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The Clackamas P r in t^
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Craig Fife demonstrates the seiza position in which the teacher sits to begin the class. Students earn
o ne P E credit training w ith him a t his school, A ikido Northwest, in M ilwaukie. '
Cody Isaacson (left) a nd N ukula Shaffer spar w ith one another,
Isaacson an d Shaffer both train a t Team Quest in Portland.
Students walk warriors’ path through CCC
By David Beasley
The Clackamas Print
has a professional M M A career o f
22 wins and 9 losses.
“I grew up in Oregon City,” said
T h e C C C fell schedule, which Lindland. “I knew Clackamas had
was just released a few weeks ago, a strong wrestling program and I
includes a plethora o f one-credit wasn’t recruited to a Division-I wres
physical education courses. W hat tling school so'C C G was the answer
better way to start the day or to achieving that goal. Getting m y
refresh between classes than a good two associates degrees helped m e
workout? .Students looking for a. mqve: on and winning nationals
little more than just a w orkout can helped m e gain recognition from
tread the warriors path by enroll major universities.
ing C C C s various martial arts pro
Lindland moved on to University
o f Nebraska after Clackamas, and
grams.
There are m any reasons to walk nine years after his national cham
the warriors path at Clackamas. pionship for the Cougars, he was
Students can reap the benefits and a part o f starting Team Quest, a
’ence success throughout their mixed martial arts gym that had just
p career and life. W ith the wrestling at first, b ut added other
Olympics coming up this summer, forms as it grew.
a very relevant success story is one o f
“W e now offer.aTot o f classes,”
C C C ’s own successful Olympians.
said Lindland. T m really proud o f
Wrestling and mixed martial our younger kids programs, Tough
arts stand-out M att Lindland is Tots & Tykes, and we have a big
am ong the m ost decorated com teen program lately. There’s about
petitors to have trained in combat 40, same w ith the kids program.”
at Clackamas. H e w on an Olympic
T h e wrestling team placed
Silver Medal in Greco-Roman wres fourth in the country at NJCAA
tling in 2000, he was the national national championships this year
wrestling cham pion in his weight and the coaches have helped m any
class for Clackamas in 1991 and he students succeed competitively in
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wrestling and mixed martial arts.
“W e have wresders that are
m em bers o f Team Quest,” said
Clackamas head coach Josh
Rhoden. “Two-time regional cham
pion and two-time All-American
Tarrence Williams, freshman Jacob
Mitchell is an amateur competi
tor, sophomore Jake Morris com
peted in wrestling w ith us for tw o
years and he trains at Tualatin Team
Q uest .¿ because o f C h a d Sonnen
arid Yushin Okam i [guest coaches
and Ideal professional U F C com-
petitors/wrestlers], lots o f wresders
come to C C C .”
T h e wrestling program is' by
fer the largest athletic program at
C C C and is the only official mar
tial arts team on campus. Rhoden
also teaches a class that’s open to
all C C C students called wrestling
conditioning, b ut there are more
choices w hen it comes to classes
that teach students how to defend
themselves from unscrupulous
fiends in a dark alley ways. O ther
one credit courses through C C C are
self defense, karate, kung-fu, aikido,
arid tai chi.
“I started teaching tai chi on
campus four years ago then three
years ago kurig fu and additional
tai chi offcam pus at Eastham,” said
N ick Hancock, resident tai chi arid'
kung fu instructor. “Over half o f
our class are returning students. T he
physical fitness and peace o f m ind
that comes w ith practicing arts like
tai chi and kung fu — getting the
tim e to dear your m ind between
studies is beneficial to academics.”
Robin Robinson started teach
ing karate and self defense classes at
the college in 1993.
“There was already karate and
self defense classes established on
campus and w hen there were open
ings I was able to fill them because I
was a black belt in two systems, kung
fu and zazente,” said Robinson. “W e
usually' have a m ix o f returning
students and new students in class.
