lune 27, 2012
Page II
East County
Beaverton
PCC Athletics Taps Native Son
B roadous
to usher
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in new era for m e n ’s
b ask etb all
Portland Community College has hired
Tony Broadous as the new head coach of the
PCC m en’s basketball team. A Portland na
tive, Broadous comes to PCC from Grant
High School, where he has been the head
coach since 2002.
Broadous was welcomed to the PCC fam
ily during a June 12 reception at the Cascade
Campus Gym - the home court of PCC bas
ketball.
“W e’re so excited to have Tony with us,
and we’re looking forward to great things
from him,” said Cascade Campus President
Algie Gatewood. “Tony is a local guy, a
native Oregonian, a longtime Portlander, and
he’s just the guy to put PCC basketball on the
map.”
Gatewood’s sentiments were echoed by
PCC Board member Harold Williams.
“This is a great step forward for PCC
athletics,” Williams said. “I’ve known Tony
for a long time - he’s from this neighborhood
and he’s a great fit for PCC basketball.”
Broadous’ new job represents a return to
the neighborhood he has known since he
Tony Broadous (left) is introduced as the new men’s basketball team coach at
Portland Community College during a reception with PCC Cascade Campus Presi
dent Algie Gatewood. A Portland native, Broadous comes to PCC from Grant High
School, where he had been the head coach since 2002.
was a boy. A Jefferson High School gradu
ate, he grew up learning the game in the area
around Cascade Campus, and even recalls
playing games in the old Quonset hut that
once served as the campus gym.
“I grew up less than five minutes from the
Cascade Campus and rode my bike in the
parking lot for years starting at the age of 7,”
he recalled. “I vividly remember shooting
around and playing games in the old gymna
sium with my friends as we became teenagers.”
Broadous brings a wealth of experience to
PCC as both a player and coach. After gradu
ating from Jefferson, he went on to play
basketball and baseball at Lane Community
College, a member of the Northwest Athletic
Association of Community Colleges, the
same conference in which PCC plays. After
his stint at Lane, he moved on to graduate
from O regon State U niversity w ith a
bachelor’s degree in sociology.
Prior to taking over head coaching duties at
Grant High School, Broadous was the head
coach at Roosevelt High School from 1997 to
2002. While at Grant, he was named Portland
Interscholastic League Coach of the Year three
times, and led the team to the Oregon 6A
championship in 2008. He also worked with the
N ike Global team in 2010.
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M
Another Countdown
to a B ig Arrival
Rose-Tu, mother of Samudra expecting birth in fall
Let the countdown begin. Asian elephant
Rose-Tu has reached the last stage of her
pregnancy, according to Oregon Zoo ani
mal-care staff, leaving behind what in human
terms would be considered the “golden”
second trimester and marching trunk-first
into the home stretch.
Last week marked Rose-Tu’s 16th month
of pregnancy. The 17-year-old pachyderm,
who gave birth to Samudra in 2008, has been
“in a family way” since February 2011, but
her second calf isn’t ready to be bom just yet.
The gestation period for Asian elephants is
around 20 to 22 months.
“Rose-Tu has been through this before,
and she’s doing great,” said zoo veterinarian
Mitch Finnegan. “Right now, all we can do is
make sure she maintains a healthy weight
and gets plenty of exercise.”
And continue to wait, of course. We
should expect to see another member of the
zoo’s celebrated elephant family sometime
between late October and the end of the year.
“Elephants live in matriarchal herds,” said
Bob Lee, the zoo’s elephant curator, “and the
arrival of a new calf is an incredibly important
event for them. If everything goes the way
we hope it will, the entire herd will bond
around this new baby and help care for him
or her, just as they have with Samudra.”
Keepers believe the new calf was con
ceived around Feb. 22,2011, when they ob
served breeding activity between Rose-Tu
and Tusko, the 13,000-pound, 40-year-old
bull elephant who fathered Samudra.
But even after 16 m onths, you ’ll need to
look closely to spot R ose-T u’s “baby
bum p,” Finnegan says. The bulge that zoo
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photo by
M ichael D urham , courtesy of the O regon Z oo .
Asian elephant Rose-Tu and her calf Samudra, take a dip at the Oregon Zoo.
Rose-Tu is expecting her second calf sometime between late October and the end
o f the year.