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GVC Player of the
Year commits to
Seattle Pacifi c
Submitted
Above: The McNary High School volleyball team is holding open gyms this month to prepare for the fall season under new head
coach Bruce Myers, below.
A new era
Championship coach takes
over MHS volleyball program
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
Bruce Myers, the new
head coach of the McNary
volleyball team, is excited to
wear blue.
Myers grew up in Eugene,
six blocks from the Univer-
sity of Oregon campus, but
for the past 21 years—19 at
Roseburg, followed by two
at Sprague, he had to suit up
in orange and black—Beaver
colors.
But the new color scheme
isn’t all that attracted Myers
to MHS.
“It’s a 6A school and they
have good tradition and I re-
ally like the philosophy of the
school,” Myers said. “Keizer
is their own community and
you really feel the commu-
nity support and the kids be-
lieving in the community.”
After graduating from
Southern Oregon Univer-
sity in 1978, Myers taught
at Douglas High School in
Winston for 31 years and was
the head volleyball coach for
eight years.
Myers’ teams fi nished in
the top 8 in the state three
times, including fi fth in 1984.
Taking over at Roseburg
in 1994, Myers then won
nine conference champion-
ships and placed in the top
8 in the state nine times, in-
cluding state runner-up his
fi nal season in 2012.
He was named National
Federation of High Schools
State Coach of the Year in
2009 and 2012.
“McNary High School
is excited to have a quality
coach for our volleyball pro-
gram,” Athletic Director Ron
Richards said. “Coach Myers
has a wealth of experience,
experience in big games on a
big stage. McNary has a tradi-
tion of strong volleyball and
coach Myers can help us to
maintain that tradition and
keep it growing.”
Myers moved to Salem
two years ago to be closer to
his three grandchildren.
His son Travis is the new
head boys basketball coach at
West Salem.
Myers said the key to his
coaching success is talent.
“Pure and simple,” he said.
“I had extremely talented kids
that were highly competitive.”
Myers will bring knowl-
edge, experience and, most
importantly, a love for the
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
The son of a former college
basketball player, Harry Cavell,
had a ball in his hands since he
was old enough to walk.
And now the McNary se-
nior has decided to follow in
his father’s footsteps by com-
mitting to Seattle Pacifi c Uni-
versity.
“It’s always been a goal,”
Cavell said. “Obviously when
you’re little, you want to play
in the NBA. But I always
wanted to play college bas-
ketball since I was little and I
made it my goal once I got se-
rious about playing basketball
that I would play college and
it ended up working out.”
Cavell visited Whitman
College, George Fox and even
had a couple of open gym ses-
sions at the University of Or-
egon, where he had the op-
portunity to walk-on, before
sending the new head coach
at Seattle Pacifi c, Grant Leep,
an email about a month ago.
Cavell’s sister, Madi, played
volleyball at Seattle Pacifi c and
still lives in the area.
“She loved it. She had a
good experience,” Cavell said.
“I didn’t think I had a seri-
ous opportunity to play right
away [at UO]. I wasn’t the
most excited about that but
that would have been a cool
opportunity, too.”
Cavell visited the Seattle
Pacifi c campus and commit-
ted to the Falcons less than a
week later.
Please see CAVELL, Page 9
MHS kicks off
spring football
game to McNary.
“The girls will learn that I
just absolutely love the game
and I love coaching and I love
being around the kids,” My-
ers said. “I want to see them
grow and become better vol-
leyball players, better students,
better citizens.”
His style of volleyball de-
pends on the roster. Myers has
won with tall and short girls.
“I had teams where I didn’t
have a player under 6-feet in
the front row and then there’s
teams like my 1984 team at
Douglas, our tallest player was
5-7 and we fi nished fi fth in
the state,” Myers said. “You
adjust to what you have.”
While at Roseburg, My-
ers noted he coached against
McNary in the 2001 state
playoffs and he coached on
an all-star team with former
Lady Celts coach Dan Bor-
resen.
To prepare for the fall
season, McNary began hav-
ing open gyms last week and
will scrimmage Greater Valley
Conference rival South Sa-
lem Monday.
The Lady Celts will also
scrimmage Sprague and Dal-
las later this month.
By TIM HAYS
Of the Keizertimes
On Monday, May 30 the
McNary High School foot-
ball program hit the fi eld for
the fi rst time this spring. It
was an exciting fi ve-day camp
of mostly fundamentals, and
it provided a basis for where
second-year Head Coach Jeff
Auvinen wants to begin.
“These kids are fi red up,
and they are excited,” Auvin-
en said. “We’re trying to put in
some new things offensively,
and some new things defen-
sively. Obviously with a young
football team you want to
work on some fundamentals.”
