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McNary prepares for upcoming swim season
Celtics have nearly 80 kids out for the team this year
By MATT RAWLINGS
Of the Keizertimes
From a results standpoint, the McNary swim team wasn’t
anything to write home about last season — the boys team
placed sixth at districts while the girls squad took seventh.
But the biggest encouragement for this program is how many
kids are joining the team.
After having 54 kids in their program last year, the Celtics
now have 74 athletes that came out for the swim team this year.
With all those numbers, the future of this program as a whole
is looking very bright.
“It’s been great having these big numbers. We’re almost up to
80 kids this year,” McNary head coach Casey Lewin said. “Our
last two freshman classes have been huge and we have done a
good job of retaining those kids. We’re getting a lot of kids out
and they’re staying out.”
The Mountain Valley Conference — formally known as the
the Greater Valley Conference — will look a little bit different
this season with Mountain View, Summit and Bend entering
the league while North Salem, West Albany, Forest Grove and
McMinnville exited the league over the summer.
But instead of worrying about the new competition, Lewin
wants his kids to focus more on their personal improvement and
development.
“Our main focus on the boys side and on the girls side is
coming to practice every day to get better and to just take care
of ourselves,” Lewin said. “If we’re able to do that, hopefully our
times will reflect the work that we put in and the placement will
take care of itself.”
While they don’t return anyone that qualified for the state
meet last season, the Celtics have key returners on both teams
that should have a huge impact for them in the pool.
On the boys side, junior Kyle Hooper is the top returning
swimmer in the program. At the GVC District Meet last season,
Hooper finished third in the 500-yard freestyle and fourth in the
200 individual medley. He has a realistic shot to make it to the
state meet this season.
Senior Harrison Vaughn is the other top returner for Mc-
Nary. Vaughn Took fifth in the 500-free at districts last season.
He will likely be one of the more versatile swimmers in the
league as he will also compete in the 100-breaststroke, 200-free,
200-IM as well as others.
Seniors Wyatt Sherwood and Jabez Rhoades will be the
short-distance guys for the McNary boys.
“I would like to see us score more points than we did last
year at the district meet,” Lewin said of his boys team. “We don’t
quite have the firepower to win a league title, but if we can score
more and place higher, it shows that we’re doing something
right.”
For the girls squad, sophomore twin sisters Alexandria and
Isabella Beard look to be the top returners for the Celtics in a
multitude of events. Both girls will swim the 500-free, 200-free,
200-IM as well as a handful of races in the breaststroke and
butterfly.
Junior Alyssa Garvey looks to be the top girl in the sprint
races for the Celtics.
Lewin also expects freshman newcomers Paris Boyd and Kay-
lynn Villalobos to make a difference for this team immediately.
“I would love us to finish higher than we did last year, and
with some of the additions we have, I think we’ll have enough
points to get up there,” Lewin said of the girls squad.
File Photo
Harrison Vaughn closes in on touching the wall in a Greater Valley Conference race last season. Vaughn hopes to compete for a
spot in the state meet this year.
File Photo
Alyssa Garvey swims the freestyle at the final dual meet of the season last year. Garvey will be one of the top returners for the
McNary girls team.
Vincent goes undefeated at Jerry Lane Invite
By MATT RAWLINGS
Of the Keizertimes
The McNary wrestling
program opened up their sea-
son last Friday by hosting the
second annual Jerry Lane In-
vitational.
Even though the Celtics
went 1-3 in their four dual
meets, head coach Jason Ebbs
liked what he saw from his
team in their first meet.
“To go toe-to-toe with the
caliber of teams that we were
facing was really promising to
see. Especially with the young
kids we have this year,” Ebbs
said.
“The benefit of this tour-
nament is that we get really
solid and (high) quality teams
in our gym and we open up
our season with what wres-
tling is supposed to look like
at this level and why we need
to practice so hard to get
good.”
Enrique Vincent had the
best performance of the night
for McNary as he was the only
one on the squad that won all
four of his matches.
Even though he weighed
it at 138 pounds, the senior
wrestled in the 145 division
and still was able to come out
victorious.
“It was a little bit
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McNary senior Enrique Vincent gets set ready to go on the attack against his opponent. Vincent finished 4-0 in the tournament
with a pair of pins.
nerve-wracking to wrestle
a weight above where I was
at,” Vincent said. “But in my
first match, I felt like I started
to get a feel of what being a
145-pounder was like.”
Vincent was challenged
a little bit in his first two
matches against Tristin David
(Roseburg) and Isaiah McIn-
tosh (Dallas), but beat both
opponents by decision. In his
last two matches, Vincent beat
Patrick Brown (Cleveland)
and Jared Ray (Glencoe) via
first-round pins.
“After I won my first two
matches, I felt like my last two
were pretty easy,” Vincent said.
It a big deal for McNary to
host a program like Roseburg
at this tournament. Roseburg
has been crowned the 6A state
champion for the last five sea-
sons and has taken home 10
titles in the last 12 years.
While the Indians domi-
nated the overall score, Ebbs
was happy to see Grady Bur-
rows (120) and Vincent get in-
dividual victories.
“(Roseburg) is a perennial
force to be reckoned with,”
Ebbs said. “We consider our-
selves lucky to have them
come to our tournament and
we’re happy to wrestle them
anytime we can.”
The Celtics faced another
tough test in their second dual
against 5A powerhouse Dallas.
Anthony Garcia Reyes (220),
Noah Gatchet (113) and Bur-
rows all won with falls, but
McNary ended up losing by a
score of 51-27.
After falling in a competi-
tive dual with Cleveland, Mc-
Nary wrapped up the night
with a dominant victory over
Glencoe, as they won 10 of
the 12 individual matches.
“Glencoe tends to put
some pretty tough guys on
the mat, so to be able to beat
them handily was a good ex-
perience for us,” Ebbs said.
McNary heads back to the
mat on Saturday as they head
down to Eugene to compete
in the Springfield Tourna-
ment.