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TRACK & FIELD
OLYMPIC TRIALS
Ryan Crouser sets
shot put record
The U.S. Olympic trials
for track and field began
Friday at Hayward Field in
Eugene, and it didn’t take
long for the meet to see a
big-time performance.
Ryan Crouser uncorked
a throw of 76 feet, 81/4
inches in the men’s shot
put final on Friday night
to set a new world record.
Crouser, the former
Barlow High School star,
entered as the favorite
and said he had been
chasing the world record
for a long time. He had
the best throw of the day
in qualifying at 75 feet,
21/2 inches. But it turns
out he was just getting
started.
In the evening final, he
bettered that by setting
the world record on his
fourth throw, breaking
Randy Barnes’ 1990 mark
of 75-101/4 by 10 inches.
All five of Crouser’s
legal throws in the final
would have won the
competition. His series
went 74-21/4, 73-113/4, 74-
7, 76-81/4, foul and 74-21/2.
Joe Kovacs and Pay-
ton Otterdahl will join
Crouser on Team USA for
the Tokyo Olympics. Ko-
vacs finished second with
a throw of 73-31/2, with
Otterdahl third at 71-11.
In the only other final
on Friday, Woody Kincaid
of the Portland-based
Bowerman Track Club
used a ferocious kick on
the final lap to win the
men’s 10,000 meters in
27 minutes, 53.62 sec-
onds. BTC teammate
Grant Fisher placed sec-
ond in 27:54.29, while
Joe Klecker placed third
to earn the third and fi-
nal Olympic berth in the
event for Tokyo.
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U.S. OLYMPIC TRACK AND FIELD TRIALS
Bend’s Mehra will run for a spot in Tokyo
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EUGENE — Bend’s Rebecca Mehra
finished fifth in her semifinal heat of
the women’s 1,500 meters on Saturday
night to qualify for the finals of the
event on Monday at the U.S. Olympic
Track & Field Trials at Hayward Field.
Mehra, 26, will run for a top-three
finish on Monday in an attempt to
qualify for the Tokyo Games, sched-
uled for later this summer.
Mehra finished with the
Mehra, who runs for the
12th fastest time, 4 minutes,
Littlewing Athletics team in
10.41 seconds.
Bend that is sponsored by
Nikki Hiltz qualified with
Oiselle, qualified for the finals
the fastest time (4:05.87),
automatically by virtue of her
Cory McGee was second
fifth-place finish in her heat.
(4:05.96) and Sinclaire John-
Mehra
Qualifiers included the top
son was third (4:06.04).
five in each of two heats of 12
The women’s 1,500 finals,
and the next two fastest runners by time. which includes 12 runners, is set for
Monday at 5:05 p.m.
Mehra, who ran collegiately for
Stanford and moved to Bend in 2018,
is also entered in the 800, which is
scheduled for Thursday.
On Sunday evening, Bend’s Mel
Lawrence, one of Mehra’s team-
mates on Littlewing, is scheduled to
run in the first round of the women’s
3,000-meter steeplechase.
Prep swimming
DIFFERENT STROKES
— The Oregonian
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Swimmers from Summit, from top, Bend and Mountain View compete in the 200-meter freestyle relay during a meet at Juniper Swim and Fitness on Saturday.
High school swimming this season is a mix of casual and competitive meets
Amanda Loman/AP file
Portland Thorns’ Adri-
anna Franch during a
match against Kansas
City in Portland in April.
The Thorns take on KC
Sunday in Portland.
Details, B3.
COLLEGE
BASEBALL
BY BRIAN RATHBONE
The Bulletin
P
erhaps it is the night before a
swim meet that Ella Griswold
likes the most about being on
the Bend High swim team.
The swimmers typically gather at a teammate’s
house and load up on carbs to prepare for the next
day of racing.
At these “pasta feeds” teammates like to share
interesting facts about one another and play silly
games to build team comradery.
In a shortened high school sports year, the
plates of pasta were put on the shelf, but the swim-
ming has continued.
“It has still been really fun,” said Griswold, who
just finished her junior year and also runs track
and cross-country for the Lava Bears. “Swimming
is my favorite so I was really excited when we fi-
nally got word that there was going to be a sea-
son, even if it was only going to be for a couple of
weeks.”
