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more able now to realize
life is about more than just
himself.
One way he has been
others-focused is by help-
ing Barry Bowers, husband
of IHS track coach Heidi
Bowers, as an assistant
coach on the junior high
basketball team last sea-
son, which his mom said
helped teach him patience
nd focus and was “a real learning
tuations. instrument.”
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God’s put In early 2016 — follow-
y life to ing Calvin’s recovery from
through an additional surgery to put
essed to the piece of his skull back in
ed to be place, further consultation
nd do all and an OK from his parents
— he was released to com-
part pete in certain high school
rspective sports. Contact sports in-
mpathetic cluding football, basket-
h he had ball and baseball were, and
at he had ➶➹➘➶➴➷ ➘➬➹➹ ➮➱✃ ❐❒ ❮❰➱ ➹➬➷❮✃
e injury. though he admits he does at
hings in times play a pick-up game
of people of hoops. Snowboarding is
ce little also a sport he’s no longer
ple who able to do.
Track, though, in which
butes the he’s competed since middle
work- school, was still an option.
to open- Calvin admits that, es-
pecially early, he struggled
whom with the “Why?” question
that anyone would likely
ocess on ask after a major health
had the scare, but he said that
e surger- since then he has accepted
that my what he still has.
en more “I made peace realizing
myself,” God has still given me the
hat he’s ability to do track, and I’m
thankful for that. Good
things still come out of
that.”
Getting back into the
groove with track took
time as he recovered. Ac-
cording to the Imbler
track record on track and
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SPORTS
ther a season best or per-
sonal best in three events,
including a PR of 146 feet
even in the javelin, which
he says may be the event
in which he has the best
chance of making it to next
week’s state track meet.
He entered today’s 1A
Special District 4 meet in
Baker City seeded sixth in
the district in the 800 — the
event in which he placed
seventh at state a year ago
— and third in the javelin.
full life is a testament, he
said, of God’s grace.
“When I tell people my
story and what has hap-
pened, I tell them I’m
thankful for my accident,”
Calvin said. “I realize if I
had it my way from the
beginning, if this hadn’t
happened, I wouldn’t be
where I am today, and I
wouldn’t be in this posi-
tion. I wouldn’t be in love
with this awesome wom-
an. I had to take a step
back, and my life became
not just about me. It be-
came better. I realized God
is going to use me in dif-
ferent ways. Some of the
ways were telling my story.
I was able to (recover) be-
cause God was with me the
whole time.”
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each district are guaran-
teed a spot at state, but
three wildcards will also
be given out to the next top
three performances across
the state.
“The district is a lot
harder this year. A lot
more competitors. A lot
faster. But I’m going to go
out and compete, do my
best, and try and leave it
all out on the line. If I go,
I go,” he said.
Regardless of what hap-
pens in Baker, the fact he
is on the track and living a
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letic.net, Calvin competed
in most of Imbler’s meets
during that freshman year,
but he had challenges.
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the 1,500) in three track
meets, but then I was hav-
ing horrible migraines,” he
said. “That was really hard
for me. I had to take a step
back and realize I wasn’t
ready for everything.”
Kelly added the time it
took for him to get back
into being physically active
was the main challenge for
her son.
“As far as physical activ-
ity, that’s what bothered
him the most. He’s been
physical since the day he
could walk,” she said.
He began to see, howev-
er, the hand of the divine
at work in the midst of the
struggle.
“God really humbled me
through that season,” he
said. “I had to sit back and
encourage everyone else.
(The message from God was)
‘You need to encourage other
people to compete better.’”
Even when he couldn’t
compete, he attended
the meets and sought to
be an encouragement to
his teammates. While he
couldn’t rejoin the football
team, he carried that atti-
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the fall as he continued to
improve.
“My sophomore year I
helped out with football. I
was there the whole sea-
son,” he said. “That was
kind of fun, but I strug-
gled with migraines dur-
ing those football games
because I would yell so
much. That was a chal-
lenge. After that I haven’t
been part of any other
sport than track.”
He has gradually im-
proved on the track and has
become one of the key piec-
es of the Imbler track team.
“Calvin has been a great
leader for our team,” Heidi
Bowers said. “He is a hard-
working young man that
makes his teammates better.”
At last week’s Baker In-
vitational, Calvin set ei-
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