Track Wars results
April 30th, 2011Here are the top-3 resultsfrom Fridays Track Wars meet at Rez.
Also Mondays WCSSAA rugby games have been called off by the soggy fields and the slo-pitch season is also on hold.
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Varsity Vignette: Team USA Coaches Bond
April 24th, 2011
Every year USA Baseball puts together events and teams that attract the best baseball players from around the country. Team USA also prides itself on bringing the best coaches and evaluators to help put teams together and lead them in various international tournaments.
Its easy to notice the relationships the players develop as they climb the ranks in baseball, but the coaches share the same experiences. Last month, while on spring break, Ernie Padron brought his varsity and junior varsity teams up from Miamis Florida Christian School to the Raleigh-Durham area to play three games against North Carolina schools. Normally, schools head to South Florida for spring break, but this was a special circumstance. Padron brought his team north so they could play against his friend, Charlie Spivey—the head coach at Lee County High in Sanford, N.C.
Spend some time with Padron and Spivey and you would think they have known each other for years, playing with or against each other in high school, college or pro ball. Ho
Coaches Bio – Tim Dennis – Everett JC Head Coach
April 23rd, 2011High School Cover 2 has been devoting a lot of time lately to reporting on the efforts of some individuals dedicated to re-establishing Community College level football (known as JC football in this blog) in the state of Washington As we have told you, there are differences of opinion on how to best accomplish this, but we have decided to steer away from the in-fighting and will try to treat all JC teams equally In this regard, we recently watched a 7 on 7 contest between Everett JC and the semi-pro team, Snohomish Thunder Jim had a thorough accounting of that meeting in our last report
Directly below you will find a bio of Everett coach Tim Dennis We asked Tim and his assistants to share with High School Cover 2 readers their playing and coaching experience Our hope is that readers will gain a better understanding of the dedicated people who are providing an incentive for the young men of this state to pursue their education by continuing to play the game they love
We would like to provide an open invitation to any JC coach to send us their bios and we will happily print them We are committed to assisting the JC teams in any way we can Tim Dennis was born in Monroe and grew up in Monroe and Snohomish He was a 1994 Snohomish High School graduate He played junior football for the Snohomish Raiders; coached by Bill and Dave Bonneywell Coach Dennis played football at Snohomish High School for Dick Armstrong and Keith Gilbertson Sr Tim was a teammate of Jeff Ogden (Five NFL Seasons) and Rory Rosenbach (Glacier Peak Head Coach) at Snohomish
Coach Dennis began coaching football in 1993 with the Snohomish Raiders youth team where he coached eight seasons under Dave Bonneywell Tim has also coached youth football in Mukilteo, Everett and Granite Falls over the past several seasons
In 2007 Tim coached the offensive line for the Snohomish County Thunder, semi-pro team In addition to coaching for the Thunder in 2007, Tim played in the final three games of the year, starting the final two games at Quarterback
In 2008, Tim also spent some time with the Glacier Peak High School football team, learning the principles of the spread offense from Rory Rosenbach, who Tim credits for being a big influence in his coaching career during his short stint at Glacier Peak
In 2010, Tim was named Head Coach of the Pacific Northwest Wildcats Before the Wildcats season was cut short, Tim guided the Wildcats to a 2-0 record, matching their win total from the previous two seasons While with the Wildcats, Tim had the fortune of working with Marquise Moses Moses was a young tailback who had played in the Wing-T system at Marysville High School Tim says of that encounter: “Moses always wanted to run outside, since he was faster than most guys in high school We really had to work hard with him on the fundamentals of being an effective inside runner, but it paid off for him Moses is now a running back at Eastern Washington University”
Tim is now the Head Coach of the Everett Red Raiders Junior College team
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Everett Red Raiders Football
April 17th, 2011On Saturday afternoon Dick and I went to watch the newest jr college in the state of Washington, the Everett Red Raiders, perform in a seven-on-seven passing league against a semi-pro group, the Snohomish County Thunder We werent really sure what to expect from the scrimmage because this was, after all, a new program trying mightily to make itself viable in what has turned out to be a fractured junior college (or community college) league Weve written over and over about the in-fighting that has been happening between the league and two break-away programs (Auburn and Everett), so we are not going to cover that old ground again We are only going to talk about what we saw Understand that a community college football program exists for one main reason: it gives young men a second chance to get back onto an educational track, a chance they may have squandered when they were younger for a myriad reasons What we were watching then was a contest between a group of young men between the ages of eighteen 18 and 24 and an older group group of seasoned veterans who were generally in their in their mid-twenties through their thirties and even pushing against and into their forties It would seem that the young guys would have the better chance in a contest like this when speed and athleticism were paramount However, I have read that a mans athletic prime, the years of maximum strength, speed, leaping ability, and athleticism is that five year span between twenty-seven and thirty-two That meant that the semi-pro squad had an edge in strength and experience, and in a full-contact scrimmage would have had an advantage However, in the case of the independent junior-colleges (as Everett and Auburn designate themselves) or the community college league (with teams such as South Sound, Yakima, Wenatchee, and Columbia Basin who remain in the recently renamed NWJCFL), the athleticism and leaping ability of the players can more than negate the experience and strength of the semi-pro guys
