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Snoqualmie Valley Record • September 16, 2015 • 9
Fall Sports Update This week, the Valley Record takes a look at some of the prep teams for our fall sports updates. Find the full fall sports schedule for Mount Si High School on page 11. Additional information can always be found at www. valleyrecord.com.
Football
Soccer
Football team renews title goals
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Above: Athletes practice tackling, and being tackled, at Mount Si Stadium. Below: three of the five team co-captains, from left, Harrison Danna, Cory Cotto and Caleb Mitchell
Cotto, a linebacker, is more specific. “To win a championship for this team.” The heightened competition in the 4A league, new to the team last year, is now just part of the routine. “I’ve gotten used it it,” Cotto said. “We’re very comfortable in this league.”
Another part of the routine for many Mount Si players is touching a metal pawprint as they enter the stadium. “It means we’re here to work hard every day, we bring our best every day,” said Mitchell. Follow Mount Si football at www. mtsihsfootball.com.
Above: The girls soccer team practices under the shadow of Mount Si. The team is ready to grow and looking ahead to another strong season. Below: Co-captains Nellie Joselyn, Natalie Weidenbach and Camryn Buck
Growing in the game Talented teammates are only part of Mount Si goaltender Nellie Joselyn’s formula for success. Growth is another part, and leadership. “We had a really good team last year, with six or seven girls going on to play college ball,” said Joselyn during practice last week. “We have lots of good players this year, too.” With an emphasis on personal growth this season and a strong core of players who’ve competed together for years, Joselyn foresees a good season. “We just need to put it all together,” she said. Head coach Darren Brown set the goal for personal improvement. “I’m not really concerned with the wins and losses,” he said, although he does enjoy the more competitive nature of the 4A division that Mount Si moved to last year. “I want to know, can we grow? I want to
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get better every day and get back into the playoffs.” With nine seniors on the team, Brown doesn’t have to worry about leadership. “My goal would be to be the best captain I can be,” Joselyn said, adding that she has confidence in her co-captains, Camryn Buck and Natalie Weidenbach. “Buck,” she says, “is as quiet as a mouse. She leads by example. When everything else is crazy, she knows how to be calm, and get the ball where it needs to be.”
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On a sunny afternoon before Mount Si’s first home football game of the season, head coach Charlie Kinnune is setting goals and assessing variables. The goals are obvious: Making it to the state championship; giving each practice and each game a best effort. The variables look pretty good, too. Winning teams like the ones his squad now faces with every game in the 4A division he says, depend on four variables — depth, coaching, community support and facilities. “We’re still working on our depth,” he said, “but our numbers are as good as they ever are.” Coaching should be pretty consistent, as Kinnune heads into his 24th year leading the team, which has usually enjoyed solid community support, he says, and a good stadium, too. Among the students playing football this year, five are co-captains, Cory Cotto, Caleb Mitchell, Ried Lutz, Riley Peerboom and Harrison Danna. Following Kinnune’s lead, they have set a path for their team. Quarterback Danna says “Our goals should be the same as every year, go to the state championship.”