Sports

Gig Harbor High School won the South Sound Conference‘s 2023-24 All-Sports Championship for overall team success. The All-Sports Championship recognizes the school that earned the most points — accumulated according to their final position in league standings — in 21 boys and girls sports sanctioned by the league. South Sound Conference teams included Timberline, Capital,

The Gig Harbor boys basketball team doubled up Capital, 68-34, on June 12 during summer league action. The Tides are playing in the Curtis summer league, generally one of the top summer circuits in the Puget Sound area. The Tides are coming off another 20-win season (20-7) for head coach Billy Landram. Their 2023-24 season

Two Fox Islanders who won state championships for the Gig Harbor Tides will compete in the upcoming Olympic Swim Trials in Indianapolis. Gig Harbor sophomore sensation Aiden Hammer qualified for the United State Olympic Trials in Indianapolis, set for June 15 through 23. Hammer’s goal is to compete in the 2024 Summer Olympics that begin

Two of the area’s fastpitch softball standouts from the 2023 high school season recently wrapped up highly successful college debuts. Former Peninsula star Alli Kimball helped lead Western Washington University to the precipice of an NCAA Division-II national championship. Slugger Riley Peschek, a former Gig Harbor star, was the top hitter at the University of

Exhilaration and pride dominated the day as 7-year-old Gig Harbor resident Austin Pavelek crossed the finish line at a speed of between 35 and 40 mph in his Quarter Midget Stanley car in Yakima on May 17. It was his first time winning the Junior 160 Region race.  As he took the checkered flag to

The Gig Harbor girls 4×400 relay team pulled off one of the biggest upsets at Star Track, the state track and field championships, at Mount Tahoma High School on May 25. The team of lead-off runner Danica Olsen, Kate Jones, Lejla Carlsson and anchor Maura Lenzi scorched the track to win the Class 3A state

The Gig Harbor boys finished third and the girls fourth at the state golf tournament on Wednesday and Thursday, May 21 and 22. Those strong state showings came on the heels of impressive finishes at the West Central District meet, where the Tides won the girls team championship behind individual medalist Carly Ikei. Gig Harbor

Peninsula’s McKenna Baurichter defeated all of the top South Sound Conference tennis players to win the girls singles championship at the league finals on May 10 and 11 at Central Kitsap High School in Silverdale. Baurichter went 13-1 during the regular season to post the South Sound Conference’s best record, but was inexplicably seeded third