Sports - Redmond Reporter

Resilient 'Stangs 'never gave up'

It may be hard to believe, but everything was not smooth-sailing for the Redmond Mustangs boys’ basketball team, which capped an unbelievable season with a fifth-place trophy at the Class 4A state tournament in March.

Coach Larson, players take a trip down memory lane

As exciting as Redmond's improbable run at the 4A State Tournament was, in particular the 70-64 double-overtime win against Lake Stevens to clinch the fifth-place trophy, Coach Larson and his players were all in agreement that the Mustangs' Senior Night victory over rival Eastlake was their favorite memory of the 2008-09 basketball season.

Redmond Junior High's Crosley played 'em all

Thomas Crosley, a 15-year-old Redmond resident who is about to enter Redmond High School, enjoyed a three-year sports career at Redmond Junior High unlike any other. Crosley was able to play all six sports offered by the school: Football, baseball, tennis, wrestling, basketball and track and field, at the varsity level.

Pudwill: Details drive success

It’s pretty safe to say that the Redmond Mustangs baseball team, which graduated 14 seniors off 2008’s 18-2 league-championship squad, did the unexpected this season. The Mustangs were merely an afterthought in many preseason lists concerning the top teams in the state, much less the league.

Pudwill takes a trip down memory lane

Lord: Leader of the pack

Redmond High’s distance-running dynamo Sarah Lord is living proof that hard work and dedication pays off in the long run. The accomplished senior who started running for the Cascade Striders of Bellevue in sixth grade, was known as one of the best in the state ever since she began running the trails and track as a sophomore. Lord overcame a number of heartbreaks and close finishes to achieve every high school runner’s dream of winning a state championship last month at Star Track, the 4A State Championships held at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma.

Lord's coach, close friend take a trip down memory lane

Head track and cross-country coach Denis Villeneuve and Jillian Jaccard, Lord’s close friend and fellow distance runner, share some of their most memorable moments with Sarah Lord from her years of running for Redmond High School.