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Emily Lambert, of Pilot Rock, prepares to hurl the shot at the Pendleton Triad track meet on
April 30, 2021. Lambert won the event with a throw of 35 feet, 10.5 inches. Lambert will con-
tinue her track career at Treasure Valley Community College, Ontario.
CHASING A DREAM
Pilot Rock’s Lambert is after her aunt’s shot put record
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
P
ILOT ROCK — Emily
Lambert has had her
eyes on her aunt’s shot
put record at Pilot Rock
High School since she was in
the sixth grade.
Now a senior, Lambert is
more than determined to put
her name on the leaderboard
this spring.
“During my high school
career, I have gone through
three different coaches,”
Lambert said. “It’s diffi cult.
Each one has their diff erent
way of coaching. I have been
going back and forth, but I’m
going to listen to my coach.”
Lambert is in good hands
with former Rockets football
coach Baleztena, who threw
at Pilot Rock and Blue Moun-
tain Community College.
“She is way faster this
year,” Baleztena said. “We
are trying to get her timing
down with her new speed.
She’s going so fast that we are
trying to fi nd release spots.
It’s early in the season. She
is throwing last year’s marks
right now. It ‘s encouraging
to see where she will be this
year.”
Lambert said she has
dropped 30 pounds from last
spring and has spent count-
less hours in the weight room
preparing for her fi nal high
school season.
“I am way lighter on my
feet than I was last year, and
I am in the weight room all
the time now,” she said. “I
think the passion and dedi-
cation will give me that extra
foot too.”
Lambert throws the shot
put and discus, but her fi rst
love is the shot put. Her best
mark is 36-2 ½. Her aunt’s
record 37-2 ½.
“She has been so support-
ive,” Lambert said. “She
said that record needs to be
broken.”
Her au nt is Rock y
Lambert (now Stout), who set
the shot put record her fresh-
man year in 1979.
A 1982 graduate of
Pilot Rock, Stout was the
premiere female athlete in
Eastern Oregon during her
time, excelling in volleyball,
basketball and track.
“I never surpassed that
(record),” Stout said. “I
thought, ‘I peaked as a fresh-
man?’ I just thought they
must be measuring throws
wrong. I have been rooting
for Emily for the past four
years to get that record. She
is working really hard at it. I
told her she needs to have a
little more discipline.”
Stout was a four-event
athlete in track. While she
would always throw the shot
and discus, she changed up
the other two events meet to
meet.
“They only let us do four
at a meet and I wanted to do
them all,” Stout said. “Back
then, we had to be disciplined
ourselves. I’d stay 45 minutes
after practice. I wanted to get
the spin down. I wanted to
work on my technique. We
did that extra. I used to get
up every morning and run
to the grange hall (2 miles).
That was my daily routine,
with pushups and sit ups.”
While Lambert is working
to beat her aunt’s record, so is
Stout’s granddaughter, Lela
Campbell, who is a junior at
Tumwater High School in
Washington.
“She can’t really break my
record, but she wants to throw
farther than me,” Stout said.
“She loves basketball as much
as I do. She is more intimi-
dated than I was. Once I laced
up my shoes, it was my court.”
Lambert also has her
sights set on the 2A state
track meet, which will be
back at Hayward Field in
Eugene this spring.
“I am excited to go to
Hayward field,” she said.
“My freshman year, we went
to state at Western Oregon.
Last year, we had district
and state at Union. I was
used to the facility, and I was
comfortable there. Hayward
will be so diff erent. I have
never been in a big stadium
like that. I don’t know what
it’s like to compete in that
environment. I am deter-
mined to get there.”
Lambert placed third
at state in the shot put and
discus last year, and fourth
in the shot put her fresh-
man year. The COVID-19
pandemic wiped out her
sophomore year.
THURSDAY, MARCH 24
Boys soccer
Southridge at Hermiston, 1 p.m.
Prep baseball
Riverside at White Salmon, 4 p.m.
