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8 Feature The Clackamas Print Wednesday, April 10,1996 Student excels in ice skating ‘Claythings’ exhibit Karin Redston Assistant Opinion Editor Tonya Zuehlke started skat ing at the age of five with her fam ily at Clackaihas Town Center. What started as fun turned into an amateur skating career with Zuehlke’s first competition at the age of seven. Today Zuehlke, who is now 19, still skates and teaches ice skating at the Clackamas Town Center. She has won regionals three years in a row and has been an alternate at the U.S. National Skating Competition. Zuehlke is currently attend- ■ ing CCC as a full time student this term. She is taking a few months off from skating competition but continues to practice. Before Zuehlke decided to take a break from skating she was averaging four and a half hours on the ice each day with extra hours devoted »to weight lifting, dance, running, and plyometrics. “Plyometrics is where you use speed and height,” said Zuehlke. “It’s Used for quickness to see how fast you can get your body up into the air. You stress like jumping through your toes.” In addition to her workouts, Zuehlke was attending CCC and working at the skating rink teach ing children how to skate. Her day started around five in the morning and ended late at night. The only day Zuehlke had off was Sunday which she used for study ing. Zuehlke still’skates to keep her edge. She feels she can’t af ford to slip for when she officially starts working out again. That will probably be late this spring or early summer. “You always want when you’re going into a competition to develop something new,” said Zuehlke. “You always want to look better. You want to keep enriching experience Joel P. Shempert Staff Writer IB® Photo by Karin Redston Tonya Zuehlke, with three wins in a row at regionals, is an alternate at the U.S. National Skating Competition. building. You don’t want to go out there and have the judges see that you’ve lost something or you’re not like you were last year.” Zuehlke understands the pressures of being an amateur ath lete. She feels that as a skater she has to be careful about her image. Zuehlke was particularly con cerned with recent incidents in volving skaters in the amateur skating association. “Skating is not just on the ice what you do,” says Zuehlke. “You’re judged all the time by what people see. People see you on the street and they carry that over. If they see you doing some thing crazyr that’s going to carry over to your skating.” Zuehlke is practical about her future goals. She takes on each goal one at a time. Her skating goal is to place in the top 10 at Nationals and her personal goal is to aquire a degree in Radiogra phy. She also eventually wants to teach and coach young skaters. “I love working with kids and helping them,” Zuehlke said. “I know what they’re going through. I know what it’s like. I can re late to it.” Like every athlete, Zuehlke would like to go to the Olympics but she is realistic about her chances. Only two women skat ers go to the Olympics from this country and they have to be in the top three at the U.S. National Skating Competition three out of four years in a row. The compe tition is extremely intense. Zuehlke’s family is very sup portive of her skating in every way. Her mom accompanies her to all the competitions. Her dad attends when he can. Her par ents pay for coaching, skates which average around $700 each, two competition dresses which also average $700 each, airfare and hotels. The list is endless. According to Zuehlke, skating is an incredibly expensive sport. Although Zuehlke is cur rently taking a break from com petitive skating she knows she will return to the sport. “It truly is in your blood,” said Zuehlke. “For any athlete who’s been doing it for as long as I have it will always be in your blood-I love skating. I think it’s beautiful and I think it’s a really lovely sport. It’s different and I know that a lot of people like it If you were to enter the Pauling Gallery today, you would not find the expected paintings lining the walls. Nei ther would you find drawings or sketches. What you would find, however, is the unique and eclectic artistic phenomenon known as Clay things. Claythings is a ceramic art exhibit which runs the variety gauntlet with stunning effective ness. The sculptures on display excite and amaze and often defy description. The works of these 14 accomplished artists are a joy to view. The works also defy catego rization. There is no way to clas sify the various pieces in a few paltry groupings according to style. There are as many styles as there are artists, and perhaps more so. For instance, Jim Goin’s works, “Edoko” and “Attitudinous Jill,” embody a representational nude figure sculpting vein, while another of his pieces, the mysterious “Box With Two Perspectives and No Title”, which, while it contains figure sculpture, is better seen than described. On the oppo site end of the spectrum, so to speak, would be works such as Christina Carver’s exquisite, seashell-1 i ke “Trytoama” and “Utzon II.” ’ Other notables include Al Bain’s two series—’’Treasure” and “Refuge”—of thornbush-like sculptures crafted as the lids to ceramic pots, and Jim Kondelka’s sculptures, “Crane Crash” and “Scrubber II,” which are reminiscent of clockwork gears. Also striking are Katy McFadden’s “Line Blend Se ries”, charming sculptures of flowery women’s hats. Garrett Masterson’s partial figure sculp tures, “Descent II-IV” and “Winged Figure”, operate, by virtue of their unique and some times slightly distorted form, on a deep level in the viewer. One of the central pieces of the display is Ronna Nuenschwander’s sculpture, “Veiled Threats.” The largely slip-cast piece is actually con structed entirely from clay—with the exception of iron nails—even though it appears to have wooden branches as extremities attached to a clay body. Her piece, “Root of the Matter,” uses the same ef fect. The works are very expres sive, and the combination of im agery of torture and death with a definite African-American theme is powerful indeed. There are many interesting works in the show, all of which are worth seeing. The other art ists in the show, alphabetically, are Paul Buckner, Patrick Horsley, Garrett Masterson, Stephen Mickey, Katy McFadden-Benecki, Debra Norby, Thomas Orr, Ted Vogel, Charles Washburn. The variety and originality represented by thS^capible men and women cannot be fully expressed in simple written words, and must be seen in person. The Clay things exhibit will be open until May 2, and is a uniquely enriching experience. CLUB CALENDAR Join in the fun! Come to the CCC Club Fair TODAY from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Community Center Help Everyone’s Environment Live (HEEL), the new environmental club, Entries for 1 year old, 1991 now meets every Weds., from 11 to 11:50 a.m., in Pl 24. For more infor mation, call ext. 2247. Chrysalis, the CCC women’s writing group, is now meeting. Join in the meetings every Wed., from noon to 1 p.m., in B112. For more informa tion, call Kate Gray at ext. 2371. me CCC Environmental Committee meetings are every Weds., from 11 to 11:30 a.m., in P102. Everyone is invited to participate in focus groups: Helping the ELC, Bottle Bill Expansion, Recycling on Campus, AmeriCorp Projects and Environmental Week. 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