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Wednesday, August 4, 2021
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Sports Physicals
Ages 0 -17
Contributed photo/Kate Page
STIHL Timbersports Series competitor Kate Page fi nished sixth
at the U.S. Championships on July 23-25. Page is a native of John
Day now living in Heppner, and moved up from placing seventh
in 2019.
Page fi nishes sixth at
Timbersports Series
John Day native
improves in
national event
By Annie Fowler
EO Media Group
Kate Page has improved
her placing every year she has
competed in the STIHL Tim-
bersports Series, and this year
she fi nished sixth among the
12 women during the July
23-25 event.
“I shouldn’t complain,”
Page said. “I was eighth in
2018 and seventh in 2019. I
was in the middle of the pack
without points in one event.
Next year, I have to be in the
top fi ve.”
Martha King of Chadds
Ford, Pennsylvania, won the
event for the second consecu-
tive time.
Page, 30, who works as
a fi refi ghter in the Heppner
Ranger District on the Uma-
tilla National Forest for the
U.S. Forest Service, qualifi ed
for the U.S. Championships at
the West Coast qualifi er June 6
in Centralia, Washington.
With nationals nearly two
months away, Page thought
she would have training time
to hone her skills. The recent
fi res in Oregon threw a mon-
key wrench in her plans.
“We had the Lovlett Fire,
and I didn’t get in the training
I wanted to,” she said. “We
were working 12-hour days.”
At nationals, the competi-
tors started with the stock saw,
then moved to the standing
chop, the single buck and the
underhand.
It was the stock saw event
that Page was disqualifi ed in
because the second piece of
wood (cookie) that she cut
was too thin.
“Right out of the gate, I
disqualifi ed in the stock saw,”
she said. “It was so close. The
edge of your thumbnail was
how close. They make a line
all the way around the log
with a Crayon. Usually when
I disqualify, it’s because I cut
a Crayon line. I’m looking at
“RIGHT OUT
OF THE GATE, I
DISQUALIFIED
IN THE STOCK
SAW. IT WAS SO
CLOSE. THE
EDGE OF YOUR
THUMBNAIL
WAS HOW
CLOSE.”
—Kate Page
my log and I thought it was
good. I turned my saw off and
set it down, which means you
are done. My second cookie
was super thin. It was too
thin.”
Page fi nished fourth in the
standing chop, fourth in the
single buck and seventh in the
underhand.
“I set a personal record for
myself in the underhand,” she
said.
Other than that, Page was
not totally pleased with her
performance.
“The whole weekend was
crap,” she said. “I was all over
the board, but I took sixth. It
was a little wild this year. I
didn’t break any equipment,
which is good.”
Page also took the time to
add up some numbers.
“If I would have taken
sixth place (in the stock saw),
I still would have been in sixth
— 3 points behind fi fth,” she
said. “Unless I had a really
good time, I would have been
stuck at sixth place.”
Some competitors were
surprised that Page showed
up at the competition with
all the fi res raging in the
Northwest.
“They talk about me being
a fi refi ghter and stuff , and say-
ing, ‘Shouldn’t you be out
fi ghting fi res.’” she said. “They
are waiting for me when I get
back. There’s a 400,000-acre
fi re (Bootleg Fire) going on
right now.”
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