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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 366 - Week 1 Fall Sports Recap · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is Lyndon's senior Campbelly Young, and you are listening
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Speaker 1: to the Walkham Preps podcast for Tyler Anderson. Go Lines.
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Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome into the Walkham Preps podcast. This is
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Speaker 1: episode three hundred and sixty six, a fall sports recap.
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Speaker 1: I am your host, Tyler Anderson from Walkham Preps. I
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Speaker 1: like to give a thank you to the in to Campbell,
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Speaker 1: to Young, the Lynden senior volleyball player, for doing the intro.
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Speaker 1: Uh not many athletes like her. Just seeing what she
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Speaker 1: can do on the volleyball court and on the on
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Speaker 1: the softball field is unbelievable. And uh that's crazy because
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Speaker 1: I remember first seeing her as a freshman playing fast
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Speaker 1: pitch and she was, you know, so good even then.
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Speaker 1: I think she was leading off and playing second base
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Speaker 1: on a team that's you know, going to the state
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Speaker 1: tournament and she was a spark look for that team.
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Speaker 1: And now a senior, it's crazy how fast the time goes.
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Speaker 1: So always really enjoy watching her play sports. She gives
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Speaker 1: everything she has, always with a smile on her face
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Speaker 1: and propping up her teammates too. So thank you so
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Speaker 1: much to Campbell to Young for doing the intro and
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Speaker 1: And again, just so you know, this podcast is dedicated
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Speaker 1: to the week that was in Walkin County, but football
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Speaker 1: is not included. If you want to hear about what
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Speaker 1: happened over the weekend with football, that podcast will come
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Speaker 1: out tomorrow morning. This is covering all the other sports.
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Speaker 1: It's a lot of stuff that happened, most of them,
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Speaker 1: you know, kind of really ramped up this week with
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Speaker 1: conference matchups stuff like that. So we're gonna get into
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Speaker 1: all that. Let's start off with a cross country boys
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Speaker 1: and Girls which of course sponsored by Staffer Insurance. Oh
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Speaker 1: there from the very beginning, doing you know, a different
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Speaker 1: sport every single uh you know season, and uh boy,
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Speaker 1: I love it when a sponsor is all about it
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Speaker 1: and just and wants to keep going and they keep
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Speaker 1: getting positive feedback from everything, and it's just a great thing.
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Speaker 1: And every time I go in and see Marty, it's
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Speaker 1: just it's always positive stuff and that's what I love
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Speaker 1: and cross country. You know, there was really just the
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Speaker 1: one big event that took place on Saturday at Civic
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Speaker 1: Stadium where dozens of schools came together to get that
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Speaker 1: first run in. It's called the gear Up Northwest, where
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Speaker 1: hundreds of runners ran over multiple races. There were JV
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Speaker 1: races and then a different two mile race for each class,
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Speaker 1: both male and female. A great deal took place there.
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Speaker 1: So let's kind of look at it all here at
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Speaker 1: each each of these races. Let's look at the top
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Speaker 1: finisher from each race that came from Walkham County, and
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Speaker 1: a lot of them, you know, took the overall race.
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Speaker 1: When this is each one had over one hundred runners
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Speaker 1: in it, some of them over one hundred and fifty runners,
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Speaker 1: very very impressive. I think it was like forty seven
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Speaker 1: schools or something like that. So then the freshmen boys,
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Speaker 1: Judah Taveldi of Meridian. He took first place overall with
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Speaker 1: a time of ten minutes and twenty one point eight
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Speaker 1: eight seconds. Again, all these races are two mile races.
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Speaker 1: And the freshman girls it was Page Ricks from Sea.
