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Artistic expressions of autism Young artists, with the help of high school and junior high school volunteers, exercised their creative abilities at the EX3 Teen & Recreation Center April 20 during the ‘Au-some Artists!’ event sponsored by the Sammamish Arts Commission, 4Culture and the Boys and Girls Club. The afternoon of painting, clay modeling, music making and printmaking was free to all Sammamish area special needs students with autism or other disabilities.
Volunteer Katie Gibian (left), a Skyline High School sophomore, holds a paper plate paint palette for Rose Pitney, 11 as she paints at an easel.
Finished silkscreen prints by some of the many young artists hang to dry on a clothesline.
Ingrid Bergstrom, 16, paints a girl and steam locomotive in a ‘Little House on the Prarie’ scene.
Harrison Jentz (right), 5, strums a tune on a guitar as boardcertified Sammamish music therapists Jesse and (not in picture) Anne Carlson sing and play along as they volunteer their expertise.
Volunteer Erika Shing (left), Skyline High School freshman, lifts a silkscreen frame so Tucker Thompson, 8, can see the butterfly print he has just made.
Photos by Greg Farrar
Matthew Ahn, 11 (Photo at right) , strings colorful yarns on the hooks of a wood frame as volunteer Monsi Pingili, a Beaver Lake Middle School sixth-grader, stands by to offer a hand.
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April 24, 2013
SAMMAMISH REVIEW
Despite loss, Eastlake track showing promise By Lillian O’Rorke
The Eastlake track and field team was edged out by the visiting Redmond team April 18, but it wasn’t rattled by the score, or the rain. “If we win, fine. If we don’t win it, we aren’t going to lose sleep over it,” said Steve Jones, head coach of the Eastlake Wolves. The team dialed it back at its rainy home meet, not even competing in some events, he explained, because he wanted them to be prepared for the Bellevue Invitational that was coming up April 21. Last year nearly 40 teams showed up for the full day of track and field competition. “We didn’t want anyone pulling muscles before Bellevue,” Jones said. “Bellevue is where the bigger fish are, and that’s where we want to be fishing.” The Wolves still pulled off several wins, including one in the girls 800-meter relay, which broke a nearly decade-and-ahalf old school record of 1 minute, 48.6 seconds. Ali Becker, Madelyn Kennedy, Audrey Knutsen and Anna Carskaden ran it in 1:48 flat. Afterwards Becker, who was
Photo by Lillian O’Rorke
Eastlake junior Brooke Calhoun takes off on the second leg of the girls 400-meter relay April 18. growing increasingly wet from the rain drops that never let up,
said that the foursome is just getting started. This was the first
time the Eastlake junior, who is normally a hurdler, ran in the
event. Leading with the first leg, she said her hand off to Kennedy was less than perfect. “We knew she is a strong runner, and we knew she could handle it. And we thought we would give her a shot at it,” Jones said about the decision to add Becker to the 4x200 team. “That is the major thing, that they did so well with those handoffs,” he added. “When we get the handoffs done well, we’ll probably lower the record even more.” Another high point for the girls was Eastlake sophomore Ellie Woerner’s hurdles performance. Taking first in both events, she completed the 300meter hurdles in 47.4. On her way to a 15.2 finish in the 100meter hurdles, Woerner floated over the last hurdle before the rest of the pack made it past the second-to-last set of hurdles. Other wins for the girls included the 200-meter race, in which Anna Carskaden finished with a time of 26.1. Sarah Priestly won Discus with a throw of 77 feet and 0.5 inches. With the help of Nicole Rader clearing 7-6 in the pole vault, Carskaden reaching 16-6.5 in the long jump and See TRACK, Page 13
Skyline takes tennis match 6-1 over Eastlake By Lillian O’Rorke
After having two of its singles matches decided in tie-breaking sets, the Skyline tennis team beat Eastlake 6-1 April 16. “Skyline’s our rival. Obviously we want to win, and when we can’t win, we want to put up a good match,” said the Eastlake Wolves’ coach, Bud Peterson. “They are a good team. We had our hands full from the get go.” Thanks to inclement weather, including hail earlier that day, the match almost didn’t happen. Giving the court extra time to dry out, the two neighboring teams got started about 30 minutes late. Once they did though, many of the girls found themselves face-toface with very familiar opponents. “It’s like this in most sports up here on the plateau,” Peterson explained. “Some years you’ve got friends, who have grown up and who know each other, and they have fun playing together. And other years it can be hypercompetitive, and there can be some mud slinging. But this is not one of those years. It was a
fun match.” The No. 1 singles players, Eastlake’s Katie Park and Skyline’s Julia Lioubarski, play together every Saturday and have done so for years. Just like their rallies, the score went back and forth. Lioubarski won the first set 6-4; Park took the second 3-6. Deep into the third set, Park was leading 5-1 and only needed to win one more game to take the match for Eastlake, but just as Park would get the advantage, Lioubarski would win the next point. Reaching deuce after deuce, the game crept on. A rally of 18 was eventually won by Lioubarski when she smashed the ball deep to the left corner, just out of her opponent’s reach. Park won the last rally, finally winning the game and the match. Afterwards, Park said she couldn’t even remember how many deuces they had. “It was a fun match to play,” Park said, explaining that this was the first time the two played each other in a match that counted. “We are really good friends. And she played really well, and
Photo by Lillian O’Rorke
Jasmine Ye of Skyline, returns the ball in the No. 3 match April 16 against Eastlake. she’s only a freshman right now; so it was fun to play her, and she is going to do really well.” After the match, Park and Lioubarski took to the court again, but this time so that Park’s father could take pictures of them. The next court over,
Lioubarski’s little brother and Park’s younger sister started a game of their own. Another friendly pairing was the No. 2 singles bout, in which Skyline sophomore Shreenu Sivakumar beat Eastlake sophomore Michelle Knutson 6-1, 6-2.
“We’ve been playing together for a really long time,” Sivakumar said, explaining that she and Knutson play year round for the Pine Lake Tennis Club. “I knew her strengths and weaknesses, See TENNIS, Page 13