And a young team they
are. The Celtics graduated 22
players from their roster last
season, with 12 players starting
on either offense or defense.
There are many roles to fi ll in
this upcoming season, and the
spring will help the coaches
get a good idea of who might
fi ll those roles.
“The senior class is rising
up and taking over the lead-
ership positions and responsi-
bilities,” Auvinen said. “We are
going to try and emphasize a
good work ethic and more re-
sponsibility because I think it
will bring us together as a unit.
We need to get stronger, get
more physical, and we need to
buy in to the team concept.”
With new roles, comes
new concepts. Second year
Offensive Coordinator, Brad
Emmert, feels like his new
scheme this year will be more
consistent.
“Last year we were more
physical,” Emmert said. “We
had big guys like Jason Sperle
and Hayden Sader up front.
This year we have more speed
which will allow us to spread
the ball a little bit more and
make plays in space. I think we
will be best when we get the
ball in space.”
The quarterback competi-
tion will also be fi erce because
there is not a quarterback on
the roster with varsity experi-
ence.
Please see FOOTBALL, Page 9
Keizer girl keeps pushing after state track meet
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
Leilani Salang, a Keizer res-
ident and three-sport athlete
at Blanchet Catholic School
in Salem, set three national
powerlifting records in March.
In May, she won three
events at the PacWest Confer-
ence Track and Field Champi-
onships, placed second in an-
other and was named the top
Girls Field Event Athlete in
the conference. She then went
to the State Championships in
Eugene and reached the po-
dium in all four of her events.
No one could blame Salang
if she wanted to take a break
this summer before entering
her senior year.
But that’s just not in her
nature.
“I enjoy it and want to be
the best athlete I can be and
help my school,” said Salang,
who was back at it in the USA
Track and Field West Coast
Invite Saturday and Sunday at
Linfi eld College.
Salang is working with Su-
per Thrower Track Club and
coach Scott Skipper in Or-
egon City, whose alumni in-
clude University of Oregon
athletes Greg Skipper and
John Nizich.
She plans to compete in at
least four more USATF meets
this summer, all leading up to
the Junior Olympics July 25-
31 in Sacramento, Calif.
Salang will also play volley-
ball this summer for Blanchet,
where she’s a co-captain, as
well as basketball.
She wants to make time for
a powerlifting event in Eu-
gene in July.
And Salang also has a job
as a food server at Emerald
Pointe.
“I can’t keep up,” Salang’s
mother Gina said. “We just try
to give her food.”
Salang, a workout warrior,
set national records at the
U.S. Powerlifting Association
Southern Oregon Iron Clas-
sic in Grants Pass. She bench
pressed 155 pounds, squatted
265 and deadlifted 315.
And she set the marks raw,
which means no wrist or knee
wraps or anything else to as-
sist her.
Salang has also broken
many Blanchet weight lifting
records, which were set by
one of her role models—Shei-
la Limas De La Cruz, a senior
at Blanchet when Salang was
a freshman and now throws at
Western Oregon University.
Salang credits De La Cruz
with showing her how to spin
in both the discus and shot put
instead of just standing and
throwing.
De La Cruz’s instruction
has paid off. Salang won the
PacWest Conference cham-
pionship in both the discus
and shot put, and fi nished sec-
ond in the javeline, an event
she just picked up midway
through her junior season.
At state, she placed third in
3A in the discus, her favorite
event, fi nishing only behind
Oregon State commit Lindsay
McShane and La Pine stand-
out Jordynn Slater.
Salang threw a season best
34.07.25 in the shot put to
take fi fth in the state and
launched the javelin nearly
20-feet farther than she ever
had to fi nish fi fth, despite be-
ing seeded 12 th .
“I wasn’t practicing jav that
much. It was just kind of my
third event,” Salang said. “My
PR came from going to state
and seeing the girls there and
Submitted
Leilani Salang, a junior at Blanchet Catholic School, reached the podium in all four of her events
at the state track and fi eld championships in Eugene.
their form and trying to do
what they were doing, kind of
on the spot, the way they were
rotating their hips and stuff
like that.”
Salang also runs.
Competing with two fresh-
men and a sophomore, the
Blanchet 4x100 relay team
set a school record earlier in
the season, won the PacWest
Conference and then fi nished
sixth in the state in 52.10.
And the scouts have no-
ticed. Salang toured Western
Oregon this spring and has
received letters from nearly a
dozen other schools.
Salang has wanted to com-
pete in college ever since she
fi rst threw the shot put in
sixth grade.
It’s just part of what drives
her.