Feeling inclined to hike? Look no further!
March 1, 2019
Filed under Outside Sports, Sports
- Franklin Falls (2 miles) - Snoqualmie Pass - Mt. Catherine (3) - Snoqualmie Pass - Lake 22 (5.4) - Mt. Baker Snoqualmie National Forest - Denny Creek (6) - Snoqualmie Pass - Snow Lake (7) - Snoqualmie Pass - Granite Mountain (8) - Snoqualmie Pass - Bandera Mountain (8) - Snoqualmie Pass - Kendall...
Orienteering fever spreads to Liberty
Tatum Lindquist, Editor in Chief
December 23, 2018
Filed under Outside Sports, Sports
“I heard about it, and I was like, hey, going out and getting lost in the woods sounds like fun. I’ve gotten lost in the woods before, and I haven’t been lost for years,” senior Gus Trimble said. The last Saturday of November, Trimble tried out orienteering—a sport growing more popular at...
Rowing pushes upstream at Liberty
Karinn Sytsma, Editor in Chief
December 22, 2018
Filed under Outside Sports, Sports
“On a really nice day, the water is like crystal. When the blades feather across the water, it’s the best sound in the world. I love it,” freshman Lucy Hegenderfer said. Many Patriots, like Hegenderfer, find themselves swept up in the new craze of women’s rowing. “I started rowing February...
Patriot Profile: Taylor Kryzcki turns family tradition of drag racing into a reality
Sam Kelderman, Sports Editor
May 9, 2017
Filed under Outside Sports, Sports
The smell of racing fuel on a warm summer night, the thrill of going 100 mph on a short track, and the pride in carrying on a long time family tradition: these moments are what senior Taylor Krzycki experiences in drag racing—a sport where drivers race their cars on a straight quarter mile track. The...
Liberty students take on challenges of rowing
Lillian Moore, Staff Writer
March 27, 2017
Filed under Outside Sports, Sports
Most athletes would never even entertain the idea of playing two back-to-back varsity basketball games without a break. Yet, rowers continuously exert that amount of energy in only eight minutes during practice and competition. Liberty seniors Anna Benson and Megan Kirshner both row for Sammamish rowing...
Patriot Profile: Aiden Holmes is a competitive fencer at a national level
Sam Kelderman, Sports Editor
March 23, 2017
Filed under Outside Sports, Sports
“I was about 10 years old, and I wanted to be a sword fighter when I grew up, so my mom put me in fencing.” Freshman Aiden Holmes is fulfilling his childhood dreams by fencing—a competition in which two people fight with swords to score points—and this sport has allowed him to meet new people...
Patriot Profile: sophomore Jessie Tappan plays Special Olympics basketball
Siri Christopherson, Staff Writer
May 12, 2016
Filed under Basketball, Outside Sports, Sports
On March 5 and 6, sophomore Jessie Tappan competed with a team in Washington’s basketball Special Olympics. She played with nine other kids between ages eight and fifteen from middle and high schools in the Issaquah School District. “[I was] kind of nervous to go out and play,” Jessie Tappan said....
Patriot Profile: Anna Benson rows to confidence
Ally Smith, Staff Writer
February 25, 2016
Filed under Outside Sports, Sports
“You’re out there and you are giving it your all and once you hit the finish line knowing you’ve given everything you’ve got it’s the best feeling in the world,” junior Anna Benson said. Although Benson has only been rowing for seven months it has already begun to leave a lifelong impact...
Rhythmic gymnast leaves it all on the mat
Sara Flash, Staff Writer
June 2, 2015
Filed under Outside Sports, Sports, Uncategorized
If you mentioned rhythmic gymnastics to most people on the street, chances are they wouldn’t quite know what to think. Brief visions of ribbons, hoops, and music might flash through their minds, or maybe they’d think of the graceful people they’d seen once on TV during the last summer Olympics. But...
Equestrians take care of their 2000 lb. teammates
Skylar Kylstra, Senior Writer
May 18, 2015
Filed under Outside Sports, Sports
When you think of your teammates on a sports team, a 2,000 pound animal doesn’t usually come to mind. But for equestrians Belle Sturm (12), Kelley Johnson (12), and Lena Diaz (9) that’s exactly what their sport entails. Equestrianism, also known as horseback riding, is a very diverse sport dating...
Lady Patriot packs a mean punch
Anna Malesis, Managing Editor
May 14, 2015
Filed under Outside Sports, Sports
By day, she is a quiet, intellectual student. By night, she is ready to fight. Junior Clara Bardot is probably not the kind of person who comes to mind when you think “kickboxing,” but for the past five years, that’s just what she has been doing. More specifically, she practices Muay Thai,...
Junior navigates onto national orienteering team
Anna Malesis, Managing Editor
May 14, 2015
Filed under Outside Sports, Sports
She is running through the woods, compass in hand. She looks down at her map: right or left? Time is running out—she can’t get lost now! Quickly reorienting herself, she chooses left and continues racing down the trail. No, junior Tyra Christopherson isn’t some sort of female Indiana Jones escaping...