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Speaker 1: She took fourth place overall with a time of twelve
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Speaker 1: minutes thirty nine point sixty seven seconds. And in the
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Speaker 1: sophomore boys race it was Luke Zohner from Seaholme who
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Speaker 1: took second place overall with a time of ten minutes
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Speaker 1: twenty five point two to three seconds. And the sophomore
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Speaker 1: girls it was Kirsten Ludeman of Seahome who took first
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Speaker 1: place overall with the time of eleven minutes twenty one
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Speaker 1: point eight five seconds. That's think I think that was
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Speaker 1: the best overall time out of all the girls, so
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Speaker 1: really impressive. They're just a sophomore. In the junior boys race,
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Speaker 1: it was Reuben Teveldi of Meridian nine minutes fifty three
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Speaker 1: point five to seven seconds. He took third place overall
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Speaker 1: out of all the junior boys. In the junior girls,
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Speaker 1: it was Lildesler from Seahome, one of our favorites. She
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Speaker 1: took first place overall eleven minutes thirty eight point one
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Speaker 1: to nine seconds in this and then now the seniors
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Speaker 1: the senior boys, Nicholas Luis of Lennon Christian took second
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Speaker 1: place over all all nine minutes forty seconds, forty point
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Speaker 1: four to seven seconds, i should say. And then in
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Speaker 1: the senior girls it was Sloan Dixon from Lyndon who
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Speaker 1: took first place overall out of all the runners, out
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Speaker 1: of all the senior girls, eleven minutes forty point one
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Speaker 1: five seconds. Really, it's really cool to get that race
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Speaker 1: in so many schools from around the state, but also
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Speaker 1: from Wakam County. Going to Civic Stadium, I wanted to
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Speaker 1: be there so bad, but I've been having some car troubles.
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Speaker 1: I was driving back from Nuksack Valley on Friday night
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Speaker 1: and my car is sputtering quite a bit, so I
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Speaker 1: gotta get some things fixed. I had a lot of
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Speaker 1: stories to write about over the weekend, so they kind
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Speaker 1: of hamstrung me there for a little bit, But definitely
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Speaker 1: gonna go out to see at least one each week
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Speaker 1: across country race and then next week. So next week
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Speaker 1: at this time, there will be a Runner of the
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Speaker 1: Week award. So that's a kind of a new thing
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Speaker 1: that'll be sponsored by Stafford Insurance. Really excited for that.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a new award that'll be given out.
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Speaker 1: Could be male, female, don't know, so I'll just have
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Speaker 1: to see and we'll go from there. So a lot
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Speaker 1: of obviously great teams and athletes from the area. They
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Speaker 1: really showed their stuff there at the Europe Northwest Race
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Speaker 1: out at Civic Stadium on Saturday. Let's jump into girls
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Speaker 1: swimming and diving, and there is no sponsor for girls
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Speaker 1: swimming and diving, but I have a feeling there will
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Speaker 1: be soon because lots of things are getting jumped on here.
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Speaker 1: It was a pretty busy week. It was for me too.
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Speaker 1: I actually went out to an event, my first time
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Speaker 1: actually attending an event, and it was pretty it was
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Speaker 1: pretty awesome. I loved it because it was It was
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Speaker 1: at the Arnie Hannah Aquatic Center, which I've been to
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Speaker 1: a ton when I was growing up. I hadn't been
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Speaker 1: there in probably twenty years, but I love that place.
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Speaker 1: I loved going there back in the day, and so
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Speaker 1: it was really cool to go there again and while
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Speaker 1: I'm working and so got to see a lot of
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Speaker 1: great athletes there and I learned a lot of stuff.
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Speaker 1: I learned about kind of how fast things it goes
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Speaker 1: and where you can stand all that stuff. But so
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Speaker 1: far this week Bellingham is two and o, Squalicum's two
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Speaker 1: and oh, Seahome is one and oh, and Lynnon and
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Speaker 1: Ferndale are both oh and two. When you look at
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Speaker 1: the top times at each race, you have the two
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Speaker 1: hundred medley relay, the top time is the Squalicam team
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Speaker 1: of Elijah Zuk, Solal Roubido, Jazzy Nelson, and Ladd Natalie
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Speaker 1: Ravitsky of a time of two minutes and eighteen point
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Speaker 1: five to three seconds. That's just a three tenths of
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Speaker 1: a second ahead of the second place team of Bellingham swimmers,
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Speaker 1: So pretty impressive there. To take a state qualifying time
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Speaker 1: would be two to oh two, So there's still sixteen
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Speaker 1: seconds away. Very early in the season things, can you know,
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Speaker 1: That's kind of the thing with swimming. As the season
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Speaker 1: goes on, the times just keep getting better and better.
