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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 220 - Winter Sports Wrap Up 1 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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This is Nuksack Valley senior basketball player Devin Coppinger and you're listening to the Walcome
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Preps Podcast with Tyler and Ryland Rally the Valley. Greetings and welcome into the
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watcom Preps podcast. This is episode two twenty, the first Winter Sports Weekly
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wrap Up. I'm Royland Spencer. Along with me as always is Tyler Anderson
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of Watcomb Preps. Tyler, how we doing doing great? This is guy's
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a new adventure and you got through it well Winter Sports Weekly wrap Up.
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That that saying it the first time. That's a little tougher than it looks.
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Oh yeah, we're changing the name of that one. We're going to
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figure this out, honest truth. Actually, you know what, hold on,
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Devin Coppinger needs a thank you for the intro. Knooksack Valley girls basketball,
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which we're gonna talk about them a little bit here tonight because they are
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They're okay, they're all right, but we're gonna talk about all kinds of
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stuff. Tyler, we don't know what we're doing here. I mean,
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we know what we're talking about. We kind of got a list of stuff
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to talk about here, but we don't know the format. You know,
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in football, we go you know, U, what do you call it?
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The game recaps and then we go to the players this week. You
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know, we did it like five years. There was a rhythm to it.
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Yeah, this we got no idea what we're doing. We just have
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a list of stuff. We're going to see how it goes. If you
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go back, I'm sure if you go back and listen to the first you
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know what ten podcasts that we ever did as far as football goes, I'm
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sure the format is completely different than it is now. Yeah, part partly
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because we've added so much stuff. So with this, we don't know what's
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going on. We're gonna figure it out. We're gonna have fun with it.
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If something's good, we'll keep doing it. If something sucks, won't
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get rid of it. Right, we we just won't do it anymore.
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over there now, Tyler. Yes, we've got sponsors on some of this
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stuff that we're gonna talk about today. We've got boys, women, dive
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staff or insurance. We'll talk about them. We've got the scoreboards. I'm
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sure people have seen it all over the place. The basketball scoreboards are sponsored
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by Eedeline Dry and that's girls and boys, the players of the week.
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Those are sponsored by Anytime Fitness. That being set the only people well edly,
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Dari's getting their money's worth, that's for dang sure. Yeah, because
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I've seen a ton of basketball scoreboards, Tyler, let me tell you,
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Mike good every day. Yeah, and it is. I mean they're getting
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a ton of eyes that being set. The thing that is getting the most
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eyes right now are probably the basketball recaps, and those don't have a sponsor,
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right, You're right, it's a boy. Those get a ton of
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views. You know, there's two of those every day as well, and
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there's a lot of information in those and people are excited once they come out.
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So uh yeah, those could be sponsored and just just waiting to hear
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and and see I have a good feeling that they will be at some point,
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you know, even like during the fall season there were some that there
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was some kind of late comers to a few things, and then everything kind
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of got filled up. So I've got I've got faith. And really it's
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like from the time that you're hearing this until what the almost like the middle
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or the end. Well, let's just say the middle of February. We're
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talking like six days a week that these things are coming out. And there's
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two of them, right, Well, they could sponsor just girls or just
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boys if they wanted to, but there's a girls and a boy separate right,
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Yes, yeah, they're completely separate posts. Yeah, And I mean
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they're getting thousands of views every single day and they're getting a lot of interactions
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on social media too that I see. So somebody wants their their name,
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their logo, whatever, I mean, it's out there, and if they
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want to get a hold of you, Tyler, what's the best way to
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do that. How can they get in touch to get this figured out?
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Yeah? Definitely through social media. Just search for walking preps through Instagram,
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Twitter, or Facebook, or you could always send me an email at mister
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mohawk at hotmail dot com. That's mister spelled out underscore mohawk at hotmail dot
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com. Now that being said, Tyler, we have a lot of things.
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We've got the PBS out of the way, all right, the call
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in show, right, all the people say the phones, although it's just
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you at a computer, the pledge drive. Yeah, exactly. Today,
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this is what we're going to talk about today. We've got boys wrestling,
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We've got boys swim and dive, We've got girls and boys basketball. So
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there's a lot of stuff to talk about here. I don't even know how
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long this podcast is going to go. We'll figure that out as we go
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here. But yeah, so we've got some stuff to talk about here,
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Tyler, and we're going to start off with boys wrestling, which by the
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way, does not have a sponsor. That's true, no sponsor, and
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boys wrestling is maybe the one that we're getting I don't want to say the
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least cooperation because people are quiet it. We need maybe even a little bit
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more help with some stuff, if you will. Getting good reports from some
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schools, but man, the buy in from everybody else is maybe not so
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much there at the moment. But that being said Bellingham Blaine Mount Baker.
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They look like they're real strong this year. Yeah, those are those are
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kind of the ones that were expected to do pretty well this year, and
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they've started out great. Bellingham has won They won a dual tournament at home
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a couple of weekends ago. It took second place at Arlington tournament the A
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Town Throwdown on just this last Saturday, and they did it, had a
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great showing there. They're just really strong up and down. I mean,
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you know, I think there's only a one weight class maybe that they're not
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filling right now, so it's you know, you want to get them all
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filled obviously, but they're really strong up and down. Nate lost a one
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hundred and fifty pounder. He just he just took first place. He had
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a pinfall in that A Town Throwdown tournament to and and when you're in the
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championship and you get a pinfall, you get an extra couple points, and
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that allowed them to jump up for second place in that tournament, which is
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great. Pavel Shintar at one fifty seven, is a really good wrestler.
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They have some smaller guys Jason McCarty and Dylan Roath can are both at that
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one oh six, So if they're wrestling in a dual meet, then then
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Dylan Roath will wrestle up at one thirteen and Finnegan Jensen at two eighty five
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is a beast, can move really well. We've seen him on the football
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field. So they just they have a lot of pieces that do really really
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well. And I've recognized a couple of those names. Nate Lost played football,
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right, Yeah, Nate Loss is a safety and and uh yeah,
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Finnig and Jensen's been on the he's been playing varsity since he was a freshman.
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And so yeah, there's some football guys in there. And then I
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know Blaine. I know Victor Gerval is one of the better wrestlers in the
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state. You know at Blaine. But who else is on that team?
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Who are some of the people that we need to know about on the Blaine
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wrestling program. Well, they always are just really good. They've been great
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for you know since the seventies. Yes, I remember hearing them in the
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Tacoma Dome back when I was in high school. Yeah, they always have
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and what they they have a great youth program. Barracudas the blame Barracudas and
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they come up and and so they always have a ton of interaction with the
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community and they can get a lot of kids out there to wrestle. So
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that's their big thing is they always have a lot of numbers. They always
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have a lot of guys. You know, you go to a wrestling practice
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and there's you know, there's you know, thirty forty kids in there.
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It's like, wow, man, it's crazy. Yeah, And it's and
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so they never have a problem, you know, filling slots or anything like
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that. You go to those tournaments and they fill up the jvs as well,
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and they do great. You mentioned Victor Gerval, you know, finished
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second place last year to eighty five. He's gonna be great again this year.
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Cole Voight. Jacksonville's the Shelton brothers, Auto Shelton, Max Shelton,
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completely different guys. Otto Shelton's a big guy, about six three, wrestling
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probably at the at the like at the two point fifteen you know, weight
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class. And his little brother, Max Shelton's a smaller guy. He's just
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a freshman. But that Shelton, you know, those Sheltons have been wrestling
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forever and they just they just have so much any guys, and it's it's
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it's kind of like going against Linden and basketball. It's like you just see
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the name Linden and you're like, oh man. The same thing with Blaine
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for wrestling. It's like you see you got Blaine coming up and and there's
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a there, there's a mystique about them. And I really like their coach,
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Tom Hines, former state champion at Nooksack Valley and and uh, it's
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a really good program. Now, Tyler, give me a little bit of
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news. I know, uh, I know LEP's the man out there.
