In Australia, hot dogs are “sausage sizzlers.” Sweatsuits are “trackies.” But basketball is still basketball, as the Mount Si girls basketball team learned last week while hosting the Mandurah Magic, a high school exposition team from Western Australia.
Australian players home-stayed with Mount Si players families, and while the two teams competed on the court, they also made friendships.

“It was a different experience,” says senior Katy Lindor, a point guard and one of Mount Si’s four senior returners.

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Look to seniors Carlos Toledano and Nick Decker to lead the pack of Red Wolves wrestlers this winter.

Toledano, who will hold down the 152-pound class, and Decker, expected to weigh in at about 140, trained hard for the season. They’re back and looking strong.

Toledano took fifth in state last season, and wrestles extensively, year-round, with Snoqualmie Valley Wrestling Club. Both boys took part in an intensive two-week camp this summer to build their skills.

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The action of league rivalries, the challenges of the districts and the glories of state are all ahead for the winter high school sports teams in Snoqualmie Valley.

Meet some of the veterans, seniors and team players who’ve suited up for basketball, wrestling and gymnastics, as they look at the season to come.

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One year ago, two players that would otherwise have made big impacts to the Mount Si boys team were riding pine due to injury.

Now, Trent Riley, a senior, and Tyler McCreadie, a junior, are back from the sidelines. Expect them to make a big difference this year on a reloaded team that includes varsity-experienced players Levi Botten, Jason Smith, and Griffin McLain, Beau Shain, Tyler Button and Jack Nelson. Eli Gogan moves up from junior varsity, while Parker Dumas looks to make an impact as a freshman newcomer.

An excited Botten related during practice last week about the reload.

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Once you’re a die-hard gymnast, there’s no going back.

That’s certainly the case for Mount Si’s crop of seniors this winter.

Hannah Richmond, Elizabeth Holmes and Jessica Trotto have been on the varsity team all four years of high school.

Coach Jessica Easthope has watched them grow up in front of her eyes.

“They were all talented, as a person, which has only improved their gymnastics,” she says. “They have all just blossomed.”

Easthope says the high school team is special, due to its sense of unity. Gymnasts support each other during the season, in the offseason, in and out of the gym.

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Experience is the hallmark of the Red Wolves boys’ basketball team this year. This group of seasoned athletes, led by six seniors and last year’s league MVP, are counting on their experience to lead them through a challenging season, all the way to the Sundome in Yakima.

“Everybody’s going to be tough this year,” said senior and co-captain Zach Taylor, a strategic guard whose strong shooting, averaging almost 20 points per game, helped him to the honor of Cascade Conference MVP last season.

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The basketball court at Cedarcrest High School has been a virtual stomping grounds for seniors Molly Hammontree, Courtney McKinney, Sarah Stauffer and Kailyn Campbell.

For four years, these four seniors have started on varsity. This year could well be their year, to do things the Red Wolf girls team has never done.

“We want to be the first Cedarcrest girls team to win the league championship, and the first to go to state in the history of the school,” says head coach Brad Knowles, a former Mercer Island and Mount Si AU coach who’s helmed the program for two years.

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The Wildcat wrestling team will benefit from a depth that comes from years of experience on the mat.

Mount Si, under four-year head coach Tony Schlotfedlt, includes a set of varsity returning seniors including Nate Whited (220 pounds), Tim Corrie (182), Max Kenaghy (160), Mitch Rorem (195), Cole Palmer (170) and Bruce Stuart (145).

“We’re going to do pretty well this year,” predicts Whited, who returns at 220. He took fourth in Kingco last year; Overall, Mount Si was Kingco’s champion team.

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The Snoqualmie Middle School “Lady Eagles” Volleyball program ended on a positive note for all four teams. Each team had more wins than losses, with the seventh grade varsity squad going undefeated for the season. The eighth grade varsity and junior varsity teams compiled a 6-2 record while the seventh grade JV team posted a 5-3 season. All four teams celebrated with an end-of-season awards party recognizing the accomplishments of each team.

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Mount Si baseball alumnus Max Brown was chosen to join the first ever New Zealand baseball team, The DiamondBlacks.

Brown currently attends Bellevue College and plays for their team. He played center field for Mount Si High Schools, Wildcats and was instrumental in helping them win the 2010 State Championship.

According to Bellevue College, Brown was recently named to the provisional roster for the New Zealand National Team which will try to qualify for the World Baseball Classic (WBC) in March.

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Mount Si junior Bailey Scott represented her team in the Washington Interscholastic Athletics Association’s cross country championships at Pasco on Saturday, Nov. 13.

It’s the second state outing for Scott, Mount Si’s sole state qualifier for distance running.

She finished 43rd at state, with a time of 19:53.8.

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