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Re: Mercer Island student body support for girls basketball is abysmal - Mercer Island Reporter

bjrorem — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:42:21 -0000

I believe my comment was not as clear as it could have been. My intent was to point out that crowds weren't travelling to away games for BOYS basketball to the extent they have done in the past, given that the BOYS team was down this year. The girls team is very strong and young, as indicated by my last comment that their success of this year will certainly continue.

No hatin' here, girl.

Re: Mercer Island student body support for girls basketball is abysmal - Mercer Island Reporter

bjrorem — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:23:54 -0000

It is indeed a sad state of affairs. But it is indicative of the mindset of many Islanders who will only back a winner and are afraid to show their faces outside their own gym if the odds of winning are not in their favor. Consider the boys basketball team this year. Talent was down. There were only a handful of students that made the trip to Mount Si for the first matchup of those two teams. If MI were leading the league, all of the crazy kids would have made the drive. But when you have a good chance of losing, crazy can look stupid at the end of the night. So you probably won't see too many kids get dressed up for a girls game until the Islanders have won a couple championships and the odds are good for another. And given the amount of young talent on the team, odds are good for the Lady Islanders to continue their success for at least the next two years.

Re: Seven MIHS wrestlers move on to state meet | Team loses league title to Inglemoor on scoring error - Mercer Island Reporter

bjrorem — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:34:14 -0000

What are we to make of the fact that a scoring discrepancy took away the team title for the Islanders and gave it to Inglemoor, a much larger, 4A school? The District athletic directors have treated wrestling as an "individual sport," and combined 3A and 4A KingCo schools into Crest and Crown Divisions. So instead of Mercer Island competing with Liberty and Bellevue for a KingCo dual meet championship this year, we have Inglemoor winning one division and Issaquah, a 4A school, winning the other division (I believe). The 3A schools ultimately met in the KingCo Tournament, but that should not replace the dual meet competition. The ahtletic directors should get back together and group the KingCo 3A schools in the same manner they group them for football, basketball, and other team sports.