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Speaker 1: In the two hundred freestyle, the top time is Squalicum
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Speaker 1: Seleal Robido at two minutes and sixteen seconds. In a
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Speaker 1: two hundred individual medley, it's Ferndale's Lexi Jensen with the
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Speaker 1: best time at two minutes thirty five point five six seconds.
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Speaker 1: In the fifty freestyle, it's Blaine's Haley Farrell. And Blaine
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Speaker 1: does not have a swimming team, but they can co
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Speaker 1: op with another school that does and get to swim
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Speaker 1: that way. So Hailey Farrell of Blaine twenty eight point
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Speaker 1: six y five fastest time in the fifty three. And
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Speaker 1: in diving, I went to an event and I got
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Speaker 1: to see diving. It was unbelievable. It was so incredible
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Speaker 1: to see what these athletes can do. And that's one
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Speaker 1: of my favorite things. Like when I would go to
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Speaker 1: the swimming pool as a kid, I get in the
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Speaker 1: pool for a little bit and then I would just
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Speaker 1: dive for like an hour. I just I had so
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Speaker 1: much fun doing that, and to see these athletes was
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Speaker 1: really incredible. The top diver right now is from Seahome,
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Speaker 1: Fiona Runnels, with a score of one thirty two point
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Speaker 1: six that's in six dives and it's all, you know,
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Speaker 1: judged upon in everything, but Holy cow. It was credible
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Speaker 1: and the way that the swim team roots on the divers,
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Speaker 1: they all sit around the pool and cheer them on
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Speaker 1: and it was really really cool to see. And then
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Speaker 1: back to swimming. The one hundred butterfly, the top time
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Speaker 1: is Lexi Jensen of Ferndale one oh four point seven
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Speaker 1: and uh that is, you know, seven seconds faster than
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Speaker 1: the next time. So that's that's flying there. And the
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Speaker 1: one hundred freestyle it's Hailey Farrell of Blaine again one
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Speaker 1: oh three point one eight. In the five hundred free
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Speaker 1: style that's the long distance race again, it's Saleo Ribido
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Speaker 1: of Squalicum six minutes, nine point seven six seconds. Already
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Speaker 1: qualified for districts. Next step is to qualify for state.
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Speaker 1: Two hundred freestyle relay. It's the Bellingham team of Maddy Nye's,
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Speaker 1: Addie Hayes, bron Win Wilkins, and Amanda Buck. They have
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Speaker 1: a time that's ten seconds faster than the next best time,
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Speaker 1: two minutes and two point four to two seve seconds.
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Speaker 1: That is flying as well. And the one hundred backstroke
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Speaker 1: it's Lexi Jensen again of Ferndale, one minute and six seconds,
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Speaker 1: one minute and six point two eight seconds, I should say,
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Speaker 1: And that's that's already qualified for district Again, Ferndale's three
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Speaker 1: A so harder to qualify for districts in state, it's
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Speaker 1: already qualified for districts. And you know, next step she's
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Speaker 1: about six a little over six seconds or right at
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Speaker 1: about six seconds to qualify for three A state. And
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Speaker 1: the one hundred breaststroke it's Jazzy Nelson of Squalicum with
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Speaker 1: a time of one minute eighteen point nine seconds. And
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Speaker 1: then in the four hundred freestyle relay it's the Squalicum
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Speaker 1: team of Solo Robido, Eleiah Zuk, Ellie Hanslick, and Jazzy
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Speaker 1: Nelson with an incredible time of four minutes and thirty
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Speaker 1: nine point five to five seconds. And how about this,
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Speaker 1: all four of those swimming are those swimmers all freshmen,
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Speaker 1: So that's that's a pretty it's a pretty good class
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Speaker 1: to work with that coach Elsener has out out at Squalicum.