The three Bend high schools have finished
three of their four meets of the final high school
season of the 2020-21 school year.
See Swimming / B2
Ducks’ Zavala earns
another honor
EUGENE — Aaron Za-
vala is a consensus first
team All-American.
The Oregon right
fielder was named a first
team All-American by
the American Baseball
Coaches Association on
Saturday, matching his
previous such distinction
from Baseball America
and the National Colle-
giate Baseball Writers As-
sociation to earn the con-
sensus designation.
The Pac-12 Player
of the Year, Zavala hit a
team-high .392 with nine
home runs, 38 RBIs, 64
runs scored and 11 steals
and set school records
for on-base percentage
(.525), runs and walks (50).
Zavala also earned first
team honors from Per-
fect Game, though it’s not
one of the four official All
America teams. He was
named a second team
All-American by Colle-
giate Baseball Newspaper.
— The Oregonian
GOLF | U.S. OPEN
SKIING
‘Can’t miss him more’:
At Torrey Pines, the eagle
Shiffrin reflects on her late father lands for Oosthuizen, Hughes
BY PAT GRAHAM
Associated Press
Mikaela Shiffrin’s tentative
plans on Father’s Day: Dinner
with family. Perhaps a board
game or a movie. Definitely
some Jimmy Buffet or Paul Si-
mon music.
Because that’s the sort
of celebration Jeff Shiffrin
would’ve wanted.
Rarely a day goes by when
some image, moment or song
doesn’t remind the American
skiing great of her dad, who
died on Feb. 2, 2020, after an
accident at his home in Ed-
wards, Colorado.
The two-time Olympic
champion can still hear his
calming words of advice (a
simple “focus” was a biggie).
Or see him drumming on the
steering wheel to whatever
tune was on the radio. Or en-
vision those family dinners
followed by a lively board
game.
“It’s not like this day, Fa-
ther’s Day, is really any more
emotional,” Shiffrin said. “Be-
cause I can’t miss him more
than I already do on a daily
basis.”
His legacy lives on through
a fund set up in his honor.
The Jeff Shiffrin Athlete Resil-
iency Fund raised more than
$3 million to help offset train-
ing and competition expenses
through the pandemic. This
season, the U.S. Ski & Snow-
board Team and the Shiffrin
family are hoping to raise
$250,000 for a direct-to-ath-
lete fund.
“He loved watching athletes
overcome challenges and still
be able to climb to the top of
the podium or have success,”
said Trisha Worthington, the
chief development officer for
the U.S. Ski & Snowboard
Team foundation.
The proud father was fre-
quently somewhere on the hill
taking pictures of his daugh-
ter. If not there, he was in the
stands, holding back tears
when she won, which was
quite a bit.
Shiffrin has a picture of
them at dinner together in
Hawaii as her phone’s screen-
saver.
See Shiffrin / B3
BY DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer
SAN DIEGO — Mackenzie
Hughes and Louis Oosthuizen
brought the memories of Tiger
Woods roaring back to life Sat-
urday in the U.S. Open at Tor-
rey Pines.
Just like in 2008, when
Woods made eagle putts across
the green on Nos. 13 and 18, it
left this U.S. Open up for grabs.
First it was Hughes, rolling
in a 60-foot eagle putt from the
back of the green to the front
pin at No. 13 that got him into
the mix.
Next came Oosthuizen with
an eagle putt from 50 feet to a
front pin on the 18th.
That led to them being tied
for the lead with Russell Hen-
ley, who was hanging on for
dear life at the end of a third
round that set the stage for a
Sunday filled with possibilities.
Rory McIlroy and Bryson
DeChambeau were two shots
behind.
McIlroy has gone seven
years without a major, while
DeChambeau can get the
last laugh by joining Brooks
Koepka with back-to-back U.S.
Open titles.
A U.S. Open that for two
days lacked excitement came to
life in a big way.
Hughes, coming off four
consecutive missed cuts, bird-
ied the 18th for a 3-under 68.
He was the first player to reach
5-under 208.
See U.S. Open / B3