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• » » ■ ih m « t :t ' r • I Spily^y Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon Page 7 August 17, 2006 Student travels Down Under for athletics By Leslie Mitts The trip was Smith’s first out o f the country. Athletes for the competition are chosen based academic and athletic ability. Smith, a student with an A and B average in high school, is still unsure o f how she ended up in Australia. “I ’m not sure how I got se lected or who selected me,” she said. According to the website for the Down Under Sports Tour, a student must be on a posted honor list or be nominated by a coach. The Down Under Sports Tour annually hosts students from 10 different sports for a six-day trip to Surfer’s Paradise on the Gold Coast o f Australia. S pilyay Tymoo This summer tribal member Jacoba Smith had a chance to do something that many athletes only dream of. Smith, who is going into her senior year o f high school, trav eled to Australia to compete in the Down Under Sports Tour with a team o f students from Oregon and Arizona— including two other students from Madras High S ch o o l, Freddy Hernandez and Mark Wunsch. The daughter o f Jason and Snuffle Smith o f Warm Springs, Smith competed in track and field in three events during her time in Australia: high jump, triple jump and long jump. Three hundred athletes from the United States and around 100 from Australia and New Zealand formed teams to com pete in the events. Teams from the fifty states competed against the athletes from A ustralia and New Zealand in a two-day interna tional meet. Smith placed eighth in high jump, although at 5 feet 9 inches tall, she was one o f the shortest jumpers in the event. Though she isn’t sure what she placed in triple jump, Smith said she was in the top eight for long jump. Wunsch, the other Madras High School student, placed first and second in the javelin. Hernandez, a cross-country run ner, traveled two weeks after his fellow athletes to compete in a cross-country meet, where he finished in the top 10. T he Oregon and Arizona teams lacked enough members MEMORIES IN STONE Custom Designed Memorials Hand Engraved In Goldendale For Over 18 Years Pioneer Rock & Monument 509-773-4702 201 Crafton Road PO Box 546 Qoldendale.WA www.pioneerrock.com Photo courtesy of Jacoba Smith Jacoba Smith, daughter of Jason and Snuffie Smith, was one of three Madras High School students to recently travel to Australia for an athletic competition. for a full team from each state, so Smith said the two states com bined athletes to form a larger, 12-person team. Before traveling to Australia, the team went to Hawaii for four days. “We went to Hawaii first so we could have team bonding and get to know our team,” Smith said. “It was like a vacation, you did whatever you’d like.” She added, “We went snor- keling. We were boogie board ing. We swam and spent a lot o f time in the ocean and shopped.” Hawaii, Smith added, was her favorite part o f the trip. After their quality time in Hawaii, the team traveled to Australia where they spent sev eral days practicing their sports and competing. But Australia wasn’t without its fun times. While they had limited time for sight-seeing, Smith said, they went to a zoo in Australia. “We got to pet kangaroos and we got to hold koala bears,” she said. T h e three Madras High School athletes had to raise money for their trip Down Un der, and did so through car washes, bake sales, raffles, spon sors, and donations from com munity members, among many other-methods. 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