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Speaker 1: So again, very early in the season, you're gonna see
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Speaker 1: a lot of these times, you know, getting faster and
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Speaker 1: faster as the season goes on. But I'm excited to
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Speaker 1: now that I've done that, I've gone out and and
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Speaker 1: I've been to one of these events. I'll feel a
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Speaker 1: lot more confident going again. Knowing where to be for
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Speaker 1: the for the for the pictures and and getting to
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Speaker 1: know the coach is a little bit better. Really really
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Speaker 1: cool again. Probably won't travel too far to check them out,
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Speaker 1: but hey, going to Arnie Hannah, uh you could probably
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Speaker 1: count on me being there, so uh, really really cool
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Speaker 1: and uh yeah, so that is that is swimming and
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Speaker 1: diving again. The city school is all undefeated at that
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Speaker 1: at this moment, Bellingham Squalic and Sea Home, Lynnen and
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Speaker 1: Ferndale both looking for their first win there. So uh,
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Speaker 1: let's go ahead and jump to boys tennis and boys
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Speaker 1: tennis has a sponsor this year and that's awesome. It's
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Speaker 1: a sponsor that we're used to, but now they're latching
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Speaker 1: onto boys tennis, which is great. It's Zosen Salon and
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Speaker 1: go see them in person at eleven Bellweatherway, Sweet one
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Speaker 1: with Walkom Preps for years now. I got, you know,
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Speaker 1: as Christmas presents, I got gift gift cards for my
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Speaker 1: girlfriend and her mom. They loved it. They had nothing,
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Speaker 1: they just had nothing but incredible things to say about
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Speaker 1: that place. So I really really encourage you to check
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Speaker 1: them out. They are supporting walkingm Preps and they're supporting
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Speaker 1: boys tennis here. So if you're interested in and you know,
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Speaker 1: three six zero seven to one five one zero five zero.
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Speaker 1: And there was a lot of tennis that happened this week.
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Speaker 1: I went to a few different events. It's kind of
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Speaker 1: the you know, the usual suspects right now. See Home
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Speaker 1: and Bellingham both three and oh, Mount Vernon two and
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Speaker 1: oh Anna Cordus is two and one, bringing to Edison
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Speaker 1: one in one, o Carper Squalkum, Linden and Ferndale all
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Speaker 1: one and two, Cedro Woolli is oh and two, Lake
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Speaker 1: With is oh and three. At the moment seal them
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Speaker 1: and they're three at three and oh when in total
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Speaker 1: courts they've only lost one time, so they're twenty and one.
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Speaker 1: So that means they had sweeps and two of the
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Speaker 1: events and they won six to one in the other one.
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Speaker 1: So uh, pretty incredible start to the season for the Mariners. Again,
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Speaker 1: it's just that's just kind of how they've been recently.
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Speaker 1: Belling him of course, very very good with their Hall
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Speaker 1: of Fame coach Steve Cronister. But the top players to
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Speaker 1: look for in Walkin County Harley Kaiser of Seahome. H
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Speaker 1: hard to believe that he's still playing. I feel like
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Speaker 1: he's been there forever from what I've been told. If
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Speaker 1: he was playing football, he'd be one of the best
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Speaker 1: football players as well, just a tremendous overall athlete. But
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Speaker 1: look for him to do some big time things in
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Speaker 1: boys tennis. So he's the number one singles player for
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Speaker 1: the Mariners. Leo Koon of Bellingham is back, uh and
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Speaker 1: then at Sea Home as well, Justin Barris, and then
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Speaker 1: the doubles team of Sean Lane and Christian Leon. So
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Speaker 1: those are kind of the main players to look for.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna have tremendous seasons and then we'll kind of
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Speaker 1: see how it goes. It's an interesting thing though, because
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Speaker 1: then they play, they get all, you know, they do everything,
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Speaker 1: they do everything, they play districts and then all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, you you know, you qualify for state and
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Speaker 1: then you don't play at state until May. So the
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Speaker 1: key is to just if you if you do make it,
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Speaker 1: you know, stay healthy, keep practicing, and see what happens
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Speaker 1: at state. So so pretty incredible there. It's gonna be
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Speaker 1: a lot more tennis that we'll be talking about. You know,
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Speaker 1: a lot of these teams will start playing each other
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Speaker 1: and it'll really start kind of nothing that it'll be
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Speaker 1: like thinning the herd, but it'll be, uh, there'll be
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Speaker 1: more separation between the team. There won't be so many
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Speaker 1: teams tied, you know for first and second place and
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Speaker 1: stuff like that. So again, boys tennis, check it out. Sponsors.
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Speaker 1: Zos and Salon and Spall love having them as a sponsor.
