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July 1, 2021
Washougal High School basketball player McKenna Jackson (left) recovered from a serious knee injury to return to the court for the Panthers' final three games of the 2020-21 season. (Contributed photo courtesy of Britney Ervin)

The Comeback Kid

Nobody would have blamed McKenna Jackson if she decided against turning out for the Washougal High School girls basketball team this year after sustaining full tears to her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and meniscus in her left knee in August 2020.

June 17, 2021
Camas High School soccer players Carter Gorczyca (left) and Hayden Reich will train with the Vancouver Victory, an elite adult men's soccer team, this summer. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

Camas soccer players to get pro tips

When Steven Evans invited some of his Washington Timbers club soccer players to try out for the Vancouver Victory Football Club earlier this year, he was excited — but not too surprised — when Camas students Hayden Reich and Carter Gorczyca took him up on the offer.

June 10, 2021
Camas High School  named seniors Jake Blair (left) and Shealyne McGee the 2020-21 scholar-athletes of the year. (Contributed photo courtesy Camas High School)

Camas High names Athletes of the Year

Jake Blair recovered from shoulder injury to lead the Camas High School football and baseball teams to successful seasons. Shealyne McGee performed at an elite level in two sports simultaneously.

June 8, 2021
Camas High School head football coach Jon Eagle reacts during the Papermakers' game against Skyview High School on Oct. 24, 2019. (Post-Record files)

Top Camas football coach resigns

Jon Eagle has resigned as Camas High School’s head football coach. Eagle, who led the Papermakers to 4A state championships in 2016 and 2019, has accepted…

June 3, 2021
Camas High School junior Cassie Templer is the only member of the 2020-21 Camas girls bowling squad. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

The one and only: Cassie Templer is only member of 2020-21 Camas girls bowling team

After Greater St. Helens League officials announced in early 2021 that their schools’ traditional winter sports teams would begin their 2020-21 seasons in April, Camas girls bowling coach Barb Burden reached out to the bowlers from the Papermakers’ 2019-20 squad to ask if they were planning on coming out for the shortened season.

May 20, 2021
Washougal's Melina Aguilar (top) scraps for positioning in her opening-round match at the Region 3 girls wrestling meet in Kelso, Wash., on Feb. 15, 2020. Aguilar, a two-time Mat Classic qualfier, is the Panthers' 2021 captain. (Post-Record file photo)

Washougal wrestler goes for the iron

In the summer of 2018, Washougal wrestling coaches John and Heather Carver took their grapplers to North Idaho College in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, for a camp that featured several highly decorated instructors, including Clarissa Chun, a former Team USA competitor who won a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympic Games.

May 13, 2021
Washougal High junior Lacey Klopman, a two-time Mat Classic qualifier, is one of the leaders on the 2021 Panthers' team.

Washougal teams kick off ‘winter’ season

All of Southwest Washington’s high school sports seasons have been shorter than usual during the 2020-21 school year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the 2A Greater St. Helens League’s winter campaign, which begins this week, will be the shortest of them all.