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7 Whiteaker eighth
grader wins state title
Nick Zuro, an eighth
grader at Whiteaker Middle
School, cleared 5-foot-8 at the
Oregon Middle School Meet
of Champions on May 26 to
win the school’s fi rst state title
in track and fi eld.
“I knew it was a possibility,”
Zuro said. “I hoped I could do
it, and I was really happy when
it happened.”
That mark wasn’t even his
best. At a track meet with
Houck Middle School in
April, the 6-foot-4, 13-year-
old cleared 6 feet.
Zuro started competing in
the high jump as a seventh
grader at the encouragement
of James Decker, a Whiteaker
teacher and coach. Decker had
seen Zuro dunking the ball on
the basketball court and knew
he was onto something special
because of his natural jumping
ability.
“I just sort of watched the
older guys at fi rst and it looked
really cool,” Zuro said.
In short order, he was mak-
ing the leaps himself and best-
ing his schoolmates in the
event.
“From the fi rst few practice
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8 McNary boys bowl
near-perfect game
On its way to winning a district title, Mc-
Nary’s boys bowling team, made up of Nick
Blythe, Tim Kiser, Jerome Ricks, Bailey Lee
and Donny Grunbough, knocked down 298
of a possible 300 pins to nearly bowl a per-
fect game in the semifi nals of the tourna-
ment.
“I was jumping up and down after every
strike,” said Grubough.
“Everybody in the place stopped to
watch us,” said Kiser.
“It was stadium-level loud,” added Blythe.
The almost-perfect effort capped a three-
game series that began with scores of 262
and 224.
“It was the most incredible stretch I’ve
ever seen in more than 20 years as a coach,”
said coach Dan Kaplan
At the end of the semifi nals, which con-
sists of 10 games, McNary was 321 pins
ahead of the second place team. The Celts
fi nished ahead 377-249 for the two fi nals
games.
Blythe, a three-year veteran of the team
who’s already got several 300 games as a solo
performer, said the experience was his most
memorable yet.
“It was the most fun I’ve had in three
years, and this is the best team I’ve ever been
part of,” Blythe said.
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9 Cavell Player of the Year
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Nick Zuro, an eighth grader at Whiteaker Middle School, won a
state championship in the high jump in 2016.
jumps, Zuro began progress-
ing quickly. By the end of his
seventh grade year, he was one
of the top jumpers for his age
in the nation. This year, as he
got taller and stronger, and his
coaches and I could tell this
could be season that he did
something special,” Decker
said.
McNary senior Harry
Cavell, who averaged 15
points, seven rebounds, three
assists and two steals per game,
was selected the unanimous
Greater Valley Conference
Boys Basketball Player of the
Year.
“It’s awesome and it’s affi r-
mation that all my hard work
has paid off a little bit,” Cavell
said of the Player of the Year
honor. “But it’s just as much a
testament to my team. There
are a lot of good players who
don’t stand out because of
their teams.”
McNary head coach Ryan
Kirch said that attitude is what
he’s appreciated most about
having Cavell as a player for
the Celtics.
“He’s a mature kid with
poise and a confi dent attitude
that the other players in our
program gravitate to,” Kirch
said. “It helps unite the group
as a whole because his expec-
tations mirror what we expect
as a program.”
Defensive Player of the
Year awards also went to Mc-
Nary as junior Matthew Ismay
shared the boys honor with
Joe Carey of South Salem and
sophomore Kailey Doutt won
the girls award.
“This means that coaches
can trust me to guard the best
players every game,” Ismay
said.
The Lady Celts led the
GVC in points allowed and
Doutt had a big part in that.
“Kailey is a spark plug for
the whole defensive side of
our game and has shown just
how deep the buy-in is for
our defensive schemes,” said
Derick Handley, McNary
head coach.
Doutt said the award was
a result of an approach to the
game that she’s practiced from
a young age.
“I have always been taught
that defense wins games. It’s
what my dad, who was my
coach when I was younger, al-
ways focused on,” she said. “It
means a lot because I’ve been
trying to work hard on it. I re-
ally feel blessed and thankful.”
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10 McNary’s new gym fl oor
McNary High School reno-
vated its gymnasium thanks to
$20,000 provided by the Ath-
letic Booster Club.
The project included paint-
ing both levels of the gym, along
with refi nishing the 15-year-old
fl oor to include a McNary “M”
at center court with ‘McNary”
and “Celtics” at each baseline.
Work began as soon as
school let out on June 15.
A ribbon cutting ceremony
took place in August.
“It’s much overdue, a much
needed project,” ABC vice pres-
ident Scott Kiser said.
Like the turf fi eld the sum-
mer before, Kiser noted the new
fl oor will be a benefi t to the en-
tire school and community.
“So many groups use this
gym,” he said.
“It was one of those projects
where we’re not focusing on
just one sport and our goal is to
not just focus on one sport per
project. Like our turf, lacrosse,
soccer, football, in here you’re
going to have wrestling, volley-
ball, basketball, plus all their as-
semblies and everything they’re
going to do. These are projects
that we are doing that affect a
large population of the school
and our community.”
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