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They were the best and the brightest.

They were the fastest and strongest.

They were the best scorers, the best defenders and the best goalies.

“They” are the Three Rivers League girls lacrosse all-stars, a group led by Lake Oswego’s Millie Prager, a senior named TRL Player of the Year, and Wilsonville’s Grace Richards, who was named Coach of the Year.

In total, the league-champion Lakers placed six players on the all-TRL first team and saw eight honored overall. Second-place West Linn saw four players earn first-team honors and five recognized overall.

Third-place Wilsonville had one player named to the all-TRL first team and four honored overall. Fourth-place Lakeridge, meanwhile, didn’t have a first-team selection, but did land four on the all-TRL second team.

THREE RIVERS LEAGUE

First Team

Attack: Barrett Doan, Lake Oswego, sr.; Brooklyn Schiele, West Linn, sr.; Leia Gallo, West Linn, sr.; Midfield: Millie Prager, Lake Oswego, sr.; Parker Lemm, Lake Oswego, sr.; Piper Beall, West Linn, so.; Lilah Turley, Lake Oswego, sr.; Nora LeBlanc, St. Mary’s, sr. Defense: Merideth Rubenstein, Lake Oswego, sr.; Caitlin Juenger, West Linn, sr.; Olivia Jordan, Lake Oswego, sr. Goalie: Kat Ellet, Wilsonville, sr.

Player of the Year: Millie Prager, Lake Oswego

Coach of the Year: Grace Richards, Wilsonville

Second Team

Attack: Seraphina Yoh, Lakeridge, jr.; Ceci Coleman, Lake Oswego, so.; Finley Blankenship, Wilsonville, jr.; Midfield: Avery French, Lakeridge, sr.; Kate Kleinke, Wilsonville, so.; Addy Murray, Oregon City, sr.; Juliet Lamb, Lakeridge, so.; Evie Gallo, West Linn, fr. Defense: Emma Massari, Lakeridge, sr.; Gabby Moore, Lake Oswego, jr.; Kaia Hix, Wilsonville, jr. Goalie: Charlotte Halstead, Lakeridge, jr.

To the victors go the spoils.

And in the 2025 spring season, no one had more victories – and no one got more spoils – than the Lakeridge boys lacrosse team.

The Pacers – who won the Three Rivers League title, and later, the Class 6A state championship – saw nine players earn berths on the all-TRL first team for 2025 and 16 honored overall.

West Linn, meanwhile, finished second in the TRL and advanced to the OHSLA state semifinals; the Lions landed four players on the all-TRL first team and had 13 honored overall.

Lake Oswego placed one player on the all-TRL first team and saw four players honored overall.

Class 6A All-State Boys Lacrosse

First Team

Attack: Davis Reardon, sr., Lakeridge; Matt English, sr., Canby; Connor Peters, jr., West Linn; James Kaplan, so., Nelson-Clackamas. Midfield: Kellen Aird, sr., Lakeridge; Brody Jones, sr., West Linn; Rylan Mueller, sr., West Linn; Timothy Kishpaugh, jr., Nelson-Clackamas; Brody Crane, jr., Nelson-Clackamas; Aaron Austin, jr., Canby. Faceoff: Cash Groves, sr., Lakeridge. SSDM: Colby Owen, so., Lakeridge; Eamon Mooney, jr., Lake Oswego-Riverdale. LSM: Viggo Anderson, jr., West Linn; Tristan Martin, sr., Lakeridge. Defense: Kelley Lamb, sr., Lakeridge; Ryan Wallace, sr., Lakeridge; Charley Nauheim, sr., Lakeridge; Oliver Peay, jr., Nelson-Clackamas. Goalie: Nolan Darcy, sr., Lakeridge.

Second Team

Attack: Jacen Wilber, jr., Lakeridge; Drew Reinke, jr., West Linn; Enzio Fedrizzi, fr., Lakeridge; Cole Norton, sr., Oregon City. Midfield: Sean McCarty, sr., Lakeridge; Charlie Coyne, sr., Lakeridge; Brennan Jarrell, sr., West Linn; Isaac Heitschmidt, sr., Oregon City; Gavin Hidalgo, jr., Lakeridge. Faceoff: Chase Caudle, jr., Oregon City. SSDM: Jacob Ukishima, sr., Nelson-Clackamas; Taeler Pfenning, sr., Canby. LSM: Mitchell Johnson, sr., Oregon City; Liam Gobet, so., Canby. Defense: Jake Sinclair, jr., West Linn; Max Taggert, sr., Canby; Addison Spengler, sr., West Linn; Cormac Kelliher, so., Nelson-Clackamas. Goalie: Rowan Kelly, jr., West Linn; Tripton Ciupryk; jr., Lake Oswego-Riverdale.

