Update: Ballard came in fourth place in the team score, and Ballard freshman Lianne Kistler finished fourth in the all-around competition. Here’s a Seattle Times story on the event. Earlier: At the district meet at Sammamish High School last weekend, the Ballard High gymnastics team put up its highest score in school history and the …
One of only 15 schools to make the cut, Ballard High School’s jazz band has been selected to compete in the Essentially Ellington Festival at Lincoln Center on Broadway in New York City. The finalists were selected from a pool of over 109 high school bands that submitted a recording to the judges. The BHS …
Updated: The team posted on Instagram that they finished 13th in the nation. Well done BHS! Here’s 30 seconds or so from the competition: #UCAnationals – Ballard High School – Medium Varsity DI pic.twitter.com/i3yTpDXeMi — American Cheerleader (@cheerleadermag) February 11, 2018 Earlier: Not only did the Ballard High School cheerleading team qualify to compete in …
After winning at state two weeks ago, the Ballard High School cheerleading team has left for Orlando, the home of the UCA National High School Cheerleading Championship. The big event will be held this weekend at the Walt Disney World Resort. “This is the first cheer team team from BHS to qualify to such a …
One of the best high school filmmaking programs in the country, Ballard High School has scheduled its annual film festival. The Feb. 10th screening will feature short comedies and dramas, advertisements and documentaries created by BHS students. Films that first screen at the event are frequently honored by film festivals, explains Matt Lawrence, who heads …
Last year Ballard High School’s wind ensemble performed at Carnegie Hall in NYC (video). Next month they’ll be the first Seattle Public School invited to perform at the Washington Music Educator’s State conference. The WMEA conference is a prestigious event, drawing applications from high schools around the state. To prepare for the big event — …
How’s this for a “local boy makes good” story? Ballard High School graduate and UW soccer standout Handwalla Bwana has signed a “Homegrown Player” contract with the Seattle Sounders. “We’re excited to add Handwalla to our squad, giving us another dynamic young prospect from our Academy,” said Sounders FC GM & President Garth Lagerwey in …
The school boundary task force will be discussing its two mapping options with the school board in a working session this evening (Wednesday). As we’ve reported before, both options are similar for Ballard, drawing the line for Ballard High School at 85th St. to the north and 48th St. to the south. “Staff will use …
Updated: The task force charged with drawing new high school boundaries in North Seattle has narrowed the maps down to two options, according to a report from KING 5 on Friday night. Then the school district followed up on Saturday evening by publishing the two new maps, and it said additional modifications may be made …
With Lincoln High School opening in Wallingford and Ingraham High School expanding in 2019, the Seattle school district is redrawing the boundaries for North Seattle high school students. Until last week, one of the recommended scenarios (.pdf) kept the vast majority of Ballard-area families inside the Ballard High School boundary, drawing the northern line roughly …
(Scene from the short film Richard) With one of the most prestigious high school filmmaking programs in the country, Ballard High has produced another national award winner. Wylie Soltes is one of eleven high school students nationwide — and the only student from the Pacific Northwest — to win the YoungArts Foundation award for cinematic …
(Photo from Ballard Basketball on Instagram) Bishop Blanchet hosted the Ballard Beavers’ boys basketball team last night — cheered by the Beaver Brigade (above) — in our first Metro League game of the season. Ballard led by 3 at halftime, and the game came down to the final buzzer. But Bishop Blanchet managed to pull …