In 2002-2003, the school was celebrating God's faithfulness as we reached our 50th anniversary. Our varsity boys basketball team also celebrated a historic achievement, placing 2nd in state. The team went 16-4 in the regular season that year, including a 9-1 league record. Their sole league loss came in the first of two regular season games against the Darrington Loggers.

Junior co-captain Garth Brandal shared in the 02-03 yearbook that the loss against Darrington was a turning point for the team. "We really pulled together as a team, which helped us to win the remaining league games," including a second match-up against the Loggers. The team continued on to fulfill senior co-captain Darren Broekhuis's yearbook prediction of going "farther than any other team in Shoreline's history."

They became the second boys varsity team in school history to take home a trophy and the first to make it to the championship game, where they lost to none other than the Darrington Loggers. Senior Matt Waller shared in the yearbook he felt such a sense of community that year at the state tournament. Today, Brandal says the same thing. Looking back twelve years, he still remembers the great support from so many in the SCS community, "who went to so many of the games and made the long drive over to Spokane for the state tournament."

Brandal now lives in Los Angeles with his wife and is a resident physician at UCLA. He continued to play basketball while at Whitman College, though he says now his involvement with basketball extends to watching it on TV. He still occasionally gets to see his old Shoreline Christian teammates, who he says were a good group of guys and easy to get along with.