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I know he's the wrestling coach. Also, so uh have you talked to
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him? Well? Is he is he losing his mind over there? What's
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going on? Yeah? He, I mean I have he likes his squad.
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It's not a big squad. There's a you know, they don't have
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the smaller weights and they don't have a two eighty five pounder, which is
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really strange for for Baker. They always seem to have some really good guys
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at that higher weights and over the years, you know, you could you
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could give that a lot too, because to coach Lep wrestling them at practice
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and showing them stuff. Yeah. Uh so they always had some really good
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heavyweights that that could really show you something. But but they have older Giardi
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at two fifteen. He's he's probably under two hundred pounds, but you know,
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he just they just he just went five and zero over the weekend at
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East Jefferson in like a dual tournament, you know, where you wrestled a
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bunch of different schools as a team. Is what you're saying, Yeah,
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right, team? Oh a bracket of ten ten Kidsah right, and it's
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it's just getting Matt time, right, it's just getting a lot of good
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a lot of matches in there. Uh. Vance Lawrence is is you know
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a returning stud. Daniel Washburn is really really good. I wanted to and
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I should have looked this up. I think Washburn got second in state last
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year. And there's just a really really you know him and his brother,
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his older brother Elijah, who won state last year. He just graduated.
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But Daniel Washburn's really good. Gavin Compton at one thirty a is a sophomore.
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Is his dad, Jody was a great wrestler at Mount Baker. Dylan
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Moa him and Vance Lawrence at one seventy five and one ninety. You know,
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they can kind of go back and forth maybe match up, you know
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against whoever they could both they're both under one seventy five. But you know,
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it's all about matchups when it depends on who you're wrestling against. And
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uh, Wyatt Freeman at one sixty five a junior, Uh, it's a
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you know, Baker's always gonna be really good as well. But they're just
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the numbers aren't there like it like they usually are. But the guys they
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have are really good. So I think they're gonna do pretty well this year.
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Yeah, I'm seeing Gavin Compton. Uh looks like he won. Uh
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let's see here. What the heck they've got it all messed up? I
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don't know, but uh, I know this much. Tyler the guy that
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uh from Vashon Island last year, his name was Michael Ryland. Oh yeah,
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his last name was literally r Y L A N D. And the
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crazy thing is it said Ryland Vashon, you know because eventually once you go
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past the first round, all they use is your last name. Yeah,
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and said said, uh uh yeah Vashon And I was like wait a second
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here, Like I didn't Wrestle one thirty eight last year. Like, what's
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going on here? Something's not right about this? Yeah? Yeah, Tyler?
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I mean and you know what though, Tyler, I don't know if
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I ever officially graduated high school. So maybe I could hop in there at
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the two eighty five for Baker. What do you think? Well, you
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know who would love to have you high school? Oh wait, it would
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be there? You go there, Yeah, maybe I'll bring you some lemons.
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Get on the tea. Yeah, all right, that's boys wrestling,
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Tyler. Let's talk boys swim and dive. Now. Stoff for Insurance.
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They came on a couple of weeks ago. You did a commercial with them.
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Have we even talked about that commercial on here? Have we done it?
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I maybe a little bit. I don't know. I think maybe we
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did a lot of the volleyball. Maybe we mentioned it there. We may
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have. I can't remember, but uh yeah, Stoff for Insurance, and
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we obviously thank them for for jumping on board. They're there's only five teams
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Tyler that do swim and dive up there in Wakam County. You were kind
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of telling me that's what I'm looking for here. You were telling me off
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the air that if somebody from a school that doesn't have or a wrestling a
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swim and dive team. So here it is Squalicum, Seehome, Ferndale,
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Bellingham, Linden, those are the teams. But if somebody from Knoksack Valley
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wants to swim, they'll just join basically, I mean they would probably what
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I would think, they'd joined Linden. Probably it'd be the closest team to
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them, So that's pretty cool. I didn't kind of, I mean,
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I guess in theory that I guess I should know, you know, I
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should know that that should happen, but I guess I'd never really thought about
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it. That being said, swimming is one of those sports, though Tyler,
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where it's not so much about winning and losing as much as it is
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about the time that you register throughout the year in terms of qualifying for state,
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right right, Yeah, there's district qualifying times, there's state qualifying times,
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and if you and it's all it's kind of like track and field where
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where they don't necessarily do it that way, but as you see, as
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the season goes on, you just see better and better times, especially in
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certain certain events. You kind of know who the guys are gonna be.
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Yeah, And in swimming, it's very much like that. I would assume
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that every single week that times are just gonna keep dropping a little bit by
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a little bit, by a little bit, and you'll just kind of keep
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seeing that happen. But right now there's a couple of swimmers locally that are
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putting up some major, unbelievable times. Yeah, and I'm looking at it
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here, Tyler. So you got me a list here, all right,
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We've got state qualifying times the butterfly, the freestyle, the backstroke, I
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know those. What the heck is the individual medley? Do we have to
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google that one? I? You know, I think and I'm you might
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need to, but I think the two hundred individual medley is. So it's
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two hundred meters or yards or whatever it is, and you do four different
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strokes. As a matter of fact, Tyler, Google is our friend,
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and you're right it is. It's butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.
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Right. Yeah, So it's you gotta be able to do really well
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at all these different things, and so that I mean, you know,
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you're not. It's like it's kind of like the Decathlon of swimming. I
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guess that's what you would say. Yeah, that's actually a great like you're
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you're you're right, that's that's very much what it is now that being said,
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Tyler, correct me if I'm wrong. Wasn't Jake Taylor's ex wife in
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the two hundred individual medley in the alternates? The alternate on the eighty one
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alternate on the for those of you that don't know, that's from Major League
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the Baseball movie back. What was that like eighty eight or something or eighty
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nine and that came out? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm glad that
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you picked up on where I was going there, Tyler. As soon as
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you said Jake Taylor, I just started smiling because I knew exactly where you're
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gonna go. Did we did you give the names yet? Have we given
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the names of the kid? Oh? Okay, give me the Let's let's
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start out the two hundred individual medley. Who are the guys there? So
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there's a couple that have already qualified for state. So Dylan Fisk gets Squalicum
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with a time of two minutes and two seconds, two minutes two point four
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to five seconds, and Brayden loafal Holts of Sea home two minutes and seven
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point four to two seconds, so they've I think it's like two oh eight,
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two oh nine. Somewhere in there is the two a qualifying time for
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the state tournament. So they're both already in. It's a that's a just
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those are just great times. Now, Tyler, how the heck did you
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you said Braiden loafel Holts. Hey, man, that's what I'm going with.
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I mean, I think you're right, but you've rattled that one off.
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I mean you when I'm looking at the name l Oe f f E
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l h O l Z, I wouldn't have even known where to begin.
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Well, I typed it out. When when I was typing it out,
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I was thinking, I have to say this, so I better say it
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what I think is right. Yeah, I mean it could be said.
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I said it in my head, and you know it's got to be because
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l Oe would make loaf, you know, not lof Now, Tyler Brayden.
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Lofelholtz is also qualified in another as well, the five hundred freestyle.
