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Just four short years ago, the Yelm Tornados football program wasn’t just part of Class 3A’s upper echelon.
It was the upper echelon.
Yelm stunned the national high school football …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylan@thurstonchronicle.com
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8/24/26
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TENINO — When kickoff takes place in Week 1 against rival Rainier, it’ll officially mark two decades of being a coach for Tenino’s Darren Tinnerstet.
And he’s had to learn new tricks in …
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By Zach Martin / zach@chronline.com
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8/23/26
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The Evergreen State College volleyball team rolled to its first victory of the 2026 season Saturday, defeating Oklahoma Panhandle State 3-1 (25-22, 12-25, 25-22, 25-16) on the second day of the …
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By Thurston Chronicle staff
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8/22/26
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Wherever Cary Nagel goes, a physical football team follows. He’s always had at least one alpha on offense that has set that tone of physicality.
As an offensive coordinator at Franklin Pierce …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylan@thurstonchronicle.com
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8/22/26
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RAINIER — Five-alarm fire warnings were ringing throughout the Rainier High School football team in 2025.
Losing the first four games of the season, and back-to-back fourth quarter leads wiped …
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By Zach Martin / zach@chronline.com
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8/22/26
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The Evergreen State College volleyball team came up short in its season-opening matchups at the Friends Invitational in Wichita, Kansas, falling 3-0 to Peru State and 3-1 to Friends on Friday.
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By Thurston Chronicle staff
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8/22/26
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Night Stalkers Don’t Quit.
Every first week of fall practice for the last nine years, minus the season affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Capital High School football team has seen this …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylan@thurstonchronicle.com
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8/21/26
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The Saint Martin’s University softball program announced Friday the hiring of Phoebe Schultz for the role of assistant softball coach.
Schultz joins the Saints after spending the last two …
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By Thurston Chronicle staff
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8/21/26
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ROCHESTER — When AJ Easley had a positional breakdown drill of his 50-plus guys on the roster, well over half of them went to running back. Now for a program that hammers the ball down the pipe …
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By Zach Martin / zach@chronline.com
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8/21/26
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The Evergreen State College women’s cross country team ranked ninth in the 2026 Cascade Collegiate Conference preseason poll, released Aug. 13.
Last fall at the 2025 CCC Championships, the …
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By Thurston Chronicle staff
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8/20/26
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Evergreen sophomore defender Isabella Williams notched her first collegiate goal of her career, but the Geoducks women’s soccer team fell to Park University Gilbert (Arizona) 2-1 in their season …
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By Thurston Chronicle staff
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8/20/26
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When Timberline head football coach James Jones thought about the embarrassment of riches at his disposal on the 2026 Blazers roster, he couldn’t stop chuckling.
He scanned up and down the …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylan@thurstonchronicle.com
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8/20/26
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Much like River Ridge High School, the Hawks football program is under construction.
For the past four years, River Ridge students have grown accustomed to the school’s modernization project …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylan@thurstonchronicle.com
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8/20/26
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The Nyastrong Warriors Academy will be hosting free athletic agility camps every Sunday through Sept. 13.
Camps will be held in Tenino every Sunday from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
All public, …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/20/26
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If the North Thurston Rams football team could make one wish to the football gods for the 2026 fall season, it would almost certainly be stability.
Chaos clouded the Rams’ 2025 campaign before …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylan@thurstonchronicle.com
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8/20/26
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It served as a constant reminder. It was always within eyesight. It was simple, yet monumental.
Hallie Bergford had a note taped above her bed while she was at Seattle University with the …
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By Zach Martin / zach@chronline.com
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8/19/26
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Two words are written on the left sleeve of each Evergreen State College volleyball player’s jersey and on a poster above the scorer’s table at the Costantino Recreation Center gymnasium.
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylan@thurstonchronicle.com
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8/19/26
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The next chapter in Noelle Mannen’s impressive basketball journey happened by complete accident.
This past spring, Mannen, then an assistant women’s basketball coach at Saint Martin’s …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylan@thurstonchronicle.com
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8/18/26
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The Evergreen State College men’s cross country team is ranked ninth in the 2026 Cascade Collegiate Conference preseason poll, released Thursday, Aug. 13.
Last season, the Geoducks …
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By Thurston Chronicle staff
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8/18/26
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Before his first collegiate head coaching gig began on the Saint Martin’s University campus on March 31, 2025, Scott Ford was an assistant coach for a Pacific Lutheran University women’s soccer …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylan@thurstonchronicle.com
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8/17/26
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