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<\/a><\/p>\nBy Terry Mosher<\/p>\n
Editor, Sports Paper<\/p>\n
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Carolynn Anne Parham (Cappy) Yarbrough has been having a traveling summer. There was the three weeks in Russia, and the trip with her select lacrosse team \u2013 Puget Sound Select \u2013 to the Toronto, Ontario, Canada area to play against some of the top teams from this country and from around the world.<\/p>\n
But that is almost second nature to Yarbrough, whose nickname Cappy derives from the initials of her full name plus an added \u201cP.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is really well-rounded,\u201d says Tami Tommila, who is her coach with Bainbridge Girls Lacrosse and is the co-coach of the Puget Sound Select.\u00a0\u201cShe just got back from Russia to help out orphans (actually foster kids) there. It\u2019s just not about sports with her, which is nice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yarbrough, who is a lacrosse defender and a senior-to-be at Bainbridge High School and is the daughter of Champ and Kelley Yarbrough, went to Russia through the Bainbridge-based non-profit Camp Siberia, which since 1999 had been going to Russia to help out with the orphans.<\/p>\n
Because of politics a course correction had to be made and a trip wasn\u2019t made last year. This year, though, the organization sent Yarbrough and others to Camp Siberia-Kitezh as volunteers to help, as its Website says, \u201cto enrich the lives, not only of the foster children, but anyone who comes to Kitezh.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe spent two weeks in the village (Kitezh) and one week touring St. Petersburg and Moscow,\u201d says Yarbrough. \u201cI absolutely loved it (St. Petersburg) because of the architect. It was really cool to be in the middle of history.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yarbrough also has been part of the Island Ambassadors Program that promotes tourism on the Island. If that isn\u2019t enough, Yarbrough, who sports a 3.717 grade-point average and is in the Honors Society, plays lacrosse on a serious level with a Bainbridge program that is one of the best in the state, and then during the rest of the year is on PPS team that also is one of the best around.<\/p>\n
The Washington Schoolgirls Lacrosse Association honored her as an All-Conference first team player and by naming her an Academic All-American.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is as competitive a human being as I have ever met,\u201d says her dad, Champ Yarbrough, which is saying something because the Yarbrough family is very competitive.<\/p>\n
Champ Yarbrough tells the story about his daughter running for an office at school and not winning. When he found that out from his wife, he began scheming how to make it better for his competitive daughter.<\/p>\n
His first words to her were,\u201d Cappy, I\u2019m really sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, yeah, that is fine,\u201d she answered. \u201cI\u2019m running for something else now. I\u2019m going to run for something until I get elected for something.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is the way she takes with everything,\u201d says Champ Yarbrough.<\/p>\n
The first time Yarbrough was exposed to lacrosse was in the third game. She and her twin brother Reynolds, who plays for the Bainbridge boy\u2019s lacrosse team, attended a co-ed camp when they were in the third grade.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was almost the end of Cappy\u2019s lacrosse career as the coaches paired them together for drills,\u201d says Champ Yarbrough,\u201d which was a disaster because girls lacrosse sticks are MUCH harder to throw and catch with than boys sticks, and Cappy ended up frustrated and furious with her brother and was done with lacrosse until the fifth grade.\u201d<\/p>\n
But like everything else in her life, Yarbrough was not going to be defeated so easily. So she began playing the sport again (as well as basketball until the eighth grade) and her freshman year at Bainbridge she on the Division II varsity team composed of mainly freshmen and a few sophomores that competed against other D-II conference teams that were made up of juniors and seniors.<\/p>\n
\u201cCappy was a captain of the D-II team with Sallie Marx,\u201d says Champ Yarbrough. \u201cThey made it to the semifinals of the D-II playoffs that year despite being the youngest team.\u201d<\/p>\n
As a sophomore, Yarbrough was one of two sophomores that started on the Division-I varsity team that won the state title. Last year she again started and this coming season she will be a team captain.<\/p>\n
Yarbrough and the PSS team just got back from the Women\u2019s Lacrosse 2013 World Cup being held in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The team played seven games in the accompanying Turtle Festival, going 5-2 against excellent teams from this country and from Canada, England and Japan.<\/p>\n
\u201cCappy is a great kid,\u201d says Tommila. \u201cShe has kind of come into her own. She has matured in a lot of ways and is a good teammate. She is savvy about the choices she makes (on the field). She is very dedicated to the program, both on and off the field. She is a good role model.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Russia trip has had a big influence on Yarbrough.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I hope to go somewhere and study history and learn Russian,\u201d says Yarbrough. \u201cI want to go back to the village I was in. I\u2019m really interested in the language. It\u2019s a beautiful language. I wish I could speak it. So I have decided to learn it. And I definitely wan to play at some level of lacrosse \u2013 probably club.\u201d<\/p>\n
When she goes off to college, it will probably be back on the East Coast. Her family is originally from South Carolina and she has deep family roots back east.<\/p>\n
For now, though, Yarbrough is excited about the next Bainbridge lacrosse season, which runs from March into May.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are expecting big things,\u201d says Yarbrough. \u201cWe\u2019re going to win. Our goal is to win state.\u201d<\/p>\n
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