Path to the Podium

Winners move on to Spokane

Hull’s Heroes, in yellow, mixes it up with Reardan.

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Kamillah Hurtado, left, drives to the basket as twin sister Isabella, 16, watches during the fifth-grade girls’ game between Brewster and Davenport during the three-day Path to the Podium tournament last weekend.

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A Methow Valley player puts up a shot against Entiat.

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Two-year-old Slater Strozyk from Davenport does not let the action on the court distract him from his on-board computer entertainment.

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Posted Tuesday, February 6, 2024 8:29 pm

By MIKE MALTAIS
Ward Media Staff Reporter

BREWSTER – The Path to the Podium, a three-day youth basketball tournament played at Pateros and Brewster last weekend, was more like an obstacle course for the 75-plus teams that signed up to compete.

The state basketball championship qualifier for B and small A school boys and girls in the third through eighth-grade divisions involved non-stop action on courts in the two cities as teams battled it out to determine who moves on to Spokane for the next round of games in March.

The event was sanctioned by the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) of the U.S. and required that team members needed to be from the same school.

Mike Maltais: 360-333-8483 or michael@ward.media