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Yeah, five hundred freestyle. I can't imagine swimming that far. I mean,
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you know, my goodness, that's that's that's crazy. I could barely
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walk that. Yeah, that's unbelievable. That's uh. And and like I'm
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looking at like the top five times around the county and he's he's like a
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minute and a half ahead of the next guy. So uh, good lord,
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way out ahead of everybody. And what incredible endurance that shows. Now
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that being said, Dylan Fisk says, anything you do, I can do
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better. And he's qualified in three different events for the state tournament. Correct.
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Yeah, so we talked about the two hundred individual medley. He's also
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qualified for the one hundred butterfly and the one hundred backstrokes, so we so
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we kind of probably know his two best, you know, of the four
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different strokes, the butterfly and the backstroke. So uh, that's again,
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that's incredible that he's qualified for those and that I think for the butterfly he's
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the only one that's under a minute and he's eight seconds well set a little
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over seven seconds under. Yeah, so it's a pretty good time. That's
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absolutely incredible. Well that is boys swim and dive, and update there again,
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thank you to staff for Insurance, you know, for sponsoring boys women
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dive. They're also good sponsoring a couple of other things that we'll get to
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later on in the year. And then did you tell me, Tyler,
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they're sponsoring one next fall. They've already kind of like locked themselves in for
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that. Oh yeah, they're they're on they're on boards. Uh. The
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owner of Marty Staffer is he's a strong believer in Walk the Preps and and
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uh, he's really excited about the direction that we're going and you just it's
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excited to be on board with it. Also a strong believer in your acting
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skills. Tyler. All right, let's see here we are, well,
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we're about twenty minutes in, so let's go. Let's talk about girls basketball
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here, Tyler. Scoreboards are sponsored by Edeline Dry. Players of the Week
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those are sponsored by Anytime Fitness. Now, Tyler, what this first one?
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This first uh here, let me scroll back up this first Winter Sports
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Weekly wrap up. We're kind of talking about everything that's happened up until this
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point. There's more than one week has happened in multiple sports here. When
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it comes to the future podcast that we do, that's only going to cover
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the last seven days. So that being said, do we have more than
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one week of Players of the Week so far? Yeah? So we've already
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we announced some last weekend. We're about ready to announce some today as well.
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So we can do that on the podcast, okay, and then and
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then we'll see it online as well. Okay. So normally, is it
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Tuesday that we did the players of the week for football? Uh? Yeah,
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okay, So for basketball, those go out on Monday. They're gonna
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go out on Monday, yes, okay, So when So, anybody that's
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subscribed to the podcast. By the way, this is supposed to go out
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at eight o'clock in the morning on Monday. Anybody subscribe to the podcast,
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they could actually hear who's going to get announced later that day. Then,
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right, exactly, Hey, subscribe to the podcast, you could get in
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the No, you get ahead of schedule on everybody here. That being said,
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Tyler, let's go back. Let's talk about you said there's been two
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weeks. Let's talk about the first week of girls basketball as far as players
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of the week. Who were the first week or excuse me, girls and
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boys? I guess is what we could do here? Sure? Yeah.
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In week one for girls, it was Natalie van lu from Mount Baker.
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They started out three and oh it was the first time Mount Baker girls had
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started out three and oh in probably about five or six years. She's a
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sophomore point guard. She just she was averaging twenty points a game in those
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first three games, just on fire. There was one game where she had
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twelve steals, twelve steals, yestals, and it was and they were all
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kind of different times, different ways. I mean, sometimes she would just
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pick the pocket and go, but she'd played the passing lanes. She's fearless.
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Man. I was watching a game at Bellingham during that first week and
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and I think she had played the entire game. And because it's kind of
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a small roster for Baker and they rely on her quite a bit, and
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she like with three minutes left to gay go in the game, she just
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kind of pulled up and you could see her leg cramped, like you could
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see it. It's like, holy cow. Like you don't see it in
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football. It happens a lot in football, but you don't see it.
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Yeah. I saw one the other day. A kid was laying down on
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the basketball court at Bothelen. Oh, and I was just I didn't know,
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Like you just don't see it very often, Like you don't. It
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happens a lot but you don't actually see the muscle cramping, you know what
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I mean. And I sat there and I sat there and watched it.
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It was just like, oh, this is disgusting, like it just it
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just doesn't look normal, you know, right right. And you know they
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were ahead by you know, maybe nine or ten at that point. They
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still got the victory, but man, that was that was tough. I
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mean, she's just out there, she's sacrificed, she dives for everything.
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Uh. Really really good player, just a sophomore. Like I said,
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so Natalie van Leu at Mount Baker player of the Week and of Week one
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for the boys basketball. In Week one, it was Tallon Jenkins of Meridian,
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a six five guard, which you know, you just don't You just
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don't see that too oft You see that in the NBA. Yeah, but
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at the high school level, if you're six five, they're usually putting you
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in the post. But he, you know, he's he's definitely a guard,
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uh, a junior. He has a sharp shooter. H just you
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know, it looks different when he shoots the basketball. You know, there's
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you know a lot of high school kids at Meridian at a football yeah,
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who knows, But man, just a great athlete, a lot of steals
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as well, block shots, can run, can finish, can shoot everything.
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He had a he had an unbelievable week. Meridian went to an ode
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in that first week, and uh, that's and that's kind of how I
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look at It's like, you know, if you if you win all your
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games that week, that that helps you in the running to win Player of
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the Week and then kind of look over the numbers and make a choice.
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Now. Okay, so you you're let's do this now. Okay, So
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we talked about the first week of Players of the Week. Let's talk about
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the teams a little bit now, and then we'll come back and we'll talk
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about this week's Players of the Week. How about that? Sure sounds good?
23:42
All right? So again, players are the week sponsored by Anytime Fitness
23:45
Tyler. What are the three Anytime Fitness facilities that that specifically that are part
23:51
of the sponsorship. Yes, exactly. There's one in London. There's one
23:56
that's called Linden North. So the one that's technically Linden is on Handing Road,
24:00
Linden North is more in like the city limits of Linden, and then
24:03
the one in Ferndale as well is the is the third one? Okay?
24:07
And uh, and those are the sponsors of the players of the week.
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Let's talk a little bit about the teams. Now, let's start off with
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girls basketball. And I think what we'll do is we'll kind of like look
24:18
over the standings here and I'll just give you. I'll just give you a
24:21
little batch of teams and then you kind of give me, you know,
24:23
what's been going on so far with those three I guess it's not three because
24:27
there are ten teams, but say it's gonna be three, three and like
24:30
four is kind of what we'll do here. Yeah, so I'll give you
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a little batch here. Let's go. Uh, let's let's start with Meridian.
24:36
Uh, we're talking girls basketball here. Meridian they are one and two,
24:40
Squalicum is one and three, and Bellingham they are also one and three.
24:44
To tell me a little bit about those three teams, Well, I
24:47
you know, these are teams that have started out a little slow. You
24:51
know, Bellingham's very young. They don't have any seniors at all, So
24:55
I think that, you know, I was, I was joking with their
24:59
athletic director and they even said something like, well, senior night, you
25:02
know, we'll be quick and it's like, yeah, that's actually really funny.
25:07
Yeah, but Malia Hanks can run the show, Mary Mary Lockhart down
25:11
low. They have some nice pieces, but it's you know, it's just
25:15
kind of learning how to go. They're they're a very young team as well.
25:18
Squalicum again very young. They do have some nice pieces. Mari Binning
25:25
as a really good deep shooter. She's she's awesome from the foul line,
25:29
about eighty percent from the foul line. Mikayla Heaton likes to shoot deep.
