Stanwood Spartans

Prep Sports Weekly for Thursday, April 30, 2020. From a Social Distance, we meet our Russell & Hill Male Student Athlete of the Month, Arlington pitcher Owen Bishop and Head Coach Scott Striegel. Our Russell & Hill Female Student Athlete of the Month is Glacier Peak Gymnast and Future Oregon Duck Emilie Henningsen. Although their collective seasons were taken away by the Coronavirus, we learn about what might have been in Stanwood Spartans Spring Sports with Evan Caldwell from The Stanwood Camano News and Girls Golf Coach Zack Ward. Finally, it's Edgar Martinez (no not that Edgar Martinez) and Douglas Cruz-Young of the Marysville Pilchuck Tomahawks Boys Soccer team.

Prep Sports Weekly, February 27, 2020. Our Winter Sports State Championship Edition. We hear from Shorewood Diver Isaac Poole, Jackson swimmer Justin Limberg and Glacier Peak Swimmer Matthew King, Kamiak Head Coach Chris Erickson and swimmers Maxwell Fang, Ryan Fang and Brian Park. We meet the White Family of Marysville Pilchuck: Girls Head Coach Andie White and her kids Cayden and Alivia who both won wrestling state championships. Stanwood Girls Wrestler Chanel Siva and her coach Todd Freeman. And, Lake Stevens Wrestling Girls State Champion Wrestler Kiley Hubby.

Prep Sports Weekly, Thursday, February 20, 2020. We talk Community College Basketball with guests Everett CC Head Mens Coach Mike Trautman and player Bobby Martin (Glacier Peak) and Womens Assistant Coach Cheryl Sorenson and players Alexa Martin (Jackson HS) and Morgan Marshall (Snohomish). We also have NWAC Executive Director Marco Azurdia join us talking about the upcoming NWAC Basketball Tournament in Everett. We hear from Stanwood Boys Basketball Coach Zach Ward; Cameron Van Til of the Everett Herald discussing the Swimming State Championships this weekend at the Weyerhaueser King County Aquatic Center; and Edmonds Woodway Boys Wrestling Coach Brian Alfi, live from the Tacoma Dome and this weekend's Mat Classic Wrestling Tournament.

This week: Robert Brown; Head Coach for the Edmonds-Woodway Warriors boys basketball team; Justin Prohn and Efton Chism III; Head Coach and starting point guard for the Monroe Bearcats boys basketball team; Zach Ward; Head Coach for the Stanwood Spartans boys basketball team and Brett Darnell; Head Coach for the undefeated Cashmere Bulldogs girls basketball team discussing Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna visiting Cashmere.

It’s our Annual Thanksgiving Fall Sports State Championship Show on the Thursday, November 28, 2019 edition of Prep Sports Weekly. We meet the Lake Stevens Vikings Volleyball team that took second at the Volleyball State Tournament in Yakima’s Sundome; Head Coach Kyle Hoglund and players Samaya Morin, Michelle Fast and Maddie Iseminger. The Western Conference had great success this year at the State Swim Meet at the Weyerhaueser King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way with state champion swimmers Jetlynn Hau of Stanwood and Elli Straume of Kamiak and diver Kayli Kersavage of Snohomish, along with diving coach Marc Hughes. Plus, we’ll hear about next week’s Snohomish County Football Officials Association’s Scholar Athlete Banquet with long-time football officials Tom Freal and Steve Landro.

Jetlynn Hau of the Stanwood High School Swim & Dive Team is our KRKO Radio Russell & Hill Female Athlete of the Month for October 2019.

Prep Sports Weekly, Thursday, October 31, 2019. Our Halloween Edition and we announce our KRKO Radio Sports Russell & Hill Student Athletes of the Month. Our female athlete is Jetlynn Hau of the Stanwood Swim Team; and our male athlete is Brady Thomas of Jackson Tennis. Then our football coach's carousel includes visits with Brandon Christensen of Shorecrest; Jim Shapiro of King's and Joey Hammer of Snohomish.

Prep Sports Weekly 9/12/19. We talk about the Snohomish County Sports Hall of Fame with associate director Rich Haldi; plus a two-time member of the Hall of Fame Karen Bryant (she's in as a sports contributor in 2012, and this year as a member of Woodway High School's girls basketball state championship team in 1984). We wrap up the show with our coach's carousel with Sultan's Rick Rudd and Stanwood's Eric Keizer.

For more than a half century, KRKO Radio has broadcast the finest in Snohomish County High School Football. The tradition continues in 2019 with Tom Lafferty and Steve Willits anchoring the coverage under The Friday Night Lights. Former Kamiak Coach Dan Mack; former Jackson Coach Joel Vincent and former Jackson & Washington Husky Craig Chambers will rotate into the analysts chair each week. Tune into AM 1380; FM 95.3 and streaming live at www.krko.com. Click the above title to get the full schedule.

Congratulations to our KRKO Russell & Hill Female Student Athlete of the Month for February 2019, Chanel Siva of Stanwood High School. Chanel had the distinction of being the only wrestler from Snohomish County to win a state championship at this year’s Mat Classic (Male or Female) at The Tacoma Dome. Siva is a junior at Stanwood and wrestles at the 235 pound weight class.