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Speaker 1: They are fantastic. Speaking of awesome sponsors, let's go to
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Speaker 1: girls soccer North County Alliance FC. Holy cow, they are
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Speaker 1: They're in there. They're in for the long haul. Ever
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Speaker 1: since you know, I was contacted by them and they
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Speaker 1: wanted to jump all in. Boy. It was almost two
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Speaker 1: years ago, maybe even longer than that. They that was
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Speaker 1: during the spring for boys soccer, and then that they
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Speaker 1: were jumped on for girls soccer. Now it's everything soccer related.
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Speaker 1: They're just saying, we want to be the exclusive sponsor
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Speaker 1: for everything soccer related, and I love it. You can
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Speaker 1: check them out at NC Alliance FC dot com. That's
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Speaker 1: Ncalliance FC dot com and there's all sorts of things
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Speaker 1: in there for tryouts and different age groups and just it.
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Speaker 1: It's great because it's such a growing sport, especially in
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Speaker 1: the United States, and you get playing young and then
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Speaker 1: it develops into these tremendous teams in high school that
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Speaker 1: we've been watching and there's a lot of them, and
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Speaker 1: they're just such a tremendous sponsor, the first one to
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Speaker 1: lock in for multiple years, and that in turn gives
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Speaker 1: me the confidence to believe in myself and keep doing
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Speaker 1: what I'm doing. So I can't thank them enough. It's
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Speaker 1: just a it's a tremendous partnership with them. And when
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Speaker 1: you look at the league stand a lot of teams
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Speaker 1: have played non league games, but we're just focusing on
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Speaker 1: the league standings. Here, Bellingham, Linden's, Seahome, Anna Quarters and
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Speaker 1: Oak Harbor are all two and zero in league. Ferndale
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Speaker 1: and Mount Vernon are both one zero and one, Cigar
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Speaker 1: Woolley and Lakewood are both one and one. Lynnon, Christian
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Speaker 1: and Squalk Them are both zero one and one, and
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Speaker 1: then Knuksack, Valley, Burlington, Edison, Mount Baker, Blaine and Meridian
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Speaker 1: are all oh two looking to get that first conference win.
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Speaker 1: A few of those teams have wins already, but they
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Speaker 1: were out of conference. So yeah. So when you look
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Speaker 1: at the goal leaders, and again this is sponsored by
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Speaker 1: North County Alliance FC, there's there's already eight players that
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Speaker 1: have scored three goals or more this season, so really
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Speaker 1: really impressive. There's a handful of players that have scored
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Speaker 1: two goals. We can run them really quickly here, Kylie
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Speaker 1: McVie of Lyndon, Piper Johnston of Seahome, she's just a freshman.
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Speaker 1: Mariah Vandermey of Linden, Siri Hoglin of squalkum Avery Riddle
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Speaker 1: of Bellingham, Macy Kamanga of Mount Baker, Vivian Moss of
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Speaker 1: seaholme Amaya Reid of seaholm Naylas Spear of Lyndon, Christian
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Speaker 1: Sophia Dione of Bellingham and Mia Blankenship of Meridian have
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Speaker 1: all scored two goals. In fact, blankenships two goals are
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Speaker 1: the only two goals the Trodrens have scored this year.
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Speaker 1: They just they just they lost a match to Bear
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Speaker 1: Creek seven to two. She scored both of those goals.
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Speaker 1: Handful of players with three goals on the year Alexis
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Speaker 1: Maldonado of Seahome, Ryan Bame of Seahome, Meg Clark of Lyndon,
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Speaker 1: Kaylee Holford of Mount Baker, and Ruby Bellermino of Blaine.
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Speaker 1: So we got a few freshmen in there. So it's
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Speaker 1: that's what's exciting is soccer is one of those sports
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Speaker 1: where a freshman can come in and make an impact immediately.
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Speaker 1: And so we've got three players left here on top
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Speaker 1: of the goal leaders so far this year, it's a
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Speaker 1: couple of sophomores with four goals. Teagan Ambrose of Ferndale
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Speaker 1: and Addie Wilson of Squalkum have each scored four goals
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Speaker 1: so far, and then the leader right now as a
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Speaker 1: freshman from the Golden Eagles. It's Mia Collins of Ferndale.
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Speaker 1: She has five goals so far this year. She scored
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Speaker 1: four in one game earlier this week, so extremely impressive.
