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Sehome High School graduate and Unified Soccer player Evan Kaptinski earned a spot on Team USA for the 2019 Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi next March. Evan is one of 20 players on Team USA. He will train throughout the fall, traveling to Seattle for practices as well as to the Special Olympics…
Darin Nolan, physical education and health teacher at Bellingham High School, was awarded the 2018 High School Physical Education Teacher of the Year by SHAPE Washington. He will be recognized at the state conference in October in Wenatchee, Wash. SHAPE Washington is a society of health and physical educators. The mission of SHAPE Washington is…
Last school year, Bellingham Public Schools was selected to participate in a garden-to-cafeteria pilot program through Slow Foods USA along with three other districts nationwide. Andrew Nowak, director of the National School Garden Program of Slow Food USA, visited Whatcom Middle School and their school garden in the spring to review a draft of the…
Sehome High School athletics is the 2017-18 Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) Scholastic Cup champion for 2A classification. Sehome was awarded 1,435 points, nearly 300 points more than Selah High School, who came in second. Bellingham High School also achieved an exceptional score, coming in third out of 62 high schools with 1,105 points. The…
Students at Bellingham Public Schools have even more opportunity to play competitive team sports with the addition of Unified Basketball this winter. Special Olympics devised the Unified Sports program as a way to bring together athletes with and without intellectual disabilities. Those with disabilities, referred to as “athletes,” play on the same team as their…
Girls wrestling made history this year when Lynette Samano won the state championship for the 120 weight division for girl wrestlers. This is the first year that girls from all three high schools competed under a combined team, Bellingham United, and their first state win. Samano’s victory at state was particularly sweet because she had…
The high school boys playing soccer on a recent Saturday at the Sportsplex were a blur. They moved quickly from one end of the small indoor field to another, displaying skills they developed in their home countries: Mexico, Guatemala, Ethiopia, Somalia — to name a few. Many of the students were new to Bellingham this…
Sehome coach Kevin Ryan’s success has been recognized on the national level. The Coaches Association of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) named Ryan National Coach of the Year in girls track and field for the 2016-17 school year. Under Ryan’s leadership, girls track and field won the 2A state championship in…
Bellingham Public Schools and community partners received two grants totaling more than $247,000 to help support homeless students during the 2017-18 school year. The grants — $195,000 from the Washington state Department of Commerce and $52,228 from the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction — will help schools in Bellingham and elsewhere in Whatcom…
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