Twelve months later, Lauren Kaufman gets a chance to change an outcome of less than a second.
The Hazen swimmer finished third in the 50-yard freestyle race at the 3A state swim last season as just a freshman. Impressed? Kaufman wasn’t.
Leonard Wolfork got something rare in football: a second chance. And this time he made sure no one caught him.
The Lindbergh boys and girls teams swept the Seamount League cross-country meet at Evergreen on Oct. 24.
Tradition means different things to different people. For the Lindbergh boys cross-country team, it means a third undefeated dual meet season in the past four years. It means a fourth-consecutive league championship, and it likely means a sixth team appearance at state in the past seven seasons.
It’s one thing for players to take losses in stride because better times are ahead. It’s another thing for the small group of seniors on the Hazen volleyball team to take the losses now, because they won’t be around to see the reward.
Thomas Lowes got beat last year. In fact, opponents beat him nearly every time out on the court. So much so that Liberty tennis coach Mike Salokas worried about the freshman’s psyche.
It turns out pain is just a mindset for Chad Meis.
Nine seconds. That’s how much time shaved off the game clock when Lindbergh’s Frank Cange ran his pass route, collided with a defender, stopped, caught the ball as it popped up and sprinted to the end zone. Seventy-four yards total, nine seconds, with a collision in the middle.
What started with Timm Hines wanting to be prepared to lead an afterschool club soon became a whirlwind of Olympic trials, national teams and state records. Hines didn’t know he had an aptitude for archery; but just six months after starting, he found himself at the Olympic trials, shooting next to the world’s best archers.
As the Lindbergh football team completed a 4-6 season in 2007, Dawson Asuega was a world away. Well, not an entire world, just about 5,200 miles away in Samoa.
Lindbergh beat Foster in five games, 3-2 on Sept. 25.
Liberty piled up 360 yards rushing on the way to a 55-21 rout of Sammamish on Sept. 26.
Entering Friday night’s game, Hazen and Renton were two different teams on two different tracks. The Highlanders were 3-0 and had outscored opponents 66-12. The Indians were 1-2 and had been outscored by opponents 78-72. It didn’t take Renton long to reverse its fortunes.
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