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McNary alum brings winning to Culver
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
Dan Borresen, former vol-
leyball coach at McNary High
School, isn’t at all surprised by
the success of one of his past
players.
Randi Viggiano graduated
from McNary in 2000 and
was a defensive specialist on
the 1998 team that brought
home the school’s fi rst state
trophy, fi nishing a school best
fi fth place.
Now the head coach at
Culver, in Central Oregon,
the Lady Bulldogs have fi n-
ished in the top fi ve in Class
2A six years in a row.
“I’ve had several players
go on to be coaches and she
would be at the top of the list
of someone I knew would
coach someday,” Borresen said.
“I remember her very well
because when she was a little
kid, she was always in the gym.
She loved playing. She loved
everything about teaching
and coaching the game. It was
something that was a passion
for her’s since the time she was
a young kid.”
Going to youth camps at
McNary, Viggiano, then Mc-
Donnell, couldn’t wait to be
on the high school team.
“I grew up dreaming of
playing for Dan Borresen and
being a McNary Celtic prob-
ably ever since I was 8 years
old,” she said. “I had an amaz-
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Randi Viggiano, middle, right, was a junior on the McNary vol-
leyball team that fi nished fi fth in the state in 1998.
“When I was at McNary the goal was
always to win.”
— Randi Viggiano,
Head Volleyball Coach, Culver High School
ing high school volleyball ex-
perience from ninth through
12th grade and got to look up
to a lot of great players and got
to play with some of my clos-
est friends in high school. He
(Borresen) laid such a great
foundation for all of us and
someone we all still look up
to and admire.”
After high school, Viggiano
didn’t have immediate plans to
get into coaching. She went to
Oregon State University and
majored in public health and
earned her master’s degree in
counseling. But then an open-
ing for an assistant coach at
volleyball powerhouse Crook
County opened up.
“It kind of fell into my lap,”
Viggiano said. “I moved to
Central Oregon for work and
my mom had somehow heard
through the grapevine that
Crook County was looking
for some help coaching. I def-
initely found a home there.”
In three seasons with the
program, Crook County won
three state championships.
Viggiano was ready to
Submitted
Randi Viggiano and her husband and assistant coach Nick, both McNary graduates, have turned
Culver High School into a volleyball powerhouse.
branch out on her own.
In her interview at Cul-
ver, she was asked what her
goal was in a year. She replied,
“Win a state championship.”
Viggiano was then asked her
goal for fi ve years. “Win fi ve
more,” she responded.
Culver had fi nished last in
its league the two previous
seasons.
Please see CULVER, Page 13
Lady Celts eye league title
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
McNary’s girls basketball
team won a school record 23
games and fi nished fourth in
the state last year but it was
what they didn’t do that was
on the minds of the Lady
Celts two returning starters
as practice began for the up-
coming season.
“Our goal this year is to
fi nally win league,” senior
Sydney Hunter said. “I think
that’s our No. 1 goal.”
In order to do that, Mc-
Nary will have to dethrone
two-time state champion
South Salem, led by one of
the best players in the coun-
try, Evina Westbrook, who
has signed with the Univer-
sity of Tennessee.
McNary junior Kailey
Doutt, who was voted defen-
sive player of the year by the
Greater Valley Conference
coaches last season, looks for-
ward to seeing the Lady Sax-
ons on the court.
“I’m really excited for that
game,” Doutt said. “I love
guarding her (Westbrook). It’s
a challenge. She’s the No. 1
player in the nation. It always
makes me better.”
The Lady Celts graduated
three of its top four scorers
from a year ago, including
leading scorer and captain
Madi Hingston.
But head coach Derick
Handley believes McNary
has the pieces to make up for
those losses.
“We had a lot of girls who
can score but it wasn’t their
role last year,” Handley said.
“It is going to be a little bit
of an adjustment for some of
them just getting used to be-
ing relied on for scoring but I
still feel like we have a lot of
girls capable of double digits.
“Kailey Doutt is going to
surprise a lot of people. At the
state tournament, (she) was
one of the best players there.
She’s a junior but this is her
third year for varsity. She was
nine points a game last year.
She was a contributor, just
known for her defense but
she’s a girl who could easily
be 14-15 a game this year.”
Doutt knows she’ll need
to score more.
“Handley last year always
told me to shoot more and
my parents and my team-
mates because I would get
nervous to shoot from the
outside but I feel like I’ll have
more confi dence and shoot
from the outside (this sea-
son),” Doutt said. “When I
was younger, I was a scorer.
I’m excited.”
Doutt and Hunter, who
averaged 10.8 points, six re-
bounds, two assists and two
steals per game last season,
will be counted on to be
leaders.
“Last year I was a captain
but I still depended on our
other captain, Madi,” Hunter
said. “Now that she’s gone, I
SCHEDULE
Dec. 1 vs Barlow, 7 p.m.
Jan. 10 vs McKay, 6:45 p.m.
