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MEET CCC’S HEPTATHALON CHAMPION AND WOMEN’S
TRACK ATHLETE OF THE YEAR, CHELSEA BONE
BY TRAVIS DAVID V WHITTAKER
Clackam as Com m unity College’s track just discuss how many points you score at
and field athlete Chelsea Bone alm ost NWACs. You can earn 10 points per term
walked away frorri the sport she now loves and you have to be at 30 points to be at a
full-tim e scholarship level,
as a college sophomore.
TCP: W hat interested you in com ing
Her w ork e th ic and dedication to
to Clackamas?
excellence has. landed her a fu ll-tim e
CB: Keoni (McHone, head coach) came
scholarship, and at CCC for the 2016-2017
school year, also to a four-year school she out to watcli me at a meet in high school.
I w as thin kin g about going to a fo ur-
plans on attending in the fall,
j Bone also w on the 2017 N orthw est year school just because I was thinking
Athletic Conference multi-event women’s about the four-year experience and not
-doing track. W hen I heard about the
Heptathlon.
opportunity to do track here, I jumped
The Clackamas Print: How long have
you been participating intrack and field? on that.
TCP: Do you do any training on your
Chelsea Bone: Since seventh grade.
TCP: W hat got you involved in track own or have a strict daily routine that
you follow throughout your day?
and field?
CB: It’ s p retty strict in the w inter
CB: It w as m ore o f a social thing.
and spring because w e have practice
Everyone did track and field in middle
school and then 1 kind of stayed with it Monday through Friday and then meets
up until now. I didn’t want to do track my on Saturdays. I try to be up by 8:30 a.m.
sophomore year [of high school] because I so I can be at my 10 a.m. class. I’ll make
was kind of struggling with if I wanted to a smoothie every morning that consists
be a sprinter or finding things that I was of spinach, protein and berries and stuff
good at. My dad pushed me not quit and I like that. Friday m ornings I w ill sleep
kept doing it through my sophomore year in because I don’t have class. I try to be
w hen I started to throw javelin and it’s asleep in bed by 110’ clock so I can get my
when I found something that I was good at. eight to nine hours of sleep.
TCP: Being a h ig h -le v e l ath lete, do
TCP: W hat influence do your fam ily
members have that keep you going w ith you try to eat good foods?
CB: I don’ t eat fast food and if I do it’ s
a passion to keep gettin g better?
CB: My parents are the supporters. They on rare occasions. Every couple of weeks
know I love track and they know how I will go out and eat to a restaurant. I try
hard I work to do it: My mom w ill make to avoid the sweets. Mostly, I try to eat
me lunches for each meet. What drives the lean meats, lots Of veggies and lots
me is wanting to get better every day and of vitamins.
TCP: W h a t a re y o u r p la n s fo r
strive to be on a scholarship.
TCP: Last season you were on a half tra n sfe rrin g to an o th er co llege a fte r
scholarship for track and field and now this year?
CB: l am com m itted to Concordia
you are on a full-tim e scholarship. What
are som e o f the requirem ents to reach U n iversity w here I w ill be studying
business m arketing and I w ill be on a
that level?
CB: As a freshman, you have to meet scholarship participatihgintrack there.
a certain requirement. You have to run
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a specific tim e or you have to throw
and space.
a specific distance or jum p a certain
distance or height. Sophomore year, you
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Chelsea Bone runs the 400-meter hurdles at NWAC on May 23 at Mt. Community
College.