The Clackamas print., April 12, 2000, Page 7, Image 7

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WedNEsdAy, Appil 12, 2000
TI he CtAckAMAS P rint
Clackamas records continue to fall
Four Clackamas track athletes run, lead and win the men's 4x800 relay last Saturday at the Mt. Hood Relays in Gresham. The four Cougars won the race handily
recording their fastest times of the season.
MANDY GOOD
Sports Editor
The Clackamas track team is
moving well into their sea­
son—competing last Saturday
in the Mt Hood Relays.
The men and women’s teams
took home third place rankings,
competing with all of the teams
in theNorthwest Athletic Asso­
ciation of Community Colleges
[NWAACC] at the meet.
“We had some minor injuries
so we did pretty well , for not
running everyone,” explained
Head Coach Jack Kegg.
“Krystal Schneider in the
women’s discus threw her per­
sonal best and the #3 all-time
best at Clackamas; we asked a
lot of David Lemen—in the
men’s pole vault, David was
first and Shawn Trimble was
second, David won the long
jump, second in the high
hurdles, seventh in the discus,
and fourth in the high jump so
he did a great deal for us.”
According to Coach Kegg,
Lemen, who is a sophomore and
a returning All-American, is the
#1 decathlete in the nation. As
a freshman, Lemen was the
NWAACC champion in the de­
cathlon and pole vault.
“Our men’s four by eight hun­
dred won and that is the second
year in a row that we have won
that relay, so we are going to try
and make that our tradition right
now. Our women were second in
that same relay,” Kegg noted.
“People have improved— we were
pretty solid all the way through.
All four of the guys in the four by
eight got the fastest times all year.
The women have been the same
way. They have all improved so
we are making good progress in
that direction, we are going the
right way.”
According to Kegg, it is go­
ing to be Mt Hood, Spokane
and Clackamas that are going
to be in the run for the
NWAACC championship.
Kegg believes that if his team
beats Mt. Hood in its dual meet
this weekend, the squad will be
halfway there.
“With our distance runners
Scattered we are only grains of sand.
Together, we are strong as a rock.
p
on our men’s side winning the
four by eight and the four by
mile, it's a good indicator for
us that we are probably the
dominant program in the
middle distances, we know that
we have the fastest 5k runner
in the conference and a couple
of the best steeplechasers, so
we are looking good on that
side,” said Kegg.
The short relay runners are
holding the leading time in the con­
ference for the men.
Although the sprinters did not
run in the meet, the team is still
the dominant school in the sprints.
According to Kegg, the team
continues to improve every week.
“We are three weeks away
from the NWACC multi-event
championships, we have a little
while to make one more large
jump of improvement, we have
a good group who is experi­
enced. On the women’s side we
have a group that is young but
they are talented and so they
are showing improvement in
different event areas,” Kegg
concluded with confidence.
Sophomore track star David Lemen winds up in the discus at the
Mt. Hood Relays meet last Saturday in Gresham. Lemen, who
finished seventh in the discus, won the pole vault and the long
Jump, took second in the high h rdles and fourth in the high jump.