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After Pasena-Littlesky made her
visit to the admissions offi ce, admis-
sions director Madison Hollenbeck
let Blues soccer coach Michelle
Voiland know that a potential player
could be coming to school.
“I contacted Lindsey and we
had a Zoom call and began our
connection,” Voiland said. “It was
quite serendipitous. I am excited to
have Lindsey joining our program.
She brings such incredible energy.
Lindsey is an incredible student and
person and will fi t in really well with
the positive culture of our team and
the fun, collaborative energy on the
Whitman campus.”
Pasena-Littlesky said she felt a
connection with Voiland from the
start.
“I love Michelle,” she said. “She
was a goalkeeper and coached at
Oregon State. She gave me a tour of
their athletic facilities, they are really
nice.”
Scholarship helps
Pasena-Littlesky
go to Whitman
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
H
ERMISTON — Whit-
man College wasn’t
even on Lindsey Pase-
na-Littlesky’s radar
when she and her mom, Michelle
Pasena, attended the Plateau Long
Tent event on the school’s Walla
Walla campus in April.
A chance meeting of a Whit-
man student and a professor led
to an impromptu campus tour and
a trip to the admissions offi ce.
Needless to say, Pasena-Littlesky
will be attending Whitman in the
fall, and will be part of the Blues’
women’s soccer program.
“This has been a crazy, long
journey,” the Hermiston senior
said. “Throughout my senior year,
I told myself I didn’t want to rank
schools so I wouldn’t create an
emotional attachment.”
Pasena-Littlesky could pretty
much get into any school she
wanted to with a 3.8 GPA, but
she also wanted to continue play-
ing soccer. She had off ers from
schools as far away as Vermont,
and from the local community
colleges, but she needed some-
Kathy Aney/East Oregonian, File
Hermiston goalie Lindsey Pasena-Littlesky grabs a Hanford shot on goal
during a soccer game Sept. 4, 2021, at Kennison Field. Pasena-Littlesky
will continue her soccer career in the fall of 2022 at Whitman College,
Walla Walla.
where that also met her academic
needs.
“I had to realize the location
and my major,” she said. “This
is the next part of my life. I had
offers to play DI soccer, but I
didn’t want my whole life to be
soccer. At the DIII level, I can
focus on soccer and school.”
With plans to attend Stanford
in the future and earn her law
degree, Pasena-Littlesky will
major in political science at Whit-
man with a focus on environmen-
tal law and psychology.
“It was good to find a good
liberal arts school that will build me
Garton,
Bucks
shut down
Dallas in
semifi nals
academically and give me an oppor-
tunity to play soccer,” she said.
Scholarship
bridges the gap
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
The Blues are getting a talented
goalkeeper in Pasena-Littlesky, who
is a three-time Goalie of the Year —
twice with Pendleton in the Inter-
mountain Conference, and this past
fall with Hermiston in the Mid-Co-
lumbia Conference.
During her senior season with the
Bulldogs, she allowed an average of
.80 goals a game.
PENDLETON — Pendleton
coach Tim Cary was concerned
about Dallas left-handed pitcher
Kadence Morrison. His team had not
seen a left-hander all season.
As it turns out, the Dragons (19-9)
had not seen the likes of Pendleton’s
Sauren Garton, who threw a one-hit
shutout to lead the Bucks to a 4-0
victory on Tuesday, May 31, and a
trip to the 5A state title game.
“We are pretty excited right now,”
Pendleton coach Tim Cary said.
The Bucks (27-2) will play
Wilsonville in the championship
game Saturday at Jane Sanders
Stadium in Eugene.
“We don’t have a single person
on this team that has been to the
state championship game,” Cary
said. “They just need to relax,
enjoy the moment and go out and
have fun.”
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Whitman is the real winner
A year at Whitman carries hefty
tuition and fees — nearly $75,000
— but Pasena-Littlesky will have
most of that covered with the Sinaata
Scholarship, a pell grant and other
scholarships.
In recognition of the special rela-
tionship between Whitman College
and the Confederated Tribes of the
Umatilla Indian Reservation, the
Sinaata Scholarship is one of the most
generous scholarships Whitman
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