Honorable Mention

Attack: Griffin Parker, jr., West Linn; Cohen Taylor, sr., Canby; Benny Susbauer, jr., Oregon City; Caleb Sheehan, so., Nelson-Clackamas; Cayden Carroll, fr., Lake Oswego-Riverdale. Midfield: Beckett Godfrey, jr., Lakeridge; Lucas laboni, sr., Oregon City; Cohen Guensch, so., Canby. Faceoff: Dylan Olsen, jr., West Linn; Ryland Carver, jr., Nelson-Clackamas. SSDM: Nash Barinaga, sr., West Linn. LSM: Bryce Hidalgo, jr., Lakeridge. Defense: Cassius DuBois, so., Lake Oswego-Riverdale; Owen Cochell, sr., Canby; Logan Koelbel, jr., West Linn. Goalie: Logan Corley, sr., Canby; Owen Coate, sr., Nelson-Clackamas.

On the football field, no one had a motor like Lake Oswego’s Lusiano Lopez.

He played every snap at full throttle and terrorized opposing offenses from sideline to sideline, leading the Lakers to a Three Rivers League title and a berth in the Class 6A championship game.

For his efforts, he was named TRL Defensive Player of the Year and earned a berth on the 6A all-state first team.

In wrestling, Lopez – a 2024 state champion – brutalized smaller wrestlers and out-quicked bigger foes on the way to a second straight TRL title at 215 pounds, and later, a third-place finish at the state tournament with a 29-1 overall record.

For all those reasons and many more, Lusiano Lopez has been named Athlete of the Year for Lake Oswego High School. The Athlete of the Year honor is given to the top graduated senior – male or female – from Lake Oswego High School.

Football

While Lopez, 18, will wrestle in college – first at Clackamas Community College, and after that, at Ohio State University – he left nothing on the table during his senior football season.

While the Lakers don’t keep formal defensive statistics, LO coach Steve Coury said that Lopez led his team in all meaningful defensive categories.

With Lopez leading the defense, Lake Oswego went 5-0 in TRL play – including a key 21-17 win over top-ranked West Linn – then advanced to the 6A title contest before dropping a 44-30 decision to the Lions.

“I thought we could go all the way and win it. We had a really tight-knit bond,” Lopez said. “It was me and a couple of other dudes (Oliver Macy, Jagar Shean and Jaden Moore) that started being leaders and just taking the mentality that we could do it. We could do whatever we put our minds to. I really thought we could do it.”

Coury said that Lopez was key to all his team’s success in 2024.

“He’s just tenacious and he’s got a great desire to win and compete,” Coury said. “He’s probably one of the top three defensive guys that we’ve had in my 33 years. He’s that kind of player.”

Lopez said that work ethic and leadership played the biggest parts in the Lakers’ 2024 success, that a year after going just 6-4 and falling in the first round of the playoffs. LO’s ’24 season included signature wins over eventual champion West Linn, talented crosstown rival Lakeridge and 2023 state champion Central Catholic.

“When we played Lakeridge, we just beat Lakeridge up and they had all these great players,” Lopez said. “But it doesn’t matter how big you are or how fast you are. … As long as you have the mentality that ‘I’m just gonna kick your ass no matter what,’ that’s what really made me (know that) we were gonna win.”

“He’s so tenacious. There’s never any quit in him,” Coury said. “He was just relentless.”

That said, Lopez and the Lakers saw their 2024 season end in disappointment, with West Linn coming back to win 44-30 in the championship.

“When we went to to the state finals, everybody was like, ‘Oh. We’re just going to beat (West Linn) again,” Lopez said. “We didn’t have the … mentality we had (in the regular season). They were pissed off because they came in off a loss and they were fired up. And we didn’t really feel the same. … They came out and just popped us in the mouth.”

Nothing about the Lakers’ final game, however, diminished Lopez’s stellar senior season. Beyond all the “Ws,” all the sacks and all the tackles, Lopez proved himself to be a great teammate, a great leader and a great friend.

