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Co-founder of an all-female skydiving team and longtime professional skydiver Melanie Curtis, talked with KNKX Morning Edition host Kirsten Kendrick during a recent visit to Seattle.
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Four-time WNBA champion Seattle Storm are playing their 25th season this year, led by guard Jewell Loyd who recently spoke with KNKX Morning Edition host Kirsten Kendrick.
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A top Washington state high school baseball player, Bjorn Johnson was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers at age 18. Johnson and his parents spoke with KNKX about heading straight to pro baseball.
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"The Boys in the Boat" tells the story of the University of Washington rowing crew and their quest for gold at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Joe Rantz's story is central to both the book and movie. And it all started with a scrapbook that his granddaughter put together.
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Retired Seahawk Michael Bennett has a new career as a designer. Bennett says his goal as an artist is to "dismantle systemic injustices." He talked with KNKX Morning Edition host Kirsten Kendrick for our series "Going Deep."
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If you watch the Seattle Mariners on Root Sports Northwest, then you're familiar with anchor and reporter Angie Mentink. But you may not be familiar with all the history she's made.
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Former Seattle Seahawk Doug Baldwin talks to KNKX Morning Edition host Kirsten Kendrick about racial justice, second chances and giving back in part two of this interview for the KNKX "Going Deep" series.
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Former Seattle Seahawk Doug Baldwin talks to KNKX Morning Edition host Kirsten Kendrick about growing up mixed race in West Florida and learning from his parents' different approaches to social activism.
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In the latest installment of our series "Going Deep," we're catching up with Olympic swimmer Nathan Adrian, who grew up in Bremerton and spent years commuting to Tacoma to swim. He competed in three Summer Olympics winning a total of eight medals. In 2019, after being diagnosed with testicular cancer, he underwent surgery and the challenge of getting back to the pool.
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On the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the law preventing sex discrimination in education programs that receive federal funding, KNKX Morning Edition host Kirsten Kendrick talks with Patricia "Trish" Bostrom of Mercer Island about playing sports in a pre-Title IX world. A nationally-ranked tennis player in the 1970s, her biggest battle may have been the right to play in the first place. She even sued the University of Washington.