Track and fi eld
McLoughlin at Hawks Invite, College
Place, 10 a.m.
Track and fi eld
Heppner, Pilot Rock, Irrigon, Riverside,
Stanfi eld/Echo, Umatilla at Bulldog
Invite, Hermiston, TBD
College baseball
Southwestern Oregon at Blue Moun-
tain (2), 11 a.m.
FRIDAY, MARCH 25
College softball
Blue Mountain at Wenatchee Valley
(2), noon
Prep baseball
Chiawana at Hermiston (2), 4 p.m.
Prep softball
Pilot Rock vs. Burns, Union Spring Bash,
noon
Umatilla vs. Seaside, Seaside Spring
Break Tournament, noon
Umatilla vs. Valley Catholic, Seaside
Spring Break Tournament, 4 p.m.
Hermiston at Hanford (2), 4 p.m.
Pilot Rock vs. Bonanza, Union Spring
Bash, 4:30 p.m.
College baseball
Southwestern Oregon at Blue Moun-
tain (2), noon
College softball
Blue Mountain at Yakima Valley (2),
2 p.m.
SATURDAY, MARCH 26
Prep softball
Umatilla vs. Stayton, Seaside Spring
Break Tournament, 10 a.m.
Pilot Rock vs. Warrenton, Union Spring
Bash, 11 a.m.
MONDAY, MARCH 28
Prep golf
Hermiston boys at Pendleton, 11 a.m.
Pendleton girls at Wildhorse, 11 a.m.
TUESDAY, MARCH 29
Prep baseball
Madras at Umatilla, 3 p.m.
With her high school
career winding dow n,
Lambert is taking her talents
to Treasure Valley Commu-
nity College, Ontario.
“It will be really good to
have her here,” TVCC coach
Blas Guerra said. “We have
added another girl to throw
the shot and discus. We will
have three women and three
men. It will be a good group.
We haven’t had a whole lot of
kids who were interested in
throwing.”
Lambert, who would like
to study nursing, hasn’t made
the trek to Ontario yet, but
plans to go before she grad-
uates.
“I had other offers,
but not in a place where I
wanted to go,” she said. “I
just wanted to go to a place
where I haven’t been. A
fresh start. I’m excited to
tour the campus and meet
the coaches.”
Heppner at Pilot Rock, 4 p.m.
Irrigon at Stanfi eld/Echo, 4 p.m.
Pasco at Hermiston, 4 p.m.
McLoughlin at Riverside, 4:30 p.m.
Weston-McEwen at College Place,
4:30 p.m.
Prep softball
Pendleton at College Place, 4 p.m.
McLoughlin at Weston-McEwen, 4 p.m.
Riverside at Echo/Stanfi eld, 4 p.m.
Heppner/Ione at Irrigon, 4:30 p.m.
Hermiston at Southridge, 5 p.m.
Boys soccer
Hermiston at Kamiakin, 7 p.m.
Prep tennis
Pendleton at La Grande, 3 p.m.
Ione/Heppner at Weston-McEwen,
3:30 p.m.
McLoughlin at Stanfi eld/Echo, 4:30 p.m.
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horse Resort & Casino, will
be May 13 at Wildhorse
Golf Course.
The scramble format
tourney is the premiere
fundraiser for Tamástslikt
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golf architect, John Steidel,
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features 18 holes of spectac-
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deep bunkers.
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teeing off in the Guardian
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preceded by two pro-am
tournaments beginning
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amateur golfers get to team
up with professionals from
the Epson Tour to compete
in a scramble.
The pro-am also will be
at Wildhorse Golf Course.
“Wildhorse Resort &
Casino and the Confeder-
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Indian Reservation are
excited to showcase and
welcome some of the most
talented young profes-
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the world to our Tribal and
local communities,” CEO
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release.
When asked why Wild-
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George explained, “This
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eff orts to provide meaning-
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youth and to grow the game
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