With 20 winning seasons, ten league championships, four state titles, 25 top-eight individual state finishes and five top-eight teams, and 63 all-league honors, Charles Wright Academy’s athletic program wrapped up another very successful year this week. 

Across 15 high school sports, the school recorded 12 winning seasons – varsity and JV girls soccer, boys and girls tennis, boys and girls cross-country, varsity boys basketball, JV girls basketball, boys and girls golf, and boys and girls track and field.  At the middle school level, eight winning seasons were recorded – varsity football, boys and girls cross-country, varsity and JV volleyball, varsity boys soccer, JV boys basketball, boys and girls track and field, and baseball.

A total of ten league championships were won.  In the Upper School, girls and boys cross-country, boys soccer, girls tennis, boys golf and boys track and field all won league titles.  The boys soccer team also won the tri-district championship.  In the Middle School, league championships were won boys and girls cross-country and boys and girls track and field.  No golf champions were named this year.

At the state level, the Tarriers won four state titles and had 25 top-eight individual event finishes and five top-eight teams.  State championship titles were won by Max LaBerge in the 3200m run, Nick Smith in the 800m run, Ishmael Stinson in the triple jump and Rachel Williams, Grace Su and Diane Lawrence and Emilee Bell in the 4×100m relay.  In total, the Tarriers recorded 22 top-eight finishes at state in cross-country (3), track and field (15), tennis (2) and golf (2) events.  Team top-eight finishes were recorded by boys cross-country (second), boys track and field (third), girls track and field (eighth), boys tennis (eighth) and boys soccer (top-eight).

Major accomplishments this year included the Upper School varsity volleyball team making it farther into the post season than ever before in school history.  The Middle School has been keeping track and field records for 25 years, and this year’s team set new top-five records in almost every event.  New records were set in the boys 100m, 200m, 4×100m and 4×200, and girls 400m and high jump.  Two new Upper School track and field records were set: the boys 4×100m relay team of Jake Weyerhaeuser, Curtis Inouye, Ishmael Stinson and CJ Dale set a new record in 43.92 seconds at state and Ishmael Stinson broke his own record, set in 2008, with a 44 foot 11 inch triple jump at state.

A total of 63 all-league honors across eight sports were awarded to 43 CWA students this year.  Seniors CJ Dale and Eric Knowles won all-league honors in all three seasons.  No awards were made in our league this year in golf.  It is also worth noting that 13 CWA sophomores and three freshmen won all-league honors.

FOOTBALL
Cory Barrett ’10 – football first team offense
Willy Bredberg ’09 – football second team defense
C.J. Dale ’09 – football second team offense and second team defense
Andrew Gapsch ’10 – football second team offense
Eric Knowles ’09 – football second team offense and second team defense
Mike Mayer ’11 – football second team defense
Jake Weyerhaeuser ’09 – football first team defense
Brandon Wilber ’09 – football second team offense

VOLLEYBALL
Kate Ellwanger ’09 – volleyball honorable mention
Grace Su ’09 – volleyball second team
Rachael Williams ’11 – volleyball second team

SOCCER
Jesse Hirota ’11 – girls soccer honorable mention
Natalie Powell ’10 – girls soccer first team
Valerie Rutan ’10 – girls soccer second team
Fallon Staples ’09 – girls soccer first team
Jayme Staten ’10 – girls soccer first team
Natalie Weyerhaeuser ’11 – girls soccer second team
Dillon Truscott ’10 – boys soccer Nisqually league MVP, News Tribune All-Area Boys Soccer Player of the Year and Tacoma Athletic Commission athlete of the month
Ben Olp ’10 – boys soccer defensive player of the year
Cory Barrett ’10 – boys soccer first team
Colin Kodama ’11 – boys soccer first team
Alex Benfanti ’11 – boys soccer first team
Anthony Dileonardo ’09 – boys soccer second team
Andrew Cheney ’12 – boys soccer second team
Spencer Sholes ’10 – boys soccer honorable mention

BASKETBALL
Jorden Hand ’09 – boys basketball first team all-league
CJ Dale ’09 – boys basketball second team all-league
Erick Knowles ’09 – boys basketball honorable mention
Fallon Staples ’09 – girls basketball honorable mention
Brandon White ’10 – boys basketball honorable mention

BASEBALL
Kit Banko ’10 – baseball second team catcher
Eric Knowles ’10 – baseball second team second base
Colin MacLeod ’11 – baseball second team outfield
Michael Kane ’09 – baseball honorable mention

TRACK & FIELD
Diane Lawrence ’10 – track and field honors for 4×100m and 4×200m relays and 100m dash
Rachael Williams ’11 –track and field honors for 4×100m and 4×200m relays
Khoe Tyner ’11 – track and field honors for 4×200m relay
Grace Su ’09 – track and field honors for 4×100m and 4×200m relays
Emilee Bell’09 – track and field honors for 4×100m relay
Jake Weyerhaeuser ’09– all league track and field honors for 4×100m and 4×400m relays, 100m and 200m dashes
Curtis Inouye ’09 – track and field honors for 4×100m and 4×400m relays
CJ Dale ’09 – track and field honors for 4×100m and 4×400m relays
Ishmael Stinson ’09 – track and field for 4×100m and 4×400m relays and triple jump
Nick Smith ’09 – track and field for 800m run
Cierra Gillard ’09 – track and field for 1600m run
Jeff Crabill ’10 – track and field for the 1600m run
Max LaBerge ’10 – track and field for the 3200m run

TENNIS
Megan Kelley ’10 – girls tennis doubles
Sarika Halarnakar ’11 – girls tennis doubles
Sara Finkleman ’11 – girls tennis singles
Jean Kim ’11 – girls tennis singles
Sarah Johnson ’11 – girls tennis doubles
Natalie Weyerhaeuser ’11 – girls tennis doubles
Daniel Ham ’12 – boys tennis singles
Dillon Truscott ’10 – boys tennis doubles
Chris Wong ’11 – boys tennis doubles
Xavier Al-Mateen ’09 – boys tennis doubles
Hunter Hassig ’09 – boys tennis doubles

CROSS COUNTRY
Nick Smith ’09 – cross country
Max LaBerge ’10 – cross country
Jeff Crabill ’10 – cross country
Rie Nordestgaard ’12 – cross country
Khoe Tyner ’11 – cross country
Sarah Lee ’10 – cross country