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Club: ROTC finishes fourth at Swoosh Challenge
■ Continued from Page 7
Leslie Kindling, Adrian Broad
hurst, David Nash and Heather
Gallo. Oregon Recreation and In
tramural director Brent Harrison
served as regional representative.
Based on the accumulated
points from each event, the top
four teams advanced to a head-to
head timed run of the obstacle
course. Oregon missed the cut by
one team.
Unofficial results had Eastern
Michigan taking top honors, Navy
coming in second, Florida State
and Syracuse tying for third place
and Oregon finishing fourth over
all.
Nash said the Ducks’ goal was
just to make it to nationals.
"Four out of 11 really doesn’t
sound too good,” Nash said. "But
when you think about the level of
competition that was there — it
was at such a high level — we felt
like we placed well.”
t-acn or tne teams competed m
five events shuttled between the
Universal Studios back lot and
the fitness capital of the world,
Venice Beach. The better a team
did in an event, the more points it
got. Championships were held be
tween the top finishers of each
event, and the top four overall
scorers moved on to the title
round.
Saturday morning, the teams
ran, hiked and in-line skated their
way through backdrops of Beaver
Cleaver’s residence and the locale
for the infamous fight between the
Three Amigos and El Guapo in
the Endurance Challenge at Uni
versal Studios.
Later in the day, the teams
basked in the Venice Beach sun,
where the tug of war, the rock —
a revolving wall-climbing event
— shuttle run, obstacle course
and finals were held.
Nash said his favorite event
was the Endurance Challenge.
“We ran through the facades —
which were the fake fronts of
some Universal back lots," Nash
said. “I haven’t been there in 10 or
12 years so it was really interest
ing to see all the changes.”
The tug of war at Venice Beach
proved to be the most challenging
event, Nash said.
“The tug of war on the sand
was extremely difficult. We had
no footing,” he said. “The cham
pionship match went on for 12
1/2 minutes. There were people
just pulling and getting nowhere.
“But having the events down at
Venice Beach was a great oppor
tunity for us Oregonians to get
some sun. I’m peeling now be
cause of that.”
Harrison said overall it wasn’t
just the experience gained in the
competition and atmosphere that
made the Challenge memorable,
but the association with the other
teams as well.
"Meeting teams from across the
country and having that cama
raderie amongst each other was
great,” Harrison said. “After fin
ishing up events, we talked about
them and strategically planned
for future events and built this
bond between these other peo
ple.”
“We went out after the compe
tition on Saturday night,” Nash
added. “It didn’t matter which
part of the group you were with
because everyone was getting
along really great.”
Nash said all the competitors
were there for a reason other than
winning the national title.
“It seemed liked everyone was
COURTESY PHOTO
Leslie Kindling (left) and Heather Gallo climb The Rock during the
Nike Swoosh Challenge in Los Angeles last weekend.
interested in getting fit,” Nash
said. “The guys were really mus
cular and the girls were really
toned. All were great runners and
athletes.”
This is the second year of exis
tence for the Challenge. Last year,
it was restricted to Nike-spon
sored teams and the events were
held at Nike Headquarters in
Beaverton. Oregon ended up plac
ing second out of four teams.
This year, the Challenge was
presented by Aquafina and Diet
Pepsi, with Nike serving as a con
tributor, and so competition was
opened up to all national univer
sities.
“We’re hoping that because of
the Challenge’s success, the spon
sors are going to be interested in
supporting it in the future and for
this to be a continued event,” Har
rison said.
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