PR IN T: Sports
Wednesday,Oct.31,2012
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Bigfoot finds solace in soccer,
wows local team and coach
Kelli Luke
The Clackamas Print
For thousands o f years, the
Pácific'NorthWest has been the
home of stories about giant
like creatures?roaming our lush
forests. Although these myths
haveheen around since humans
first settled in the region, the
first known written record
ing of these creatures was by
Leif Erikson in 986 A.D. He
described the creature he saw
as “horribly ugly, hairy, swar
thy and with big black eyes/’
The term “Bigfoot” came
into play in 1958 and has
passed the test of time. To this
day, Bigfoot sightings are a
day-to-day thing for the people
of the Pacific Northwest, but
surprisingly for the student and
stafTof Clackamas Community
College, these sightings are
about to ¡ get tremendously
more frequent.
Standing over 8-feet-tall
and weighing oyer 300 pounds,
Sasquatcha, or Sas as she pre
fers to be called, has decided
to come ouf of hiding once and
for all. After living in Mary
S. Young State Park in West
Linn for 19 years with her
family, who requested to. stay
anonymous, Sas made her first
public appearance at West Linn
High School last Monday to
announce her existence. .
Her unnatural size, man
nish, hairy exterior and s ià é l l
feet were startling to stùdents,
to say the least.
“We kept waiting for some
one to jump out and téli us
it was a joke,” said student
Timothy. Jones. “It was com
pletely unbelievable.” gE
So why now? After thou
sands of years of her species
hiding from humanity, why did
Sas choose to give up on all
their hard work by .revealing
herself to the public? When
asked this, Sas took no time at
all to reply.
“It was for the love of my
life: soccer,” said Sas.
After being.referred to CCC
by a WLHS faculty member,
Sas contacted CCC’s Athletic
Department and set up an
appointment to meet with the
head coach o f the women’s
soccer team.
“I told her about how I had
spent my life watching kids
play soccer from a distance,
but never got the chance to be
on a team, because Of what I
àm,” said Sas. “Stealing balls
that had been kicked into the
bushes and practicing with my
siblings just became too little.
1 needed to play for real.”
O f course, "Clackamas
accepted Sasquatcha,with open
arm's. Her touching story Was
one thing, but what really won
over the coaches was her tal
ent. The coaches and play-
The biggest toes to touch a soccer ball on Oregon City soil, Sas shows fancy footwork at .OC High School Jackson
Campus field where she has consistently wowedfans since she joined the team.
ers were speechless when she
practiced with them for the
first time.
“You wouldn’t expect some
one o f her size to be as talented
as she is;” said CCC* soccer
fan, Austin Davies. “But with-,
out a doubt, that girl knows
how to play.” H
Sas says that she. learned
everything from watching oth
ers, and perfected it simply by
having a lot of free time to do
so,
“When your life is noth
ing but a myth tb bthers, you
have to, find something to keep
you going. For me’;'soccer was
that thing, and continues to
b e /’ Sasquatcha hopes that her
coming put will help mythical
creatures take the leap out of
the shadows once and'for all.
Her dream is to someday
createI' a mythigaf-r'fcfeature
Olympics fo r. all of her kind
and others to compete in the
sports they love without being
judged, for their differences.
In the me'antimp, Sas plans to
continue, to play for CCC and
not only improve her ..soccer
skills,, but- study,*anything -thai
might help her achieve! her
ultimate life goal. I1
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