The
Sports
CI ac I camas P rint
WEÓNEsdAy, FEbRUARy 27, 2002
Track team surges toward beginning of season
NICK BARRON
Business Manager
Clackamas’ track and field team
has been busy preparing for
what they hope will be another
successful year for the program.
The 2002 season begins on
March 2.
Last spring, the Cougar women
finished second in the Northwest
Athletic Association of Commu
nity Colleges, a feat that could
prove difficult to duplicate.
But Clackamas Head Track
Coach Jack Kegg feels the women
SALENA DE LA CRUZ / Clackamas Print
are one of the best teams in the
Above:
Matt
Solosabal,
Rusty
Prüden,
Kyle
Holland
and
Ryan
Hennessy
(left
to
right)
prepare
for
the
opening Cougar track
NWAACC and said, “The women
meet,
coming
up
on
Saturday,
March
2,
at
Salem.
Below:
Dasha
Wakefield
and
Sara
Rowse
(left
to
right)
are two of CCC's
are really talented, we just don’t
best pole-vaulters, and are ranked second and first respectively out of all national Junior college pole vaulters in the nation.
have the numbers, so that’s go
der surgery, was third in the junior field program to good coaches, the rest of Clackamas see the hard
ing to be our struggle. They’re team’s best high jumper.
work the track and field team puts
whose job it is to prepare their ath
going to have to do a lot more NWAACC cross country champ nationals in javelin- throwing his
into being the best. If the past,
senior
year
in
high
school,
and
is
letes
for
competition.
Kari
Rissmiller
could
possibly
work, score in a lot more events.”
though, is any indication of the
There is a phrase posted next to
win some titles this season for regarded as one of the best
Coach Kegg was referring to
throwers in the country. Rusty the team’s practice schedule, future, the Cougars could be
the fact that the men’s team has her squad.
which says: “More important than clutching a trophy come May.
Pruden
will be very competitive in
Coach Kegg holds high expec
twice as many athletes as
To reach Nick Barron, e-mail
the middle distances, as he missed the will to win, is the will to pre
women’s team. Despite the lack tations for the men’s track team,
barronoru@hotmaiLcom or drop by
of competitors, Kegg believes who finished third last year in being named an All-American last pare to win!”
Only as the season plays out will B-104.
the season by only one place.
that the women
For
both
teams',
Spokane
looks
NWAACC.
have a good shot
“We to be a formidable opponent; Kegg
to
repeat
as
we're as
probably have considers them the team to beat.
Southern Divi
a good chance Other than the Sasquatch, Kegg
sion Champions.
anyone
deems his team capable of con
to get a tro
Some of the
else
phy, being in quering any squad they encoun
stars for the
the top three ter.
women include
conference." Jack
“I think we’re as good as any
Kegg
(in
the
Stacy Hopkins
NWAACC),” one else in the conference,” he
and Jenni Hardie,
Head Track
said.
Coach
Kegg said.
returning All-
Clackamas alumnus and former
While
Americans in the
most athletes Cougar pole-vaulter Becky
10,000-meter race.
for the Cougar Holliday was named Oregon Col
The female pole
vaulters are currently ranked first men are taken as some of the best legiate Athlete of the Year for 2001.
through fifth in junior college in the NWAACC, there are a few Holliday was ranked 26th in the
standouts. Isaac Frederick is one world last season in pole-vaulting.
pole-vaulting in the nation: Sa
of those star performers, as he is In January, another accolade for
rah Rowse is ranked first, fol
lowed by Dasha Wakefield, while Clackamas’ school record holder Clackamas was handed to Assis
third-place is a tie between Maria in the 100-meter race. Jonas tant Coach Rick Baggett, named
Skipper and Elisabeth Malsey, Welsch led the NWAACC in the National Junior College Coach of
100- and 200-meter races all of last the Year in pole-vaulting.
with Christy Strout rounding out
Coach Kegg credits part of the
year. Ray Kauffman, who red-
the top five.
success of Clackamas’ track and
Lan Evers is expected to be the shirted last season due to shoul
"I think
good as
in the
PSU considers cutting golf program
WII.LIE HENDRIX
Staff Writer
Portland State University is con
sidering dropping their men’s golf
program at the end of the season
due to budget cuts made by the
state.
The men’s golf team is facing
budget cuts of $132,000 this year
and $225,000 next season. Because
of these cuts, the men’s golf team is
considered an option. The president
of Portland State, Dan Bemstine, is
expected to make a decision as early
as sometime next week. By cutting
the men’s golf team, it would reduce
the total number of sports programs
from 17 teams to 16 teams, which is
still the second most in the Big-Sky
conference.
The Portland State golf team has
had success in the past. PSU golf
finished second in the Big-Sky con
ference last season. Two men’s golf
ers, Doug Nelson and Brodie Jor
dan, were first and second all con
ference. Nelson will be affected by
the program dropping, and is trans
ferring to the University of Portland.
said Jordan. “It’s unfortunate to come
Assistant Golf Coach Brian Hughes
to the end. l am sure that Portland State
was the Big-Sky conference champion
could find other areas to cut other than
two years ago. The men’s golf coach
golf.”
Felicia Johnston has been successful
The decision to drop men’s golf
as a player and
from Portland State
asacoachinher
will come no later than
first season as
the end of the month.
men’s
golf
With a tradition of
coach.
winning and good
Portland State
There are
academic golfers, it
find other
other things
will be hard to swal
that could be cut
low the fact that there
instead of the
may no longer be a
Brodie
golf program.
Jordan
golf program at the
Golfisoneofthe
end of the season.
PSU golfer
up-and-coming
There are only so
sports today.
many colleges that
There is also the
have golf teams. With
fact that it is popular around the world,
the sport becoming so popular, it
and a lot of money is brought in by
seems like PSU could do something
endorsements and by other athletes else besides cutting such a success
who play it
ful program.
“Men’s golf is one of the most suc
Corrections:
cessful programs at Portland State. The
In issue 14 Feb. 20,2002, no credit
men’s golf team had the highest rated
was given in "Laying the
GPA rating among sports programs
Smackdown" to a writer that
last seasons. (The) men’s golf team is
contributed to the rtory. We would
the only program currently that has
like to give credit at this time to
Willie Hendrix.
won a conference championship,”
"Panfsure that
could
¿úreas to cut.:."
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