Red-hot Sports in Redmond
The place to check out news and tidbits about the Redmond prep sports scene, including Redmond High, The Overlake School and The Bear Creek School.
Steppin’ into some big shoes
January 22nd, 2010 at Fri, 22nd, 2010 at 12:57 pm by Tim WatanabeWell, not quite Shaq’s size 23 Nikes, but almost. Our fearless editor, Bill Christianson, is now basking in the warm Caribbean sun in the midst of a 10-day cruise and by default I’ve become the interim editor-in-chief since I’m the only one that can lay out our newspaper in Adobe InDesign.
Kinda like a bench warmer being asked to step up and perform late in the fourth quarter with the game on the line, so to speak.
But we have a tremendous staff here, albeit small, and I was able to get the job done. Hope everyone enjoyed today’s Redmond Reporter – and also hope that everyone that read the paper couldn’t tell that our usual editor is 3,500 miles away!
Looking forward to next week – I’ll feature the Overlake Girls basketball team as they challege the Northwest School on Tuesday night at home. The Owls have really come into their own as of late, playing a number of tight matches including their 61-60 double-overtime thriller last Tuesday against Cedar Park and are sitting in a tie for 3rd in the 1A Emerald City League at 4-2 (6-3 overall).
And congrats to both Bear Creek teams as they steamroll through league play (they’re a combined 11-1, with the boys undefeated). Keep it up Grizzlies!
Everyone try and get out to some high school hoops games and cheer on your local teams!
Tim Watanabe Hi there! I graduated from the University of Washington in 2007 with a degree in Journalism and have been the sports writer for the Redmond Reporter since May of 2008. When I'm not covering the local high school sports scene I enjoy bowling, anything related to African lions, and performing as a lion mascot for community and charity events.
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