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A female pole vaulter in a white-and-purple UW uniform at the peak of her vault — body arched back, legs kicked up, both arms extended gripping the pole bar above her. A yellow ESSX pole is bent in the left of the frame; the crossbar is visible at upper right. Behind her are blurred stadium stands with scattered spectators and an official in a yellow vest in the lower left. Bright outdoor daylight, shallow background focus.

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Hana Moll, world No. 1 pole vaulter, trains at UW's Dempsey

Hana Moll is the top-ranked women's pole vaulter on the planet, and she is spending her senior year at UW.

A women's cross country team huddle on an open grass course field. Eight or so athletes in black team jackets and purple racing singlets are gathered tightly in a circle, heads bowed inward, one arm raised. In the background, a large crowd of runners and spectators lines the course, with additional competitors visible mid-race on the field. The setting is clearly a large cross country championship meet.

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UW freshman Sherry Drury goes 9th at Big Ten cross country

Sherry Drury placed 9th at the 2026 Big Ten Cross Country Championships on October 30.

A wrestling practice session on a teal mat inside a gym with teal-painted walls. In the foreground a young woman in a 'Roosters Wrestling' white t-shirt and red wrestling shorts/knee pad has her hand on the head of a male partner who is bent over; both are in active drill stance. Several more wrestler pairs work in the background.

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Ivan Salaverry MMA hosts Navy wrestling coach Cary Kolat

Cary Kolat visited Ivan Salaverry MMA and the Roosters Wrestling Club in South Lake Union on October 18, 2026.

A man in a black Seattle Kraken staff t-shirt and cap — Kraken logo on the chest — stands and speaks with two tall young players in navy Kraken-branded shorts and shirts in what appears to be the facility's nutrition kitchen or recovery area. Dark navy cabinetry, a commercial dishwasher, blenders, and red recovery drink bottles are visible on the counter behind them. The staff member faces the players directly; the players are turned away from camera. Everyone is big in the frame.

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Kraken add first full-time dietitian at Northgate iceplex

The Kraken restructured and expanded their sports performance group for the 2026-27 season, promoting two coaches, adding a third, and hiring the franchise's first full-time lead dietitian, the team says.

Courtside view down the long row of blue indoor courts at Sideout Tsunami, players on the near court and a crowd along the fence line at a tournament. The club's own photo; the owner picked this frame (2026-10-13 photo labels, P25).

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Sideout Tsunami's 26 courts have a membership waitlist

Dale Garnett was talking about demand.

Two players mid-rally on an indoor court at Pickle at the Palms, a man lunging for a ball at the kitchen line. The venue's own photo; the owner picked this frame (2026-10-13 photo labels, P23).

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Pickle at the Palms opens on an old Interbay car wash site

Pickle at the Palms is a family project before it is anything else.

Club photo from October 2021: a wide view down several sheets at Granite Curling Club, with curlers sweeping under the arched wooden roof, most in face masks, and U.S. and Canadian flags on the far wall.

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The families behind Granite Curling Club's 75th year

Jimmy Stephens co-owned and managed the Ballard Ice Arena, where the Granite Curling Club began meeting in 1951, and for the first decade he made the ice himself. This fall the club marks what it bills as its 75th year, and the 65th in its own building near Haller Lake. Granite was founded in 1951 as an organization and in 1961 as a facility.

A University of Washington men's eight racing at the 2024 Head of the Lake, the rowers driving through the stroke with spray off the blades, a bridge pier and moored boats behind.

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Head of the Lake regatta, Nov. 1: the people its cups are named for

On Sunday, Nov. 1, Head of the Lake crews raced 3 miles from the College Club dock on Lake Union, through Portage Bay and the Montlake Cut, to a finish near the UW's Conibear Shellhouse.

A climber mid-move across a bouldering wall at Vertical World, spotters and onlookers beside him.

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Tyson Schoene Built Vertical World's Climbing Pipeline

Tyson Schoene has run the Vertical World Climbing Team, which started in Redmond in 2002 with seven athletes on the roster.

Swimmers in green caps swim out from under the I-90 bridge pylons at Day Street into open water, with kayak escorts alongside them.

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The Fat Salmon Swim: Lake Washington's open-water race since 1999

The Fat Salmon Swim is 3.2 miles of open water.

A skater grinds the coping of Rainier Beach Skatepark's deep bowl, arm thrown out for balance, while four others watch from the deck on their boards, the builder's excavator behind them.

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Rainier Beach Skatepark Is Open

Danielle Jackson watched a kid ride a skateboard down Renton Avenue in the rain.

Players mid-rally across three of Picklewood's indoor courts in SoDo, paddles up, under the club's painted wall sign.

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Picklewood: Seattle's SoDo Pickleball Country Club

Nathan Talbot spent years running out of places to take his kids on a Friday night in Seattle.

A boxer in TITLE headgear and Ringside gloves throws a guarded right at her sparring partner inside Nomad Boxing Club's gym, ring ropes behind her.

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WA's First Regional Golden Gloves: Nomad Boxing Club Hosts

Manny Dunham hung punching bags, speed bags, and a slip rope at Gas Works Park, hauling heavy bags, ladders, mats, and jump ropes five days a week. He had no address to give anyone. The boxers picked the name for what they were: Nomad, because for those months the club did not have a home.

A climber runs up the Space Needle's open-air stairwell during Base 2 Space, fists raised, as another climber heads up the steps in the foreground.

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Space Needle's Base 2 Space Marks 10th Climb

Base 2 Space held its 10th annual stair climb at the Space Needle on Sunday, September 27, 2026.

The empty indoor pickleball courts at The Picklr Fremont, lit and ready for play

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Fremont's Old Chocolate Factory Just Became Ten Pickleball Courts

Walk into 124 North 35th Street in Fremont today and the smell of roasting cacao is gone, replaced by the pop of paddles on plastic balls across ten indoor courts. The brick building spent years as Theo Chocolate's organic, fair-trade roastery before the company moved on and left a 27,000-square-foot shell looking for a second life. In April 2026, The Picklr found one. Rajiv Khatri, the club's owner, described the opening as a turning point for the surrounding blocks, and framed the club less as a gym than as Fremont's third space, somewhere to be that isn't work or home.

Colorful bouldering walls at Seattle Bouldering Project's Fremont location, with teal, navy, and brightly colored climbing holds

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Seattle Bouldering Project Started With Two Guys Jumping Off a Staircase. It's Now a National Chain.

In the spring of 2011, Andy Wyatt and Chris Potts filled two empty rooms of a Central District warehouse with as many climbing walls and boulder problems as they could build, then tested whether the foam floor would actually catch a fall by leaping off the gym's own staircase. That warehouse became Seattle Bouldering Project. Fourteen years later, the company Wyatt and Potts started by throwing themselves at their own flooring runs thirteen gyms across eight metro areas, and Seattle is still where the walls get designed.

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