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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2018
Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Trey Hageman warms up before practice with the team. Darian Hageman works out on the exercise bike ahead of the state track meet this weekend.
Twins: Astoria careers concluding for Hagemans
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‘ We’re definitely
competitive … We’ve
become a lot closer these
last few months. We’re
supportive of each other.’
meet, and for Trey whenever the last
out comes for Fishermen baseball.
By the time they graduate, Darian
and Trey will be one of the most highly
decorated brother-sister tandems to have
passed through the halls of Astoria High
School.
Trey will continue his baseball career at
Linn-Benton Community College, while
Darian has landed a scholarship to compete
in track at Oregon State.
“Maybe it hasn’t kicked in yet, but right
now I’m just excited for high school to be
over,” Darian said. “It’s time to move on
and go on to the next part of track. That’s
exciting for me.”
Trey Hageman
near where I am, if it wasn’t for gymnastics.
I started at such a young age, and got active
and so much stronger than my peers, and
it taught me a work ethic that really helped
me.”
And she likes the “individuality” of
both gymnastics and track.
“I like that a lot. You can’t blame any-
thing on anyone else. It’s all you.”
Watching, cheering, coaching
For the most part, the entire family has
been able to set aside the emotions for the
final month of high school sports.
“They’re both moving on, so that part
doesn’t bother me,” Rhonda Hageman said.
Trey adds, “I wouldn’t say emotional.
We’re both excited and nervous at the same
time. This is our last week of high school
sports, but we’re also kind of excited to get
into the swing of collegiate things.”
And besides, over the course of any sea-
son, things are emotional enough for teen-
agers playing sports — something every
parent of an athlete knows all too well.
The Hagemans have figured that part
out, too, handling the ups and downs of a
high school athlete, times two.
When it happens, “you just don’t talk to
them,” Rhonda Hageman said. “You know
when they need their time and their space.
You respect that and let them have it, and
when they’re ready to talk to us, we’re
there to listen.”
And therein lies much of the success of
the Hageman siblings. Rhonda and Kenny
have been there all along, to watch, cheer,
coach — even drive the entire team.
“With my mom being a bus driver, she
can drive us to our functions, and she gets
to watch and do her job at the same time,”
Darian said.
Said Rhonda, “we’re not at home a whole
heck of a lot. We’re always on the road.”
Traveling to sporting events started long
before high school for both Darian and Trey.
Darian was a gymnast and softball player
before she became a track standout. Trey
grew up playing football and baseball, and
eventually turned into a state qualifying
wrestler in high school.
As you might imagine, the count is get-
ting pretty high for medals, ribbons and tro-
phies in the bedrooms.
“I wouldn’t say we keep a medal count,
but we both like to have our medals up in
our room,” Trey said. “If we ever want to
compare, I think I might have to take the
win on that.”
Darian also claims victory in the medal
count.
Before she took up volleyball and track
at the high school level, rumor has it that she
would have been an all-leaguer in softball,
for sure.
And then there’s gymnastics.
‘Definitely competitive’
Astoria seniors — and twins — Trey and Darian Hageman.
Astoria senior Trey Hageman wrestling
in the Seaside Pac Rim Tournament.
Darian Hageman, gymnast.
“Darian will always have a passion
for gymnastics,” Rhonda says. “She still
teaches at the gymnastics facility in Asto-
ria. I think it will be something she carries
with her.”
In addition, the sport has done a lot for
Darian’s track career. She hasn’t soared
to state championships in the long jump,
triple jump and high jump without some
help from gymnastics.
Being a gymnast has helped “tremen-
dously,” she said. “I wouldn’t be anywhere
Forum: ‘To get to god, whatever your
definition of god might be, it’s got to glow’
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colored pool balls and old floats; animal
skulls encrusted with rhinestones; warped
skeins of light that look like creatures gleam-
ing deep in the ocean.
Drawing from her background in archae-
ology and research into the history of how
public places were lit, Mulholland talked to
the audience at Columbia Memorial Hospi-
tal’s Community Center about what people
require and appreciate about light without
even realizing it. Horror movies tap into fear
by throwing shadows in the wrong place; like
a girl at a sleepover who instinctively puts the
flashlight under her chin to tell scary stories.
Mirrors — reflectors — of all types were seen
in some ancient cultures as gateways to other
worlds and underworlds.
“To get to god, whatever your definition
of god might be, it’s got to glow,” she said,
pointing to a photo of light gleaming and
warm in glass beads. “The Catholic Church
did this in its architecture before electricity
and every great architect has aspects of light
in their buildings. Glowing is the one that
makes you the most introspective.”
“Light is embodied,” Mulholland said
at the start of the presentation. “ … We are
light-seeking.” She put up a painting of fire-
works and everyone instinctively “oohed” and
“aahed.” Mulholland noted that in the picture,
the people are shadowy figures, tiny, used as
a way to frame the riotous and overwhelming
explosions of color and light overhead.
“That ‘hmmmm,’” she said. “You felt it.”
Rhonda Hageman played sports until
the eighth grade, then “I chose horses over
sports,” she said, and Kenny didn’t play
sports in high school.
So where did their kids get all that tal-
ent? Maybe growing up in a small town,
and not specializing in just one sport.
Then there’s just the competitive nature
between the two. A friendly sort of sibling
rivalry has turned both into pretty good
athletes.
No matter the outcome this week-
end, Darian is the owner of multiple state
titles, while Trey leads this season’s Asto-
ria baseball team in several categories.
He’s on a short list of athletes for Cowapa
League Player of the Year honors.
“We’re definitely competitive,” Trey
said. “It might have been different if I had
gone out for track. My career has been a
little different than hers, but we’ve com-
peted in different ways.
“We’ve become a lot closer these last
few months,” he said. “We’re supportive
of each other. She’s at football games and
baseball games, and I go to her volleyball
games and everything that I can.”
His parents also “go to everything that
they can, and they’ve been very support-
ive of all our decisions. They try to lead
us in the right direction. They got me and
Darian both with a trainer, and upped our
game even more this past winter and into
spring.”
That’s devotion.
Rhonda says, “They are competitive
with each other, but it was a blessing that
I had a boy and a girl to even out the com-
petitiveness, because they’ve never really
been involved in the same sports.”
Darian added, “we used to be com-
petitive a lot when we were kids. Every-
thing was a competition — who could do
the most pushups or pullups, who could
do the coolest back flips on the trampo-
line. Now that we’re in different sports,
it’s hard to relate to competition.”
And hard to match both Darian and
Trey Hageman in their respective sports,
whatever time of year it may be. They are
both, you might say, outstanding in their
fields.
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