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Siuslaw
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combination of Riley
Colton, Brea Blankenship
and Gracie Freudenthal,
who remained in a tight
group from the beginning.
“It’s nice when it works
out the way,” Johnson said.
“If you have a teammate to
lean on, it can help.
Obviously, everybody is
running their own individ-
ual race to their own indi-
vidual limits, but there’s
some comfort in having
some teammates around.
It’s just a solid lineup.
They’re tough. You can see
it on their faces, they’re just
tough girls that are fun to
coach.”
But with half a mile to
go, the three were on the
bottom half of the top
eight, with three Marist
runners right behind
Rannow.
“I yelled at Riley
[ C olt on ] ,
Bre a
[Blankenship] and Gracie
[Freudenthal] that they if
they could get in front of
Marist’s third girl, we’re
going to win the meet,”
Johnson recalled. “And the
girls started to pull away
and Rylee reeled her in and
passed her. That was a key
moment.”
Colton ended up in fifth
place, beating out Marist’s
fourth runner, who was
followed by Blankenship
and Freudenthal, respec-
tively. Marist took ninth,
and Siuslaw senior Chloe
Madden finished out the
top 10, giving the Viks a
1-point win (32-33) over
Marist.
Freudenthal beat her PR
by a whopping 50 seconds,
while Colton beat hers by
20 seconds.
Johnson gave high praise
to Madden, who had rolled
her ankle earlier in the
year, leaving her perfor-
mance up in the air.
“It just didn’t heal cor-
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From left: Brea Blankenship, Rylee Colton, Anne Wartnik and Gracie Freudenthal
climb a hill along the Lane Community College cross country course Thursday.
rectly, and she ended up
having a cortisone shot and
possibly had to have sur-
gery,” Johnson said. “But
she preserved, only 3 sec-
onds off of her PR.”
For the boys’ team,
Johnson felt that a Siuslaw
win was more of a sure bet
going into the meet.
“Marist ran really well,
better than I expected
them to run,” he said. “But
I felt like our boys were the
favorite going in. And they
ended up running — by far
— their best race of the
year.”
Like the girls’ race, the
team win came down to
the last minute.
Brendon Jensen had the
lead over all the other Viks
runners but couldn’t seem
to get past runners from
Marist, Cottage Grove and
Marshfield, who ended up
taking the top three.
“Brendon had the goal
of trying to win the league
title, and who wouldn’t?”
said Johnson. “But I think
he was realizing that there
were a couple of guys pull-
ing away from him and it
wasn’t going to happen.”
At that point, it became
a team race, with Jensen
and Sam Ulrich trying to
beat two Marist runners
who were in fourth and
fifth place.
“Sam came up and they
just keyed off each other,”
Johnson recalled. “They
were behind Marist’s third
guy. If Marist has three
guys in front of our first,
we’re not going to win. It’s
almost impossible. But
they just came through.
They passed three and
reeled in two and that was
it. That was the 1-point
victory.”
Jensen came in fourth
and Ulrich fifth, with Kiger
Johnson and Kyle Hughes
taking 8th and 9th, respec-
tively, in the top 10 and
giving Siuslaw the win,
37-38.
“The biggest story is
probably the freshmen,”
Johnson said. “Sam had a
huge PR, the third-fastest
time by any freshman in
Siuslaw history. Kyle had
the sixth-fastest. They real-
ly came through, ran really
well. Kiger’s lifelong goal
was to break 17 minutes,
and he did that.”
Jaxson Jensen, who fin-
ished 11th, was also a
standout.
“I gotta give him props,”
Johnson said. “He split his
ODFW
before launching any type
of watercraft. This season,
we intercepted 14 water-
craft containing quagga
or zebra mussels,” Boatner
said.
So far this year, tech-
nicians inspected 26,395
watercraft; 14 of those con-
taining quagga or zebra
mussels and 368 with other
types of bio-fouling such
as Eurasian milfoil were
decontaminated.
By law, anyone haul-
ing watercraft of any type
whether motorized or not
must stop at an open wa-
ter-craft inspection station
for a free inspection which
typically takes about 10
minutes. If invasive spe-
cies are found, the vessel
will be decontaminated on
site.
