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Columbian sports reporter

All-Region multi-sport female athlete of the year, Meri Dunford, is pictured at Prairie High School on Monday morning, June 15, 2020.

All-Region female athlete of the year: Meri Dunford, Prairie

All-Region multi-sport female athlete of the year, Meri Dunford, is pictured at Prairie High School on Monday morning, June 15, 2020.

June 20, 2020, 8:01pm Prep Sports

Track and field started as an afterthought of sorts for Prairie’s Meri Dunford. Read story

Local high school Black athletes discuss their experiences

June 19, 2020, 10:16pm Prep Sports

Skyview’s Tanariea Deloney and Kazz Parks and Union’s Macee Woods have never had a Black teacher. Read story

No. 7 hole at The Cedars on Salmon Creek and our first hole of the Dream 18.

The Dream 18: Best of Southwest Washington golf holes

No. 7 hole at The Cedars on Salmon Creek and our first hole of the Dream 18.

June 13, 2020, 8:05pm Clark County Sports

Golf courses have been one of the few places of solace in these times of pandemic. While parks, gyms and movie theaters have shuttered, courses throughout Southwest Washington have been thriving. Read story

Mountain View's Graham Moody is pictured at Royal Oaks Country Club in Vancouver on June 4, 2020.

All-Region boys golf: Graham Moody, Mountain View

Mountain View's Graham Moody is pictured at Royal Oaks Country Club in Vancouver on June 4, 2020.

June 11, 2020, 7:03pm Newsletter

Mountain View junior Graham Moody was the favorite to win his second 3A state golf title this spring. He was on a trajectory to become a three-time champion in similar fashion to his good friend and Fort Vancouver alumnus Spencer Tibbits. Read story

Isaiah Jones, Union

Union’s Isaiah Jones says sense of hopelessness fueling riots

Isaiah Jones, Union

June 4, 2020, 5:43pm Prep Sports

Sports have a way of unifying. Union senior Isaiah Jones believes the rest of the world can take a lesson from it. Read story

Union running back Isaiah Jones, left, sheds a tackle by Bothell defensive back Darius Kubalanza in the 4A state football quarterfinals.

Podcast: Full Circle Ep. 34 — ‘A sense of hopelessness’

Union running back Isaiah Jones, left, sheds a tackle by Bothell defensive back Darius Kubalanza in the 4A state football quarterfinals.

June 2, 2020, 5:08pm Podcasts

Union senior Isaiah Jones, a Whitworth University running back commit, discusses the protests around the country in response to George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis last week and why he believes sports can be an example of how to unify people to work toward a similar goal. Available on 360preps.com and… Read story

Bailey Meek, King's Way Christian football

Bailey Meek of King’s Way Christian has his pick of 11 schools for college football

Bailey Meek, King's Way Christian football

May 29, 2020, 4:12pm Prep Sports

King’s Way Christian has never had an athlete move on to play NCAA Division I football. Bailey Meek, who will enter his senior season in the fall, is well on his way to changing that. Read story

King's Way Christian's new 900-seat roofed bleachers.

Podcast: Full Circle Ep. 33 — King’s Way Christian’s Bailey Meek

King's Way Christian's new 900-seat roofed bleachers.

May 28, 2020, 5:59pm Podcasts

On the 33rd installment of the Full Circle podcast, King’s Way Christian defensive lineman Bailey Meek discusses his 11 NCAA Division I football offers, how the recruiting process works amid a global pandemic and what Twitter has meant for his collegiate opportunities. Available on 360preps.com or on Google, Apple and… Read story

Prairie head coach Hala Corral helped lead the girls basketball program to the WIAA Class 3A state title in 2019.

Hala Corral steps down as Prairie girls basketball coach

Prairie head coach Hala Corral helped lead the girls basketball program to the WIAA Class 3A state title in 2019.

May 21, 2020, 6:29pm Prep Sports

Hala Corral finally accepted that long-earned promotion. It meant leaving behind Prairie girls’ basketball. Read story

Haircut, victory get Vancouver’s Ricky Simon noticed in UFC

May 21, 2020, 6:07pm Clark County Sports

The mullet was never intended to be Vancouver native Ricky Simón’s UFC identity. Read story