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WEDNESDAY. MAY 7; 2014 A day in the life of an athlete by PATTY SALAZAR editor-in-chief A m iniature w orld hides at Clackamas Community College, and m ost stu d en ts hardly notice i t In Randall Hall you g et a whiff of i t th a t lingering smell o f dirty locker rooms. You can see the walls lined u p w ith tro p h ies from p a st seasons; you can h e ar th e shoes squeaking on d ie basket ball court from players practicing for th eir next game. They are th e athletes of CCC. One o f th é athletes is Celeste Ventura, a freshm an an d a high jum per for th e track an d field team. Ventura, originalty from Silverton, is a full-time stu d en t and has a part-tim e job. The Clackamas P rin t w anted to know how a typical athlete juggles h e r responsibilities. T h e C lackam as P rin t: Walk m e through your average day. V e n tu ra : Mondays and W ednesdays are m y b u siest days; I w ake up a t 8:30 a.m., get ready, get m y backpack for practice ready an d everything else for class. 1 have class a t 10... so I sit through math. Then a t 12, I have a psychology class. After m y psychology class it's m y track practice until 4. We do o u r w o rk -. outs and lift after o u r workouts. Usually people go hom e b u t 1 have class. It’s an ASL (American Sign Language) class after my practice. Then I go hom e an d m a k e , m yself djn n er because I haven't eaten all day basically, I sta rt som e hom ew ork from m y classes o r a t least s ta rt it and th en go to w orking right now, a full tim e stu d en t an d an athlete so it's p retty busy. TCP: How do you stay on top o f it all? V e n tu ra : I g et a lo t o f help from m y parents, especiallym y mom. She helps m e a lo t w ith m y scheduling an d tim e m anage m e n t because I h ad a big p ro b lem w ith th a t in high sch o o l I u s e d to procrastinate a lo t... For w ork I g e t scheduled aro u n d m y school an d track so they know w h at's going on. They know th a t I am a n athlete an d th ey are m ore th a n willing to h elp me. W ith school I have classes back to back so w henever I have th e tim e I always do som e hom ew ork. TCP: H ow do you stay fueled? V e n tu ra : You have to be realty nutritional if you w a n t to a t least m aintain healthy diets. Being a student, everything i s . expensive since you are paying for school an d rent, so I ’m realty tight o n money. It sucks going to go buy groceries because all of tiie healthy food is expensive, b u t you m ake do. I do an all carb diet th en I ju st w o rk it off during m y practices. TCP: W h at is your personal record? V e n tu ra : 4 ' 10" th a t's w h a t I got as a senior in high school. I f s close to getting to 5 feet b u t no t quite th e re y e t TCP: W hat is y o u r record as a Cougar? bed at 11 o’dock. J'm part-time ,, FEARLESS FAST TRACK V e n tu ra : Because o f m y injuries it has s e t m e back in m y h e ig h t My record right now is 4 ' 5" w hich is really bad. I’ve b een w orking oh it in practice and I can get to 4 ' 10". TCP: How did you get injured? V e n tu ra : 1 used to have a shin splint in m y left leg and th a t cam e b ack because o u r track isn’t very good. It's definitety injury prone; it's realty to m up. Because of h ow to m up th e track is, m y shin splint cam e back an d th a t p u t m e out. 1 had to build up m y muscle so n ow I'm injury free b u t it's always on th e back of m y mind. ’Hie dow nside of doing track is getting hurt; n o t being able to do som ething you realty w a n t to do and w atching everyone else d o it p uts you in a dow n mood. TCP: W hat are you studying? V e n tu ra : I'm getting m y asso ciates an d then transferring over b u t I’m n o t going to a four y ear college. I'm going to M t Hood com m unity college. T hat’s w here they have th e ir physical therapy a ssistant program . It's one o f the tw o b e st program s in Oregon. i Weekend sporls w rap up TRACK and F IE L D : Clackamas represented well at the Pacific Twilight m eet over the weekend, m e re were 40 events over Friday and Saturday - 20 men’s and 20 womens - at Pacific U niversity and Clackamas finished in the top three o f 12 different events. Jordyn Searle took 1st in the w omens 100-meter dash, w om en’s long jump, women’s triple jum p and ran on the women’s 4x100 m eter relay - w ith Em ma Hill, D’N ara Jones and Tiffany Richeson - that finished 2nd. Richeson took 1st in the women’s pole vault, Jones took 3rd in the women’s long jum p and 2nd in the women’s triple jum p, and Hill finished 3rd in the women’s triple jump. The m en faired ju st as well. Daniel Fauss and Chase Davis finished 1st and 2nd in the men’s pole vault, respectively. Dillon H oecker had a strong weekend, taking 1st in both the men’s 110-meter hurdles and the men’s 400-meter hurdles. Seth Buck also placed in the men’s 400-meter hurdles, tak ing 3rd. Justin Cornejo, Zach, Rial, Jake Cleverley and Thomas Sutherland ran the 4x100 m eter relay and took 1 st Cody Britt and Justin Sleutel, along- with Cleverley and Cornej o, ran the , 4x400 m eter relay and placed 3rd. Sutherland got another 1st place; finish in the men’s 100- m eterdash. It was a busy day for Rial, who also participated in the men’s 100-and 200-meter dash, finishing 3rd an d 2nd. U p next for the track and field teams is the Southern Region Cham pionships at M t H ood this Saturday, May 10. SOFTBALL: A fter d ro p ping out o f the 1st place tie w ith Mt. H ood last week, the Clackamas Cougars rebounded w ith a sweep o f Southwestern Oregon CC on Saturday at home. The first game was tight, and the Cougars squeaked out a 4-2 decision. The second game was n o t nearly as exciting as the firs t four Cougars hit hom eruns as Clackamas routed S W O C C 12-2. There’s only one weekend o f action left for the Cougars before the NWAACC Cham pionship Tournam ent - a doubleheader against Mf. H ood in Gresham on Friday, M ay 9. BA SE B A LL: Last week, the Clackamas Cougars ended their 14-game losing streak and were looking to keep things rolling against C hem eketa at hom e Friday. B ut C hem eketa h ad different plans, w inning both games o f the doubleheader 14-5 and 13-6. The Cougars had to quickly bounce back with anoth er game less than 24 hours later. The team answered by splitting - nearly sweeping - their series w ith Southwestern Oregon CG on, Saturday. Game One w ent to thè final inning, but the Cougars were unable to score and lost 8-7. Game two was a defensive battle; the Cougars only managed two runs but shutout SWOCC to hold on for a 2-0 win. W ith the season w inding down, it looks like the Cougars only have a few games left: Friday, May 9 at Lane CC and Saturday, May 10 at Mt. Hood. S
