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    Articles by Matt Phelps
    Michael Choe led the Korean National team in scoring during the lacrosse world championships.
    Mercer Island’s Choe plays in lacrosse world championships...
    By Matt Phelps • September 9, 2008 4:52 pm

    For Island resident Michael Choe, the past few months have been like a lacrosse game — non-stop action. Choe recently graduated from Mercer Island High School, helped guide the varsity lacrosse team to the state semifinals and played for the Korean National team in the world lacrosse championships in Coquitlam, British Columbia.

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    Shore Club completes season undefeated, Beach Club continues...
    By Matt Phelps • September 9, 2008 4:52 pm

    Two seasons ago, the Mercer Island Beach Club swimmers competed in division II of the Midlakes swim league and were awaiting the remodel of their home pool.

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    Islander Hugh Miller is currently on the senior Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) tour. Miller won seven national titles earlier in his career with the PBA.
    Miller sets senior PBA circuit on fire |...
    By Matt Phelps • September 9, 2008 4:52 pm

    Two things have been constant in Hugh Miller’s life — Mercer Island and bowling. And while he has drifted away from each at one time or another, he has returned to both.

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    Mercer Island Country Club swimmer Andy Wingerson
    Shore Club run comes to an end
    By Matt Phelps • September 9, 2008 4:51 pm

    The Midlakes Swimming Championship marked the end of an era and many coaching tenures for Island clubs at the King County Aquatic Center on Saturday.

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    Yankee Stadium, Fenway and Cooperstown: The baseball trip...
    By Matt Phelps • September 9, 2008 4:51 pm

    For most people, the vacation of a lifetime has a destination of Italy, France, or for Islander Paul Allen, maybe outer space. For me, the person who has taken two vacations since starting at the Reporter in 2001, it was the baseball trifecta.
    Following the Midlakes Championship meet and quickly filing my story, I rushed to the airport with my brother-in-law for a red-eye to New York to see Yankee stadium, Cooperstown and then over to Boston for a game at Fenway Park.

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    Mercer Island resident and Eastside Catholic baseball player
    Eastside Catholic’s Boyd earns spot on Washington Nationals...
    By Matt Phelps • September 9, 2008 4:50 pm

    Matt Boyd, a Mercer Island resident and Eastside Catholic baseball player, has had a busy year with numerous regional all-star team selections, helping to guide the Crusaders through an undefeated league schedule and verbally committing to play at Oregon State University. What’s next? His senior year of high school.

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    Heglar resigns as Islander head football coach | John Williams named interim coach for 2008 season
    Heglar resigns as Islander head football coach |...
    By Matt Phelps • September 9, 2008 4:50 pm

    Islander head football coach, Bill Heglar, resigned on Thursday, taking the athletic director’s position at Kentlake High School because of a lack of teaching opportunities at Mercer Island High School.

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    John Williams took the Mercer Island High School football team’s head coaching job after former coach Bill Heglar abruptly resigned.
    Williams is new football head coach
    By Matt Phelps • September 9, 2008 4:50 pm

    Less than a month before the Mercer Island High School football team plays its first game of the 2008 season, interim head coach John Williams is still trying to put names with faces.

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    Rachel Godfred
    Markwith, Godfred swim around Island, raise $4,000 for...
    By Matt Phelps • September 9, 2008 4:49 pm

    Some athletes have swam around the Island for charity. Some have attempted the feat as a school project. Some have done it for a challenge. For Rachel Godfred and Sara Markwith it was all of the above.

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    Islander Sean Sussex (right) won five individual state titles.
    Mercer Island High to induct seven into Hall...
    By Matt Phelps • September 9, 2008 4:49 pm

    The first game of the 2008 football season on Sept. 5 will be special. Not because of the team’s new coach, the opponent or the action on the field, but for the halftime activities. The Mercer Island High School Hall of Fame will induct six new members during the halftime ceremonies, including four giants of the Islander basketball community and two of the most decorated swimmers in school history.

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    MIHS grad Rendy Opdycke swims the Catalina Channel off the Coast of Los Angeles
    Mercer Island’s Opdycke completes swimming’s triple crown
    By Matt Phelps • August 27, 2008 10:00 am

    Mercer Island High School graduate Rendy Opdycke swam the Catalina Channel, from Catalina Island to the California mainland, in eight hours and 28 minutes on Aug. 9. It is the third fastest time for a woman and the sixth fastest time overall, out of 145 people who have swam the channel solo since 1927.

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    Heglar resigns as Mercer Island football coach
    Heglar resigns as Mercer Island football coach
    By Matt Phelps • August 8, 2008 7:06 pm

    Mercer Island head football coach, Bill Heglar, resigned on Thursday, taking the athletic director’s position at Kentlake High School because of a lack of teaching opportunities at Mercer Island High School.

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