Sports
Clackamas hosts Lane, Mt. Hood
UP, UP, A WA Y- Brian Johnson throws the javelin to a third place
finish at the April 4 track meet.
ty Steven Ziolkowski
taff Writer
Four' new. Northwest
legional
Championship
ualifiers and scores of personal
ecords and season’s bests at­
ended the home track and field
ìeet here this Saturday along
dth teams from Lane and Mt.
lood Community Colleges.
Mike Smith qualified for the
:gionals and set a personal
xord in the steeplechase at 9
linutes, 58.6 seconds. Eric
hristen qualified in two
vents, setting personal records
11 both the long jump at 22’1’
nd the 400-meter in 50.2.
■canne Barnett qualified and set
J personal record in the
tOOO-meter at 19:38.1. Rick
anson took the 400-meter
burdles with a personal best at
56.9.
Carrie Novikoff threw her
season’s best in the shot put at
39’7.25-’, while Jackie Harper
took first in- the 100-hurdles
with a season’s best at 16.7. In
the 1500, Molly McArtor placed
fourth with 5:32.4 and
Christina Caraher placed fifth
at 5:58.7, both were season
bests for the women.
Brian Johnson took third in
the javelin at 155’2’.
Sophomore Greg Suiter placed
first in the 1500 at 4:07.6.
School record holder Rick
Flemmer took third in the high
jump at 6’6‘. And a fourth
place for Keith Kimberlin
brought in his season record in
the 110-hurdles at 17.6.
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Placing fourth in the 400,
Randy Lynch ran a 52.6 for a
season best. In the 100, Ken
Griffin came in second with
11.4, and Jeff Faust came in
third with 11.5, both being
season bests for the guys. Erin
O’Donohoe performed a season
best in the discus, placing third
with 89’8.25’. Teammate Dena
Raddle took second in the 800
for a best at 2:31.8. Joining her
was Jackie Harper first in the
400-hurdles with a personal
record.
Clackamas came in strong in
the 200 and the 5,000. In the 20C
with personal records, Jeff. Faust
placed second with 23.6, Brian
Johnsn placed third with 23.8,
and Kevin Griffin placed fourth
Hodges to tour Russia with track team
by Steven Zlolkowski
Staff Writer
Community college coaching
veteran Mike Hodges paces his
answers the same way he paces
the runners around the track,
shouting the time, then turning to
answer before another runner
passes the clock, “I’ve wanted to
coach since I was in seventh
grade.”
Hodges came to Clackamas as
Head Track Coach in the sum­
mer of 1986, after 15 year stint at
Southwestern Oregon Communi­
ty College in Coos Bay. He
replaced Coach Jim Kissee who
resigned to spend more time with
his family.
The runners round the far end
of the track and Hodges checks
the clock before going on-
involved in athletics since age six,
his admiration for a seventh
grade coach set his mind on
coaching for a career- “I was the
kid on the block organizing track
meets and ball games,” he says
proudly.
“I grew up in Eugene, where
Bill Bowerman was Head Coach
at the University of Oregon-he’s
one of the world’s great
coaches-and with him as a role
model, coaching seemed the
natural thing to do,” Hodges
remembers.
Runners round the near end
and head out the far stretch.
“Five athletes qualifying for the
Northwest Championships, ’ ’
says Coach Hodges and with an
eye on the clock he rattles off
names and records. Freshman
Rick Flemmer, new school
record for the high jump at
6’10’, Greg Suiter 1500-meters
in 4:05.00 (4 minutes and 5
seconds), Jackie Harper, school
Heptathalon record 3,200!
points,
Mike
Smith,
5,000-meters in 15:45.05 and
Jeanne Barnett-5,000 meters in
11:18.03.
Hodges stops talking to call
out the final times as runners
cross the finish. Then from
memory he records the times on
the clipboard in his hand. Dale1
McGriff, Athletic Director,.
stops him for a quick con­
ference on the Saturday home
track meet.
There are three assistant track!
coaches. Full time staffer
Marilyn Wynia, an All America
to the Olympic trials in the Pen-
tathalon. Volunteer Lori Schutt
ranking in the top three for
several distance events and
another Olympic trial veteran.
Student assistant Debbie Blake
is a school record holder in the
discus and a state champion title
holder.
Walking toward Randall,
Hodges outlines his three goals
for team success. One is to have
a true coed program working as
a team. “We’ve gone a long
way toward meeting that one,”
he said, indicating he is pleased.
The second goal is to finish in
the top three in state for men
and the top four for women. “I
think they’re reasonable goals. I
believe in goals that are a
challenge, but not set up for
failure,” Hodges adds serious­
ly. “We’ve got two major
hurdles-keeping everyone injury
free and although we’ve got a
lot of talent and team effort,
we’ve only got two sophomores
and we lack some experience.”
When pressed for the third goal,
Hodges laughs, “Break as many
school records as we can!”
The kid on the block who
organized track meets is hitting
the big time early this summer
when, as coach for the Northwest
College Association, he takes a
track team to Russia. Hodges was
chosen for the honor by other
Northwest Regional coaches. The
event is billed as an exchange with
plans for a Russian team to tour
here in May of 1988.
The team will spend time in
Moscow at the Kiev Youth Sports
Camp and in Leningrad. Besides
the competitions there will be an
opportunity to work side by side
with the Russians. The focus of
die trip is a person to person ex­
change, getting away from the
idea of enemies and adversaries
and looking at the fact that we
are all human beings. “There
may be differences at the govern­
ment level, but there are so few
differences at a peer to peer
level,” commented Hodges.
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