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PAGE A10, KEIZERTIMES, JUNE 3, 2016 KEIZERTIMES.COM 22,450th! Submitted McNary senior Kyle Bonn recently committed to playing with the Willamette Bearcat football team. MHS lineman signs with Willamette By DEREK WILEY Of the Keizertimes Standing at 6-4, 220 pounds, football coaches have always been excited to see Mc- Nary High School senior Kyle Bonn walk on to the fi eld. But the feeling wasn’t al- ways mutual. Bonn used to hate football and if not for his mother, he would have quit a long time ago. “It defi nitely hasn’t been easy for me,” Bonn said. “When I fi rst started doing football, I cried nearly every practice. My mom told me if I wasn’t going to do this, I’d have to do some other exer- cising. I kept on with it and it became something that grew on me. I started to love it and meant a lot.” Bonn, who later chose to wrestle and play lacrosse as well as football “because you get to hit people,” will get to continue the game he grew to love. The two-year starter on the offensive line recently com- mitted to Willamette Univer- sity in Salem. “I’m just really excited to have the opportunity,” Bonn said. “It’s something I’ve ac- tually looked forward to for a long time. I couldn’t imagine going without football.” Bonn began playing foot- ball in the fourth grade at the Boys and Girls Club in Keizer but said he didn’t start to peak until middle school when he got in better physical shape. Due to his size, Bonn al- ways played on the line, except for the one time a coach gave him the ball for an extra point. Bonn likes the family-feel of the offensive line. “The feeling you get when you have a successful play, you feel like you just did it with your family,” Bonn said. Please see BONN, Page A11 Submitted by Tricia Aloisi Keizer resident Jerry Nuttbrock at the starting line of the Boston Marathon in April. last May which is a BQ — a Boston (marathon) By LYNDON A. ZAITZ qualifi er. He needed to run that 26.2 mile race Of the Keizertimes When is it an occasion for celebration com- in no more than 3 hours and 55 minutes. He ing in 22,450th place? When you’ve run your came in nine minutes ahead of the cutoff. As the oldest continuous races in the world, Boston Marathon. Keizer resident Jerry Nutttbrock, 62, was the Boston Marathon is one of the six most one of 30,000 people to qualify for the 2016 prestigious races on the globe. Tens of thou- marathon, and one of about 20 from the mid- sands of runners from around the world train Willamette Valley area who were accepted to to qualify. In the end, the number of Boston Marathoners is limited to 30,000, divided by run this year. A runner during his middle and high school age groups. With an acceptance letter, and $155 days, in his early 20s, Nuttbrock’s knees start- in-hand, Nuttbrock went to Boston with his running partner Tricia Aloisi. ing going out. He didn’t run She doesn’t run marathons. Yet. for many years. He started again The world’s elite runners in his early 40s and new shoes generally start the marathon made all the difference; a visit run fi rst (the world marathon to a Portland shoe company record is a little over two hours), resulted in the appropriate run- then ‘waves’ of runners, num- ning shoe and he has not had bering about 7,500 each, took knee problems since. off in intervals. He said he runs because it’s What was on his mind when cleansing. — Jerry Nuttbrock he was at the starting line? “The best things about run- “I was thinking ‘I hope my ning is that it is exercise, it clears my brain. It’s kind of medicinal,” he said. “I love watch works’. And ‘It’s hot,’” Nuttbrock re- to run because it doesn’t feel like work. I’m not called. He also asked himself if his shoes felt right. “I don’t get all hyped up, I don’t get ner- much of a gym rat.” He may not be a gym rat but he does have vous.” On a larger scale, while in place and ready a training system that strengthens his core— where the running comes from. He said that to take off he thought, “I’m glad I’m here; so training for races, such as marathons, calls for a much training and time went into it.” lifestyle change. His diet and nutrition changed To an amateur, the idea of running more and he includes yoga in his workout routine. than 26 miles seems an impossible task, but His training pays off — in the past year, he Nuttbrock says that proper training gets a run- ran 26 races ranging from 5Ks to marathons. ner’s body to a state where it won’t betray them One of those races was the Eugene Marathon Please see BOSTON, Page A11 “I love to run because it doesn’t feel like work.” KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald Lady Celt Reina Strand committed to playing basketball at North Dakota’s Minot State Univer- sity last month. Strand to Minot Beavers By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes When Derek Handley was head coach of another Greater Valley Conference girls basket- ball program, he dreaded going head-to-head with McNary High School. “They had this 6-foot-2, sophomore post with skills that I knew would cause us trouble,” said Handley, who is now head coach of the Celtics. The post in question was Reina Strand, who signed a letter of intent to play with the Minot State University Beavers at a ceremony Mon- day, May 23. MSU is a Division II school based in Minot, N.D. “I really liked the coach and got along with the girls in the program, and they have an ath- letic training program, which is what I want to study,” said Strand. Strand’s path to playing college ball wasn’t as simple as some others. Most college-bound players are recruited in their junior years, but Strand was stuck riding the bench as a junior, the result of a “devastating” knee injury. However, rather than sit out entirely, Strand found ways to stay involved. She had perfect attendance at practices and games when she wasn’t at physical therapy appointments and even started coaching the younger girls in the program. “Her work ethic is unmatched,” Handley said. “And staying involved helped her learn the game from another point of view.” While it spoke volumes about her character, Strand was still in the lurch when it came to options for college as a senior. Then, too, she took matters into her own hands. Please see STRAND, Page A11 Booster auction Saturday The McNary High School Athletic Booster Club (ABC) will host its annual dinner/ auction Saturday, June 4, at the Log House Garden at Willow Lake, 5655 Windsor Island Road N., in Keizer. Tickets are $35 per per- son, $360 for a reserved table for eight or $500 for a spon- sored table. Tickets can be purchased at mcnaryabc.com and include dinner and a bid- der paddle for silent and oral auctions. The event begins with a social hour at 4:30 p.m. This summer, the ABC is helping to cover the cost of a gym renovation. The project includes repainting all three levels of the gymnasium and refi nishing the main gym’s fl oor to include a McNary “M” logo. The fi nal cost of the proj- ect is expected to be some- where between $25,000 and $32,000, and is set to begin in June. McNary’s ABC is kicking in $20,000 toward the overall cost of the reno- vation. The dinner and auc- tion, which is celebrating the golden anniversary of Mc- Nary athletics, will include a “raise-the-paddle” session to fundraise specifi cally for the gym project. Other highlights this year are “Golden Tickets” that will be sold only at the auc- tion. Fifty tickets will be sold for $50 each and the winner will get to choose any of the oral auction packages to take home before it goes on the block.