25:33
They have a freshman Karl Kisaw who can shoot deep, so they you know,
25:37
they're they're not shy about shooting it. And they do have some tall
25:41
girls down below to Loretta Murphy Kingis who's a junior, and Addison Ktman,
25:47
who's just a freshman coming off the bench at five foot ten. So,
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uh, I think Squalk is one of those teams that's that's gonna improve as
25:55
the season goes on. And then who else did you mention? Murray,
25:59
I'm Rida Ham and Squalicon, Yeah, Meridian. Meridian is surprised to me,
26:03
it's kind of surprising that they're one and two. I think they're a
26:06
pretty good team. Ali Richter is is really really good. She's she can
26:11
kind of do a lot of different things. They kind of want her to
26:12
probably shoot most of the time. Brooklyn Foller is a really good point guard.
26:17
Uh, just a hard worker, Like you could see the determination on
26:21
her face all the time, Like she only goes, you know, one
26:23
speed constantly all the time. Uh. Savannah Storeguard is very good. Mattie
26:29
Swanson's a good player. She's just a just a freshman. So yeah,
26:33
they have they have some some good pieces that uh, and they got some
26:37
good coaching too. So I think that I think that their records a little
26:41
bit deceiving. I think they're gonna start move moving up here as the season
26:45
goes along. All right, let's go right in the middle of the pack
26:48
as far as standings go. Let's talk about Ferndale, Blaine, Lynn Christian,
26:52
and Mount Baker. Now, Ferndale there're three and one, Blaine also
26:56
three and one. Lynn Christian's two and two, and then you mentioned Mount
26:59
Baker started three. You know, they've lost three straight, so they are
27:02
three and three. So let's talk about those four teams. Tyler, Yeah,
27:04
Ferndale is they're really good. You know, the one loss this year
27:10
was to Jackson that was at home to the Real Seasons. Yeah, so
27:14
that was you know, and they they like Jackson when I came off to
27:18
a huge lead and then Ferndo played even with them the rest of the game,
27:22
so that was pretty impressive. Ferndo really only plays six players. It's
27:25
it's uh so you have to be in really good shape. But those six
27:29
are very very good and they compliment each other very well. Kayla Washington,
27:34
Mallory Button, shown, Julia Fox. They just have players that can do
27:40
lots of the different things. Naomi Stanley, Malia Singson, and Abby White
27:44
all all six of them. They can all shoot, they can all rebound,
27:48
they can all play defense, and they all have great endurance because you
27:51
know, they're just kind of the one sub subb for everybody and they just
27:53
kind of rotate around and and it's pretty impressive to see Blaine three one.
28:00
You know, I don't even think they have a JV team, and they
28:03
only have eight or nine girls on the varsity. So it's it's been it's
28:07
been tough. You got to play a lot of minutes there as well.
28:10
There's there's a few freshmen on the team that aren't playing as much but the
28:15
but they kind of have like their three stars that they're gonna have take a
28:19
lot of shots. Jordan Vezzetti, she's really strong down below, but she
28:22
can shoot threes very very good. She just had a huge game against Oak
28:27
Harbor which they almost won. They they lost it at the end. And
28:33
then the Dubat sisters, Deja Dubay and Taya Dubay. Deja is a senior.
28:38
She does she she's one that fills out the stat sheet like you wouldn't
28:41
believe. Like there's always like five assists, five steals, eight rebounds.
28:45
You know, she does a little bit of everything. She's a great rebounder,
28:48
but she'll bring the ball up the court as well. And then her
28:49
younger sister, Taya Dubey, is just a freshman, but she can get
28:55
rebounds. She's she's a great at the bank shot. She's about five foot
28:59
eight and so and she'll shoot outside too. So those are kind of the
29:03
three main pieces. Lynn and Christian starting two and two is an anomaly.
29:07
I mean they've been in the state championship game. Boy, the last six
29:14
seasons, I think in the state championship game. Yeah, yeah, they've
29:18
been they here's something for you. They have finished in the top four in
29:23
state the last seventeen years. Oh my goodness, yeah, yeah yeah.
29:32
Lennon Christian girls have a unbelievable history, I'd say so. And their coach,
29:40
Brady Bomber, is awesome and and so it's really strange to see them
29:45
at two and two. I have no doubt in my mind that they will,
29:48
you know, elevate. They lost a heartbreaker to Burlington Edison on the
29:52
road that was they lost by one. It was just like, oh,
29:55
it's crazy, but I think they'll be just fine. They beat Archbishop On
30:00
on a three and overtime Ella Fritz banked in a three at overtime. Was
30:03
unbelievable. Lenny Christian. This year is young, so maybe it won't be,
30:08
you know, another state championship type of run for them. But but
30:12
it's they're always going to be really good. I have no doubt in my
30:15
mind. Mount Baker, you know, like you said, started three to
30:19
zero, they've dropped three sins. And it's it's the numbers game too,
30:25
you know, there's they have good pieces, but it's they got to kind
30:27
of get everybody, you know playing at the same time, there's there's injuries,
30:32
there's different things like that. They have a really good freshman too,
30:36
Violet Fox is an awesome player that can bring the ball up, can rebound,
30:41
She's deadly from the foul line. She hits threes. So I think
30:45
and they're they're they're a team kind of built for the future. I think.
30:48
I think they only have one senior, Jenna Weininger down low, that
30:52
is a really good rebounder and I think she's averaging over ten rebounds a game
30:56
on the season, so uh but everybody else is an and underclassman. So
31:02
I think that there's gonna be there's a bright future for Mount Baker as well.
31:04
But they're on a little bit of a dip right now, losing three
31:07
in a row. I'm just looking it up here, Tyler. The last
31:11
time they were not in the state championship game for uh Lynn and Christian was
31:15
twenty seventeen. Yeah, and Mount Baker was in it that year. Yeah,
31:19
I mean that's pretty wild. And then correct me if I'm wrong here.
31:22
But the last two years it's been Elsie and Knoksack against each other in
31:26
the state chasship game. Yep, I mean that's wild. That is absolutely
31:32
wild. I mean I'm just I'm just looking this over now. I mean
31:34
it's I don't know that that people know that, you know what I mean,
31:38
Like, I mean people up here know that. Well, yeah,
31:41
I fully admit I don't follow girls basketball super close. But I mean that's
31:48
and then in twenty sixteen they were state champions again. I mean, this
31:52
is unbelievable. I did not know this. This is I mean, when
31:55
you talk about some of the like just truly craziest numbers, you know,
32:00
like that is that's incredible. That is seriously incredible. Did you talk about
32:05
Mount Baker? Yeah, yeah, Okay, so that we got all four
32:08
teams there, which leaves us with three teams, right, Tyler, and
32:12
all three are undefeated currently as far as I see here, Lindon five and
32:15
oh Nooksack Valley four and oh see Home three and oh what can you tell
32:21
me about those three teams? Well, I mean, obviously very very good
32:25
teams. See Home, I got to see them. I've seen them a
32:29
couple of times now. I saw them against Squalkum at Home, I saw
32:32
them at Meridian, and they're just there. There's nothing like spectacular about their
32:39
game. They just do everything right, you know what I mean, Like
32:43
they're just they look like they're in mid season for them already. You know,
32:46
I really like their head coach, Kim Stenzer, who's who's uh you
32:51
know, her dad coached me in football, Doug Preston, so that there's
32:54
a kind of a neat connection there, and so it's it's, uh,
33:00
it's a really really good team. They have a lot of seniors, so
33:04
this is kind of like their year. But but it seems like every game
33:07
they have a different high score. You know, Maddi Cooper, Emmy Harr,
33:12
Kylie Watson, Natalie Brewer. These are all really good players, seniors
33:16
that could take that lead at any time, and you never know, with
33:20
foul trouble, you might need a different player to step up, and they
33:22
kind of have that already. It seems like Knookzac Valley is just demolishing teams.