I am in the unique position of having had the experience of playing for the semi-pro Seattle Cavaliers against the Junior College Everett Eagles one year and then flipping to the other side and suiting up for the Eagles against the Cavs the next year As a tackle on both offense and defense (at the geriatric age of 29 I joined with Terry Metcalf [later All-pro with the St Louis Cardinals] as the only two players to start both way in that gamean experiment that was quickly put back into the coaches folder) The guy I lined up across from, Bob Krause, was a bull and outweighed me by thirty or forty pounds, and since the defensive strategy had me lined up helmet to helmet and trying to battle him to a standstill, it proved to be a losing effort His strength versus my quickness (which I was not able to use) was waaayy to much to contend with Metcalf, fortunately, ran wild for Eagle offense, and we won handily
From what I saw on Saturday, the Red Raiders look explosive Joshua Glenn (whose brother plays for the Huskies) is a wide receiver who has great hands, great leaping ability, decent speed, great body control, and strength He is going to be a load Julian Willis is a former Cascade High School running back who played for me on the Mariner freshman team An all-conference performer at Cascade, he is the kind of kid this junior college program was designed to help He weighs 187 pounds now, and it is all muscle He made a move after catching that rivaled anything I had seen either Terry Metcalf or current, highly-recruited Mariner running back KeiVaarae Russell do The two Red Raider quarterbacks took turns running the offense and, for the most part, did an excellent job of it Daniel Lockwood from Arlington, the taller of the two at 63, threw well for the day and the conditions The rain was unrelenting, and it was cold, so some of his out patterns sailed out even more on him Shorter and stockier, Nathan Worthen from Burlington-Edison seemed that he was somewhat hampered by the weather as well However, he threw a couple of deep fade patterns for TDs to his seeming favorite receiver Josh Glenn Worthen has good arm strength and may be a little ahead of Lockwood at this point (based on our admittedly short look at them), but at the end of the day, Lockwood is still 63 and in seeing the field, that is significant
Oh, there was another running back, I didnt get his name, but he scored on a burst up the middle that was maybe the quickest dash I have ever seen at any level Of course, we have no idea what kind of team the Red Raiders will field because the really important guys, the linemen, were not involved At the very least, talent-wise, it looks as though they can scoremaybe a lot Jim Olsen
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Great start to season
April 12th, 2011What a great start to the season.
Just one day into the WCSSAA senior boys soccer schedule and three squads have already identified themselves as legitimate contenders for the Premier League title.
A fourth might also have what it takes.
Eastwood, Grand River and Cameron Heights made statements on Wednesday with victories on the opening day of the season, while Waterloo Collegiate looks to be a threat despite falling 4-2 to Cameron Heights.
Grand River will only get better when Sasa Radosevic and Ljuoba Stojkovic return from suspension, while Eastwood will be much improved if Aaron Schneebli is cleared to play. The gifted defender recently parted ways with the Toronto FC Academy but has yet to receive the go-ahead to play with the Rebels.
Camerons opening-day victory comes less than a week after winning the Trojan Cup tournament, so the Gaels appear to be the real deal.
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Coach Interview – Tom Bainter – Bothell High School
April 5th, 2011High School Cover 2 has been following the accomplishments of the Bothell High School football program and, when head coach Tom Bainter agreed to speak with us, we jumped at the chance to learn why his team has had so much success It didn’t take us long to understand why Coach Bainter spoke about Bothell with passion and, as he described his coaching philosophy to us, we felt the years melt away and were ready to strap on the pads and hit the field to play for him This is a guy who is doing it for all the right reasons As he told us, he likes to think outside the box But, everything he does, he does for his players As Jim says in his article that preceded this one, “He’s a heck of a coach, and an even better man”
In the interview below, we hope that you can feel some of the passion and love for the game that we felt sitting there in his classroom listening to Coach Bainter wax poetically about Bothell and his football program As Coach Bainter riffed on and on about his theories for getting the school and community behind the football team and what he does to get everyone involved, it became abundantly clear why Bothell wins football games and continues to do so year after year
We started off the interview by asking him where he played his collegiate football Coach Bainter: I went to Western I was the first Bainter to graduate from college and I went to college because Western had an interest in me playing football
Where did you play your high school football?
Coach Bainter: I played at Evergreen High School Evergreen closed in 2007
How old were you when you began playing football?
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