Dec. 3 vs Tualatin, 7 p.m.
Jan. 13 vs McMinnville, 5:45 p.m.
Dec. 6 at Sheldon, 6:45 p.m.
Jan. 17 at South Salem, 6:45 p.m.
Dec. 9 at West Albany, 5:45 p.m.
Jan. 20 vs Beaverton, 7 p.m.
Dec. 13 vs Clackamas, 7 p.m.
Jan. 27 at Sprague, 7:15 p.m.
Dec. 16 vs Sprague, 5:45 p.m.
Jan. 31 vs Forest Grove, 6:45 p.m.
Dec. 20 at North Medford, 7 p.m.
Feb. 3 vs West Albany, 7:15 p.m.
Dec. 21 at South Medford, 1:30 p.m.
Feb. 7 at McKay, 6:45 p.m.
Dec. 27 vs Gresham, 7 p.m.
Feb. 10 vs Grants Pass, 7 p.m.
Dec. 29 at Beaverton, 7:15 p.m.
Feb. 14 vs South Salem, 6:45 p.m.
Jan. 3 at Forest Grove, 6:45 p.m.
Feb. 17 vs West Salem, 7:15 p.m.
Jan. 6 at West Salem, 5:45 p.m.
Feb. 21 at McMinnville, 7:15 p.m.
have to step up even more to
be that No. 1 leader.”
Senior Jaylene Monta-
no, who replaces Hingston
at point guard, has already
shown a knack for hitting
big shots.
Playing in the Nike Inter-
state Shootout last December,
she made a 3-pointer with 11
seconds remaining to knock
off Skyview 57-56.
“They’re (Montano and
Hingston) not the same
player as far as scoring goes
but being able to control the
game, the tempo, Jaylene is
really good at that,” Handley
said.
Handley mainly played
seven girls last season but
expects the Lady Celts to be
deeper this year.
As many as 10 girls could
be in the rotation.
One of those is Paige
Downer, a junior guard in her
third year playing varsity.
“She had a really good
summer, did a lot of workouts,
improved a lot,” Handley said.
“She’s a girl that we’re ex-
pecting a lot of points from.
She’s also one of our best de-
fenders.”
Another is senior Gabby
Schmidt, who didn’t play
much varsity last year but will
be counted on at post this
season.
“We’re smaller than we
were a year ago but she’s the
one girl that is going to be
able to hold down that post
position for us,” Handley said.
“We need her to rebound
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
McNary senior Jaylene Montano, with ball, and junior Paige
Downer will be two key players for the Lady Celts.
and we need her to play de-
fense and she takes pride in
both of those. She’s a girl that
we’ll defi nitely need, to have
the same success.”
Kelsey Koenig, another se-
nior, will also get minutes in
the front court.
“She’s an effort kid,”
Handley said. “She just works
her tail off. She is going to go
100 percent all of the time.
She doesn’t take any plays off.
She’s going to be really im-
portant for us this year, too.”
Three underclassmen will
also be counted on—sopho-
more guards Abbie Hawley
and Anita Lao, and forward
Caiya Ewert, a volleyball
player who played basketball
for the fi rst time last year as a
freshman.
Please see TITLE, Page 13
Hunter voted to All-GVC volleyball fi rst team
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
While it’s not her No. 1
sport, Sydney Hunter showed
she can be just as dynamic on
the volleyball court.
The McNary outside hit-
ter was an unanimous selec-
tion to the All-Greater Valley
Conference First Team.
“Basketball is my main
sport but I work just as hard
in volleyball as I do in bas-
ketball because I wanted to
reach that goal,” Hunter said.
“I wanted to become the best
I could be, so knowing that I
got that is awesome.”
Hunter said her favor-
ite part of volleyball was the
team.
“I loved being with them,”
she said. “They were probably
one of my favorite teams to
play with. We all got along. I
was always super excited to
show up to practice because
I knew we were going to be
laughing, obviously working
hard but having fun.”
Hunter fi nished her senior
season with 347 kills, 124
digs, 34 blocks and 31 aces.
“You can’t put into words
how valuable she was, not
only as a player on the court
but her leadership was ex-
tremely good,” McNary head
coach Bruce Myers said.
“She’s just one of those rare
players that has it all. can’t say
how lucky I was just to have
about six months of Sydney
and coaching her, phenom-
enal athlete. Of course I’ve
only been doing this since
about 1978 and she is the best
female I have ever coached.
She can do anything. I was
totally amazed when I fi g-
ured she’s only played about
eight months of volleyball in
her life and the things that
she does.”
McNary senior Jaylene
Montano was voted to the
second team. At libero, she
had 178 digs and 19 aces.
Junior Valerie Diede and
sophomore Caiya Ewert
were both honorable men-
tion selections.
At outside hitter, Diede re-
corded 87 kills and 56 blocks.
Ewert, a middle blocker, had
53 kills and 46 blocks.