“He’s just a guy that’s matured and learned so much about people and what’s important in life. He became a really good teammate, and then, a leader. By the end of his senior year, he was a great leader and a lot of that was because of his maturity as a person,” Coury said. “In the meantime, he’s just one heck of a football player and a wrestler. He knows (the value) of working hard. No one — no one — can outwork that kid.”

Wrestling

Lopez’s senior wrestling season, meanwhile, started slowly, but then gained momentum — and 28 straight wins — before ending with a shocking loss at state.

As to his slow start, Lopez admits that LO’s loss in the football championship affected him for weeks afterward.

“After state (football), I didn’t even want to be on a mat. I didn’t want to do anything,” Lopez said, noting that he missed the first three tournaments of the year as he worked to cut weight. “My mom was worried about me because I wouldn’t come out of my room.”

But when he returned to practice — first with Peninsula Wrestling Club — he discovered that nothing had changed.

“It was the same coaches that were talking to me. The same coaches that were trying to help me,” Lopez said. “That just drove me back to that mode of ‘I’m the best. I’m the best wrestler.’”

From there, Lopez hit the accelerator and hit it hard. He went unbeaten in the Three Rivers League. He won all five of his regular season tournaments and won his first 28 matches of the year.

“I felt really, really like I was ready to go, just ready to scrap,” Lopez said. “I felt the same (as when I was a junior), that same drive, that same everything. Still working hard in the mornings, still going to all these practices.”

None of that surprised his Lake Oswego wrestling coach, Turner Young.

“His strengths are his coachability and his activity rate,” said Young, who was dismissed as LO coach before the 2025 state tournament. “When he gets excited about something and learning something, you’ve gotta kick him out of the mat room. Whether it’s the wrestling room, the weight room, wherever it is, he’s gonna come in before school and after school. So while he’s got a great size and strength combination, it’s his activity level that makes him great.”

After a dominant regular season, a blowout run at the TRL district tournament and two straight pins to open the 6A tournament, however, the top-ranked Lopez got upset in the semifinals.

In retrospect, Lopez said that he was too consumed with winning state as a senior.

“I was like, ‘I want to win state.’ It was my main goal,” Lopez said. “I wasn’t thinking about working, about wanting to get to (nationals), about going hard. I was just thinking about state and that put a lot of pressure on myself.”

As painful as his semifinal loss was, Lopez managed to close his final high school career with a flourish. He wiped out his final state opponent in just 35 seconds, came back to win regionals, reached the quarterfinals of the U20 US Open and proved himself by beating college wrestlers along the way.

“I should have had more pressure than I had at state, but I just felt loose, the same way I felt my junior year,” Lopez said. “Those are just crazy hard tournaments … and it felt really nice to have that. This was how I felt last year. Just seeing myself wrestle how I actually wrestle, it felt really good to end on that note.”

Like Coury, Young was more impressed with Lopez’s character, his leadership and his love for the sport.

“He’s awesome. He’s everything you could ask for,” Young said. “(And) his love for the sport is something that I’ve never really seen. He truly loves it. He truly loves just going out there and giving it his all.”

Kari Seashore is one of 29 educators in the Curriculum Associates’ 2025 class of Extraordinary Educators.

A Lake Oswego, Oregon, educator has received national recognition for making a significant impact in the classroom through innovation and student achievement in math.

Kari Seashore is one of 29 educators across the country who make up Curriculum Associates’ 2025 class of Extraordinary Educators. Curriculum Associates is an educational publishing and technology company based in Massachusetts.

Selected from hundreds of nominees, these teachers are meant to represent the best of what’s happening in local schools, all at a time when reading and math achievement remains a top priority.

Seashore has been an educator for 18 years. She worked in East Portland’s David Douglas School District before going to Lake Oswego, a district just south of Portland that enrolls about 6,870 students.

Seashore used to teach second and third grade, but when she joined the staff in Lake Oswego, she started as a student support specialist and worked for years as an instructional coach. Over the last two years, she’s worked at the central office level as the math development specialist teacher on special assignment.

In this role, she’s worked with every principal and every teacher in the district’s seven elementary schools. Among other things, she’s provided professional development, conducted classroom visits and modeled and co-taught lessons.

Curriculum Associates is highlighting Seashore’s work revamping Lake Oswego’s elementary math curriculum.

