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Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008
Cross Country: Destination NWAAG
Matt Garrison
Associate Sports Editor
The Cougar Cross Country
team will attempt to blaze a
trail to the Northwest Athletic
Association of Community
Colleges
(NWAACC)
Championship this Saturday
at the Southern Region
Championships.
This past weekend, the
Clackamas Cross Country
team competed against nation
ally ranked teams from differ
ent college divisions.
“I feel that they did pretty
good,” said Distance Coach
Ian Schroeder.
“The women did a good job
of packing it up with another
teammate to push each other to
a good performance,” contin
ued Schroeder. “The men had
a good competitive effort.”
The men’s team finished
11th out of 12 teams. The
women’s team finished incom
plete because two of the ath
letes were sick; however, the
athletes that finished the race
averaged a 52 second improve
ment.
Robert Deguchi placed the
highest out of all the men
Cougars for 55th place in the
four- mile run, with a time
of 21 - minutes and 27 sec
onds. Tarra Brown placed the
highest out of the entire lady
Cougars for 78th place in the
five kilometer run, with a time
of 20 minutes and 27 seconds.
Clackamas runner Luke
Correll dropped out of the race
after two miles due to extreme
stomach pain, Clackamas first
runner Ashley Braniff sat
out due to illness and Tegan
McCarthy dropped out after a
mile for the same reason.
“(To improve) the men need
to be more conservative in
the first mile and push a lit
tle bit harder in the middle,”
Schroeder said.
The women need to “con
tinue gaining experience.”.
“This year we have a tal
ented and young group,” said
Schroeder. “Numbers are up.
We’re working on developing
a solid'base.”
The team is “slowly getting
better,” said Team Captain
Grant Lewis.
“Our goal is to get a strong
healthy team by NWAACCs,”
added Lewis. He feels that to
get there the team needs to get
stronger in their races.
On Saturday, Oct. 25,
Clackamas will be host
ing the Southern Region
Championships at 11 a.m.
Photo contributed by Tn
Ashley Braniff follows closely behind Whitman cross country athlete Sara Levy on
Fort Walla Walla Park in Walla Walla, Wash.
Final Cross Country Meets
Southern Region Championship: Saturday, Oct. 25 at 11 a.m. at Clackamas
NWAACC’s: Saturday, Nov. 8 at Lewisville Regional Park, Battle Ground, Wasl
Cougars kill opponents this season, focus on future suca
Although the team practice
is where the team is head said. “We are usually towards
ed, with their overall wins at the top so we try to keep this is hard, and play harder, no
11 The Clackamas Print
serious injuries have occurred
27 and losses at only nine, up year to year.”
Some notable achievements throughout the season. All
placing them in third place
for the upcoming NWAACC from players include 381 kills team members are in good
Athletic and 42 serve aces from Kristel shape and capable of playing.
“One dream, one goal, one (Northwest
Association of Community Baeckel this season, and 237 The team does their warm up
team.”
This is the philosophy that Colleges) Championship on kills out of 531 for Shikara exercises together before the
White, ranking her percentage games to avoid such injuries.
Kathie Woods, head coach of Nov. 20 through 22.
The team suffered two
“It doesn’t matter that we at 27 percent.
the Cougars’ Volleyball team,
“We have enough skill and defeats against their main
uses to inspire her team to aren’t at the very top, so long
as we excel when we get drive to win,” said Kristen rivals, Chemeketa, losing
strive for success.
three out of five matches
And success, it appears, to the championship,” Woods Diehl, assistant coach.
. Nick Kornafel
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spirit is high and
moves right along
eventual success.
“We can do
Joanna Abraham,
hitter. “Yeah Coug
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RON ADAMS
CLACKAMAS COUNTY COMMISSIONER
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