Sports Shorts
Published 11:01 pm Thursday, October 2, 2008
Rowing summer programs available
The Sammamish Rowing Association (SRA) will be offering summer rowing programs. The Junior Novice program is for ages 13-18 with three dates available. The first program starts June 27 and continues through July 15. The second starts July 18 and continues through Aug. 5 and the third starts Aug. 8 and ends Aug. 26. Each session is Monday-Friday from 7-9 a.m. or 10 a.m. to noon. Registration is on a first-come first-serve basis.
The learn-to-row classes are available for any age group. Each month through October, SRA will be offering new sessions. Classes meet twice a week for each four-week session. The cost is $75. Four different scheduling options are available. The first is Saturdays and Sundays, 9:30-11:30 a.m. The second is Mondays and Wednesdays from 9-11 a.m. The third is Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5-7 a.m. The fourth is Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:30-8:30 p.m. No experience is necessary.
Sammamish Rowing Association is located at 5022 W. Lake Sammamish Blvd., Redmond (seven-tenths of a mile south of the entrance to Marymoor Park).
* For more information, visit the Web site at www.srarowing.com or call (425) 653-2583. SRA is a nonprofit program in partnership with the King County Parks Department.
Wildcat weight training camp available
Mount Si High School is hosting a weight training camp during spring break. The camp will be for middle-school students on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, April 11, 13 and 14, from 3-5 p.m. at Mount Si High School in the gymnasium.
Contact the high school at (425) 831-8100 for more information and pre-registration. The cost for the camp is $30.
Svarthumle tearing it up in his final college season
Mount Si graduate Aaron Svarthumle, a senior baseball player at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Ore., is tearing it up in his final season of collegiate baseball.
The outfielder and third baseman, according to Pacific’s web site, is hitting .316, with two home runs and 21 RBIs. Last Friday, his triple, the only one he’s had thus far this season, keyed a six-run explosion in the bottom of the seventh inning in the second game of a doubleheader against Lewis and Clark College. The Boxers won both contests, 7-0 and 12-4.
Svarthumle has also made the difference in other games. One of the two home runs he’s hit thus far for Pacific came on March 13, and it tied the Boxers’ contest with Whitman, a game that ultimately was won by Pacific.
Mount Si baseball fans who want to see two Wildcat graduates in action can do that this weekend when Pacific and the University of Puget Sound (UPS) square off in a three-game series. Saturday, there is a doubleheader and a single game on Sunday. First pitch on both days is at noon at the UPS campus in Tacoma. Svarthumle will be facing former Mount Si teammate Bryce Kaestner, a junior who pitches for UPS. Kaestner, according to UPS’s web site, is currently 0-0 with a 3.65 ERA, mostly in relief.
Haakenson sets record
TACOMA, Wash. – Dan Haakenson, 2001 Mount Si graduate and senior at Pacific Lutheran University, set new season bests at the Puget Sound Open track and field meet, held last week at the University of Puget Sound. He set a new meet record in the men’s discus at 42.56 meters. He was the only competitor in the event.
