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TUMWATER — Every Tumwater football practice is clinical.
Players make the walk from the locker room towards the field, line up for stretches, then break into their respective groups and …
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By Dylan Wilhelm / dylan@chronline.com
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9/2/26
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TUMWATER — All she needed was a chance at redemption.
With five minutes left in the first half, Tumwater junior Brielle Clark had the perfect opportunity to put the Thunderbirds on the …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylan@thurstonchronicle.com
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9/2/26
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The grind of summer workouts, weight lifting sessions and early fall practices are just about over. Regular season games in girls soccer plus cross country, swim and golf meets and even duals in …
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By Zach Martin / zach@chronline.com
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8/27/26
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The volleyball season begins in earnest on Tuesday and with it comes a two-month journey to reach the Yakima Valley SunDome in November. Here are five players and three teams to keep an eye for 2026.
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By Zach Martin / zach@chronline.com
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8/27/26
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TUMWATER — The expectation in Tumwater is clear: Win football games.
The T-Birds have done plenty of that for a while now, including the last three seasons, each of which ended with a trip to …
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By Dylan Wilhelm / dylan@chronline.com
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8/27/26
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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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Fall sports are just around the corner, with football practices five days away and all other sports beginning practice in 10 days. Regular season action is less than four weeks away.
The 2025 …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylan@thurstonchronicle.com
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8/14/26
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It took one unofficial campus visit to Houston Christian University for it all to sink in for Sarah Stevens.
Conversations with the coaching staff preached a family environment. In talking with …
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By Zach Martin / zach@chronline.com
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8/13/26
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We’re just four weeks away from the much-anticipated return of Friday Night Lights in Thurston County.
On Sept. 4, a dozen high school football teams in the county will begin their march …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylan@thurstonchronicle.com
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8/7/26
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All Kylie Waltermeyer knows how to do is win.
In her four-year career at Tumwater High School from 2020 to 2023, she helped the Thunderbirds hoist back-to-back district championship trophies as …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylan@thurstonchronicle.com
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7/27/26
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The second and final day of the Capital City 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament in Tenino crowned 17 championship teams Sunday, including five with current and former athletes from Thurston County.
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Photos by Dylan Reubenking / dylan@thurstonchronicle.com
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7/26/26
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Athletes from around Thurston County and Lewis County, both past and present, laced up their sneakers for the annual Capital City 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament in Tenino on Saturday, July 25.
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Photos by Dylan Reubenking / dylan@thurstonchronicle.com
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7/25/26
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Tumwater alum Alex Overbay took the next step in his baseball career on Sunday, when he was drafted in the eighth round of the MLB draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Overbay, who spent this past …
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By Dylan Wilhelm / dylan@chronline.com
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7/12/26
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LACEY — Rogue Everson has played softball for nearly five years and she’s never had a weekend quite like this one.
The Olympia High School outfielder, who will be a senior this upcoming …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylan@thurstonchronicle.com
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7/12/26
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Softball players aged 16-and-under from Capital, North Thurston, Olympia, River Ridge, Timberline, Tumwater and Yelm high schools flocked to Chehalis to represent their club teams at the Cascades …
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Photos by Dylan Reubenking / dylan@thurstonchronicle.com
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7/10/26
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In second and third grade, Tumwater’s Ethan Bello began his football journey, playing a season of flag football before playing a season of Pee Wee.
Eight years after that first Pee Wee season, …
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By Dylan Wilhelm / dylan@chronline.com
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6/25/26
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Ethan Thayer pocketed another accolade only an elite number of athletes can achieve: All-American.
The Onalaska senior-to-be uncorked a career-best toss of 196 feet, 2 inches to place seventh in …
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By The Chronicle staff
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6/22/26
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TUMWATER — A whopping 32 schools from around Washington state flocked to Tumwater this weekend for the Thurston County Team Football Camp, which included seven programs from Thurston County.
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylan@thurstonchronicle.com
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6/21/26
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Almost two weeks after celebrating on the field with the state championship trophy, bleached hair visible for everyone to see, one thing stuck with Napavine’s Cal Bullock the most.
“Just the …
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By The Chronicle staff
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6/12/26
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TACOMA — For the first time in seven years, the 2A girls 4x200 relay state championship trophy was hoisted by a school not named Tumwater.
The dynasty came to an end at Mount Tahoma High …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylan@thurstonchronicle.com
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5/31/26
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