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Seaside names Tanabe high
school athletic director
By Gary Henley
Seaside Signal
SUE CODY
Kids develop soccer skills at Camp Kick-a-Lot.
Summer kicks come
to Camp Kick-A-Lot
It’s time to sign the kids
up for Camp Kick-A-Lot at
the Warrenton Soccer Com-
plex, 1100 N.W. Ridge Road
in Warrenton. The camp is a
unique opportunity for kids
entering first through eighth
grades to learn about soccer,
practice skills, dress up in
costumes and have a lot of
fun.
“It’s all about the kids,”
was Jerry Boisvert’s motto
when he started the camp
22 years ago. Justin Gagnon
plans to carry on the tradition
and honor the legacy of Bois-
vert, who died in January.
There are two sessions.
Session 1 is from 2 to 5 p.m.
July 16 to 20. Session 2 is
from 4 to 7 p.m. July 23 to
27. Registration is $75 for
one session or $120 for both
sessions until June 30. After
June 30, registration is $90
for one session and $135 for
both sessions.
Campers receive a soc-
cer ball, enjoy a different
theme each day, learn the
fundamentals of soccer and
interact with energetic coun-
selors.
Camp Kick-A-Lot is
sponsored by the nonprofit
Lower Columbia Soccer As-
sociation. Registration for
fall soccer is also open. For
information, see lcysasoc-
cer.com. To register, go to
http://bit.ly/lcysa.
Seaside High School has
filled a couple of vacancies in
the athletic department, as the
Gulls head into the summer
season.
Aaron Tanabe has been
hired as the school’s new ath-
letic director, and Demi Lund
will take over as the varsity
volleyball coach.
Both were approved at a
school board meeting June 19.
Tanabe replaces Jason
Boyd, the longtime athletic
director who is now the vice
principal at Seaside High
School. And Lund replaces
Eric Huntsman as the Gulls’
volleyball coach.
Tanabe comes to Seaside
after serving as an offensive
and defensive line football
coach at Valley Catholic for
the last four years.
He played football and
baseball at Hilo High School
in Hilo, Hawaii. That was fol-
lowed by two years of college
football at Southern Oregon
before he transferred to Lin-
field College, where he played
his junior and senior years.
Before coming to Val-
ley Catholic in 2014, Ta-
nabe coached at Amity High
School. He also taught phys-
VALLEY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL
MT. HOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Seaside’s new varsity volley-
ball coach Demi Lund, when
she starred at Mt. Hood Com-
munity College.
ical education and health at
Jason Lee School in Portland.
At Seaside, he will also
teach and serve as an assistant
football coach to Jeff Roberts,
who also played at Linfield.
“I wasn’t a teammate (at
Linfield), but I got the chance
to know him and had the op-
portunity to coach against
him when he was at Valley
Catholic,” Roberts said. “He’s
a young man who’s driven,
who’s coached and played
different sports.
“We’re looking forward to
having his positive attitude in
the building, and I think he’s
Aaron Tanabe will take over
as athletic director at Sea-
side High School on Aug. 1.
looking forward to coming
to a place where sports are
big for the kids, and the com-
munity is involved with the
school.”
Boyd added, “He was
looking for an opportunity
to be an athletic director, so
he’s been training, shadow-
ing (Valley Catholic athletic
director) Joel Sobotka for the
last year.”
Getting the Seaside job
“allowed him to stay in the
area and gives him a student
population he could identify
with, and a place where he
feels he can put down some
roots,” Boyd said.
Meanwhile, Demi Lund
(formerly Demi Belshe) was a
volleyball player at Mt. Hood
Community College and Car-
roll College in Montana, af-
ter a prep career at Roseburg
High School. She is married
to Astoria High School grad-
uate Dane Lund.
Joining Lund on the Sea-
side coaching staff will be ju-
nior varsity coach Paul Whit-
tle and JV II coach Becky
Botkins.
Lund “has done some
coaching at Crescent Valley,
and last year was a volun-
teer at Broadway Middle
School,” Boyd said. “Paul
Whittle played some USA
club volleyball after high
school, so he has good expe-
rience. And Becky Botkins
is highly motivated, highly
organized and works really
well with kids.”
Another position the Gulls
must fill will be varsity base-
ball coach, following the re-
cent resignation of Joel Di-
erickx after 21 years as the
Seaside coach.
“If the right applicant fell
into our laps, we would have
some interviews, but right
now we want to see what’s
out there,” Boyd said. “We’d
like to leave it open for now,
because it’s important for
Aaron to be part of that hiring
process.”
Tanabe will officially take
over as athletic director Aug. 1.
Stember, Loberg capture junior amateur titles at tournament
The Daily Astorian
WARRENTON — Port-
land’s Nate Stember and Oliv-
ia Loberg of Bend were the big
winners Friday at the Astoria
Golf & Country Club.
The two junior golfers
earned titles on the final day
of the 88th Bob Norquist Or-
egon Junior Amateur Champi-
onship, held Monday through
Friday at the country club.
Stember won the junior
boys division (age 16-18),
while Loberg won the girls’
division (age 15-18). The vic-
tories earned Stember and
Loberg the title of Oregon Ju-
nior Amateur champions.
Stember played Johnny
Ward of Lake Oswego in Fri-
day’s match play final. The
two golfers were each coming
off state titles in May.
Stember — who competes
for Lincoln High School —
took medalist honors in the
Class 6A state championship,
while Ward was a member of
Jesuit High School’s state-win-
ning team.
