Boys basketballCedar Park Christian 48 Bellevue Christian 50

� e Vikings trailed by six points at the end of the � rst quarter before exploding for 31 points in the middle two periods behind a team-high 16 from Rajan Hanstad. Bryce Oldham scored 13 and Ethan Mitchell and Jake Van-denbrink each put in seven for Bellevue Christian. Sammamish 61Juanita 52

� e Totems remained unbeaten in league play and atop the conference with the nine point win over the Rebels.

John Steinberg had 19 for

Sammamish and George Valle added 12 more.Bellevue 54 Mount Si 37

Bellevue is the only other unbeaten in 2A/3A KingCo play (as of the Reporter’s press time) this season and picked up another win on Tuesday, 54-37 over Mount Si.

Tyler Hasty led the way with a game-high 21 and Cole Walton put in 10 more for the Wolverines.Bothell 61 Newport 52

Zach LaVine poured in a game-high 24 and Perrion Callandret added 13 more as the Cougars built an 11 point lead at the half and never looked back.

Isaac Dotson paced the

Knights with 15 while Miles Fowler added 11 and Will Ferris � nished with 10.

WrestlingBellevue earned a pair

of titles at the Pac Coast Invitational as Jimmy Trull (220 pounds) and Christian Villani (106 pounds) fought through � ve matches each to capture the champion-ships at their respective weight classes.

� e title was the third in December for Trull, who also won at the Ham-merhead and Spud Walley Invitationals.

Boys swim & divePerennial state powers

faced o� when Newport and Shorewood made the trip to Mary Wayte Pool on Mercer Island earlier in the week for a non-league meet with the Islanders.

Ben Allen won the 200 free in a time of 1 minute 48.10 seconds and the 500 free in 4:57.25. Dehlan Gwo earned a victory in the 100 � y in 55.31 and another in the 100 back with a mark of 56.91 and Allen Yuan � nished in front in the 100 free in 1:07.30.

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BELLEVUE

Anthony Anderson has competed in tournaments around the world since taking up tennis. COURTESY PHOTO

BY JOSH SUMAN

jsuman@bellevuereporter.com

On a tennis court inside Robinswood Tennis Center, Anthony Anderson is seething.

His last volley sailed long and wide and a sore mood is etched across his sturdy, earnest face as he returns to � re his next serve. Anderson and his partner eventually drop their friendly doubles match and when it ends, the other three head to the water fountain and restroom. Ander-son stays on the court, obviously still displeased with the result.

� e 42-year old Anderson is as � ercely com-petitive a person as one will � nd on any level of athletics; even despite the fact he sits in a wheel-chair while his opponents do not.

As a youngster, Anderson couldn’t have imag-ined playing tennis, opting instead for baseball, basketball and football, which he starred in through his prep days. He would drive to school in a custom hot-rod, sporting a decorated letter-man’s jacket, holding the world � rmly by the tail. He was as popular o� the � eld as he was dy-namic on it, being named homecoming king in addition to his exploits as an all-league athlete.

� en it all vanished.Anderson and some friends were on an oth-

erwise routine car ride that ended in a horri� c accident, altering his life forever. At age 17, he was told he would never walk again.

“It was devastating,” Anderson said. “� ere was not a lot of positive energy.”

Despite the in� ux of con� icting emotions, An-derson quickly came to the realization that while life in a wheelchair would not even resemble the life he knew before the accident, it was now the only life he had.

“I pretty much said, ‘I have to deal with this

and move on,’” Anderson said. “I accepted it pretty well.”

More than the con� nement of the chair, or the painful and trying rehabilitation process, Ander-

son worried about the o� en patronizing (though well intentioned) way people would treat him as a paraplegic.

“When people treat you di� erent or think you’re not capable, that’s a big hitter,” Anderson said. “A lot of my friends didn’t know how to act around me, I’d sit in the cafeteria by myself.”

With the help of family and friends, Anderson eventually adapted to life in a wheelchair. � e � rst few months back at school were the rough-est. Teachers came to the hospital to ensure he would be able to eventually graduate on time with the rest of his class. When he did return to campus, he did so in a full body cast.

“� e moment I got home, I had to lay down the rest of the night,” Anderson said. “I did all my homework laying in bed.”

A� er a senior year full of frustration and soli-tude, Anderson was accepted into the University of Washington, which he hoped would o� er a reprieve from his increasingly lonely existence. � e change of scenery turned out to be just what he needed.

“Once I got out of high school and got into UW, I knew I was going to be living on my own,” Anderson said. “It was a big shi� because I had to make new friends.”

A major part of that process was getting involved in wheelchair athletics. He started with wheelchair road races and 10Ks, eventually � nd-ing his way to a wheelchair tennis clinic he read about in the newspaper. He went to the clinic with an open mind, planning on observing and possibly making some new connections.

But Brian Larson, the man running the clinic, had other ideas.

“He (Larson) gave me a racket and said,

Tennis brings new life at Robinswood Anthony Anderson wasn’t sure what life in a wheelchair held until he found the game he can’t live without

Newport’s Sebastian Bury and Conor O’Shea (in pool) were part of a second-place � nish in the 200 medley relay. CHAD COLEMAN, Bellevue Reporter

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Applications are now being accepted for the Bellevue Parks

& Community Services Master Naturalist Training Program.

The training program is open to interested students, community

members and volunteers ages 18 and up. Participants will meet 11 Fridays beginning

Feb. 3 for a series of in-class lectures, � eld trips, workshops and restoration projects in and

around Bellevue City parks. The program will provide volunteers

with training on our area’s ecology, hydrology, geology,

natural resource management, native plants, wildlife, cultural history and restoration e� orts.

Volunteers who complete the program will be trained to

assist Bellevue Park Rangers with a variety of e� orts, such

as environmental education and interpretation, habitat

restoration and more.Individuals interested in the

Master Naturalist Training Program must complete and

return an application packet on or before today, January 6.

For more information call Alexandra DySard at

425-452-4195.

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