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SAMMAMISH REVIEW
Photos by Lillian O’Rorke
Students and their families strolled round Endeavour Elementary School Nov. 14, admiring students’ works of art.
“Magic of the Moment” sparks student creativity at Endeavour By Lillian O’Rorke
“Moments come and go in physical action/ But stay in our brain/ Never is there a time when moments aren’t happening/ Sometimes they are sweet/ Sometimes bitter.” So begins Shweta Narayanan’s poem about magic moments. For her, she explained, those moments happen every afternoon. “When I come home from school my mom always gives me a hug and a kiss,” she said. The
third grade student at Endeavour Elementary wrote and submitted her poem for this year’s PTA cultural arts competition, Reflections. Each fall the National PTA, as well as the Washington State PTA, challenge students to create various forms of art work that support a specific theme. This year the theme is “The magic of the moment,” and 179 students at Endeavour submitted entries. “The kids that participate get a great value in terms of put-
After being the unofficial photographer at her cousin’s wedding, Sierra Cox made a collage of her work, for which she earned an honorable mention.
ting together an overall project, and getting to see that their hard work can produce something that has value and is lasting and can touch other people,” said Shareen Locke, Reflections chairwoman for Endeavour’s PTSA. “I think art has a way of just really communicating something that words can’t.” To celebrate all the student’s creative efforts, the school’s PTSA hosted the Endeavour Elementary Reflections Awards Reception Nov. 14 at the school. Over the course of the evening, students and parents wandered around the main corridor of the building, looking at the different drawings, paintings, photographs, poems and short stories that were on display. Other categories in the competition include music composition, film/video and choreography/ dance. Fourth grade students Reese Manley and Krista Mainard strolled slowly along, admiring their classmates’ work. “They all are really good,” said Mainard. She and Manley both wrote pieces for the literature category. Mainard also made a short video for the contest. Ishan Parikh’s magic moment occurred last summer, during a family trip to Canada when he saw a flock of egrets fly over See ART, Page 11
Ishan Parikh won an honorable mention trophy for his cubisminspired piece “Sailing Through the Sunset Afterglow.”
Fourth grader Atri Banerjee shows off his visual arts entry.
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SAMMAMISH REVIEW
Skyline soccer wins another state champoinship By John Leggett
Sometimes really good things come in very small packages. Such was the case on the turf of Puyallup’s Sparks Stadium the evening of Nov. 17 when Issaquah and Skyline squared off for the 4A girls state soccer title. When the dust cleared in the brutally physical throw down,
the Spartans had blanked their KingCo 4A nemesis 1-0 to claim the state crown for the fourth time in the past five years. At the 15-minute mark of a hard fought donnybrook, which included a total of 20 fouls and four yellow cards, Skyline sophomore striker Isabella “Izzy” Marshall, one of the smallest on the field, registered the encoun-
Photo by Greg Farrar
Izzy Marshall (center), Skyline High School sophomore forward, celebrates her goal in the first period with the assist from fellow sophomore forward Amanda Johnston (left), as Issaquah senior goalkeeper Ashley Batistich (1) and other players look on in either dejection or happiness. Skyline won the 4A state championship on Marshall’s goal, 1-0. Photo by Greg Farrar
Brooke Holland (right), Skyline High School junior defender, looks to an official hoping for a foul and getting possession after colliding with Issaquah junior forward Juliana da Cruz during the first period of their state 4A soccer championship match.
ter’s solitary goal. Marshall took a picturesque assist from fellow sophomore forward Amanda Johnston and, amidst heavy traffic in front of Issaquah’s goal, legged in a leftfooted rocket from about five
yards out. “I was just really happy for the seniors on this team, who have shown me that when you work hard, believe in yourselves and play confidently… you can achieve great things,” said the
impish Marshall, with an excited gasp in the electric atmosphere following Skyline’s clutch triumph. As expected in the much-anticSee SOCCER, Page 15
Skyline charges ahead to semifinals with 54-21 win By Lillian O’Rorke
The last time the Skyline football team played under the Space Needle at Memorial Stadium, it had already wrapped up the win by the end of the second quarter, beating Roosevelt 43-7 at the half. Eight weeks later, that wasn’t the case. When the halftime buzzer sounded Nov. 16, the state quarterfinal game was tied 14-14. This was the first time in 15 years that the Roosevelt Roughriders had played in the post season, and after making it to the final eight, they were not going quietly into the night. “We knew Roosevelt was riding high, had the whole city of Seattle behind them…it was a good story, give them credit; give their coaches and players credit,” said Skyline quarterback Max Browne. “But at the end of the day we kind of got down to our basics and really executed what we did, and it was a good night for us.” Roosevelt may have come out swinging, but Skyline answered back, eventually taking the game at 54-21. Browne completed 17
Photo by Dean Rutz/The Seattle Times
Skyline’s Trevor Barney goes right then left along the goal line giving quarterback Max Browne enough time to find him for a 6-yard touchdown in the first half Friday against Roosevelt. of 25 pass attempts, throwing 310 yards for four of Skyline’s eight touchdowns. Three of those end zone throws were caught
by senior wide receiver Trevor Barney. The other came in the third quarter when Browne hit Nic
Sblendorio on the Spartans’ 40-yard line. The senior wide receiver took off running and was away to
complete a 73-yard touchdown, giving Skyline the lead at 27-21. The Spartan defense kept a firm grip on the lead by stifling Roosevelt’s next possession, forcing the Roughriders to punt. “Our linebackers really started to key it in the second half and really just started to read their cues and not over pursue things,” said Skyline coach Mat Taylor. “It’s everything you want your kids to be able to do in handling adversity. In all games, there is going to be adversity and for us it was the first half. My hat’s off to Roosevelt. They did a fantastic job, and we just kept telling the kids ‘we just got to get a couple stops in.’” Skyline also had a strong running game with Cedric Cooper breaking through the middle of the pack several times and totaling 192 yards on 19 carries. The senior scored his first of three touchdowns in the second quarter when he finished an 18-yard run down the right side of the field with a dive into the end zone. Then in the fourth quarter, See FOOTBALL, Page 15