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Speaker 1: What a great start to the season. I've already been
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Speaker 1: able to go out and check out quite a bit
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Speaker 1: of soccer, and boy, it's really cool because all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden you'll see athletes that I'm recognizing from other
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Speaker 1: sports that are out there playing soccer and saying, yeah,
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Speaker 1: of course they would be great at soccer. They're they're
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Speaker 1: so athletic, and so that's been really really great to
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Speaker 1: see and it's a it's been a great start to
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Speaker 1: first player of the Week here, and it was a
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Speaker 1: The North County Alliance Player of the Week is Lyndon
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Speaker 1: senior Meg Clark and scoring that goal against Squalkum on
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Speaker 1: the road. That was the kind of the first big
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Speaker 1: Marquee Conference matchup and the Lions pulled out the win.
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Speaker 1: It was one zero and Meg Clark scored the goals.
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Speaker 1: So she has three on the year, so it's been
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Speaker 1: a great start to the year for her. So Meg Clark, congratulations,
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Speaker 1: you are the North County Alliance Player of the week.
19:53
Speaker 1: So that's it for girls soccer, and yeah, let's jump
19:58
Speaker 1: right into volleyball. Now, volleyball, We've got a lot of
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Speaker 1: thing now after every single night of volleyball, the updated
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Speaker 1: and we can take a look at the standard the
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Speaker 1: standings that I post is the overall wins and losses.
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Speaker 1: But so let's just talk about conference stuff here on
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Speaker 1: the podcast. So many teams have played multiple matches, but
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Speaker 1: every team in the conference has had just one conference match.
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Speaker 1: So Bellingham, Burlington, Edison, Ferndale, Linden, Seaholm, Blaine, Lynden, Christian
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Speaker 1: and Knokzack Valley are all one in OH in conference play,
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Speaker 1: which means Antichortus, Meridian, Mount Baker, Mount Vernon, Sedre, Woollie, Squalicum, Lakewood,
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Speaker 1: and Oak Harbor all are all OH to one in
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Speaker 1: conference play. So, uh, not a lot of conference play,
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Speaker 1: yet a lot of them, you know, got got a
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Speaker 1: conference match during the week. A lot of teams have
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Speaker 1: played sometimes three or even four matches already with some
22:04
Speaker 1: weekend stuff, you know, last weekend, and and you know
22:08
Speaker 1: getting other matches in which is always great and so yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean this week I was out at Meridian to
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Speaker 1: see the Trojans host Ferndale, really even match up there.
22:18
Speaker 1: I was really excited to see kind of the newcomers,
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Speaker 1: the players I hadn't seen much of. I kind of
22:23
Speaker 1: knew the big names obviously. I mean Meridian you got
22:27
Speaker 1: you know, Melanie Short and Eden Bernardi and Kinsley Neil
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Speaker 1: and Taya Benson and Gracie Papp. I mean Amelia Koning
22:34
Speaker 1: and Chloe Bresler. I mean we've been seeing these players
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Speaker 1: for a while now, and then on Ferndale, you really
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Speaker 1: it's you know, when you really have the big two.
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Speaker 1: I mean Brooklyn Larrabee and Katrina Ferry are rocks for
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Speaker 1: that for that program, and it was about, you know,
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Speaker 1: getting the other players involved, the younger players I thought
22:51
Speaker 1: Spentlana Baydak played great adel overson at the oh Man.
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Speaker 1: She is fantastic as a blocker, great, great timing, she
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Speaker 1: can get off her feet. Uh there was a long
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Speaker 1: valie where you know, she blocked three or four in
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Speaker 1: one run. Now she doesn't get credit for the block,
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Speaker 1: but she was keeping it alive and it was it
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Speaker 1: was incredible. I think Ferndale did win that point, but
23:13
Speaker 1: it took a long time going back and forth, so
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Speaker 1: that was really really fun to see. I also saw
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Speaker 1: Squalicum host Lyndon. You know, Squalakum played an early early
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Speaker 1: matchup on the road against Archbishop Murphy over a week
23:26
Speaker 1: ago and played really well on that and I believe
23:29
Speaker 1: actually took a set from the Wildcats, which is incredible.