The district adopted a new curriculum that Seashore described as a “pendulum swing” from the traditional style of math instruction. She said their new approach is all about ensuring every student and teacher has an entry point into math, and that the students understand the logic behind the equations.

This is significant for Seashore as someone who, even as an elementary school teacher, didn’t originally consider herself “a math person.”

“I know, when I was raised, it was like, I didn’t feel like a great mathematician because I didn’t know how to do the algorithm,” she said. “And that’s not what it’s about … it’s about the journey.”

Lake Oswego’s passing rates on standardized math tests are more than double the statewide average. Seashore said they’ve already seen improvements since starting this new curriculum. The students are more confident, and they have a better understanding of the foundational skills that will enable them to progress in math throughout their schooling.

“We’ve really tried to build this culture around their mindset of like, ‘Yes, we can do math, and there are multiple ways to do it,’ ” she said. “We celebrate the way that they get there, not the answer.”

Seashore’s national recognition comes with a handful of opportunities for her, such as a chance to work closely with the curriculum company, give them feedback, write blogs for their website and speak at conferences.

“Teachers work so hard, and I think we’re kind of unseen heroes,” she said. “So much of our work is based off of our passion for what we do for teachers and kids, but [it isn’t always] noticed.”

Still, it wasn’t the award she was after.

“When I came to Lake Oswego six years ago, even before we had a new math curriculum, we had the building focus of, ‘How could we make math more equitable within our classrooms?’ and ‘How can we create a better math experience?’ ”

Seashore says she’s always been most focused on helping kids and teachers.

“I think it’s just kind of like a cherry on top of like, ‘Oh, the work that I really care about and the work that is changing experiences for children matters.’ ”

As a business owner and head of the Oregon House of Representatives Committee on ​Economic Development, Small Business, and Trade, Rep. Daniel Nguyen, D-Lake Oswego, is focused on how to revitalize the Oregon economy and guide it through headwinds.

There is still plenty of work to do, he said.

“In the Legislature, we focus a lot on our priorities like education, housing, mental health — they’re all very important. At the same time I think we need to focus on the economy and job creation and business investment and retention and recruitment as well. That is our tax base revenue base to do the things we want to do,” he said.

During this legislative session, Nguyen advocated for a bill that would create an Oregon trade strategy — which stalled in committee — and for a bill designed to guide an effort to bring a professional baseball team to Portland by taxing the future revenue of players as a way to pay for the construction of a new stadium. That bill passed.

The Lake Oswego resident said that — especially during an era when tariffs bring instability and uncertainty to the Oregon economy — the state needs a unified plan and more collaboration between agencies to weather uncertainties.

“Oftentimes policies and bills don’t happen the first time around. I expect to bring (the trade strategy) up again during the short session,” Nguyen said.

Regarding the baseball bill, Nguyen said it was a first step and recognized that bringing a Major League Baseball team to Portland will be a challenging effort as there is plenty of competition for expansion.

“The bill allows us to at least be considered as a potential candidate for getting a team. The work isn’t done and there is more due diligence that needs to happen,” he said.

Also during the session, Nguyen took an economic tour of the state. Some of his stops included Agility Robotics in Salem, the Sunrise Corridor in Clackamas County, communities in Roseburg, Grants Pass and Central Point, and the Oregon Translational Research and Development Institute (OTRADI)/Oregon Bioscience Incubator in Portland. His takeaway was that the state needs to bolster and reimagine preexisting economies in rural parts of the state, such as timber.

“We have to be spreading out economic prosperity across the state appropriate for the industries that naturally reside there,” he said.

One of the biggest disappointments of the session was the inability of the Legislature to pass a transportation funding package — which will require the Oregon Department of Transportation to conduct hundreds of layoffs. A funding package was introduced late in the session and the Legislature wasn’t able to pass it in time.

“It would have been better if we had introduced it earlier so we could have discussions in a more robust way with public comment and feedback,” Nguyen said. “More time would have been helpful to get people to where they understood the bill and had a level of comfort.”

Nguyen said the Legislature should convene for an emergency session to fix this transportation funding shortfall. Gov. Tina Kotek has hinted at the possibility of calling such a session.

With the six-month marathon over, Nguyen said he’s going to take a few weeks to decompress from the session and collect his thoughts. However, he feels the state needs to continue to try to reverse population flight, particularly from Multnomah County, and make downtown Portland more vibrant.