S PORTS
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Hood River News, Saturday, June 27, 2015
Chantelle Carter heading to Silver State International Rodeo
Hood River’s Chantelle Carter is head-
ing next week to the Silver State Interna-
tional Rodeo in Winnemucca, Nev., for the
second year in a row, where she will com-
pete against some of the best riders in
North America.
Carter, 16, is currently heading into her
junior year at Horizon Christian School,
where she is an honor student. She quali-
fied for the Silver State International
Rodeo after receiving high marks in the
Washington State High School Rodeo last
month, where she qualified in the barrels,
poles, and cutting events, the last of
which is a timed event where a horse and
rider try to separate a cow from its herd
and prevent it from rejoining the group.
Carter has been an active member of
the Washington State High School Rodeo
for the past two years, qualifying last year
as a freshman for the Silver State Interna-
tional Rodeo for the first time in barrels
and representing Washington in the
Queen contest where she received Miss
Congeniality and Best of Parade. Carter
competes in the Washington circuit as op-
posed to the Oregon circuit because it is
easier to travel to many of the rodeo
events in Washington, and a lot of her
rodeo friends live in Washington, ex-
plained Carter’s mother, Kathy Palmieri.
Riders are able to choose the state or
province for which they will compete.
Carter will be traveling with her rela-
tives and Palmieri to the rodeo, which will
be held June 30 to July 5. Palmieri will be
serving as a judg e for the Queen
Contest. Next, from July 12-18, Carter and
her mother will be traveling to Rock
Springs, Wyo., with their national direc-
tor where Palmieri will be working as sec-
retary in the cutting arena, at the nation-
al level.
SPORTS BRIEFS
Swim team ends June with
good marks
CHANTELLE CARTER
Looking back: 40 years of the Kollas-Cranmer run
Memorial run continues to grow
while staying true to its roots
By BEN MITCHELL
nizer Mary Gumm, who has
served as the race’s organizer
July 4, 1975: In the midst of the since the late 1990s.
Nearly as many participants,
phenomenon known as the “run-
ning boom” that became that and likely more, are expected to
decade’s athletic focus, and sever- run next Saturday in what will be
the 40th anniversary
al weeks after the
of the first “official”
passing of Oregon
RACE INFO
running of the event
cross-country/track
— nobody kept race
and field legend Steve
times in the few run-
Time: 9 a.m.
Prefontaine, a few
nings of the event
do z en individuals
prior to 1975, Gumm
g athered
for
a
Cost: $25 for event
points out, and 1975 is
footrace from Odell to
and 2015 shirt, $15
considered the year
Hood River.
with another year’s
when the race began
Four decades later,
shirt, $10 for event
in earnest.
the event, now known
only.
The race is named
as the Kollas-Cran-
in memory of Joe Kol-
mer Memorial Run, is
Website: 4thofju-
las and Jerry Cran-
still going, and has be-
mer: two Hood River
lyrun.com
come a Hood River
Valley residents who
County tradition,
were both passionate
serving as the kickoff
about running and
to the area’s Independence Day
were both involved in organizing
celebrations.
Since that 1975 race, the num- the event at different points in its
bers have grown from a few dozen existence.
Kollas, who was born in 1909 in
to a few hundred, with last year’s
official tally of registered partici- Hood River, was an orchardist and
pants listed as 387 runners and 118
Please see RUN, Page A8
walkers, according to race orga-
News staff writer
THE KOLLAS-CRANMER Memorial Run will be celebrating its 40th anniversary next week when the race
starts Saturday, July 4, in Odell. Starting from top and working down: a News file photo shows the 1976 race
(the earliest photo of the event we could find in our archives) going off; if you have a magnifying glass, Joe
Kollas is the runner with white hair in the back of the group toward the middle of the photo. Next, a photo
from last year’s event taken by Adam Lapierre, showing how large the race has gotten over the last four
decades. Above right, the obituary photo of Kollas. Above far right, the obituary photo for Jerry Cranmer.
A7
The Hood River Valley Swim Team
had a good showing the past two
weekends at Mt. Hood for the
Howard Jones Age Group and Senior
A/B Swim Meets. At the Age Group
meet June 12-14, Sarah Arpag, age
11, led the way with seven personal
best times and three top-10 finishes
in the 400-meter free (5:18.87), 200
free (2:27.15) and the 100 free
(1:07.18). Skyla Hollowell, age 9,
achieved her first-ever state “A”
qualifying time in the 50 butterfly
(49.80) which allows her to compete
at the Oregon Swimming State 12U
Swimming Championships in Albany
in July. Campbell Keller, age 12, swam
to 100-percent personal best times.
