Western Washington University
Sequim native Sarah Shea, now golfing for Western Washington University, was named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Women's Golfer of the week Monday.

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SPORTS BRIEFS: Sequim’s Sarah Shea named GNAC Women’s Golfer of the Week

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Pacific Lutheran guard Grayson Peet drives during a game earlier this season. The 2017 Port Angeles grad sank two 3-point baskets in a win over rival Puget Sound on Saturday.

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COLLEGE SPORTS: Update on Port Angeles graduates Peet, Long; Forks’ Dahlgren

TACOMA — Port Angeles graduate Grayson Peet is nearing the end of his senior college basketball season with…

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Area Briefs: Fun Color Run in Sequim; Men’s soccer tryouts Saturday

Fun Color Run scheduled for March 6

North Olympic Discovery Marathon
John Ruddell, 12, is the Grand Prize winner of the North Olympic Discovery Marathon kids medal design contest.

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NORTH OLYMPIC DISCOVERY MARATHON: Kids medal grand prize winner announced

PORT ANGELES — Dry Creek Elementary School student John Ruddell, 12, is the Grand Prize winner of the…

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COLUMN: Welcoming the return of local sports

IT’S BEEN ALMOST exactly a year. A year of dashed hopes and crushing lows. A few days of…

Port Angeles High School
Wally Sigmar Field at Peninsula College still had a couple of inches of snow on the field Monday afternoon. The Port Angeles soccer girls are hoping to open their season tonight against East Jefferson, but that game may be postponed if the snow doesn't melt.

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PREP SPORTS: More preps back Tuesday and Wednesday after long hiatus

PORT ANGELES — Despite a bit of a hiccup from a weekend snowstorm, prep sports is finally returning…

Run the Peninsula
Sue Stednek of Sequim competes in the 2020 Elwha Bridge Run. The Run the Peninsula series returns Saturday with the 2021 Elwha Bridge Run.

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RUN THE PENINSULA: Elwha Bridge Run returns Saturday

PORT ANGELES — The second annual Run the Peninsula Elwha Bridge Run 5K/10K along the Olympic Discovery Trail…

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The sport of Cyclocross is coming to the Olympic Peninsula with a CycloX event set in late March at the Extreme Sports Park outside of Port Angeles. This is the World Cyclocross Championships in Germany in 2011.

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ADVENTURE SPORTS: Cyclocross coming to Olympic Peninsula

Peninsula Adventure Sports sets calendar for year’s events

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AREA SPORTS: Sequim Little League registration begins Monday; League also holding Valentine’s Day roses and fudge fundraiser

Danny Romero records hole-in-one

Sequim’s Greta Christianson, center, attempts to reach second as Port Angeles’ Jada Cargo waits to make the tag while umpire Scott Ramsey looks on in a May 2019 playoff game at Billy Whiteshoes Memorial Park west of Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe /Peninsula Daily News)

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PREPS: WIAA adds traditional spring and winter sports to timeline

PORT ANGELES — Some of the guess work surrounding the potential return of prep athletics was cleared away…

Run the Peninsula
Jensen Wolfe, left, and Michelle Turner lead the pack in the 2020 Elwha River Bridge Run. The 2021 race will have a number of COVID-19 precautions, including racers being encouraged to stay 6 feet apart.

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ADVENTURE SPORTS: Elwha River Bridge run this year will make waves

PORT ANGELES — Run the Peninsula is announcing that the Elwha River Bridge Run has received approvals from…

Amalia Bell, winner of the 2020 North Olympic Discovery Kids Marathon's medal design contest. Elementary school students have until Feb. 5 to submit designs for the 2021 Kids Marathon. (Photo courtesy of North Olympic Discovery Marathon)

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SPORTS: Elementary school-age designers sought for North Olympic Discovery Marathon Kids Medal contest

PORT ANGELES — Students in grade six and under are invited to submit designs and artwork for the…

Port Angeles' Kennedy Bruch, center, returns the volleyball between the hands of Sequim's Kendall Hastings, left, and Kali Wiker during an October 2019 match in Sequim. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Port Angeles Roughriders’ Bruch driven to succeed

PORT ANGELES — Aside from an understandable “mopey” period at its outset, Kennedy Bruch has kept to a…

Forks' Trey Baysinger (55) tackles Montesano quarterback Sam Winter during a 2019 contest at Spartan Stadium. (Lonnie Archibald/For Peninsula Daily News)

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PREP SPORTS: Forks’ Trey Baysinger building up skills during pandemic

FORKS — A stabilizing force on the football field, basketball court and baseball diamond for Forks, Spartans’ senior…

Sequim's Riley Pyeatt races in the preliminaries of the 200 meters at the Class 2A state track and field championships in Tacoma in May 2019. Pyeatt placed fifth in the 400-meter race. Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group

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PREPS: Sequim runner Riley Pyeatt in the midst of a metamorphosis

SEQUIM — With her focus centered on running at the collegiate level, Sequim junior Riley Pyeatt has stuck…

Port Angeles’ Dru Clark, center, drives down the court surrounded by Lakewood’s Shae Dixon, left, and Andrew Molloy during a 2019 game in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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PREPS: Port Angeles senior Dru Clark dedicated to his craft

PORT ANGELES — When a coach describes an athlete as possessing “an unbelievable commitment to personal improvement” and…

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PREPS: Shining a light on local athletes

THE WINTER SOLSTICE and the snowfall received Monday in parts of the North Olympic Peninsula had me thinking…

Port Angeles' Jaida Wood, left, and Kole Acker give their testimonials asking state leaders to allow prep athletes to play sports again.

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‘Let Us Play’: Student-athletes give testimonials

Campaign urges less strict COVID-19 metrics to allow prep sports

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PREP SPORTS: As schools given OK to reopen, what about sports?

OLYMPIA — Now that many schools in Washington have been given the go-ahead from Gov. Jay Inslee to…

Port Angeles' Jada Cargo signs a letter of intent to play softball for Lower Columbia Community College. Cargo is joined by her stepdad Jeremy Acosta, left, and mother, Vashti White-Acosta.

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COLLEGE SOFTBALL: Port Angeles’ Jada Cargo signs to play for Lower Columbia

Extends Roughriders to Red Devils talent pipeline