The Mercer Island boys basketball team advanced to the district playoffs with the No. 3 seed from KingCo thanks to…
The Mercer Island girls basketball team defeated Bellevue for the second time this season Thursday night, to advance to the…
The Mercer Island boys basketball team lost to Mount Si 49-40 for the third time in one week. The loss…
A friendly rivalry between friends can help any athlete.
The Mercer Island wrestling team received some unexpected motivation this week heading into regionals.
When Mercer Island girls basketball coach Jamie Prescott took over the program in 2004, she set a goal of winning the KingCo title within five years. That goal was a bit lofty. After all, Mercer Island had never won the league championship, most of the past decade had been spent in the cellar of the division, and all of the players on the 2008-2009 team were still in middle school.
The 15 applications for the Mercer Island High School head football coaching position came from as far away as North Carolina, Alabama, Ohio and California. Ultimately, the Islanders went with a person who has been on Mercer Island during the majority of his life, Mercer Island High School math teacher Brett Ogata.
Mercer Island High School hired one of its own to be its new head football coach on Monday. Math teacher and long-time Islander Brett Ogata takes over for interim coach John Williams, who guided the team to a 3-7 record last season.
The Mercer Island High School girls basketball team is the regular season KingCo champion for the first time in school history. The team wrapped up the title with a 56-50 win at Liberty High School Tuesday night.
The Mercer Island wrestling team took second place during the KingCo championship tournament at Liberty High School on Saturday, behind a surprise champion in Bellevue.
The Mercer Island boys swim team took its first step toward the defense of its three consecutive state titles by nearly doubling the next closest team’s score during the 3A KingCo meet on Saturday at Mary Wayte Pool. The Islanders scored 878.5 points en route to the meet title. Inglemoor, the next closest team, scored 444.5, and Garfield was third with 393.
Islander gymnastics coach Lenny Lewis didn’t see much of his team’s performance on Saturday which took third and clinched a place at districts. He was too busy studying the walls of the Ballard High School gymnasium.
One of the biggest wins in the history of Mercer Island High School girls basketball took place on Feb. 4, when the Islanders defeated Bellevue, 66-58, at Mercer Island High School.