COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL NOVEMBER 8, 2017
Lions fi nish
12th at State
By Zach Silva
zsilva@cgsentinel.com
Saturday the Cottage Grove boys’ cross
country team took 12th place at the State meet
at Lane Community College.
It was Jimmy Talley who led the way for the
team as he fi nished in 33rd place with a time
of 17:35.
Behind Talley were Konrad Raum at 17:35
and in 33rd place and Paesen Timm at 18:01
and 58th place. Raum and Timm are also
members of the boys’ soccer team that had
their quarterfi nal game moved to Friday night
to accommodate the runners. The pair arrived
home from their game at around 3:00 a.m. and
were warming up for the meet by 11:00 a.m.
" It was the hardest race I have ever ran
in my life," said Raum. "When the gun was
shot and the race starts you go up this straight
stretch and then you go up a hill. Right when I
went up the hill my legs were already tired and
I was like, ‘Oh crap.’”
Raum still fi nished 35 seconds faster than
his time at the state meet last season.
Closing out the Lions top fi ve was Konnor
Owens in a time of 19:07 and Justin Francis
in 19:22.
Jesse Ellingworth who fi nished 17th at State
last year and 9th at districts did not run at the
meet.
A busy week
Cottage Grove's Paesen Timm and
Konrad Raum both competed in the
boys' soccer quarterfi nal game on Friday
and ran at the State cross country meet
on Satuday. Here was their schedule
during the last week:
11/1
7 p.m.: Cottage Grove vs. La Grande,
fi rst round playoff game
9:30 p.m.: Lions win 3-2 (with goals
from Raum and Timm) in overtime
11/2
11 a.m.: Soccer team loads up bus and
travels to Pendleton
6:00 pm: Arrive in Pendleton
11/3
2:30 p.m.: board bus for McLaughlin
5:00 p.m.: Start game against Mc-
Laughlin
7 p.m.: Lions lose 2-0
9 p.m.: Team departs for Eugene
11/4
3:30 a.m.: Team arrives at high school
10:00 a.m.: Cross country team arrives
at Lane Community College
10:50 a.m.: Cross country team begins
warming up
11:50 a.m.: State cross country meet
begins
12:18 a.m.: Raum and Timm fi nish race
5B
Two sports, twice the fun
By Justin Francis
CGHS Student
Paesen Timm, a junior at Cot-
tage Grove High School, has en-
dured the time consuming task
of taking part in two sports at
once: cross country and soccer.
With a season best time of 17:22
minutes in cross country, and
his constant goals and assists in
soccer, Timm is helping lead his
teams to victory. The only fl aw
with competing in two sports is
the amount of time he has to do
anything else.
“It helps me learn to man-
age my time a bit better,” said
Timm, “The hardest part would
be attending the practices.”
Timm also mentioned that, “The
meets and games were pretty
easy because we only have to
worry about one thing on that
day.”
The workload that Timm and
all of the other athletes at Cot-
tage Grove High School endure
is nothing less than immense.
They have to juggle practices,
games, meets, school work and
even a job for some. This task
can be extremely diffi cult and
stress inducing at times, and
one might wonder why people
would want to put themselves
through it. The answer for
Timm was easy, he wanted to
challenge himself and play
with his friends in both sports.
Timm has been playing soc-
cer since he was four-years-old
and got into running his fresh-
men year during track season.
Until track season of his fresh-
man year, Timm wasn't a run-
ner, but when he told himself
that he could push his limits and
run with the faster runners and
become better and better with
every race he ran, he did. Hav-
ing done sports his whole life,
PHOTO BY ZACH SILVA/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
Timm fell into the schedule of
Cottage Grove's Paesen Timm races at
running almost instantaneously.
the district cross country meet.
Fueling your body with what
makes it happy, eating regularly his current cross country sea-
throughout the day and drinking son and his current soccer sea-
plenty of water; all of these put son, which means the choice of
together led to constant increas- doing which sports arises next
es in race times for Timm, and year, when Timm only has one
kept him in amazing physical more year at Cottage Grove
shape as he did it. A word of High School before he goes on
advice that Timm shared is to to the “real world” where he can
not procrastinate on work and make decisions to steer his life
make sure that you are taking in directions to fi t who he is as a
care of everything you need to person. Timm has three younger
in school, before you participate siblings, and an older brother.
in multiple extracurricular ac- He is very helpful around the
tivities.
house, especially with his little
This year, he is fi nishing up brother, Jaxton.
Timm used to be a basketball
player in middle school and his
freshman year of high school,
but soon realized that when
track time rolled around that
Fran Rothage
he could have been training in
the winter time when basket-
Age: 69
ball took place. The head track
coach at Cottage Grove High
Years Bowling: 8
School, Ricky Knutson, had
agreed to train Timm through-
High Game: 246
out the winter, leading to Timm
Reason for bowling:
seeing drastic changes in his
race times.
Th e people & teams, all
Being a three sport athlete,
of the great people!
Timm still fi nds time to do some
of the things that he loves to in
his free time. Timm is constant-
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with his friends and enjoying
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time around them. Timm also
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