August 3, 2012 [17]
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Pattison’s Team Extreme racks up national medals By CASEY OLSON sports@fedwaymirror.com
Federal Way’s Pattison’s West has long held a special spot in the world of inline speed skating. Year in and year out, the skating center has produced some of the best talent in the United States, including Winter Olympians Apolo Ohno and J.R. Celski. Pattison’s Team Extreme elite speed skating squad turned in another impressive performance at the 2012 Indoor National Speed Skating Championships in Lincoln, Neb. The championships were held July 14-21 and Pattison’s Team Extreme racked up multiple national titles during their week in Nebraska. The most impressive of those championships may have come from the relay team of Brandon Hall, Miguel Jose, Jeremy Anderson and Zach Sagiao. The foursome won the Senior 4-Man 4,000-meter relay title and broke the national record by more than two seconds. The team is currently in Colorado Springs, Colo. preparing for this weekend’s USA Roller Sports 2012 Outdoor National Inline Speed Skating Championships. Hall, a 19-year-old Federal Way resident, is participating in nine different races with the goal of making the USA World Team, which will compete in Rome in September. Two years ago, Hall competed at the World Championships in South America and won
The new $490 million Seattle arena is proposed to sit south of Safeco Field in the Stadium District. The facility would include $200 million in public funding. courtesy photo
County Council says yes to arena plan, Seattle to wait The gold-medal winning Senior 4-Man Relay team of, from left to right, Brandon Hall, Miguel Jose, Jeremy Anderson and Zach Sagiao. a silver medal in a relay. Here is how other Pattison’s Team Extreme skaters did at the 2012 Indoor National Speed Skating Championships in Nebraska: • Hall finished with a silver medal in the World Class Men’s 500 meters. • Chase Anderson won the 400-meter race in the Primary Girls category. • Catherine Ream won the Esquire Ladies category with two first-place finishes in the 700- and 1,000-meter races and a second-place in the 500. • Jeremy Anderson also swept all three races in the Masters Men division. Anderson won the 500-, 1,000 and 1,500-meter races. • Jordan Hafensher won the 3,000-meter race in the Senior Men’s category. • Nicholas Dominski and Stephen Hohagen dominated the Junior Men division by sweeping all three races. Dominski won the 500- and 1,000-meter
races and Hohagen won the 2,000 meters and was second in the 500. • Shianna Moses swept all three races in the Freshman Girls division. Moses was first in the 300-, 500and 1,000-meter races. • Allison Pfander won a pair of races in the Elementary Girls division in the 500- and 700-meter races and was disqualified in the 300 meters. • Brennen Solomon won the 300 meters and finished second in the Elementary Boys division. • Zach Sagiao finished on top of the Sophomore Men’s division with a consistent performance in Lincoln. Sagiao won the 1,000 meters and finished third in both the 500- and 1,500-meter races. • Allison Pfander and William Poulsen won the Elementary 2-Mixed Relay race for Pattison’s. Poulsen also teamed with Christian Poulsen, Anton Zaytsev [ more skating page 18 ]
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New $490 million basketball facility could bring the Seattle SuperSonics and a possible NHL team to town By CASEY OLSON sports@fedwaymirror.com
The new arena that could bring the Seattle SuperSonics back to town jumped over one hurdle Monday afternoon. The Metropolitan King County Council gave its approval to an amended memorandum of understanding (MOU) and interlocal agreement (ILA) that will govern the county’s role in a proposed arena in Seattle’s SODO district. The vote is the first step in the possible
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return of the National Basketball Association to Seattle, as well as a potential National Hockey League franchise. “I’m excited by the prospect of bringing back our beloved Seattle SuperSonics. But we can’t legislate on that alone,” said Councilmember Joe McDermott, who chairs the Council’s Budget and Fiscal Management Committee. “That’s why we undertook a thorough and careful review of the arena proposal.” In February, private investor Chris Hansen presented to King County, as well as the city of Seattle, a proposal to construct a new $490 million arena with $200 million in public funding with the ability to host NBA and NHL teams. After negotiations between Hansen, County Executive Dow Constantine and Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, a proposed agreement was [ more arena page 20 ]
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