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Wyer ready to take swimming to next level
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
When snow fell on Keizer
earlier this year, Jake Wyer
had to convince his parents
to take the journey to Coos
Bay to visit Southwestern
Oregon Community Col-
lege.
It was a good thing they
listened.
After touring the campus,
eating lunch with the swim
team and then taking part
in practice, Wyer received a
scholarship offer to SWOCC.
After getting over the
shock, he accepted.
“I was speechless because
at that point I realized all of
my hard work had paid off
and I have something special
to look forward to next year,”
Wyer said.
“It was a beautiful campus.
They’re (the team) all great.
They were very humble and
kind. At practice, they helped
me out with what stretches
to do. I felt at home when
I was swimming with them.
They’re really close together.
It was a lot of fun. The work-
outs were really hard but I
was able to do it. It was the
the fastest kicker and this year
I feel like I got a little bit bet-
ter. It’s all a progress.”
Wyer helped the McNary
boys place fi fth in the Greater
Valley Conference in the
200-yard medley relay and
sixth in the 200 freestyle relay.
But Lewin believes Wyer’s
best is ahead of him as he
spends more time in the pool.
“That’s what I’m really,
really excited to see,” Lewin
said. “That’s one thing we’ve
talked about a little bit, where
he’s at right now, to see the
improvements that he really
wants to see, he needs more
pool time and he’s going to
get that.”
Wyer’s work ethic will also
be missed.
“He’s one of those kids
that sometimes you have
to tell him to not work so
hard in practice,” Lewin said.
“He’ll push himself, which
is good, it’s not a bad trait to
have. When he really wants
something, he does every-
thing in his power to make it
happen. The younger kids see
that and it rubs off and we’ll
defi nitely miss having that
around.”
good kind of hard.”
Wyer signed his letter of
intent on Feb. 23 in the Mc-
Nary library.
Celtics head coach Casey
Lewin said Wyer was unique
in that he had never swam
year-round.
Wyer, who has also played
football and ran track at Mc-
Nary, said he was too busy
with the other sports.
“I just enjoyed swimming
for the school because I en-
joyed the coaches and I really
never thought about joining
a club,” said Wyer, who began
taking swimming more seri-
ously his junior year and then
even more so as a senior as he
thought about competing in
college. “I love being in the
water and it’s the one thing
I look forward to every day
during the season.”
Wyer credited McNary
coaches, Lewin, and assis-
tant Brittany Awalt as well
as teammate Haley Debban
for pushing him to become a
better swimmer.
“She (Debban) really
helped me out this year at
getting better in the little
things,” Wyer said. “I wasn’t
KEIZERTIMED/Derek Wiley
McNary senior Jake Wyer signed a national letter of intent to swim at Douthwestern Oregon
Community College in Coosy Bay on Feb. 23.
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