MAY 13,2015 • CLACKAMAS PRINT
Relay
knowledge:
howto
follow track
by Jack Spencer
CCC runner Ericka Pengelly hands off the baton to teammate Hannah Waite during the Southern Region Championships on May 9.
Scoreboards are an in d i
cator to both spectator and
participant of w ho’s winning.
Some sports use th e score-
board more than others. Bas
ketball, for instance, is a sport
in which the players need to
be able to see it during the
game. The scoreboard shows
the score, how much tim e is
left in a game, and in some
cases even statistics th at may
only be interesting to a select
few. Now we come across the
curious case of track and field.
M ost venues th a t hold
events for track and field are
fit w ith a scoreboard. Only
th ing is, there is no way to
display track and field events
on that scoreboard. W ith the
countless num ber of events
th a t are p a rticip a te d in at
these com petitions and the
way in which they are scored,
the JumboTron at Jerry World
would have trouble showing
you who is winning.
How exactly are you sup
posed to figure out the score?
Well there’s a couple o f d if
ferent ways. First off, the an
nouncer. Now you’re probably
thinking this is amazing, some
guy over the P.A. telling you
the results o f the event you
just watched; wrong. Most an
nouncers have a select number
of players th a t they are sup
posed to memorize; there are
hundreds of participants so it
takes some tim e for them to
figure out who just ran. Also
it takes more time to actually
get the results to the booth so
th at they can be announced.
By then the next event is under
way and lots of people have
a very confused look upon
th eir face. All except fo r the
athletes, w ho are clearly ac
climated to the process.
“They do a really good job
around here,” said Clackamas
Community College track and
field thrower Courtney Pardee.
There definitely is a* large
w ork crew making sure th a t
everything is running very
smoothly, so it must just be the
difficulties of revealing results
to the crowd. All the athletes
seemed to have their routine,
usually getting a fair amount of
downtim e in between events
to rest and check their results,
which leads me to the second
way they are displayed, on the
wall.
After each event, the NWAC
w ould run around to gather
accurate tim es or distances
and hustle to get them post
ed on th e walls around the
stadium. This would seem like
a tool meant for the partici
pants so they can see what just
happened; it’s probably pret
ty hard to count when you’re
running th a t quickly. Also,
the walls that had the scores
displayed were surrounded
by athletes checking their re
sults. Some athletes prefer to
wait until the event is finished
to check the results.
“I like to always be looking
around the track and seeing
what my team’s doing and if
I can cheer them on in any
way, but ultim ate goal is to
focus on w hat I’m doing and
concentrate to do the best
th a t, can," said CCC track and
field decathlon com p etito r
Zack Supple.
Trying to in te rp re t these
results was a little d ifficult
because there was a lot of
unfam iliar language to me.
Language like heat, fly and
P.R. (personal record) were
all terms that were displayed
and also throw n around in
conversation by the athletes.
“People ask me that all the
time, like w hat’s a P.R.,” said
CCC track and field throw er
Rachel Mckinnis.
The language was a little
d ifficult to understand, b ut
thanks to the athletes it was
fairly easy to pick up. As far as
reading the scores go, might
be better just to leave that for
them to interpret.
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