33:28
They've already put running clocks on the last two opponents that they've played,
33:31
so it's it's kind of it's interesting. And I learned about this this year
33:36
and I don't know how long this has been a rule, but in the
33:37
same as football, if you're up by forty in the second half, they
33:42
put on a running clock. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't know this
33:44
either until the other day. I was at I was at a game and
33:46
I there's a referee in our area that's also a football coach. I saw
33:53
him and we got to talk and he mentioned how many games he did.
33:58
He told me he did, like he refereed like four hundred games last year.
34:00
Yeah, like between aa you know what I mean all of it.
34:02
Also, Oh yeah, that's absolutely incredible. But then I said something about,
34:07
you know, well, you don't have running clock, right, and
34:07
he goes, no, no, he goes you do. I was like,
34:10
wait what and he's like, yeah, he goes running clock. He
34:14
says, trust me, there's been many nights where I was very happy they
34:16
had a running clock. Yeah. So it's it's been crazy and knooksack.
34:22
You know, they're putting up seventy eighty points a game and they're and it's
34:27
just it's you know, state champions. Last year. They only I think
34:30
they graduated three players from last year's team, three players that were very key
34:34
players, but bringing back Devin Coppinger, who did the intro for US.
34:37
She's ranked ESPN I think ranked thirty seventh best player in the nation. Uh,
34:43
she's already committed to University of Washington, and Uh, she's just a
34:47
different player. She's she's you know a lot of people, as he reminds
34:52
people of Luke Ridnauer. You know, where you get to the state championship
34:54
game as a sophomore and you lose it. You get to the state championship
34:58
as a junior and you win, and what can you do for your senior
35:01
year? It's very similar. You're going to a Pac twelve school, You're
35:05
it's it's it's all these things kind of lined up the way Luke's career did,
35:08
and so it's really fascinating to see how she's doing and the rest of
35:13
her team. I mean, she's very unselfish. She's a guard. She
35:15
yeah, she's gonna put up twenty five to thirty points every game, but
35:20
you know, she does a lot of other things, rebounding, shoots threes,
35:22
she can get steals. Laney Kimball is just a stud athlete that at
35:28
five ten she could handle the ball. She's very unselfish, but she can
35:31
get rebounds. Tanna Hookmas, you know, over six feet tall, is
35:36
really strong in the middle, as is Graced Hoague. Kaylee Anderson's a sharpshooter
35:40
on the outside, Peyton Bartle coming off the bench hitting threes, and you
35:45
know, they just have so many great players, Kate Shintaffer hitting threes that
35:50
it's just a team. And their head coach, Shane Shane Wickers, who
35:52
I've known for twenty five years. I mean, I covered him when he
35:57
was coaching Knooksack, you know, back when I was writing for The Herald
36:00
and I was you know, I wasn't even old enough to drink yet.
36:04
If I still don't feel like I'm old enough to drink, that's for adults.
36:06
But but but I mean that he's been there for that long and he
36:09
looks the exact same. He's just one of those guys, you know,
36:13
and and it was so fun to get to know him over the years and
36:15
now to kind of reconnect with him doing this with walking Preps. And I
36:19
haven't seen him in person again yet, but it'll be fun to see him.
36:22
And then Linden. You know, Linden's got a great program. Rob
36:27
Adams is the coach. He was their coach for a chunk of time and
36:31
he stepped away about three or four years ago, and now he's back and
36:36
when when he was there for his you know, because he played at Blaine
36:39
and then he coached it. He coached girls basketball at Blaine and then he
36:44
left Blaine to go to Linden. When he went to Linden, he won
36:45
three state titles. And he was actually my real estate agent before I met,
36:51
before TJ was, and they both worked in the same office. And
36:55
so and Rob, I don't think is in real estate anymore, but I
36:59
became ends with him, and now he's back as the head coach. There's
37:01
there's there's a few things about Rob when he's the head coach. All of
37:06
his players are listed as guards. You better all be able to shoot and
37:09
run and pass. And he's the most frequent suburb I've ever seen. You
37:15
know. It's like it's like almost every time when there's action again, there's
37:20
someone coming up to check in and and he'll he'll play nine or ten girls
37:23
a lot of minutes and he just keeps it fresh and it just works.
37:29
It's like he always has a good you know, cores. And this year,
37:34
you know, he was he was pulling the Bob Ames card and is
37:36
like, we're young, I don't know, blah blah, blah, everybody's
37:38
five foot one. Well he wasn't saying that, but it was like I
37:44
knew that he had some pieces. Peyton Mills is a sophomore. She's six
37:46
to one, uh, and she's but she she's a great passer, she
37:52
can hit freeze, She's an unbelievable player. She went off for thirty points
37:55
the other night. But uh, just a great shooter, leader everything.
38:00
Finley Parchers is a freshman. That is a double double machine. She can
38:06
drive to the hoop. She's about you know, she's probably about six feet
38:09
tall, six to one. Maybe. Haley kochie Is can hit threes.
38:15
She's a great player. She's gonna go and play volleyball down down in your
38:22
neck of the woods at Northwest. Uh. She's a very good athlete.
38:24
A lot of volleyball players here. I'm recognizing these names because we just did
38:29
the volleyball podcast, right exactly. Mallory Villers or villa Ours is a great
38:35
point guard. She she hits all of her free throws. Maya vander Yacht
38:37
coming off the bench hitting threes. Yeah. Keky York is a very exciting
38:44
player. She was and it's just they just have so many pieces. Ryan
38:49
Stephen who's six two six three. They can that, I mean, you
38:52
just don't see that in girls basketball. And they can all run, they
38:57
can all shoot. It's no surprise that they're five. Rob Adams is a
39:00
great coach, and I'm really excited to see what the rest of the season
39:05
holds for them. So, Tyler, I did a little research here.
39:09
The last time Lennon Christian didn't finish in the top four, yeah, was
39:14
two thousand and five, right, And so there was multiple times in going
39:20
back where they were in that fourth seventh place game, right, yeah,
39:24
and they always won, right Okay? And then remember I said the last
39:29
time they weren't in the state championship was because of Mount Baker. The last
39:34
time they didn't finish in the top four was because of Mount Baker. Interesting,
39:38
yeah, Arch nemesis over here, the kryptonite, if you will.
39:43
You know that year that Baker was in the state championship. Are you talking
39:45
about the year that they won it? Did they win it? I don't
39:49
know, it was like two thousand and seventeen. You said sixteen seventeen.
39:52
I know they won it around then, and yeah they did. They beat
39:54
Kashmir. Their key player was Stephanie Swarez, who was the fourth overall player
40:00
drafted in the WNBA Draft. I remember that, yeah, because I remember
40:04
I think you told me about it and I was like, wait what,
40:07
Yeah, well that was her one year at Baker. She was a sophomore.
40:09
She was six foot six and uh, just a you know, unbelievable.
40:15
I remember that because I remember thinking to myself, how the heck do
40:16
you end up at Mount Baker? You know? And that and that was
40:22
the they were an eight seed that year. Tyler. Yeah. Yeah.