I would say 70 percent o f students
w ho take the dass take it a second
or third time. It’s a cheap way to do
it. M ost private martial arts schools
charge over $100 per m onth. Ours
is $78 forthree months.”
O n campus isn’t the only place
that credit can be earned for mar
tial, arts courses through Clackamas.
Ailddô Northwest, in Milwaukie,
offers thé opportunity to earn f t PE
credit as well.
“I contacted the college about
six years ago to ask if they wanted
to have aikido on campus; they said
theyd like to have an off campus
dass,” said Craig Fife, aikido instruc
tor at Aikido N o rth W est “Aikido
teaches an underlying philosophy
that is more valuable to a person
than self defense skills. T h e philoso-
college students need. Taking a m ar
tial arts dass will help students find
motivation.”
W ith so m any opportunities to
grow as a martial artist and a college
student, it is likely that future stu
dents will continue to benefit from
the programs in professional success
or indirecdy through philosophy
arid way or life. There are m any
opportunities to learn martial arts
w ithout the college credit as well.
T h e C C C schedule o f classes has a
com m unity schools section which
features various martial arts class
es that are all w orth investigating.
M any even offer a free first lesson.
FAME: Clackamas chooses five new inductees for 2012 H O F
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M a r tin e a u a n d I d o n e a rly
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s e ttin g u p th e H O F a n d
g e ttin g e v e r y th in g o rg a n iz e d
a n d p l a n n e d .’
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d i n a t i n g m o s t o f th e th in g s
th a t th e F o u n d a tio n h a d
d o n e p re v io u sly ,” s a id S teeri.
“T h e la s t tw o b a n q u e ts , I
h a v e c o o r d in a te d n e a rly e v e ry
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to all th e in d u c te e s , o r g a n iz
in g g u e sts o f i n d u c t e e s a n d
ta b le sp o n s o rs , lin e n s , sta g e
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m e d ia o u tle ts a n d th e i r o w n
c o n ta c t l i s t s . ” *
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tr ie d to p o s itio n t h e H a ll o f
F a m e b a n q u e t as a n a lu m n i
r e u n io n as w e ll, to e n c o u r
age a lu m n i t o s u p p o r t th e
in d u c te e s b u t also g iv e th e m
a n o p p o r tu n ity to re c o n
n e c t w ith f o rm e r te a m m a te s ,
c o a c h e s a n d f r ie n d s . F o r
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in d u c te e s s o m e w h o are th e re
j u s t to r e c o n n e c t w ith c o a c h
es, te a m m a te s a n d f rie n d s
fro m C C C a th le tic s .”
C la c k a m a s c h o o s e s j u s t
five in d u c te e s i n o r d e r t o k e e p
th e e v e n t s h o r t a n d in te r e s t
in g . “W e w a n te d t o m a k e it
a fu n e v e n t,” s a id A s s is ta n t
The 1 9 9 F 1 9 9 2 track team, seen posing here, w ill be inducted
into the Clackamas H a ll o f Fame this year on June 9.
M e n ’s B a sk e tb a ll C o a c h P a u l
F is k u m , w h o c o a c h e d s o ft-
b a ll a t C la c k a m a s f o r m a n y
y e a rs, in c lu d in g o n e o f th e
2012
in d u c t e e s , D a n i e l l e
(F itz g e ra ld ) J o s e tti.
A n e v e n t s u c h as th e H a ll
o f F a m e b a n q u e t sp e a k s
s tr o n g ly to th e y ears o r s u c
ce ss f o r C la c k a m a s a t h
le tic s. T h e in d u c te e s th is
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m e n ’s a n d w o m e n ’s c ro ss
c o u n tr y a n d tra c k a n d
fie ld te a m s , J im R o b e rts ,
J o s e t t i , L in d s a y S c h ie ly ,
M ik e H o d g e s a n d M ic h a e l
K u eb ler.