The first full week of fall sports action was intense at Charles Wright.  The frantic voting for KIRO-TV’s high school football game-of-the-week paid off when the camera’s rolled at the Headmaster’s picnic game against King’s.  All that clicking and refreshing aside, the school’s greatest athletic accomplishment of the week was a stunning performance by the boys’ cross-country team at their first meet of the season.  The Tarriers took first, second, and third and it sure looks like they’re on their way to fullfilling the expectations of the pre-season coaches’ poll which ranked them third in the state.

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Elliot Rosen, a sophomore at Charles Wright and an aspiring sports announcer/broadcaster, launched the school’s first online show this week, the Tarrier Sports Report.  Two episodes of the Tarrier Sports Report are now available online giving fans new insights into the successes of their favorite teams.  Read the rest of this entry »

Jorden LaFontaine-Kussmann, a 2007 graduate of Charles Wright Academy, is back on the soccer fields at the University of California. During her freshman season, the keeper was diagnosed with lymphoma. She showed her true Tarrier spirit as she battled to simultaneously fight cancer, excel in college and return to the sport she loves. Read the rest of this entry »

This was a very successful year for Charles Wright’s athletic program.  Across three seasons, the Tarriers racked up eight league championships, five district titles, and two state championships.  Charles Wright athletes competed at the state level in eleven different sports and nine students returned with top-three finishes.  All-league honors were awarded to 49 Tarriers with seven athletes winning honors in more than one sport.  If all-league golf teams had been named this year, that figure would have been well over 50.

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By Jim Dempsey

I have been involved in sports for most of my life.  Throughout my experiences, I have come to appreciate the opportunities that athletics provides to test one’s character.  You know the feeling - there are five minutes left in the match and your team is losing.  How am I going to make a difference?  Or, there are two outs, with two strikes, in the bottom of the ninth with runners on base – your team is down by one run – will you crack under the pressure and go down on strikes, or will you be strong enough drive in the winning runs?  Many know the feeling that I am talking about: when one is put in a pressure situation and has to prove his or her ability to come through in the clutch moments. 

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The 2008 Charles Wright girls’ 4×100 and 4×200 meter relay team is the fastest girls’ relay team in Charles Wright history and very nearly the fastest in state 1A track history.  The team of four set a new school record at the 2008 tri-district track meet.  Memorial Day weekend at Mount Tahoma Stadium in Tacoma, they came within a split-second of snagging two state championship titles and setting two new state records. 

There were beaten only by the slimmest of margins by a team that broke the state 1A meet records in both the 4×100 meter and 4×200 meter events.  On Saturday, senior Megan Petersen, freshman Rachael Williams, junior Fallon Staples, and sophomore Diane Lawrence carried the baton to second-place finishes in both the girls’ 4×100 meter and 4×200 meter relay events.

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CWA Boys Tennis successfully defended its state 1A tennis title over Memorial Day weekend in Yakima edging University Prep of Seattle by one point.  After a 19 year drought, CWA boys tennis now has back-to-back state championships.

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The first day of the state 1A tennis tournament in Yakima brought mixed results for Charles Wright.  The Tarriers had two boys’ teams in the tournament and both have advanced to tomorrow’s semi-finals.  For the girls, however, only one of three teams remains in the competition and they will have to win two matches to secure a fourth-place finish.

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Just a few hours after the girls’ team clinched their second place finish at the state golf tournament, the Tarrier boys followed in the footsteps with a second place finish of their own.  All five Charles Wright golfers finished in the state’s top 36 and Sam McAvoy tied for tenth place in the individual competition. 

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With three players in the top 22, the Charles Wright girls’ golf team took second in state today at the tournament in North Bellingham.  In individual competition, Kelsie Atz took fifth place.  She shot a 95 yesterday and a 92 today for a combined score of 179.  Deanna Wade took ninth.  She turned in a score of 100 yesterday and 99 today for a total of 199.  Georgia Wade came in 21st after shooting 102 yesterday and 114 today.  Her total was 216. 

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