40:24
Her mom, Susan Anderson, was the Gatorade National Player of the Year at
40:31
Mount Baker in nineteen eighty six. Wow. Yeah, how did they even
40:37
know where Deming was in nineteen exactly? Yeah. Well, so she's like
40:40
known as like the you know, one of the greatest athletes that yeah,
40:45
yeah at Mount Baker history. She went on to play University of Texas and
40:49
and U I mean, how many Gatorade Players of the Year in any sport
40:52
have come out of Walkham County exactly. Yeah. I think she might be
40:55
the only one. Yeah, I mean, she might be the greatest of
40:58
all time. Yeah, other than you, well, no, come on
41:00
now, I mean we're both Anderson's. But that's where it ends. Did
41:04
Jeff beard and play high school sports up there? He played baseball at Meridian.
41:07
Okay, so so you guys are third, you and you and what
41:12
was her name? Susan Anderson, Anderson Anderson, lots of Anderson's. Yeah,
41:20
okay, so Tyler, that is that is girls basketball? Yeah,
41:24
now let's talk boys basketball here, you got it. Let's go with Squalicum
41:30
one and two, Mount Baker one and three and Ferndale oh and three.
41:34
What can you tell me about those three teams? Well, Squalicumb and Ferndale
41:37
played each other. That was a heck of a game. I mean,
41:40
I didn't know what to expect. I show up in the third quarter and
41:45
and Ferndale's up a ton. Squalicumb's able to come back. Ferndale has been
41:52
struggling the last couple of years. They got a brand new coach this year.
41:53
I believe it was an assistant at Sea Home and uh, you know
41:58
Bishop Uzzi running the point. They just don't have a ton of size.
42:01
They got a lot of guys that can shoot, and you know, Kevin
42:06
Woods is a six to three guy. He could jump out of the gym
42:08
he's just like a pogo stick going around getting rebounds and blocking shots and stuff
42:13
like that. But they just have to find kind of their identity, you
42:17
know what I mean. Squalkum very very athletic. Marcus Nixon is he's he's
42:22
jumping center and then he's running the point, you know. Uh, and
42:27
he can do a lot of different things on the basketball court. Very very
42:30
good player. They had they shoot a ton of threes and they got hot
42:35
against Ferndale that that night. You know, they got a handful of guys.
42:38
Hunter Calloway is just a freshman and he can run the point. He's
42:43
been playing quite a bit, you know. He started at corner for most
42:46
of the year after Nevaiah Agging got hurt, and now he's starting on the
42:50
basketball team as a freshman. So that's a name to keep in mind for
42:52
the future. Hunter Calloway, really good player. Jackson Hofer can shoot outside
42:57
really well. Zach Watt Fabian Sing comes off the bench. He's got a
43:01
beautiful stroke on that he can shoot the deep ball, makes it look easy.
43:05
So squalk them. But their tallest guy is six to three. You
43:08
know. That's that's kind of their issue. So there's not a ton of
43:13
size there, but you know they can they can out shoot you a lot
43:15
of the time. Mount Baker one in four. Really really liked their head
43:21
coach, Tony Clark. I've known him for a long time. And again,
43:24
very very young team. You know, their top players a sophomore Carter
43:29
Hill. He just had five threes against Anacordus the other night. Really really
43:34
good players. Their leading scorer Luke Smith, who we saw at quarterback at
43:37
the end of the year for Mount Baker's a really good kind of three and
43:40
D guy can shoot. The three, can play some defense, long arms,
43:45
get some rebounds, do the dirty work, and then they have a
43:47
Their tallest kid is a six to five freshman, Kel Reardon, which we've
43:52
talked about a little bit. He started defensive tackle as well for Mount Baker
43:57
and at the end of the year he was starting on the offensive line as
43:59
well. So really good future for him. Just a great, great kid.
44:02
I think there was one game where he had eighteen points and nineteen rebounds.
44:07
Understands the game really well. Really bright future, but it's a very
44:10
young team for Mount Baker. Now, Tyler, let's talk about let's see
44:17
here, let's go Knuksack Valley, Meridian, and Blaine. Now you sent
44:21
me a picture of was the Colton Lents? Yeah, yeah, looking a
44:27
little like Hillbilly Jim over there. What can you tell me? I thought
44:31
he looked more like I thought he looked more like Happy Gilmore's caddy. Yeah,
44:36
you know too, I mean, yeah, he's got a little uh
44:38
happy gil caddy. Yeah, a little bit of that. And then you
44:42
get the blonde afro go and uh yeah, we can you tell me about
44:45
Knuxack, Valley, Meridian and Blaine. Yeah, well, they're all very
44:50
similar and it's gonna be really tough in that one a you know, because
44:52
Lennen Christian seems to be the class and that. I know. They all
44:55
play each other in the same conference, but once you get into districts and
44:59
stuff like that, these are the teams that are gonna be facing off against
45:01
each other. And Nuksac Valley is I mean, out of their twelve guys,
45:06
I think ten of them are from the football team, so it's a
45:07
lot of names that you know, they play a very they play a very
45:13
football like style, very physical. They're gonna muscle you down low. You
45:17
know. Brady Ackerman has been starting since he was a freshman. He's a
45:21
double double machine down in the low post. And then Caden hugh Tink he's
45:25
the coach's son. He runs the point. A really really good player,
45:29
really heady player, just has a high basketball iq, kind of always knows
45:32
what to do. Good foul shooter, all those kinds of things. But
45:36
then he's passing it to CORIONI and Colton Lynch and Joey Brown and and and
45:40
uh, you know coming off the bench, Tristan camp House, and it's
45:44
just all the same guys, you know, Cole Koppinger and and uh even
45:49
even Boom Boom Vigory, all those guys playing on the basketball team. Yeah,
45:52
so it's it's it's a good core. They they they get together,
45:57
they know each other very well. It's a good you know, it's just
46:00
a good mix. And they've been kind of that. Like in basketball,
46:04
a kickball is a thing. Yeah, are you allowed to inbound it with
46:07
a kick? Yeah, well I don't, I don't know, I don't
46:10
I doubt it. But right, No, he did not play joe Joey
46:15
Brown did so Yeah, well there you go. Maybe like a little little
46:19
Christian Latner past you know what I mean, he might need it and just
46:22
kick it down the field, down the court field right Uh and then uh
46:25
Meridian. You know they start out to and O. They dropped a heartbreaker
46:30
to see home on the road. But they can put up a lot of
46:32
points. I talked about I talked about Tallon Jenkins, the six to five
46:37
guard that can shoot the lights out. Jager Fife is the same way he's
46:40
been starting since he was a freshman. He can shoot. He shoots the
46:43
deepest threes that I've seen all year. But he's very good ballhandler, just
46:47
a smart guy. James head All and Christian class and down low. They're
46:52
both six six, which is good to have. And then they have guys
46:55
like like Tarren Burks and and Jacob Ahmans and you know these are these are
47:00
kids that like do all the dirty work stuff and so they have like a
47:05
good mix of the guys that can do all the different things. Uh,
47:07
brock Hogan coming off the bench, Alex Short coming off the bench. So
47:10
they got a lot of and Shane Stacey is an amazing coach, and so
47:15
it's a good I think that I think that they are a team that could
47:19
put up a lot of points. But you're gonna have to outshoot them to
47:22
beat them. You know, it's it's gonna be it's gonna be tough.
