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STORY AND PHOTOS BY JACOB THOMPSON
SPORTS EDITOR
MEN’S AND WOMEN’S TEAMS PLACE THIRD AT NWAC FINALE
A fter com peting in
13 meets, Clackamas
Community College’s
tr a c k a n d fie ld
p ro g ra m ’s seaso n
concluded w ith the
N orthw est A thletic
Conference Track and
¿Field Championship
on May 21 and 22,
The Cougars
h ad en jo y ed -
a su ccessfu l
se a so n w ith
many of their
a th le te s
n a tio n a lly
ranked, like
freshm an J .J.
Walker, who’s
6145 p o in ts
j in th e NWAC
m u lti-e v e n t
I C ham pionship
/w o u ld
have
F fin ish e d th ird
in th e Decathlon
a t ^the PAC-12
C h a m p io n s h ip .
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So p h o m o r e
Lydia Pavlenko
anked No. 11 in the
nation in High Jump with a distance of 1.67 meters,
and No. 14 in the nation with a Triple jump of 11.83m
at WAR XI. Alyssa Smith was also nationally ranked
in the Pole Vault with a height of 3.45m, ranking No.
8 in the country.
With all the success through the season, Clackamas
had high hopes coming into the final meet and those
high hopes were m et with results. Going into the
second day of the NWAC Championships, the Cougars
men’s team was in second place and making a push for
first place, and the women’s team.was in third-place.
“We went back and looked at oUr predictions [the
m eet], and we ’ re up a little bit from were we thought
we’d be for both the m en’s and women’s team s.”
Head Coach Keoni McHone said the mornwg of the
second day.
Pavlenko was lighting it up in the jumping events;
Pavlenko took third place in the High Jump w ith a
jump of 1.60m, first in Long Jump {5.53m,) and first
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in Triple Jump w ith an 11.99m jump that broke the way tie for second place in the High Jump (1.9pm,)
fifth place in the Pole Vault (4,05m,) and fifth in
CCC record and tied a NWAC record set in 1986.
“I have been focusing on speed work all season long the Javalin (49.62m.) Walker took first place in the
because last year I w asn’t as fast, so speed coming Decathlon and helped the 4x400m team take third
down the runway was the main thing I was working place (3:23.33.)
“I smashed my [personal record] in High Jump,
on all year long,” Pavlenko said.
Last year Pavlenko m issed firs t place in the I’ve kind of finished fifth all around,” Walker said.
Triple Jump and said she felt really good about her “It’s good points for the team so I’m happy with my
performance.”
performance as a whole.
C arter did more th a n ju st ru n in th e NWAC
Freshman Essence Foster had an outstadirig meet,
finishing first in the 400m hurdles (1:01.59,) second Championships meet, after finishing third with,the
in the 400m Dash (57.63,) and ran in both the 4x100 4x100m and 4x400m relay teams, Carter leaped into
relay and 4x400 relay which Clackamas took third third place in the Long Jump (6.93m.)
Devin Meade took third in theTïiple Jump (14.15 m)
in both.
;
.. Foster’s performance in the 400m hurdles broke and in the throwing, Nick Mckenzie hurled a hammer
a CCC record held by Lisa O’Dea, who set the record 47.79m to take second in the Hammer Toss.
“We are very happy about how the team competed.
in 1978.
We
finished a few points ahead of what we predicted
On th e m e n ’s side of com petition, freshm an
Anthony Albright took first place in the 100m dash on both sides,” McHone stated in an email.
The Cougars finished th e season w ith six All-
with a time of 10.61. Freshman Jordan Gloden was
in a photo finish race where he missed a first place American athletes on the m en’s side with Gloden,
finish by .01. Finishing with a time of 15.03, Gloden Walker, Carter, Meade, Mckenzie and freshman Sam
Cole all reçieving honors. The wom en’s team had
finished second.
The success in tunning continued for the m en’s three All-Americans with Foster, Smith and Pavlenko.
Although both m en’s ànd w om en’s team s had
team w ith sophomore Devin Sellers winning the
stan
d -o u t perform ances, b o th team s finished in
3000m Steeplechase (9:49.06.) The 4x100m relay team
(sophomore Isaiah Diggs, freshm an Kwan Carter, third place. The women behind Spokane Community
sophomore Katsha Booker, and Albirght) took third College (1st place) and Lane (2nd place) and the men
(42.00) in tight race with Lane Community College behind Lane (1st place) and Spokane (2nd place.)
Both team s exceeded project placem ents at the
(41.83) and Clark College (41.93.)
Freshman J.J. Walker competed in multiple events NWAC Championships and with th a t comes a lot of
including the Decathlon. Walker finished in a four­ hope as well as pressure leading into the next season.