Super senior Fisher putts out on Taft career
By Jim Fossum, SportsLincolnCounty.
com; posted May 17, 2016
“Tyler has been one of the foundation
components to our State runs over the past
three seasons. It has been my privilege to
watch him grow into a fine young man.”
– Taft High boys golf coach Mark Swift
State golf’s final round awaits
departing star athlete
Many athletes play golf long after
their glory days in organized sports are
over. With a background in the game
and a tee time Tuesday as the Tigers’ top
player for the State boys golf champion-
ships, senior Tyler Fisher knows that day
will come …
Today, even.
Whatever his score when the Taft boys
golf team takes on Emerald Valley Golf
Club, the versatile 18-year-old star athlete
will participate in his final competition as
a Tiger after four years of prominence in
football, basketball and golf. Fisher will
compete from the No. 1 position when
the Tigers conclude play in the Class
3A/2A/1A Boys Golf State Champion-
ships in Creswell.
“He has provided leadership, friend-
ship and has proven to be a great competi-
tor, but also well-liked and respected by his
peers and opponents,” longtime Taft coach
Mark Swift said of his four-year starter and
leading player again this season.
Fisher, no doubt, will play golf often
again – recreationally, at least – but he’ll
likely never again don a helmet and pads.
“Football’s the best because I enjoy
team sports and I played it for eight years
with the same group of guys who have
turned into brothers,” the second-team
all-West Valley League defensive back
and honorable mention wide receiver said.
Born Dec. 13, 1997, in Portland,
Fisher grew up playing golf on his fam-
ily’s own golf course in Southern Oregon.
“As a youngster I enjoyed being out-
doors,” he said. “I spent most summers at
my grandparents’ golf course in Lakeview
[near Medford]. Needless to say, I spent a
lot of time playing golf as a kid.”
Fisher has two sisters – Jazmyn and
Aliyah – has a brother, Tyee, who played
quarterback for the Tigers junior varsity
last season. His parents are Monica Logan
and Jamie Fisher.
“I would say I’m a really relaxed per-
son with a good sense of humor,” he said.
“I hope others think that I’m funny and the
guy who’s always willing to help.”
Volunteering to assist in many capaci-
ties, Fisher has been a student athletic
director this year for the Tigers, where he
has served under AD Shelley Moore and
fellow senior co-directors Kelsey Wilkin-
son and Trent Daniels.
“Tyler is a go-getter,” Moore said. “He
has a charismatic personality, funny and a
strong athlete. He is open to whatever task
the student athletic directors are asked to
do and often rises to the challenge.
Courtesy photo
Graduating senior Tyler Fisher has been
all over the playing fields at Taft for the
past several years.
“He is a Tiger through and through,
and does a good job of representing his
school, family and team. He is respectful
and kind, too.”
While Fisher favored football in his
time at Taft as a member of a talented
receiving corps, his impact on Swift’s golf
program has been profound.
“Tyler has been one of the foundation
components to our State runs over the past
three seasons,” he said. “It has been my
privilege to watch him grow into a fine
young man.”
With that, Swift says he thinks Fisher
could become much better.
“He takes his golf game seriously and
can take his game to even higher levels
with some additional time and practice,”
he said. “But while being a three-sport
athlete for the Tigers and a successful
student, I understand the constraints on
his time. It is nice to know that Tyler will
be a success in whatever endeavors he
undertakes in the future.”
That future will include dual atten-
dance at Central Oregon Community
College and Oregon State University
Cascades in Bend. With an interest in
economics, he plans to study business and
sports medicine and become a stockbroker
or physical therapist.
“I like to be informed about how our
economy goes round and how businesses
and different things play into that,” he said.
A hunting and fishing enthusiast, he
said he plans to work as a valet attendant at
Chinook Winds Casino Resort this summer
and at the resort golf course at Salishan.
“And try to spend time with friends
that I might lose contact with over col-
lege,” he said.
Thankful for his sports career, Fisher
points to his grandfather, Frank Logan,
as having had the greatest influence on
his life.
“He has taught me many life lessons
and is a great example of going from rags
to riches,” he said.
Somehow, you get the feeling golf
figured into that.
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Photo above by Reggie Butler Jr.
Photo below by Sharla Robinson
Cam Bomberry (in purple), Iroquois Nationals lacrosse coach, teaches lacrosse
skills to several Siletz and community youth at Siletz Valley School on April 30. He
also shared about the place of lacrosse in Iroquois culture and his experiences as the
Iroquois Nationals coach.
