Clackamas Print
Sports 7
Wednesday. Oct. 10, 2007
Athlete of the Week
Megan Koler
The Clackamas Print
Andria Scheese, a 30-year-old Clackamas
udent with one of Clackamas’ most impressive
cords in the 1500-meter, cross country and 5K,
is also become something of a legend around
H>us as the full-time working mom who
tends classes and races on the track team.
“I truly love to run, and I am not happy if I
Art,” said Scheese.
The item getting the most interest, even
jtside of the Athletics Department, is the fact
at Scheese ran, completed and placed third in
race whi le she was running a high fever.
“Usually I’m fine — no issues - but for the
st couple of days, I had been sick and was
jping to wake up on race day and feel won-
iMil.”
She had no such hick
“I started my warm-up and knew that it was
ling to be bad,” said Scheese. “The hotter I
jt, the more I felt like I was going to vomit
he more I talked - anything -1 thought I was
»ag to vomit I thought to myself... ‘OK, just
k A.. if you have to stop on the side to vomit,
ist get it over with and continue; maybe I’ll
ABetter.’
“I always think the weirdest things when I
tn racing.”
Because of that race and other similar instanc -
l like running with a hip injury, Scheese made
Il-American last season.
“Making All-American last year was great,”
le said.” I didn’t really know what it meant
ntil a week later when Keoni told me, and then
really enjoyed having that title.”
“I think we really work hard during the
sason for this, and if we can all come together
ad bring something like this out of the season,
re have brought forth a huge accomplishment,”
le added. “I like telling dais to both my team
t Work and our team on die field; nobody is
oybody without each other.”
Her team at work is a medical staffing com-
any where she is a full-time branch manager.
“My job is to help my team hire new nurses
nd other healthcare professionals, and place
iem into travel contracts throughout die U.S.,”
fid Scheese. “It’s a very big job, and my team
has j ust been celebrated for being the
first branch to come up to the level
of revenue we are at as quickly as
we have.”
The idea of a full class schedule
and a full-time job can be intimi
dating enough for most students at
Clackamas, not to mention caring
for children alongside everything
else. Scheese finds it challenging,
too - but not impossible.
“It definitely takes a lot of dedi
cation and knowing what you want
in life,” she said. ‘‘Usually I do my
homework in the evening, once the
kids go to bed, and take tests on the
weekend when we’re not racing.
Work time is done sometimes from
home, in order to incorporate the
days we have early races or morning
practices.”
“I work my rear off at work so I
get die flexibility that I need to be [at
Clackamas],” she said. “I do what I
need to do at home to make sure I do
things with the kids.”
Scheese has three children:
Trevor, Alondra and Fabian.
‘Trevor, who is 11, is the big
gest help of all,” she said. ‘Talk
about a very mature child; he uses
words that I would never even think
about using. When I ask him what it means, he
tells me, and then he asks me if I know what it
means.
“He’s a smarty.”
“Fabian, who is two, is my little, funny boy,”
said Scheese. “He makes die funniest faces at
you to get you to laugh, and just does the fun
niest things.”
Alondra, Scheese’s five-year-old daughter,
has been bilingual since the age of two and
seems to be the one following in her mother’s
footsteps, already showing an interest in athlet
ics and competition in elementary school.
T was always in die nurse’s office because
I had fallen and needed stitches, so my mom
was always there to pick me up,” she said. “My
knees really tell some good stories.
T loved running, and I loved beating the
guys in our mile-run and in any other physical
challenge I could.”
Scheese began running track in junior high
and continued into high school, but was losing
interest in being a student
T was more focused cm getting out of
school, starting a family and having my career,”
she said. T didn’t think about going to college
or how it would help me in the long run. I didn’t
feel like I was strong enough to do something
like that”
But she did go to college and began to run
competitively again - it just took 13 years.
“People tell me I’m doing too much, but
who is the true judge of that?” she said. “Only
you know your limits. You can’t let other people
get in the way of what you want to work for.
‘Tor me, this is almost like a dream. I have
such a great team on die course, at work and at
home. If I didn’t have diem, I couldn’t be me.”
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With two disappointing pre
season losses in California,
Clackamas’ women’s soccer
team bounced back, begin
ning their season with a win.
“We opened up our sea
son Sept. 3 at SWOCC and
won 2-0,” said Coach Tracy
Nelson. “We have been unde
feated since, with a record
of 10-0 in league and 10-2
overall.”
Clackamas is currently in
first place in the Southern
region, and is ranked sec
ond in the NWAACC Poll.
Several players are in the
NWAACC Top Ten for scor
ing and assists.
“The team is playing well
and scoring a lot of goals,”
said Nelson. “Our defense
is getting better, which is
reflective in the seven shut
outs we have.”
“We have a very strong
team this year that should be
contenders for the NWAACC
championship,” said Nelson.
”We still need to work on
increasing our speed of play
and putting away our oppor
tunities, but I have been
pleased with the progress of
the team and the work that
the players are putting in to
improve and become better.”
Clackamas’ next two games
are away. The first is Oct. 12 at
Bellevue CC at 2 p.m., and the
The last time I checked, the
NFL was not the jump-start
program for jail.
Former NFL player OJ
Simpson and Atlanta Falcons
quarterback Michael Vick
must have gotten a different
memo. Every time you turn
around, athletes are in trouble
with the law.
This is nothing new; it is
almost a right of passage.
These days it just seems to be
more extreme.
Vick, in my opinion, should
be prosecuted to the full extent
of the law. He pled guilty
to federal felony charges of
unlawful dog fighting. After
being released on bond pend
ing sentencing, he was found
with marijuana in his system
on Sept. 13. On Sept. 25, he
was indicted by a grand jury
on charges of animal beat-
ing/killing and dog fighting.
He now faces sentencing in
December, and he could face
a maximum of five years in
jail.
The NFL does not allow its
players to be involved in any
form of gambling, and Vick
could very well be banned for
life. He sponsored most of the
illegal dog fighting and shared
in the profits of the operation.
He has now been indefinitely
suspended without pay from
the Falcons and has lost most
of his endorsements.
Michael, the next time you
decide to fund and participate
in illegal and immoral activi
ties, make sure your parents
aren’t going to rat you out to
a newspaper.
Another football player in
trouble with the law is OJ
Simpson. Simpson has recent
ly been charged with several
different charges in relation
to the theft of several items
of memorabilia that he claims
were stolen from him.
How stupid could you be?
First he is accused of murder
ing his ex-wife and her friend,
then he writes a book called
If I Did It, and now he alleg
edly robs a casino guest with
some trivial memorabilia? Let
it go!
The
charges
against
Simpson include criminal
conspiracy, kidnapping, rob
bery and two counts of assault
with a deadly weapon. If con
victed, he could face 60 years
of imprisonment.
OJ, why don’t you stop
your crime sprees and become
a productive member of
society? You’re giving us
Simpsons a bad name.
The bottom line is that if
athletes can’t stay out of trou
ble, maybe they should stay
out of stadiums.
sportsed@clackamas.edu
Contributed by Tracy Swisher
Mckenzie Creamer heads the
ball during the Southwest
Oregon Game
other is Oct. 13 at Highline CC
at noon.