47:24
And then Blaine. Blaine got third and state last year, but they lost
47:29
a lot of guys. They lost I think six or seven kids, and
47:32
so it's kind of a new group this year. Uh Noah Noah Tavis down
47:37
Low is he's the only one returning starter. Connor Dolry returns too. He
47:42
was kind of the sixth man last year. So they're both six to four
47:45
that are that can play in the post, but they could both shoot threes,
47:47
so the perimeter is pretty new. Joe Josiah Weeda is a lefty about
47:52
six three guard who's a very uh he's he can catch fire and score a
47:58
lot of points all this and he'll have like five threes and you're like,
48:00
man, where did that come from. Justin Menoirez, who we saw play
48:05
basket or play football, is lightning quick as a defender, good ballhandler,
48:09
can jump up and shoot it. Jesse Deming's the same way. He's averaging
48:14
like four steals a game. Very very I had that football mentality and can
48:19
grab steals. Jacob Donors and Assassin from the outside, they got good guys
48:23
off the bench. Uno Nevares is a good point guard. And unfortunately Riley
48:29
eyed for his acl again playing basketball, and and I think it even did
48:36
something to like an artery too, he messaged me from the hospital. I
48:39
hope he's doing well. But man, it's just it was a tough injury
48:43
to see. I saw it on film. He sent it to me,
48:45
and then I saw it like an hour later because I was watching the film
48:49
and and you know, it's just he can't catch a break with those knee
48:52
injuries. It's been tough. One of those things that you knew was coming,
48:55
and it's still hurt, you know, like, yeah, you're right,
48:59
like you're watching the game knowing that it's it's happening at some point here,
49:02
and it was it was tough because I'm trying to watch to take stats,
49:06
but my eyeballs are on him, you know. Yeah, and uh
49:08
yeah, it was really tough to see. And and he's just a good,
49:13
like, you know, defensive guy. He's a sixth man coming off
49:15
the bench shooting threes and defending and and oh man, yeah it was rough
49:20
to see. But Nate Sullivan, the head coach, is just man,
49:23
he is he he is a great coach, and I I think that,
49:28
you know, for them to get third and state last year was kind of
49:30
like everyone kind of looked around going whoa. And I think it was Lynden
49:32
Christian and Kings in the state championship game. So they were like, yeah,
49:37
we're the we're the we're the public school champions, you know, for
49:42
the for the year. But man, it was a really good team last
49:45
year and you know, it's a it's just a new team this year and
49:47
we'll see how they do. Yeah, that's uh, that's pretty funny,
49:52
the public schooling champions. Let's see here, Tyler. You said, yeah,
49:55
it was Lynnen Christian and Kings. They were they were one to two
50:00
last year. Yeah, and then they were they were the year before too.
50:04
Probably both those teams are a little bit of good history behind him.
50:08
Yes, lit's see, hear Tyler at the top. We've got two teams
50:12
that are undefeated and two teams with one loss, Lyndon Christian four and oh
50:15
Bellingham three and oh Lynden three and one Sea Home three and one. Tyler,
50:21
Did I see it in that picture of Colt Lentz, was that Jesse
50:23
Harward playing basketball? Oh? Yeah. I mean that's a that's a decent
50:28
sized body over there to throw some people around. Yeah, Bellingham is they
50:32
kind of have a good like they're five starters. They all do something completely
50:37
different, and I think that's always a really good Uh that's a really good
50:42
thing to have when you kind of have five different things all on the floor
50:45
at the same time and they're off to a hot start. They just beat
50:47
Nukseck Valley at Nukseck Valley. I was at that game a few nights ago.
50:52
Wyatt Stephan just a just a just a great athlete where he could jump
50:58
out of the gym. His jump shots are like they're just different because he
51:02
just jumps up and everyone's on their way down already, he's still going up.
51:06
He always releases it at the very top. Really good shooter, gets
51:09
a ton of rebounds even though he's not down low. He's just such a
51:13
great leaper, uh, And so he was. He's been averaging a double
51:15
double early part of the season. Also gets you know, about three and
51:20
a half to three steals in a sisper game, So he's putting up a
51:23
lot of good numbers. Jesse Harbard down low is just a muscle guy that
51:28
has really good touch on the with it, shoots left handed. It almost
51:30
looks like back from like like when you watch Bill Russell's shoot, where like
51:35
he's he's left handed, but he goes with just one hand a lot of
51:37
time. You see Jesse Harvard do that, and so he is a is
51:42
about his throwback as it gets Elis to Gajay is he's just a wild man
51:46
running up and down the court, hair flying around at six foot five that
51:51
could fly around and get those offensive rebounds and just get those buckets that no
51:55
one else is getting. Really good thing to have. They have a kid
51:59
who's six six named kin Kid Van Hooton who's kind of almost like a guard.
52:04
He could shoot outside, he can he can dish the ball. Uh,
52:07
but he's six six. I mean it's a it's a weapon. And
52:09
Harmon Harmon Winkers is a kid that is just you know, you just have
52:15
him sit outside and shoot threes and he he he'll do it. I think
52:19
Bellingham has got a really good chance at the two A level to turn some
52:22
heads. Brad McKay is a really good coach, so kind of we'll we'll
52:24
see how that goes, you know, Lindon is at three and one.
52:29
Lyndon won the state title the last two years at the two A level.
52:35
They are Their one loss came to Jackson the other night and there was a
52:40
one point loss, sixty to fifty nine. So, uh you know,
52:45
non league game. But uh boy, they are they are loaded. Anthony
52:50
Canalis is probably the best boys player up here. I believe he was the
52:53
two to a state MVP last year in the state tournament and he returns.
53:00
He's averaging well over twenty five points a game and just a guy that when
53:05
you see him play basketball, he just looks different than everybody else, Like
53:07
his shot looks different. He hangs in the air longer, he's getting the
53:12
rebounds, he's doing all the little things about six or four guard that could
53:16
really move. And then Bran Hepner down low. So you got your inside
53:20
and outside guys. Bran Hepner at six foot six. That the Heppner family
53:23
is synonymous with Lyndon basketball going back multiple generations. And you know Bran Hepner
53:30
is you know, he is a double double guy. But he can shoot
53:34
outside as well as really really good touch from the outside. And then it's
53:37
a lot of the names that you know, Brady Elsner running the point,
53:40
doing all the little things that you don't think about, you know, setting
53:44
up his teammates, Danny Boehler coming off the bench and hitting threes. Charlie
53:49
Errs is a really good three point shooter. So it's a lot of these
53:51
names that you know, West and Van Dalen coming off the bench and shooting
53:53
threes, and when they when they pass and everything, everything looks crisper.
53:58
It's just it's just it looks different. You know, they're very, very
54:00
good. And then uh uh lynnon Christian who two times state champions as well.
54:10
Yeah, it's been it's been weird because when I watched their film,
54:14
like there's been a few games where I'm like, man, they look a
54:15
little off, like they're not doing like I don't think they're doing really well.
54:19
And then you look at the scoreboard and they're up by eight. It's
54:22
like they're so good that when they're not playing well, they're still winning pretty
54:24
easily. I was about to say that, I mean, Tyler, they're
54:27
four and oh yeah, it's just it's weird because I I think I saw
54:30
it because their game one was against Kings rematch from the State championship game and
54:36
they played great. And since then they kind of, I don't know,
54:38
they played Burlington and and I think they played maybe Sidrow and they played Seattle
54:45
Academy on Saturday, and they kind of they kind of get a little sluggish
54:49
in the beginning and then they just kind of outdo their opponents the rest of
54:52
the way. Uh. They got a couple of guards that are they're like
54:55
mirror images of each other. They're so fun to watch. Dawson Bauma and
54:59
Game and Dykestra. They both are super quick, unbelievable jump jump shots,
55:04
and they can do the pull up mid range shot, which seems like no
55:07
one does anymore, and so they do it and they drain them all the
55:10
time, and they're gonna, you know, they're gonna be up there in
55:13
the twenty points per game, both of them. Cayden Stite down low,
55:16
you know, filling the filling, filling that role in the post, doing
55:20
the dirty work, a ton of double doubles, that kind of stuff.