23:33
Speaker 1: And uh, they gave Lyndon all they could handle, especially
23:35
Speaker 1: early on. Linden had a little bit of some mishaps
23:38
Speaker 1: here and there, some communication aires but and Squalkin went
23:42
Speaker 1: on a run, Lynden went on a run, kind of
23:43
Speaker 1: went back and forth. Linden did win in three sets.
23:46
Speaker 1: It's just the pure overall size. And then you got
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Speaker 1: on the ends there you got Finley Parcher and Ryan
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Speaker 1: Stefan that are just you know, I mean, that's just
23:55
Speaker 1: a mismatch problem for anybody. I tell you what. Sarah
23:57
Speaker 1: McPhee can really really get off her fee super athletic.
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Speaker 1: There awesome to see. I mean, we you know, we
24:04
Speaker 1: saw her a lot in fast pitch as a center fielder.
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Speaker 1: But I was just I don't know, I don't know
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Speaker 1: if amazed is the right word. But to see her
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Speaker 1: in the middle there at five foot six maybe and
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Speaker 1: and getting up and and and blocking and and just
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Speaker 1: flying through the air, and that was really really cool
24:20
Speaker 1: to see, you know, and of course you know Campbell
24:23
Speaker 1: to young on the backside, uh, you know, going after
24:27
Speaker 1: every single thing, you know, every single ball that she
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Speaker 1: can get to and and uh, even ones that look
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Speaker 1: like they're gonna be out where she's crashing into the
24:35
Speaker 1: into the into the stands. I mean, she is, uh,
24:39
Speaker 1: she's a go getter. And you you, even though you're
24:43
Speaker 1: saying to her, you know that that ball was out.
24:46
Speaker 1: You love the the the attitude she has to go
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Speaker 1: get that ball. So that was really fun to see.
24:52
Speaker 1: Squalak them. I mean, they're they have some really good
24:56
Speaker 1: seniors on that team. Obviously, Jolie Paz is one of
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Speaker 1: the best athletes in Walkham County boys or girls. You know,
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Speaker 1: Archer Burns in the middle had a handful of blocks,
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Speaker 1: Gwen Foy in the backcourt. All of them are seniors.
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Speaker 1: You know, they've played a lot of varsity volleyball. But
25:14
Speaker 1: you have a lot of other athletes that can do
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Speaker 1: some some really good things as well. So squalkame my
25:19
Speaker 1: THINGK is gonna have an improved year. It's really I mean,
25:23
Speaker 1: I can't wait to go in to be able to
25:25
Speaker 1: see every single team in person. And usually after about
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Speaker 1: three weeks I will have already seen every team in
25:30
Speaker 1: person I saw I've seen a lot. I mean, I've
25:33
Speaker 1: pretty much seen them all online and saw a lot
25:37
Speaker 1: of really good things and really excited about this this year.
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Speaker 1: I think there's could be some pretty deep runs in
25:43
Speaker 1: the state tournament, which of course I plan on going
25:45
Speaker 1: to if my car can get me from point A
25:48
Speaker 1: to point B. So if anybody knows a good mechanic,
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Speaker 1: let me know. And let's go ahead and look at
25:56
Speaker 1: the Weekly stat Leaders. And of course the Weekly stat
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Speaker 1: are tons of coaches and levels, and boy, you watch
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Speaker 1: what they do over the summer and they're constantly doing
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Speaker 1: things and going places and playing a lot of volleyball.
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Speaker 1: And when you see the names of the players that
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Speaker 1: have played there, they really stand out at the high
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Speaker 1: school level, and it's no surprise. So they do sponsor
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Speaker 1: the weekly stat leaders. So let's check them out right now.
27:27
Speaker 1: Let's go to kills per set and it's Tea Dubay,
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Speaker 1: the junior from Blaine. She's averaging right now five point
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Speaker 1: six y three kills per set. I tell you it.
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Speaker 1: They go to her often on the left side of
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Speaker 1: the outside hit her there, and you know, when she
27:43
Speaker 1: decided to stop playing basketball to focus on volleyball, I
27:46
Speaker 1: was like, oh, that's too bad because she was going
27:48
Speaker 1: to be their main player coming back last year for basketball.
