
“Did you break my record yet?”
Contributed Siblings Kyle (left) and Bradly Stevens flank the new school record for the javelin, belonging to the fellow on the right and owned until April by the gentleman on the left. The 205-foot mark gave Bradly the 3A state championship May 26.
“Yup,” Bradly answered.
And so opened the third chapter in a story that becomes more unique with each time it happens: a Stevens becoming the top javelin thrower in school history.
Jim Stevens graduated as the record-holder in 1985. Almost a quarter-century later, his son Kyle became the new record holder in 2009.
Bradly Stevens wins state javelin crown
May 30, 2012
By Greg Farrar Kolton Auxier, Mount Si High School senior, puts the shot for 50 feet, 1 1/4 inches, in this round of competition May 26 during the 3A state track and field championships in Tacoma. The throw was good enough for a 10th-place finish.
It was only a matter of time.
Bradly Stevens, the youngest of five current or former javelin throwers in his family, became the first to grasp something his kin have been chasing since the mid-1980s: a state championship.
“It feels like a dream come true,” said Stevens, who broke the Mount Si High School javelin record for the fourth time this year at the state meet, with a throw measured at 205 feet, 10 inches.
Winning state, he said, has been the goal since day one.
Track and field classic returns
April 26, 2012
By Sebastian Moraga Emmitt Rudd leaps during the long-jump competition at the Mount Si Invitational Meet.
We meet again, at the meet.
After a 23-year hiatus, the Mount Si Invitational Meet returned to life April 21 at Mount Si High School.
Teams from all over the Puget Sound area arrived to celebrate the revival of what once was a staple of the spring athletics calendar in the Snoqualmie Valley.
The hosts did themselves proud, not only with a picturesque day of cloudless sunshine, but by putting on good performances. The girls tied Marysville-Pilchuck for first place with 148 points.