55:23
And Caiden Veldman is a freshman that's been coming off the bench and he had
55:28
a game earlier we had like seventeen or eighteen rebounds, and then you got
55:31
Trevin Blair, Trey Bosman, Brody Bauman, a lot of these guys that
55:35
we know kind of filling out different roles and stuff like that. And their
55:38
best player is still recovering from an injury. When Jeremiah Wright comes back,
55:43
a team's gonna get even better and they're gonna be looking for that three pet
55:49
the The Sea On basketball team is kind of it's it's been it from just
55:53
from the beginning of the season. I know we're only two weeks in,
55:55
but it's been a huge turnaround already. They lost the opener at Sea Peter
56:00
Crest and I think it was Cedar Crest. I but it was like they
56:05
just they didn't look good at all, Like it was kind of like,
56:08
you know, where, did you know where did that come from? It
56:09
might have been Mount Lake Terrace now that I think about it, I just
56:12
remember it was a red team. But but it was just really like,
56:15
man and they were great last year, but they graduated so many kids and
56:21
I didn't know what to expect. And then I saw them against Squalacum and
56:24
Squalcum who struggled this year. They beat Squalicum by one point thirty three to
56:29
thirty two. Talk about a low scoring game. It was fifteen to five
56:32
and a half. And but then since then they've really turned it up offensively.
56:39
They they put on they put up over eighty points against Meridian, and
56:44
they had a great game shooting. Everything looked good and then they and then
56:47
they totally dismantled Mariner on Saturday. So it's been the improvement game to game
56:54
has been monumental. Brad Jackson who was the long time HAD men's co coach
57:00
at Western Washington University, he won a national championship. He's coached against Mike
57:04
Shachefski at Duke. I mean, this guy has done it all and now
57:07
he's giving back to the community coaching the Sea home Boys team, which is
57:10
really cool. Who is starting two sophomores and a freshman, and it's been
57:16
it's been pretty good. You do have Braddock Duckworth down low, which is
57:21
nice to have six foot six blocking shots doing well, and Cole Terrell that
57:24
power forward spot, just you know, he's all shoulders and arms and grabbing
57:30
rebounds and hugging that ball and making sure nobody gets it. But then you
57:32
got Nolan Wright running the point. We all know how athletic he is he
57:37
does all the good things. Great free throw shooter, that's what you want.
57:39
And Quincy Tannevan who's a freshman sharpshooter, left handed kid who looks like
57:45
he's in sixth grade, but he is a freshman. He's out there just
57:49
nailing threes, which is awesome to see. But the guy that's been great
57:53
for them has has been Austin McKay. He's just he's really it up,
58:00
you know, as a senior now he's played behind a lot of great seniors
58:02
last year, so he's really starting to do some great things. And I
58:07
think that this, Like I said, I know it's only been two weeks,
58:10
but they've improved so much from Game one to Game four. I'm really
58:15
excited to see what Seeom does the rest of the way. So let's go
58:17
over the standings again one last time here Tyler, Lynn and Christian. This
58:22
is we're talking boys first here, lynnon Christian four and o, Bellingham three
58:25
and oh, Linden three and one, Sea Home three and one, Nuksack
58:30
Valley two and one, Meridian two and one, Blaine two and two,
58:32
squal Comb one and two, Mount Baker one and four, and Ferndale zero
58:36
and three. On the girls side, Lyndon five and oh Nuksack Valley four
58:40
and oh Sea Home three and oh Ferndale three and one, Blaine three and
58:45
one, Lynnen Christian two and two, Mount Baker three and three, Meridian
58:50
one and two, and then squal Cum and Bellingham are both one and three.
58:52
Tyler. The last thing we got to do here though, before we
58:55
get out. Anytime Fitness also sponsors the players of the week. Here,
59:00
we need to talk about the players of the week for this week. They're
59:05
going to If you're hearing this, how about this, Tyler, when are
59:07
you going to post the first one oh player of the week. Probably,
59:12
you know, maybe around early afternoon, maybe around noon. Okay, So
59:16
if you're hearing this before noon, then be quiet, hold on a second.
59:22
Yeah, you're the only one that knows it. Yeah, yeah,
59:24
hang out a little bit here, all right. But that being said,
59:28
Tyler, Anytime Fitness that is Ferndale and then the two Linden locations Lyndon and
59:32
then Lynden North. They are sponsoring the players of the week. Who is
59:37
the girls basketball player of the week this week? It is Nuksack Valley senior
59:42
Laney Kimball. She just does so many things. I mean, she fills
59:47
the stat sheet. She scored twenty two against Bellingham the other night. Just
59:52
a great overall player. Laney Kimball of Nuksack Valley Boys basketball, who is
59:58
the Anytime Fitness Boys basketb Player of the week. Well, he really had
1:00:01
a great week. Austin McKay at Seahome. I was just talking about him.
1:00:07
Boy, he just has he gets on a hot streak and he just
1:00:09
cannot miss. Uh. You know, he started out a little a little
1:00:14
bit slow, but boy, he's really turned it on the last couple of
1:00:16
games and he's he's the Boys Anytime Fitness Player of the Week. All right,
1:00:22
Tyler, what else we got anything? I don't think so, I
1:00:25
have no clue how long that went, and I'm hoping it's a okay,
1:00:30
Well then there you go. I mean that we could do one of these
1:00:34
every week and just talk about how the teams are looking and you know,
1:00:37
how they're trending and stuff like that. It'll be a lot of fun.
1:00:40
It says right now one hour and one minute. But I also think that
1:00:44
there's probably a few seconds at the beginning to cut off. So yeah,
1:00:49
yeah, I don't we get we're done. Is that it? Nothing else
1:00:52
sounds good? I mean, I guess maybe really quickly. One thing with
1:00:54
you need to mention is that the Top one hundred is going on for football
1:00:58
Tyler. Yeah, that's right. That's you've already been posting some of that
1:01:01
stuff. The first podcast where we will talk about the Top one hundred,
1:01:06
we will be counting down from one hundred down to eighty two and that will
1:01:10
go live on Friday at nine am. So if you are subscribed to the
1:01:15
podcast, you'll get a notification nine am on Friday. That'll be the first
1:01:20
one. And those are usually from we went back and kind of look,
1:01:22
those are usually about an hour long also, so we're kind of hitting then
1:01:27
an hour long thing now, because I think the girl's volleyball was maybe about
1:01:30
or the volleyball Top fifty. I think that was about an hour if I
1:01:32
remember correctly, it was. So yeah, I mean we're we're kind of
1:01:37
in a groove there, which which by the way, means Blake Whitman has
1:01:40
a lot of free hours on this time. I mean, that guy just
1:01:44
has all kinds of nothing to do right now. Yeah, that's true,
1:01:46
that's true. Although he did go to the the PAC twelve championship. That's
1:01:52
true. It's pretty cool. Not gonna lie. Yeah, Yeah, that's
1:01:54
pretty cool. Yeah. Anyway, Tyler, I guess I guess we can
1:01:58
wrap it up. Huh Yeah, I think so. I think we're good.
1:02:00
Alrighty. He's Tyler Anderson Walcompreps walkompreps dot com. I'm Ryland Spencer.
1:02:05
You've been listening to episode two hundred and twenty of the walkom Preps podcast.
1:02:08
This is the first Winter sports weekly wrapped Une. We'll talk to you on Friday,