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Celt speedster posts
top time in hurdles
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
McNary High School se-
nior Dani Duran is known as
a sprinter on the varsity track
and fi eld team, but she added
to her repertoire in a big way
last week.
Duran ran in the 300-me-
ter hurdles for the fi rst time in
her high school career during
the West Salem High School
meet at McNary Wednesday,
April 13, and recorded the
fourth best time in the state,
46.75 seconds. Then, three
days later at the Wilsonville
Invitational, Duran posted a
time of 45.80 and moved up
the state rankings to third.
“It was kind of an amaz-
ing thing,” said Frank Gauntz,
McNary head track and fi eld
coach. “She had been want-
ing to run it and the coaches
decided to give her a shot and
here she is at the top of the
state times.”
Duran’s time is just slightly
behind the state leader De-
shae Wise, of Grants Pass
High School, with a best of
45.11.
While the Celtics didn’t
fare as well as Duran teamwise
in the Titan meet, Gauntz said
he isn’t as concerned with the
individual meet wins as get-
ting the largest contingent
possible to advance to the
state meet next month.
“Right now we’re focused
on getting them running fast-
er and jumping higher, but
we had some good perfor-
mances by Brendan Van Voo-
rhis in the sprints and Cam-
brian Partridge in the discus
with a new personal record,”
Gauntz said.
Partridge won the discus
for McNary with a throw of
98-10, just 14 inches shy of
her goal of breaking the 100-
foot mark this season.
“During the off season, I
did a lot of work in the weight
room and then had some per-
sonal coaching on the tech-
nique and small things every
week,” said Partridge, a junior.
Fellow throwers Hayden
Sader and Jason Sperle, took
second and third, respectively,
in the shot put for the boys.
“For how early it is in the
season, we’re getting a lot of
personal records even if we’re
not real high in the rankings,”
Sader said.
Sperle credited a new
coach with helping keep
the squad focused in recent
weeks.
“The new coach has made
it a lot of fun and we have
good core groups in each
event so we’re seeing a lot of
growth,” Sperle said.
Other event winners for
the girls in the West Salem
meet were: Brooke Bur-
rows in the 800 meter in
2:35.93; Kailey Doutt in the
1,500 meter in 5:19.48; Al-
exa Strand in the 3,000 me-
ter 13:11.68; and River Harri
in the 100 meter hurdles in
18.48.
For the boys, event win-
ners were: Van Voorhis in the
100 meter in 11.24 and Aus-
tin Brown, Anthony Nguyen,
Levi Timmons and Van Voo-
rhis in the 4x400 relay in
3:35.18.
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Celt Dani Duran runs in an early heat of the 100 meter during the West Salem meet Wednesday,
April 13. Duran recorded one of the top times in the state in the 300 meter hurdles after running
it for the fi rst time in competition.
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RIGHT:
McNary senior
Vanessa Hayes
tips a ball
over the net in
competition
with the Lady
Celt varsity
volleyball
team last fall.
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Eric A. Howald
Boys golf takes 3rd in home tourney
B
The McNary High School boys var-
sity golf team took third in its home
tournament at McNary Golf Club
Monday, April 18.
The Celtics had a tall order to fi ll
with the absence of regular Riley Han-
cock due to injury. The Keizer team
fi nished with a team score of 331, be-
hind West Albany (314) and West Salem
C
Celt netter earns full
ride to U of Alaska
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
As a junior, Vanessa Hayes
(327) high schools.
was a standout on the Mc-
Brady Sparks shot a 90 for the day, Nary High School varsity
Adam Raschko shot an 82, Teegan volleyball team, but it was
Papke shot an 83, Casey Potmesil shot a nothing compared to how
76 and Matt Langenwalter, fi lling in for she showed up as a senior.
Hancock, shot a 100.
In the off-season, and with
The Celts record for league tour- the help of coaches in the
naments this season is 2-2 for the year North Pacifi c Juniors Volley-
thus far.
ball Club, Hayes developed a
kill shot that sounded like a
E cannon fi ring and began tat-
tooing opponents across the
net from the Lady Celts.
D
“Club was a huge part of
all of it,” said Hayes. “With
high school teams, it’s kind of
anybody at the school who
wants to play, but the compe-
tition level is so much higher
and the coaches can give you
a lot more specifi c training.”
On Wednesday, April 13,
Hayes became the fi rst Celt
volleyball player to commit
to continuing her career in
the sport at the college level
in a handful of years – many
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of her teammates are also
A: Teegan Papke lines up a putt.
B: Casey Potmesil puts one on the making the leap but in other
green. C: Amar Sidhu, Jordan Ep- sports. She’s picked Univer-
ping and Matt Levis of the junior sity of Alaska Anchorage.
varsity team wait for their turn on
“When my coach fi rst
the links. D and E: Adam Raschko told me the assistant wanted
and Brady Sparks tee off.
to meet me, I kind of blew it
off because Alaska was so far
beyond where I was looking
to go,” Hayes said.
Still, Hayes heard him out
and the pair discovered con-
nections over faith and then
Hayes started listening a bit
more intensely.
“He was showcasing the
school for me and it sound-
ed really good so I had him
meet with my mom and she
got excited about it,” Hayes
said.
The more she asked
around, the more good things
she heard. After a visit to the
school earlier this year, she
was offered a full-ride schol-
arship and the rest, as they say,
is history.
The Seawolf women’s
volleyball team won their
conference last season and
fi nished second in the re-
gion.Hayes said the coach is
expecting her to start for the
team as a freshman.
“He has high expectations
for me, but he expects me to
come out and do it because
I’m motivated that way,”
Hayes said.
Hayes is planning on ma-
joring in psychology at UAA
with the eventual goal of be-
coming a pediatrician.