

Read’s soccer team finishes first
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Wendy Read coached Hemet’s AYSO under 10-girls spring select team this spring, The team finished first during the season and in the Thunderbird tournament in Moreno Valley. At the end-of-season playoffs, after two overtimes, the championship game was still tied. Unfortunately, the girls lost the shoot out by one goal. Local Idyllwild resident Shelby Read (bottom right) was on the team. Photo by Wendy Read

After round one of the Frys.com Open in San Martin, California, Idyllwild native Brendan Steele is tied with three other players for the lead at four-under-par 74. After going out in a one-over-par 36, he blistered the back nine with a five-under-par 31. Steele tees off tomorrow, Friday, at 12:10 p.m. Television coverage begins at…
Idyllwild’s Emma Klingaman traveled to Sun Valley, Idaho to participate in the National Mountain Bike Championships. On July 14, she finished fifth in the women’s 15-18 Category 2 cross-country race (a 15.25 kilometer course) and earned her medal.
For the second consecutive year, Brendan Steele scored a seventh-place tie in the Alstom Open de France — the French Open — on the Le Golf National course in Paris last week. The native Idyllwilder’s four-under-par 70-70-71-69 — 280 total was two strokes better than he posted last year and earned 86,625 euros (about $106,000),…
Beyond the end of August, the future of the Idyllwild Skate Park is uncertain, but it will be open each weekend this month, thanks to a donation from Idyllwild Pines Camp (IPC). While Idyllwild Community Recreation Council Acting Chair (ICRC) Dawn Sonnier was hoping to get financial support from Riverside County to keep the park open, that door seems closed for now.
The Los Angeles Marathon was Sunday, March 17, and two Hill residents completed the 26-mile jaunt. In her second marathon, Jana Baker’s time was 4:17:19 and Molly Newman, running her first marathon, completed it in 4:31:01. Running with more than 24,000 other marathoners, both women finished ahead of 18,000 other runners.
For Mark Dean there were two Boston Marathons, the one that he trained for and the one he ran. Although he ran qualifying marathons in the flatlands, he trained in the mountains. The low atmospheric pressure and the highs he experienced running in the mountains sustained him well during the first 20 miles of the…