Quagga mussels can live
around 21 days outside of
the water, depending on
temperature and humidi-
ty. They easily establish in
rivers and lakes, causing
severe ecological damage
to those systems along with
economic damage to water
systems.
Watercraft inspection
stations are located at ports
of entry around Oregon
with most open from April
through early September.
The Ashland and Ontar-
io stations, which get the
most traffic are open daily
year-round from 8 a.m. to
7 p.m.
Invasive species is a Key
Conservation Issue for Or-
egon’s Conservation Strat-
egy.
When companies look
the California State Senate
stating: “We believe that
any reform to be fair and
meaningful to all student
athletes, it needs to occur
at the National level and be
adopted by the NCAA.”
In my opinion, college
athletes are being paid
through scholarships they
have been given. A full
scholarship will enable an
athlete to earn a diploma
and graduate hav-ing little
or no debt. Compared to
the millions of other col-
lege attendees graduat-ing
with debts in the thou-
sands of dollars, the schol-
arship athlete has defi nite-
ly been paid. As the cost
of education increases, the
scholarship athlete gets a
pay raise, too. Room and
board, tuition, books and
the opportunity to travel
free to other cities are ben-
efi ts everyday college stu-
dents are not given.
If top players were to
receive
endorsements,
might they stay longer in
school? If they stayed un-
til using up their eligibili-
ty, two results may occur:
Th e school may be more
competitive if the athletes
stay, and; the athlete may
actually earn a de-gree to
help them aft er their ca-
reers in sports end.
I do not look forward to
the day our colleges mir-
ror the professional model
of ath-letic competition.
Playing for the “love of the
game” is rapidly declining
in the eyes of profession-
al athletes. Let’s hope we
can continue to watch the
youthful enthu-siasm of
young college athletes as
they play out their dreams.
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time between soccer and
cross country. Soccer is a
rough sport, and there’s
been a couple of practices
where he’s hurting through
soccer games. He had a
great second half of the
race and came through.”
Johnson added, “It was a
team effort, and that’s what
it takes on a day like that.”
For the OSAA State
Championship, which will
be held Saturday, Nov. 9,
four Siuslaw runners will
be competing for individu-
al titles including Rannow,
Colton, Jensen and Ulrich.
As for the teams, the
girls’ race will again be a
match-up between the
Viks and Marist.
“Marist is the defending
champions, and I’m sure
they’re angry and frustrat-
ed and looking for some
revenge. We’re expecting
that,” Johnson said.
For the boys, the field
will be a little more open.
“There’s several teams
that can win,” Johnson
said. “Baker, Siuslaw,
Marist,
Newport,
Philomath, Sisters — all
those teams are solid and
have a chance to win. It’ll
be a dog fight.”
Still, Johnson likes the
chances for both teams to
come out on top.
“It’s always difficult to
win a state championship.
It’s never easy, no matter
what anybody thinks.
People don’t know what
goes into it. But we have a
pattern and a formula —
and we’re going to play our
game and go from there.”
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jump on this bandwagon,
more athletes are likely to
use this opportunity as a
deciding factor in selecting
their college.
Ultimately, the law has
the potential to tip the
competitive scale towards
California schools.
Tim Tebow, former
All-American
football
player, believes college
athletics should be about
achieving one’s dreams
and not as a means to
make money. He further
states the players seek-
ing endorsements change
a player’s perspective. It
also has the possibility to
substitute the “us” or “we”
mentality to “all about me.”
Teammates may be-
come alienated and left
out because without them
there would be no “star.”
dorsements, they look for
the big-name stars on the
most visible of the sports.
Th ese endorsements sel-
dom fi nd the “worker
bees” on a team. If the law
were in eff ect today for
the state of Oregon, how
many athletes attending
our colleges and universi-
ties might be selected for
an endorsement? Th ere are
over 450,000 college ath-
letes in Division I colleges
and universities. Th e select
few athletes chosen for an
endorsement are likely
to be the same ones to be
selected by a professional
team and paid big money
if/when they elect to turn
pro.
Stanford and USC, two
California Pac-12 schools,
opposed the bill. Bernard
Muir, athletic director at
Stanford, wrote a letter to
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the friendship, trust and loyalty of those who live in this
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