Port Townsend youth football registration
PORT TOWNSEND — Registration begins this week for the rebooted Port Townsend Braves youth football program.
The program has an all-new board of directors and is hoping to increase interest and participation from previous years with a variety of events this weekend leading up to the first practice, which is Monday.
First, there is a meet and greet at the Pizza Factory, located at 1102 Water St. in Port Townsend, on Friday from 5 p.m. to
8 p.m., where potential players and their families can meet the new board members, register and eat pizza.
Saturday and Sunday there will be a free minicamp at Fort Worden from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. each day.
The Braves will have a booth set up all three days of the Jefferson County Fair at which players can register.
Players also can register at the first practice at Blue Heron Middle School on Monday at 5 p.m.
Port Townsend Braves youth football is for players who will be in first through sixth grades this fall.
For more information, phone Camron Jevne at 360-301-0453.
Swim season ends on high note
PORT ANGELES — Nine Port Angeles Swim Club members concluded the long course season by competing at various championship meets.
Cameron Butler, 14; Nadia Cole, 13; Kenzie Johnson, 13; Jaine Macias, 16; Carter Juskevich, 18; John Macias, 18; Tristin Butler, 16; Kiara Schmitt, 12; and Mackenzie DuBoise, 10, participated at such events as the Speedo Sectionals, Futures Championships, PNS Senior Long Course Championship Meet and PNS 14 and under Long Course Championship Meet.
These championships meets hosted hundreds of top swimmers from the Western United States, some with top times in the nation.
Multiple Port Angeles Swim Club records were broken during these meets.
Coed soccer registration
PORT ANGELES — Registration is underway for adult coed soccer, a partnership between the Port Angeles Parks and Recreation Department and Peninsula College.
The league is open to ages 16 and older, except for those players participating in the fall high school girls soccer season.
The cost is $55 per player.
The season will begin Sunday, Sept. 13. Games will be held on Wally Sigmar Field at Peninsula College.
Sign-up forms are available at the Port Angeles Parks and Recreation office at 308 E. Fourth St.
Players without a team can phone Dan Estes at 360-417-4557 or Tim Tucker at 360-775-1849 to be placed on a free agent list (note: an incorrect phone number was listed in Sunday’s edition of the PDN).
The deadline for registration is Friday, Aug. 28.
Olympic Avalanche basketball tryouts
PORT ANGELES — The Olympic Avalanche will hold tryouts for the seventh-grade season Sunday.
The Avalanche have won 10 tournament championships in the past two seasons and have established themselves as one of the best girls basketball programs in the Pacific Northwest.
The program is expanding to two seventh-grade teams this season.
The tryouts will feature the direction of nationally known basketball trainer Chris Hyppa of CHB Basketball and Jimmy Anderson of Olympia’s Anderson Athletic Training.
Incoming sixth- and seventh-graders are eligible to tryouts. All girls who are interested in playing for the Avalanche this season must attend the tryout.
The tryout will be held at Peninsula College at 6 p.m.
For more information, phone Avalanche head coach Joe Marvelle at 360-460-4746.
