Columbia High boys soccer Coach Daniel Mangum welcomed a large turnout of players this spring, allowing the Bruin program to have varsity and junior varsity teams.
Coach Garrett Hall is a realist about the complexities of water polo, but even he was pleasantly surprised with the progress his Hood River Valley boys team is making early this season.
The Dalles football team is breaking the seal on a new journey in the 4A ranks under head coach Steve Sugg. Instead of playing independent status, as the Riverhawks have for the past two seasons, the program now can vie for a league title and a state championship.
Two years ago, Greg Cummings fielded a group of baseball players to a runner-up finish at state. With several of those athletes back, the expectations for the 2018 Babe Ruth All-Stars are higher. “I hate to say world series or bust, but that’s where I am going,” Cummings said.
Stepping into his new post as athletic director and vice principal at The Dalles High School in 2013, Mike Somnis had no idea what to expect. As he resigned his position in late June, after four years, he left Riverhawk Nation with lifelong friends, students who looked up to him and a community that offered the utmost respect and admiration for an administrator and parental figure who put everything he had into his career.