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Editor’s Note: To honor the Indian mascot one final time after the state officially abolished the Marysville High historic trademark on Wednesday, we have compiled a list from approximately the last 10 years of the best athletes and Marysville High sports teams to don the Indian colors. We always welcome a guest columnist to further honor those who have represented the Indian name since the school’s inception over 100 years ago. Email all copy and photos to A-D Sports Editor Jeff Larson ([email protected]).
There have been many standout squads and student-athletes to come through Marysville High over the last decade-plus: Marysville varsity boys basketball won its first Sac-Joaquin Section title in 30 years in 2022-23; Marysville girls have been to the NorCal state Final Four behind a trio of standout players; wrestling won its first league title ever; track and field has delivered years of standouts on its facility adjacent to Ramirez Street.
Where to begin?
– Let’s start with the first Marysville boys basketball squad to hang a blue banner in three decades. That team had a boatload of Indians, led by Joshua Brown Jr; Sutter transfer Amrin Mann; up-and coming sophomore Dennis Syders; Kayden Ellyson; Shawn Smith and more. Together that squad took down Calaveras, 65-63, to claim its first SJS Division IV title at the Golden I Center. The Indians finished 29-4 and won an historic 24 straight games throughout the season behind the tutelage of veteran coach Stan Easter, who remains at the helm in 2026. The team was dynamic from the perimeter, swishing nearly 300 3s on the year at a rate of 36 percent.
Ellyson, son of another Marysville standout on the court and SJS champion in 1993, was the lead guard on offense and defense, averaging just over five assists a contest and nearly three steals a game in 2022-23.
– Syders, a sophomore on that basketball squad in 2022-23, the next year broke out as a Marysville junior football player with over 1,200 rush yards to finish fourth in the division. He punished foes at War Memorial Stadium most of that year, including a game-high 257 yards in a win over Center to help guide the Indians into the section playoffs.
– Marysville girls basketball, behind former Indian stars Sophia Rogers, Demi Boykin, Abigail Pietz and company, was a force each year in the SJS playoffs. In 2023, led by Rogers and underclassmen Boykin and Pietz, Marysville won 28 games, including a pair in the state playoffs, to advance to the NorCal Final Four for the first time against the No. 1 seed in the division.
That team was 28-6 and set the stage for two more consecutive 20-plus win seasons and state playoff runs with Boykin and Pietz running the show.
Boykin, who’s entering her sophomore season at college basketball power College of the Sequoias, recently sat down with the Appeal-Democrat to discuss what it means to be an Indian.
“Being an Indian means something … and means a lot to me,” Boykin said. “I feel like here at Marysville being an Indian is a family as a whole. There’s a lot of support, especially when it comes to school and sports, so it’s probably going to be sad.”
– Marysville alumna and former track coach Marcy Tarr was a state and section-leader in the sport of track and field at one of the oldest schools in Yuba-Sutter. Behind Tarr, the Marysville Indians’ boys track team won a Sac–Joaquin championship nine years ago. Tarr, during her time at Marysville, has been awarded league, section and CIF state model coaching honors, not to mention a national honor as the school’s track coach.
– Marysville High head wrestling had an unprecedented 2025-26 with its first league title since 1958, according to public records; a win over wrestling power Sutter Union for the first time in 29 years at the Sac-Joaquin Section Divisionals team duals; and a program-high four SJS Masters qualifications.
Top senior grappler Emma Mallen, in her final season as an Indian, finished with a top-7 medal at the CIF state championships in Bakersfield.
“I’m so grateful for our coaches, because they are the main reason we were able to achieve these goals,” Mallen said in a previous report. “My freshman year we started with 10 (wrestlers); this year we had over 40, which I think helped achieve more history.”
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There have been many standout squads and student-athletes to come through Marysville High over the last decade-plus: Marysville varsity boys basketball won its first Sac-Joaquin Section title in 30 years in 2022-23; Marysville girls have been to the NorCal state Final Four behind a trio of standout players; wrestling won its first league title ever; track and field has delivered years of standouts on its facility adjacent to Ramirez Street.
Where to begin?
– Let’s start with the first Marysville boys basketball squad to hang a blue banner in three decades. That team had a boatload of Indians, led by Joshua Brown Jr; Sutter transfer Amrin Mann; up-and coming sophomore Dennis Syders; Kayden Ellyson; Shawn Smith and more. Together that squad took down Calaveras, 65-63, to claim its first SJS Division IV title at the Golden I Center. The Indians finished 29-4 and won an historic 24 straight games throughout the season behind the tutelage of veteran coach Stan Easter, who remains at the helm in 2026. The team was dynamic from the perimeter, swishing nearly 300 3s on the year at a rate of 36 percent.
Ellyson, son of another Marysville standout on the court and SJS champion in 1993, was the lead guard on offense and defense, averaging just over five assists a contest and nearly three steals a game in 2022-23.
– Syders, a sophomore on that basketball squad in 2022-23, the next year broke out as a Marysville junior football player with over 1,200 rush yards to finish fourth in the division. He punished foes at War Memorial Stadium most of that year, including a game-high 257 yards in a win over Center to help guide the Indians into the section playoffs.
– Marysville girls basketball, behind former Indian stars Sophia Rogers, Demi Boykin, Abigail Pietz and company, was a force each year in the SJS playoffs. In 2023, led by Rogers and underclassmen Boykin and Pietz, Marysville won 28 games, including a pair in the state playoffs, to advance to the NorCal Final Four for the first time against the No. 1 seed in the division.
That team was 28-6 and set the stage for two more consecutive 20-plus win seasons and state playoff runs with Boykin and Pietz running the show.
Boykin, who’s entering her sophomore season at college basketball power College of the Sequoias, recently sat down with the Appeal-Democrat to discuss what it means to be an Indian.
“Being an Indian means something … and means a lot to me,” Boykin said. “I feel like here at Marysville being an Indian is a family as a whole. There’s a lot of support, especially when it comes to school and sports, so it’s probably going to be sad.”
– Marysville alumna and former track coach Marcy Tarr was a state and section-leader in the sport of track and field at one of the oldest schools in Yuba-Sutter. Behind Tarr, the Marysville Indians’ boys track team won a Sac–Joaquin championship nine years ago. Tarr, during her time at Marysville, has been awarded league, section and CIF state model coaching honors, not to mention a national honor as the school’s track coach.
– Marysville High head wrestling had an unprecedented 2025-26 with its first league title since 1958, according to public records; a win over wrestling power Sutter Union for the first time in 29 years at the Sac-Joaquin Section Divisionals team duals; and a program-high four SJS Masters qualifications.
Top senior grappler Emma Mallen, in her final season as an Indian, finished with a top-7 medal at the CIF state championships in Bakersfield.
“I’m so grateful for our coaches, because they are the main reason we were able to achieve these goals,” Mallen said in a previous report. “My freshman year we started with 10 (wrestlers); this year we had over 40, which I think helped achieve more history.”
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