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Speaker 1: Boy has it really it's really worked for her in
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Speaker 1: volleyball because the improvement just from last year to this year.
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Speaker 1: She always she was always a great athlete. She goes
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Speaker 1: to state as a high jumper, so no surprise there
28:03
Speaker 1: that she can really get off her feet. But the
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Speaker 1: errors have been limited so far early this season and
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Speaker 1: right now, Blaine is two to zero on the year.
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Speaker 1: Uh with with you know, with a conference win over Lakewood.
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Speaker 1: Last year they lost to lake With three sets to zero.
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Speaker 1: This year they beat him, and she's a big, big
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Speaker 1: reason why. She also leads and digs per set at
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Speaker 1: five point two five So so far, Taya Dubay really
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Speaker 1: getting it done on both sides of the ball. Again,
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Speaker 1: just a junior as well, so it's always awesome to
28:34
Speaker 1: see her, you know, get off her feet and she
28:36
Speaker 1: has so much power to her deliveries on on her attacks.
28:42
Speaker 1: When you look at aces per set right now, the
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Speaker 1: leader is Page Floory, the junior from Seahome who I
28:49
Speaker 1: remember when she was a freshman, they would bring her
28:51
Speaker 1: into the rotation every once in a while when it
28:53
Speaker 1: was when it would when it would be like her,
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Speaker 1: the person she's sopping in for, it would be that
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Speaker 1: person's turn to serve, get her in to serve the ball,
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Speaker 1: because she was so good at it even then. Now
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Speaker 1: she's a regular in that rotation. She's got two aces
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Speaker 1: per set right now, so that's a great, great start
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Speaker 1: to the season. Really good athlete Page Floory from Seahome
29:13
Speaker 1: assists per set. And we've got some of the best
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Speaker 1: setters in Walkin County. I mean there's there's a ton
29:19
Speaker 1: of them, and there was five or six of them
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Speaker 1: that you can look at and go, you can make
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Speaker 1: a case that she's, you know, one of the best
29:26
Speaker 1: in the state. And right now the leader is Chloe
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Speaker 1: Bresler of Meridian at eleven point six seven assists her set.
29:35
Speaker 1: And Chloe Bresler, who was, you know, a right side
29:38
Speaker 1: player the last couple of years, but has played setter
29:41
Speaker 1: in the past and club teams and stuff like that.
29:43
Speaker 1: So when Grace Wells graduated, Meridian needed a new setter.
29:47
Speaker 1: They go to Chloe Bresler and it worked out pretty well.
29:49
Speaker 1: They did lose that match to Ferndale, but she was
29:53
Speaker 1: able to put the ball where it was needed. And
29:56
Speaker 1: then you look on defensive side of the ball with
29:58
Speaker 1: the blocks per set, it's Ali of Linden Christian. One point
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Speaker 1: two seven blocks per set is an incredible number. If
30:06
Speaker 1: you can get to one that's in, that's incredible. That's
30:10
Speaker 1: usually very very hard to do over, especially over the
30:13
Speaker 1: course of a season. Uh but yeah, right now she's
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Speaker 1: at one point two seven, just edging out Ryan Stefanu.
30:19
Speaker 1: I believe it was like at one point two to two,
30:21
Speaker 1: so very very close right there. Uh So those are
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Speaker 1: The offensive player of the week, I'm going with Taya
31:41
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31:44
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31:48
Speaker 1: lot of aces. She never leaves the court, but Blaine's
31:52
Speaker 1: two to zero as well, so really really incredible start
31:55
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Speaker 1: the Week. It's gonna be Ali Wright, the Linden Christian
32:11
Speaker 1: senior middle blocker. Every single you know, match that she's had,
32:16
Speaker 1: she's putting up it seems seems like more and more blocks.
32:19
Speaker 1: And uh, I think this match that i think the
32:22
Speaker 1: last one that they just had, I'm trying to remember
32:24
Speaker 1: if it was against I think it was against Mount Vernon.
32:26
Speaker 1: She had seven blocks in that seven That is incredible.
32:30
Speaker 1: It did go I think it did go four sets,
32:33
Speaker 1: but still seven blocks. That's just a number that you
32:37
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32:41
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Speaker 1: that's kind of the strength of that Linden Christian team
32:47
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