Sports News
High School Fall Varsity Sports Summaries: Bellevue West
Bellevue West Fall Varsity Sports Summaries for football, softball, volleyball, cross country, boys tennis, and girls golf as provided by the coaches. Football Season Outlook: The 2022 Thunderbirds were decimated by injuries at key spots and lost more than one game in the regular season for the first time since 2014. The 7-4 record has…
High School Fall Varsity Sports Summaries: Bellevue East
Bellevue East Fall Varsity Sports Summaries for football, softball, volleyball, cross country, boys tennis, and girls golf as provided by the coaches. Football Season Outlook: We are very excited for the potential we have for this season. We got 4 wins last season. The most in one season in 8 years. We were one series…
Catching Up with Bellevue’s Jaiya Patillo, The Fastest Girl Around
Last year we interviewed and introduced Jaiya Patillo to the Bellevue community. Simply put, she’s a runner – but one of the best in the country, and she has the times, the medals, and the records to prove it. The 4-Time National Champ and 14-Time Junior Olympian is just 14 years old and still in…
[UPDATE] Truly Amazing: Bellevue’s Jaiya Patillo Breaks Her Own Record Shortly After Bellevue Times Interview
That didn’t take long. Last week The Bellevue Times published a story about sensational, 13 year old sprinter Jaiya Patillo. In the story, we reported that she set a record by becoming the youngest girl to ever run 17 miles per hour on a treadmill. A few months after that, she broke her record by…
Sensational Jaiya Patillo Makes History As First Middle Schooler To Win An NCAA Meet
Most people in Bellevue might not realize that our community is home to one of the fastest middle schoolers in the country and quite possibly the world. Meet 13-Year-Old Jaiya Patillo. Jaiya is the #1 ranked seventh grade 400 meter female sprinter in the United States by Milesplit.com with a time of 57.60s (although she…
A Conversation with Bellevue East Senior Garrett Grice
Bellevue East wrestler Garrett Grice just completed one of the most accomplished wrestling careers in Nebraska high school history. Last weekend, he became a four-time state champion – a feat only a small handful of wrestlers in the country ever come close to achieving. A lot has been written about Grice over the last four…
Bellevue University & City Partnership Will Bring New Fields to Haworth Park
The city of Bellevue and Bellevue University are working together to bring collegiate-level softball and soccer fields to Haworth Park. What started over 18 months ago as conversations about the university using existing ballfields gradually developed into the building of a new softball field, a new soccer field, lights, bleachers, and a facility between the…