Heres this weeks Kitsap Sun high school player spotlight, our very own Cassie Marcotte! Way to go, Cassie! Whatever her friend did, Cassie Marcotte did as well. So when her best friend started competing in track and field, Marcotte, already an accomplished soccer player, joined in on the fun. Marcotte got involved when her best friend, Hannah Snyder, convinced her to turn out back in junior high. “Track is so big in her family, and I was such good friends with her,” Marcotte said. “We now push each other to do our best. ... We’ve done a lot of stuff together. In the fall, she would come to my soccer games; during basketball season, I’d go to her games.” They also serve on the student body council together, with Marcotte as executive president and Snyder as executive secretary. Marcotte’s primary sport is soccer, as the sport runs in her family. Her father, Louie, played for Olympic in the mid-80s, and her sister Marissa played for North before graduating in 2009. Marcotte had seven goals as the Vikings won the Olympic League title but were eliminated in the district playoffs. She started with the hurdles in junior high before adding the long jump and triple jump, in which she has marks of 14 feet, 4½ inches and 31-8½ inches, respectively, this season. She ran the hurdles with help from two-time state champion Regan Colyer, now at Montana. “She was a great inspiration,” Marcotte said. “She told us to do our best, and in every meet, run your hardest.” North Kitsap is the 2012 Class 2A state team girls champion and finished ninth last season. Marcotte was a sophomore but didn’t advance to state when they won. She says a top finish, either individually or as a team, would be a perfect finish to her senior season before she goes to the University of Washington next fall to study business administration. “I would like to try to get as far as I can and record a personal best in the triple jump,” Marcotte said. “But a state title would mean so much. I would like to leave as much as a legacy as possible. To contribute to that accomplishment would be a great end to my senior year.”
Posted on: Sat, 03 May 2014 19:48:06 +0000
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