The Prep Beat

Here’s this week’s list of local boys and girls basketball leaders.

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Here’s an updated list of local swimmers who have qualified for the state swimming and diving championships next month. Read the rest of this entry »

Bremerton girls basketball players Jalen and Kourtney Carpenter were nominated for the McDonald’s All-American game.
The Carpenters are among 600 male and female athletes nominated across the nation. In Washington, 30 boys and six girls were nominated.
The final roster of 24 girls and 24 boys will be announced on Feb. 9. Those selected will be announced on ESPNU at 2 p.m.
The All-American game is March 28 in Chicago.
Bremerton’s Marvin Williams is the only West Sound player named a McDonald’s All-American in 2004.

Here’s some decent reads from outside of West Sound:
Here’s an excellent story, written by former Sun writer Roger Underwood, on Ellensburg basketball coach Pat Fitterer, who is coaching through the loss of his life.
Here’s a story out of San Jose about a battle between a coach and the players who walked out in protest of player suspensions. The team has played out a dreadful season with JV players.
This isn’t just basketball, but a district Texas is dropping athletics.
Former NFL player (and Seahawk) Jon Kitna was introduced as football coach at his alma mater Lincoln.

Here are this week’s Associated Press state rankings for girls basketball as
voted on by sports writers from around the state. Rankings include win-loss
records through Jan. 23 and total points (first-place votes in parentheses).
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Here are this week’s Associated Press state rankings for boys basketball as voted on by sports writers from around the state. Rankings include win-loss records through Jan. 23 and total points (first-place votes in parentheses). Records are not available for some teams.

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Kingston’s Sam Byers, the Olympic League offensive MVP and Kitsap Sun football player of the year, has committed to Air Force.
Byers, who is 6-foot-5 and 250 pounds, will play tight end for the Falcons. Byers, who played quarterback and safety in high school, projected to either a tight end or defensive end.
He’ll leave for prep school in Colorado Springs in July.
He said he was “heavily considering” Eastern Washington and had a walk-on offer at Oregon State.
We’ll have more on this story later tonight.

The Washington State State soccer coaches announced its All-State team.
South Kitsap forward Becca Schoales earned a first-team nod in Class 4A.
Central Kitsap’s Paige Serwold (4A) and Bainbridge’s Emma Vukic (3A)were named honorable mention.

In Class 2B-1B, Crosspoint’s Ron Barton was named coach of the year, forward Emma Laurion made the first team, and forward Desere’e Doty, midfielder Jordan Barton and goalkeeper Savannah Howell made the second team.

The Olympic League was shut out of the 2A team.

You might have seen the story today about Bremerton dropping down to 2A, which solidifies the Olympic League and as almost-entirely 2A league. Port Townsend is the only 1A member. Also, Crosspoint decided to remain in the 2B despite 1B numbers.
You can see the numbers here as the WIAA released them yesterday.
And speaking of the WIAA, a bill was introduced into the state legislature that could change how the state’s governing body of high school athletics can punish teams.

Brent Chriswell, a two-time state champion wrestler at South Kitsap who graduated in 2006, is in the middle of his junior season at Boise State?

Junior season? It’s 2012. How is that possible?

I’m trying to set up an interview with Chriswell, but in the meantime, you can read about what he’s been doing over the last few years here.

I arrived at the paper in 2007, so I never had the chance to see Chriswell wrestle. But I’ve heard and read plenty of stories about him, including some battles he waged against Tahoma’s Michael Johnson.