By Seth Leuck Neighbors are tricky. Sometimes they borrow your hammer and don’t return it; sometimes they don’t cut their grass when they should and every once in a while they place a countrywide ban on your shellfish exports. According to the Food and Drug Administration, China is purportedly considering another […]
A Call to Imagine
STUDENT SUBMISSION BY ALI MEDIATE “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.” – Class Theme of 2014 I think imagination means staying curious about what’s possible. It implies an ability to think critically and to think independently from what’s considered “normal.” Imagination is used to think conceptually, beyond […]
Johnson Reaches New Heights
Earns All-American Honors BY JAMES GUTSCH Geneva, Ohio – Anthony Johnson has finally etched himself into Greener legend, becoming the first track and field All-American in Evergreen history at the NAIA national championships this past Saturday. Johnson took fifth in his specialty – the high jump, after clearing 6’9 inches. […]
Geoducks to Start Offseason 0 for 2 After Latest Departure
BY JAMES GUSTCH Evergreen Basketball has another vacancy to fill as Men’s Head Coach Arvin Mosley Jr. announced his resignation last Wednesday. Mosley coached the Geoducks for four years and had an overall record of 15-91. Mosley inherited a team that had qualified for the post-season for four consecutive years […]
Playoff Drought Continues for the Geoducks
BY JAMES GUSTCH Arguably the best season in Evergreen Women’s Basketball history came to a bitter end on Tuesday night. The fifth place Geoducks fell to fourth place Southern Oregon University in the Cascade Collegiate Conference quarterfinal, by a score of 70-80. Sammi Clark had 22 points in her final […]
‘Clam’tastic: Evergreen Dominates on Senior Night, Bids Farewell to Coach Heuer
BY JAMES GUTSCH Evergreen Women 61 / Pacific Warner College 59 Just days after long-time Women’s Basketball Coach Monica Heuer announced her retirement, and while Evergreen was still fighting for home-court advantage in the playoffs, the Geoducks knew it was not the time to let up on the gas pedal. Sammi Clark […]
Falling Short of High Expectations
BY JAMES GUTSCH Competing against Olympic medalist Erik Kynard and former NCAA National Champion Dusty Jonas in the high jump, Evergreen Freshman Anthony Johnson couldn’t quite recreate the magic he has been showing all season. One of just two collegiate athletes invited to compete in the United States of America […]
Life is Just a Game, but Baseball . . . Baseball is Serious.
BY JAMES GUTSCH For the burnt-out high school athlete who didn’t make the jump to the National Collegiate Athletic Association, college club sports is an opportunity to relive past glory, while still clinging to those precious drops of youth. Playing without the pressures of varsity athletics allows players to focus […]
A Year in Review
2013 was not a golden year in sports at The Evergreen State College. However, despite the losses and disappointments, there are some diamonds in the rough. Evergreen volleyball fans can finally take the bags off their heads and hold their siphons high as the team ended a streak of 51 […]
The ‘Battling Bivalves’ Fall in Cascade Conference Openers
By James Gutsch Evergreen may have finally figured out how to entice Greeners to come to a college Basketball doubleheader on a frigid Friday night in Olympia: Drive the Taco Truck to the CRC front entrance. The highest turnout of the season treated fans to both burritos and basketball as […]