Kitsap Athletic Roundtable

10/16/2026

🚨 last day to vote for a great organization that directly supports students in our area 🚨

ChangeUp Foundation is up for a $40,000 grant from BECU This money will go directly back into scholarships for Students

The annual BECU People Helping People Awards (PHPA) are a celebration of exceptional work within the communities BECU serves. We honor members and nonprofits that drive positive changes through service to others. The following nonprofits are PHPA finalists, and the organization with the mo...

08/26/2026

Thanks to the area’s 9 high school football coaches for talking about their teams and the upcoming season at the Kitsap Athletic Roundtable’s kickoff event. Very impressive group of coaches leading student-athletes. Be sure to support your local teams this season!

08/21/2026

**Legends of the Roundtable**
The Kitsap History Museum and Kitsap Athletic Roundtable continue to celebrate Legends from the Roundtable in our series highlighting inductees to the Kitsap Sports Hall of Fame.

The famed Suquamish baseball team was selected to travel to Japan in 1921, at the invitation of the Spalding Sporting Goods that was looking to showcase local talent against Japanese collegiate squads on a two-month barnstorming tour. The team is pictured here in Japan.

Getting to Japan entailed an over 4,000-mile, two-week voyage across the Pacific Ocean. The team played games throughout the country as goodwill ambassadors before crowds of 35,000 to 50,0000, according to reports in the Kitsap Sun.

Pitcher Louie George wowed the Japanese with his signature pitch — the "clam ball" — and the team accomplished an 18-3-1 record. Suquamish was renowned for its early baseball teams and later fielded a slow-pitch team that won the National Indian Slow-Pitch Tournament in 1984. The Kitsap Sports Hall of Fame recognition in 2011 honored all of Suquamish’s past diamond history.

Check out our History UnCorked program with Chuck Stark and Noah Garguile from Kitsap Athletic Roundtable that took place May 28 at the museum, now available to view on YouTube at https://youtu.be/x7RiDN-H1v0at .

Learn about the Kitsap Athletic Roundtable and check out the Kitsap Sports Hall of Fame inductees at kitsapathleticroundtable.org .

08/17/2026

🏈 WE’RE JUST OVER A WEEK AWAY!

The KAR High School Football Coaches Kickoff is coming up Tuesday, August 25 at The Cloverleaf!

Come hear directly from high school football coaches from across Kitsap County as we talk about their programs, players to watch, the upcoming season, local rivalries and everything Friday night football.

We’ll have a social hour starting at 6 PM, with the coaches taking the mic around 7 PM for some football talk followed by Q&A.

🎟️ Tickets are only $10 — grab yours now!

📅 Tuesday, August 25
📍 The Cloverleaf in Bremerton
⏰ Social Hour: 6 PM | Coaches: 7 PM
🍕 Food & drinks available to order

Don’t wait until the last minute! Head to KitsapAthleticRoundtable.org and click the Events page to get your tickets.

Come kick off another season of West Sound high school football with us! 🏈

The Class of 2025 was inducted into the Kitsap Sports Hall of Fame at Kiana Lodge on Jan. 31, 2026. See the photos from annual event and read about the Class of 2025 in the Kitsap Sun and on our News section.

08/09/2026

**Legends of the Roundtable**
The Kitsap History Museum and Kitsap Athletic Roundtable continue to celebrate Legends from the Roundtable in our series highlighting inductees to the Kitsap Sports Hall of Fame.

Tara (Kirk) Sell was born in Bremerton and inducted into the Kitsap Hall of Fame in 2009. In 2004, she and her sister Dana became the first siblings to ever swim at the same Olympics. Tara won a silver medal at those 2004 Athens Games as a member of the 400-medley relay preliminary team. She won four straight National Collegiate Athletic Association championships in the 100-yard breaststroke and was an eight-time NCAA All-American. She also held American and World records.

Tara was a four-time national champion in the 50- and 100-yard breaststroke races and a three-time medalist at the 2007 FINA World Championships, a gold medalist in the 100-meter breaststroke at both the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championship and World Championships, and a two-time medalist at the 2005 World Championships.

She excelled out of the pool as well. She was a Rhodes Scholar finalist and awarded the 2004 Honda-Broderick Cup, recognizing the nation’s outstanding collegiate female athlete. She went on to a prestigious career in public health.

Check out our History UnCorked program with Chuck Stark and Noah Garguile from Kitsap Athletic Roundtable that took place May 28 at the museum, now available to view on YouTube at https://youtu.be/x7RiDN-H1v0at .

07/22/2026

🏆 We’re Looking for Event Sponsors!

The Kitsap Athletic Roundtable is currently seeking community partners to help sponsor several exciting events over the next year.

If you’re looking for a meaningful way to support local athletics while promoting your business, we’d love to connect with you.

Check out our sponsorship opportunities here:
👉 https://www.kitsapathleticroundtable.org/sponsorship-opportunities

If you see an event that interests you, please fill out the contact form on the website—we’d love to start the conversation.

Thank you for helping us continue to celebrate and support athletics throughout Kitsap County!

The Kitsap Athletic Roundtable relies on the support of local businesses, organizations, and community members to make our events possible.

07/21/2026

First off, thank you so much to Scott Cashman and the State Farm team for their incredibly generous donation to the Kitsap Athletic Roundtable. Partnerships like this are what keep KAR moving forward and allow us to continue investing in youth and amateur athletics throughout our community.

Scott is a third-generation insurance professional, and even in the short time we spent together, it was easy to see the integrity, professionalism, and genuine care that he and his team bring to their business and the people they serve.

We’re grateful to have community partners like Scott and the State Farm who believe in giving back and helping create opportunities for the next generation of athletes.

Thank you again for your support. We truly appreciate your investment in the Kitsap community.

P.S. We’re still working on convincing Jake from State Farm to emcee this year’s Kitsap Athletic Roundtable Hall of Fame Banquet. No promises… but we’re making our pitch! 😄

07/21/2026

**Legends of the Roundtable**
The Kitsap History Museum and the Kitsap Athletic Roundtable continue to feature Legends from the Roundtable, a series celebrating the athletes whose achievements have become part of Kitsap's rich sports history.

This week, in recognition of the FIFA World Cup finals, we are featuring the Bremerton Chuggers.

Influenced by a foreign exchange student from Morocco, the founding members of the Bremerton Chuggers started kicking the soccer ball around in 1973. The Chuggers played 27 years, competing in the Washington State Soccer League (now called the Greater Seattle Soccer League) for 16 seasons, then for several more years in over-30 and over-40 leagues. There were more than 100 players on the team over the years before it disbanded in 2000. The team won the Division 4 state league title in 1981 and 1985, the year they were unbeaten in league play.

Follow along as we share more stories from the Kitsap Sports Hall of Fame and celebrate the athletes who helped build Kitsap's sporting legacy.

Check out our History UnCorked program with Chuck Stark and Noah Garguile from Kitsap Athletic Roundtable that took place May 28 at the museum, now available to view on YouTube at https://youtu.be/x7RiDN-H1v0at .