High School

The Mountlake Terrace Hawks scored the first 14 points of the game and were never challenged in a 58-16 blowout of the Cascade Bruins in a non-conference girls basketball contest played Tuesday at Mountlake Terrace High School. The 42-point victory was the largest winning margin for a Terrace girls basketball squad since Jan. 10, 2014,…

  The Mountlake Terrace Hawks have always prided themselves on playing hard-nosed defense. In their 2019-2020 season opener on Thursday, the Hawks used a strong defensive effort early — allowing just five points in the first quarter to the visiting Squalicum Storm. They then rode that start to a 76-55 non-league win at Mountlake Terrace High…

A hot-shooting Latajea Reynolds and a suffocating Ingraham Rams’ zone defense doomed the Mountlake Terrace Hawks in the 2019-2020 girls basketball season opener for both teams on Tuesday; the Hawks were defeated 40-25 by the visiting Rams in the matchup played at Mountlake Terrace High School. Terrace could only muster three points in the first…

Mountlake Terrace Hawk seniors Mason Christianson and Bradey Blackmer have been friends and basketball teammates since the seventh grade — the two even live five houses from each other in Mountlake Terrace. Now they are preparing for a final challenge together: leading the Hawks’ 2019-2020 boys basketball team. “We’ve known that this day (would come)…

Mountlake Terrace junior Kaiya Beavins has seen her share of girls’ basketball coaches at the school, all of whom were ineffectual in turning around a weak program. But for the 2019-2020 season, Beavins senses something different with the newest Hawks coach. “I’m very excited for this year,” Beavins said. “This is going to be very…

Ten Mountlake Terrace Hawks have received All-Conference football honors as the Northwest League has announced their 2019 2A postseason awards. Senior Noah Thompson led Terrace with four first team selections; other Hawks to receive All-Conference nods were seniors Dylan Breuer, Brett Burrows, Dylan John, Seydou Traore; juniors Ethan Dunne, Jai Nath and Jordan Sims; and…

Mountlake Terrace High School has named a replacement for long-time baseball coach Andrew Watters, and it happens to be one of Watters’ former players. Ryan Sells, a 2009 MTHS graduate and All-Wesco League First Team baseball selectee during his senior year, is now the new head coach of the Hawks’ baseball program. Sells, who played…

A big turnout of Mountlake Terrace Hawk alumni and basketball fans enjoyed a night of hoops on Tuesday at Jam Session XXVI, the tipoff for the winter sports season at Terrace. Intrasquad scrimmages of the Hawks’ boys and girls varsity basketball teams, an alumni hoops game, a Terrace wrestling exhibition match, a performance by the…

Wesco League coaches have made their picks for the 2019 fall season all-league honors with a number of Edmonds School District student athletes nods. Here are the All-Wesco League selections from the Mountlake Terrace Hawks. (Since Terrace played football in the 2A Northwest Conference, those all-league selections will be announced separately.) Boys Cross Country First…

Bailey Sonko and Kevin Schaab are being featured this month on the Mountlake Terrace High School Athlete Highlights posters on display around the community. Sonko was a center back for the Hawks’ girls soccer team that recently completed their 2019 season; Schaab was a member of the 2019 Hawks’ boys tennis team. “Bailey is my…

Mountlake Terrace Hawks’ assistant coach and former Meadowdale Mavericks’ head coach Greg Wirtz will be inducted into the Washington Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association (WIBCA) Hall of Fame at the group’s 45th annual banquet scheduled to take place in July 2020 in Mountlake Terrace. Wirtz, a 1973 graduate of Meadowdale, has been coaching basketball in the…

Swimmers from Mountlake Terrace, Meadowdale and Edmonds-Woodway high schools will seek glory and medals this week at the WIAA State Girls Swimming & Diving Championships taking place at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way. The event is set for Friday and Saturday, Nov. 15 and 16. Terrace swimmers will compete in the 1A/2A…

Senior cheer co-captain Bella Garcia has been selected as the final Mountlake Terrace Hawks’ Athlete of the Week for the fall sports season. Garcia, a three-year member of the MTHS cheer squad, was picked for the honor by Hawks’ cheer Coach Jessica Ellersick. “She’s a positive leader, always willing to push hard at practice and…

Adopting a collegiate postseason mindset for motivation, a spirited Mountlake Terrace Hawks jumped on the Lynnwood Royals early and then rode that high to a 30-13 victory in the 2019 football season finale for both teams on Thursday. Terrace reached the end zone on each of its first two possessions to build a 14-0 lead…

After winning four of their previous six matches, the Mountlake Terrace Hawks entered the District 1/2 2A Volleyball Tournament with some momentum. But that push ran into a pair of Sedro-Woolley Cubs that would not be bowled over on Tuesday. Junior Claire Hindman and sophomore Jamie Bartok led the Cubs to a heartstopping 3-2 (25-21,…

The Mountlake Terrace Hawks have completed their 2019 regular season volleyball schedule with two significant changes from 2018 — victories and an opportunity to compete in upcoming postseason tournament play. The Hawks are the No. 8 seed in the District 1/2 2A Volleyball Tournament and will host the No. 9 seed Sedro-Woolley Cubs on Tuesday,…