Lee OrrTrack & Field A native of Saskatchewan, Canada, three-year-old Lee Orr moved with his family to Monroe in 1920. His father ran a watchmaking business and his grandfather owned a carpentry business. In 1935 he won two state track titles – the record for the...
Earl TorgesonBaseball Clifford “Earl” Torgeson was born January 1, 1924 in Snohomish. He was a baseball phenom who first learned to play on (Earl) Averill Field. It has been rumored that people of Snohomish petitioned the football coach to encourage him to give up the...
Sarah JonesRowing Sarah graduated from Stanwood High School in 1991. There she participated in track and field and swimming. She attended Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) and was on the swim team and later joined the crew program, and was on the 1992 Women’s four...
Chris Henderson Soccer Chris began playing soccer at age five and was coached by his father Dick during his final two years at Cascade High School. He helped lead Cascade High to two consecutive state titles and was named 1989 Gatorade Player of the Year. He was also...
Jim LambrightFootball Coach Jim Lambright was born and raised in Everett, the son of a fisherman. He played high school football for head coach Jim Ennis at Everett High School, graduating in 1960. He earned a scholarship to the University of Washington where he...
1920 Everett High SchoolFootball Team Coached by former University of Washington football captain Enoch Bagshaw, the 1919 Everett High School team played Scott High School of Toledo, Ohio, which resulted in a 7-7 tie and a shared mythical national high school...
1952 & 1953 Monroe High SchoolBasketball Teams These two outstanding high school basketball teams won consecutive state championships which is an impressive and rare accomplishment for any high school athletic team. As of 2010, these are the only two teams in any...
Jim EnnisFootball Coach Jim Ennis arrived at Everett High School in 1939 as a 27-year-old assistant football coach and head basketball and golf coach. A former star athlete at Seattle’s Broadway High School and Tacoma’s College of Puget Sound, he established himself...
George WilsonFootball As a freshman at Everett High School, George Wilson played guard for the undefeated football team coached by Enoch Bagshaw. Shifted to halfback, Wilson helped lead the team to two succeeding undefeated season and two mythical national high school...
Rosalyn SumnersFigure Skating Growing up in Edmonds, Rosalyn Sumners began skating at age 7 at Sno-King Ice Arena in Lynnwood. She would begin practices at 5 a.m. and skate six to eight hours a day for the next 12 years. In 1980 she won the World Junior Figure Skating...