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Northwood wins all-city swim meet
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Northwood Swim Club won the all-city swim meet, which took place at Holiday in Keizer on Saturday, July 29.
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
Northwood Swim Club’s
relays made sure the Dolphins
repeated as all-city champs.
Winning seven relays,
Northwood outscored Ma-
drona 434-350 on Saturday,
July 29.
Led by its girls, Holiday
fi nished third with 274.5
points.
Northview Terrace had
217 points to place fourth.
Cambridge and Jan Ree fol-
lowed in fi fth and sixth.
Pierce Walker, Davis Ol-
sen, Jackson Alt and Zachary
Harrington had the fi rst win
for Northwood, fi nishing the
boys 11-12 medley relay in
2:06.06, more than 8 seconds
faster than any other team.
Walker, Alt, Harrington and
Carson Biondi also won the
freestyle relay in 1:51.25.
Jake Wyer, Parker Dean,
Grant Biondi and Zander
Rhoades took fi rst in the
boys 15-18 medley relay in
1:33.67 and the free relay in
1:20.10.
Northwood also won the
girls 15-18 free relay as Haley
Hughes, Grace Trammell,
Rionna Zeller and Madison
Alt fi nished in 1:38.51.
Isabella Walker, Paris Boyd,
Kennedy Buss and Eliana
Dean had the fastest time in
the girls 13-14 medley relay,
fi nishing in 1:51.48. Hudson
Hughes, Grant Schaffer, Ben
Diede and Andrew Zeller
won the boys 9-10 free relay
in 2:03.05.
Individually,
Andrew
Zeller placed fi rst in the
9-10 free in 27.20 and the
breaststroke in 40.10. Rionna
Zeller won the 15-18 breast-
stroke in 31.03.
Wyer had the fastest time
in the boys 15-18 free in
19.30. Rhoades won the 13-
14 free in 22.51. Jeffery Olsen
touched the wall fi rst in the
8-and-under free in 16.23.
Alt won the boys 11-12
butterfl y in 12.93. Boyd took
fi rst in the 13-14 girls fl y in
22.93. Molly Eisele won the
girls 9-10 fl y in 14.73.
Dean had the fastest time
in the boys 15-18 breast-
stroke, fi nishing in 25.34.
Ethan Whalen won the 13-
14 breaststroke in 26.99.
Holiday won three relays,
including the fi rst event of
the meet, as Evelyn Hales, Al-
yna Gonzalez, Maggie Gerig
and Claire Hicks fi nished the
girls 8-and-under medley re-
lay in 1:33.06.
Please see ALL-CITY, Page 12
Champions train at Kroc Center
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
Dan Dunn-coached box-
ers won two more belts at the
Ringside World Championships
on July 24-29 in Independence,
Mo.
But that’s not the number
Dunn keeps track of.
“I have 498 bachelor’s de-
grees, 18 master’s and fi ve
doctorate’s from kids that have
went through my program,”
Dunn said as of March. “That’s
what I’m most proud of. I’ve
got national champions but it’s
not about the sport. It’s about
helping people become better
people.”
Dunn’s two most decorated
Wildcat boxers, Brittany Sims,
of Salem, and Omar Murillo,
Beaverton, are amateurs and
waiting to fi nish school to turn
pro. Sims is getting her mas-
ter’s in business administration
online from the University of
Phoenix. Murillo has one se-
mester left in his bachelor’s pro-
gram from Portland State and
then plans to move to Keizer.
“He’s (Murillo) so good that
the professional fi ghters they’re
always asking for him because
they need sparring partners but
the deal I have with them is I’m
not going to turn them pro un-
til they’re done with college.”
Dunn was fi rst introduced
to boxing as a student at Wil-
lamette High School in Eu-
gene. The sport kept him out of
trouble.
“I’d probably be in jail if it
wasn’t for boxing,” Dunn said.
“I was an extremely violent kid.
I came from a broken home. It
helped me focus my temper.
Boxing coaches historically
have been the consistent sport
to help kids with temperament
issues, focus issues from what-
ever economical background
they’re from.”
After high school, Dunn
decided to join the Army after
watching First Blood in a sec-
ond-run movie theater.
“The recruiting station was
right there and I said, ‘dude, I
want to blow things up.’” Dunn
remembers. “And then they
found out I boxed.”
Dunn took part in the Ar-
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my’s World Class Athlete Pro-
gram and boxed wherever he
was stationed—Fort Bragg in
North Carolina and California.
Dunn chose a full-time mili-
tary career and guaranteed re-
tirement plan over becoming
a professional fi ghter. He spent
seven of his 25 years in the
Army as a recruiter.
“It civilized me a little bit
and gave me the chance to be
in front of people,” Dunn said.
But Dunn never planned on
coaching.
“As a boxing coach, you’re a
public speaker, you have to be
able to articulate,” Dunn said.
“I had no desire to be a public
speaker. I had no desire to be in
front of a crowd. I just wanted
to hide and go do my thing, go
hunting, go fi shing. I was a clas-
sic country kid.”
Dunn’s fi rst coaching op-
portunity came as a volunteer
at King’s Gym in Oakland after
a rib injury forced him out of
a bout.
“It (coaching) became this
really freaky thing that I was
naturally gifted at,” Dunn said.
“I didn’t have a plan. Everybody
has things that click. For me, it’s
organization, motivating, get-
ting people to see beyond what
their daily woes are.”
Dunn then spent three years
coaching Oregon State Uni-
versity students at the Corval-
lis Boxing Club. Again, he was
a volunteer.
“I’ve never been paid to
coach,” Dunn said. “I’ve always
been a volunteer. I’ve never re-
ally needed it. I’m not a money
guy. My wife and I, we’re fi ne.
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
ABOVE: Brittany Sims, with Wildcat Boxing Club head coach Dan Dunn, shows off the championship belt she won at a Golden
Gloves national tournament in Florida on July 15. BELOW: Sims works out with Dunn at the Kroc Center.
Army was the job.”
Two years ago, Dunn began
getting phone calls from Quan-
dray Roberts, a former profes-
sional boxer Dunn trained who
was friends with Kendall Reid,
director of operations at the
Kroc Center in Salem.
Dunn had moved to Keizer
in October of 2016.
After meeting with Reid,
Dunn decided to open a 501(c)
(3) nonprofi t, Wildcat Boxing,
in collaboration with the Kroc
Center. Dunn had never started
a nonprofi t before.
“I wanted to make sure that
the funding wasn’t going to get
twisted up,” Dunn said. “I want-
ed to be able to fundraise on
my own and manage my own
accounts. We’ve had around
$20,000 donated. One guy
donated $10,000 and said they’ll
be more.
Please see WILDCAT, Page 12