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Cougar cross country number two in nation
By Tracy M. Sumner
Of The Print
The Clackamas Com
munity College men’s cross
country team proved Saturday
that the lofty national ranking
enjoyed by the team this
season was no fluke by taking
second place in the National
Junior College Athletic
Association Championship
meet in Utica, New York. The
second place finish was the
highest ever for a Cougar
team.
Clackamas went into the
meet ranked third nationally.
The team began the season as
the top-ranked junior college in
the country, but slipped slightly
in ranking due mostly to in
juries and illnesses.
The Cougars braved
miserable weather conditions,
a tough course and awesome
competition to total 68 points,
just 11 points behind National
Champion Brevard (North
Carolina).
Coach Kelly Sullivan was
ecstatic with his team’s perfor
mance and was in no mood to
hide his feelings.
“The kids were pleased
and proud of the way they per
formed and so was I. They
handled the weather, the com
petition, the course, everything
very well. I think the school
should be very proud of this,”
Sullivan said.
“They were proud of
themselves but they respected
the competition,” he con
tinued. “They knew they’d
have to run their best to do
well.”
The 26 teams competing
in the meet all had to brave
severe weather conditions for
the meet. The temperature at
meet time was a chilly 28
degrees with a 20-30 miles per
hour headwind.
“We woke up the morning
of the race and it was hailing
and I mean it was cold!”
The
course
was
“awesome” Sullivan said. “It
was the hilliest course we’ve
run in three years, but the at
titude of the team was that
whatever they had to run on
was great?’
The weather and the
tough course were not the only
obstacles facing the team on
the way to their runner-up
finish. The competition at the
meet may have been the best
ever for nationals competition.
“Talent-wise, from top to
bottom, it was tremendous.
Nationally, this was probably
the most depth I’ve seen in the
top 30-35 runners,” Sullivan
said.
“I put a lot of pressure on
the guys last week at practice,”
he continued. “I told them that
if we ran at nationals the way
we did at regionals, we were
going to get our butts kicked.
That helped them to realize
that they would have to run
their very best to place well.”
“I thought that was a rbal
plus for us. I was really excited
and confident,” he said. “This
was the calmest I’d ever been
before any meet. I was confi
dent we’d run as well as we
were capable of.”
HEAD COACH KELLY Sullivan: “The kids were pleased
and proud of the way they performed and so was I. . . the
school should be very proud of this.”
“Tony ran very well,”
Tony Macey led a trio of
top-ten finishers for Clackamas Sullivan said. “He went into
with a 26:04 finish for the five the meet hoping to be national
mile course for a sixth place champion. Into the race he
finish. Brian Abshire and Steve realized the the national cham
Gogl weren’t far behind Macey pionship was out of reach, but
and finished seventh and he hung on to-sixth place very
eighth, respectively. Abshire well. Tony and Brian hung on
finished the run in 26:07 with to sixth and seventh very
Gogl on his heels with a 26:08 gallantly,” he continued. “They
could have been in the high
time.
teens easily, but they hung on
really well.”
Despite finishing behind
Macey and Abshire, Gogl was
very impressive in running his
eighth place finish.
“Steve Gogl definitely ran
the best cross country race
since he’s been at Clackamas,”
Sullivan stated. Gogl had plac
ed eleventh at the Region 18
meet before nationals. Gogl’s
high finish was valuable,
Sullivan explained.
“Tony (Macey) and Brian
(Abshire) ran just about where
they should have,” he said.
“What we needed was one of
our other guys to break loose
and Steve responded to that
challenge.”
The Cougar’s fourth and
fifth runners, Ken Velasquez
and John Hanson finished
30th and 33rd, respectively
and were also instrumental in
the team finishing second.
“Ken and John ran very
competitively where they
were,” Sullivan explained,
“They passed people in the last
mile. That made a difference
between us getting second or
third. I was very pleased with
that.”.
Other finishers for the
Cougar team were Jeff
Franklin who finished 65th in a
time of 27:19, and Kevin
MacDermott at 142nd in
28:32.
Individually, Masong
Agapious of Ranger Junior
College (Texas) took the na
tional championship followed
by last year’s champion Christy
Davids of North Idaho.
Dr. John Hakanson:
a natural educator
War II in the Army. He was He left it in 1953 with the inten
By T. Jeffries
Of The Print
A graduate of the
Oakland, Oregon, High School
class of 1937, Dr. John W.
Hakanson, president of
Clackamas Community Col
lege, is as much a native
Oregonian and born educator
as anyone can be.
After graduating from high
school,. Hakanson worked in a
variety of general labor occupa
tions including logging, road
construction and farming until
1942,. when he entered World
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honorably discharged four
years later as a captain in the
field artillery having served 30
months in the Pacific theater.
From the army Hakanson
enrolled in Vanport College
(now Portland State) and
Willamette University, and
emerged in 1950 with a
bachelor of arts degree in
political science/economics. It
was then that he went to work
for the United States Bureau of
Reclamation as an ad
ministrative trainee/assistant.
tion of continuing his educa
tion.
“I was going to the U of O
at the time,” Hakanson, 62,
said. “And it dawned on me
that I’d have to start earning a
living. So, I changed my course
of study and went into educa
tion.”
Hakanson became a
teacher, teacher-principal and
finally superintendent-principal
at three Oregon high schools
from 1954 to 1963. In 1964 he
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