Michelle Graves had one best time;
Amy Elliott, Jesse Elliott and Shea
Kasenga each had two personal best
times at the meet, and Thea Smith
had two 7-second drops in the 100
butterfly (1:49.18) and 200 freestyle
(3:04.63) events. At the Howard
Jones Senior Meet June 19-21, high-
lights included Scott Bergstrom’s
third place finish in the 400 freestyle
(4:09.75); Connor Webb’s sixth place
200 breaststroke (2:38.59); Kylie
Webb’s sixth place 400 individual
medley (5:24.55), Dhani Freeland’s
eighth place finish in the 400
freestyle (4:47.23); Mariah Rawd-
ing’s 10th place finish in the 1500
free (20:04.25); and Erin Nelson’s
four personal best times in the 400
free, 200 IM, 200 free and 100 back-
stroke. The women’s 200 free relay of
Freeland, Nelson, Webb and Rawding
placed ninth, and the women’s 200
medley relay of Danielle Miller, Webb,
Freeland and Rawding placed fifth
overall. Other swimmers competing
in the meet included Celilo Brun, Allie
Burke, and Nadia Smith.
Erin Jones to represent Team
USA at Pan Am games
Triathlete Erin Jones has been se-
lected as one of the three women
who will represent Team USA in the
triathlon event at the 2015 Pan
American Games next month in
Toronto. Jones, a Hood River native
and 2009 graduate of Hood River
Valley High School, currently travels
the globe to race professionally in
triathlons against some of the best
athletes in the world. The triathlon
events at the Pan Am Games, which
will be held July 12 for the women,
feature a standard Olympic-distance
1,500-meter swim, 40-kilometer
bike, and 10-kilometer run course.
Held every four years in the year be-
fore the Olympic Games, the Pan
American Games are the third largest
international multi-sport Games after
the Olympic Games and the Asian
Games. The history of the Pan Ameri-
can Games dates back to 1951 when
the Games were first hosted by
Buenos Aires, Argentina. The 2015
Pan American Games mark the 17th
celebration of the Pan American
Sports Organization event. The U.S.
has hosted the event twice, in Indi-
anapolis in 1987 and Chicago in
1959.
Gifford Pinchot cautions hikers
about lack of water
Officials with the Gifford Pinchot
National Forest are advising hikers to
anticipate an increased lack of water
in the forest due to low snowpack
and drought conditions that have af-
fected the Pacific Northwest this
spring. When you visit the forest, be
sure to bring enough water for every-
one in your group, as backcountry
areas where hikers traditionally
found water for themselves and their
animals are already dry, cautioned
U.S. Forest Service Officials. “Hikers
and backpackers should plan to pack
plenty of water,” advised Tedd Huff-
man, manager at the Mount St. He-
lens National Volcanic Monu-
ment. “This is especially true in areas
with less shade where people and
animals can get dehydrated quickly.”
Oilers working on first win
Photos by Kirby Neumann-Rea
SUMMER SOCCER
Kicking, weaving, and passing, more than 100 youngsters enjoyed Eagle Summer Soccer
Camp this week at Westside Field, including Spike Peterson and Hazel Goetz (see photo at
right). The two five-year-olds share a ball during a drill in which the players worked on their
form by repeatedly kicking the ball into the net. Participants worked together in age groups
and also got to scrimmage. HRVHS Eagle players helped teach soccer skills along with
coaches Jaime Rivera and Ken Brasnahan (shown). Taking a water break, Spike and Hazel
and their friend Alyra Elliott, 5, compared babysitter notes. Asked if she had played soccer
before, Alyra said, “I played soccer yesterday!”
The Carson Oilers had a home
game Wednesday evening, and lost
to Gladstone, 10-0. “The game out
started out really well; we had the
bases loaded a couple of times,” said
coach Terry Bryant. “The game just
kind of got away from us.” Bryant
said the young team has been play-
ing against much older players, but is
getting better at both hitting the ball
and pitching. The American Legion
Single A team has gone 0-5 in its
start this season, but will have an op-
portunity to get on the board this
weekend with a doubleheader at Mil-
waukie, starting at 2 p.m. The Oilers
are back in town Wednesday for a
doubleheader against St. Helens,
which starts at 4 p.m.