The two players went back-
and-forth in Friday’s cham-
pionship match, with Ward
going into the 17th hole 1-up.
Stember won No. 17 to even
the match, and both players
had birdie putts on the par-4
18th. Ward left his first putt
short by five feet, while Stem-
ber hit his three feet past the
hole.
Ward missed his par oppor-
tunity, while Stember drained
his short putt to win his first
CLOKWISE, FROM ABOVE Olivia Loberg of Bend won the
girls’ age 15-18 division.
Winner Nate Stember, right, greets Johnny Ward at the
conclusion of the Friday, June 29, match at the Astoria Golf &
Country Club.
The match play winners from the Oregon Junior Amateur
championship: Olivia Loberg, Lucas Vanderlip, Nate Stember,
Natalie Yen, Ethan Tseng, Jacinda Lee, Adam Wrenn.
JEFF TER HAR/FOR THE DAILY ASTORIAN
Oregon Junior Amateur title.
Stember will be a senior at
Lincoln, and was a member of
last year’s Team Oregon at the
prestigious Eddie Hogan Cup
team matches, and earlier this
summer qualified for the 2018
U.S. Junior Amateur Champi-
onship.
The girls’ final was between
Loberg and recent Tigard High
School graduate Victoria Gai-
ley. The two golfers went to
the 18th hole tied.
Gailey had a long bird-
ie attempt, hitting it past the
hole by four feet. Loberg left
herself a five-foot putt for par.
Both players made par, and the
match went to extra holes. On
the 19th, Loberg won the hole
and the match.
Loberg is a rising junior at
Summit High School in Bend.
She won her second-consecu-
tive Class 5A individual state
championship in May.
A few local golfers made it
to Friday’s finals.
In the junior boys’ cham-
pionship flight bracket, recent
Seaside graduate Jackson
Kunde lost in the first round
(2&1) to Luke Simoneau.
In second flight of match
play, Seaside’s Samson Sibony
defeated Henry Steele, 1-up,
in the first round, but then lost
to Curtis Posner in the second
round, 5&4.
Also in the second flight,
Cameron Krauss topped Sea-
side’s Conner Merrell, 5&4.
Merrell won a third flight
match, 5&4, over Thomas
Gray, before Alex Plummer
defeated Merrell, 3&1.
In the boys’ age 14-15
championship flight bracket,
Brandon Eyre defeated Sea-
side’s Carson Kawasoe, 1-up.
Kawasoe responded with a
2&1 win over Cole Rueck in
the first flight, but lost 1-up to
Andrew Reinhardt in the third
round.
In the same age bracket,
Collin Hodgkinson defeated
Seaside’s Curtis Kunde, 4&2,
in the second round of the sec-
ond flight.
The results of champion-
ship matches in each division:
Junior boys: Nate Stember
(Portland) def. Johnny Ward
(Lake Oswego) 1-up.
Girls: Olivia Loberg
(Bend) def. Victoria Gailey
(Tigard) 19 holes.
Boys: Ethan Tseng (Port-
land) def. Brody Marconi
(Portland) 1-up.
Intermediate girls: Jacin-
da Lee (Camas, Wash.) def.
Kyra Ly (Portland) 2&1.
Intermediate boys: Adam
Wrenn (Lake Oswego) def.
Tye Dechativong (Beaverton)
1-up.
Pee Wee girls: Natalie Yen
(West Linn) def. Cassie Ken-
non (Bandon) 1-up.
Pee Wee Boys: Lucas
Vanderlip (Gold Beach) def.
Drew Woolworth (Lake Os-
wego) 6&5.
CROWNING WONDER
Crowning from Page 1A
on myself to turn those inse-
curities into strengths,” she
said. “I wanted to feel confi-
dent in my own skin to help
others do the same.”
Kennedy Hjelte, of Tu-
alatin, who competed as
Three Rivers Outstanding
Teen, won the title of Miss
Oregon’s Outstanding Teen
and will also progress to At-
lantic City.
Neither Miss Clatsop
County Haylie Moon, of
Cannon Beach, or Miss
North Coast Aubrey McMa-
han, of Knappa, progressed
to the semifinals.
Miss Lane County Han-
nah Garhofer, who is from
Seaside, landed in the top
five, claiming fourth run-
ner-up.
Garhofer has been com-
peting on and off in the pag-
eant system since she was
13, and was thankful for
another opportunity.
“This program has raised
me,” she said.
While she didn’t get the
crown this time, Garhofer
said to expect her back on
the stage.
“I’m competitive,” she
said. “I’m not going to
stop.”
Ballard’s platform about
confidence and positive
body image was particular-
ly relevant, as much of the
evening’s tone was colored
by recent decisions made by
the Miss America Organiza-
tion to rebrand the compe-
tition around scholarship by
nixing the swimsuit portion
and relaxing evening wear
standards.
The decision was met
with mixed reviews.
For CC Barber, who won
Miss Oregon in 2009 and
co-hosted the evening, win-
ning a preliminary award for
her performance in swimsuit
during the Miss America
pageant was another avenue
to be recognized.
“Had there not been
lifestyle and fitness maybe
I wouldn’t have been able
to shine a little bit,” Barber
said. “It’s been about being
fit and having stamina to do
the job.”
Harley Emery, Miss
Oregon in 2017, saw the
change in the organization
as welcome.
“I hope it shows the
competition is really fo-
cused on intelligence and
confidence and communi-
cation skills,” Emery said.
“I think it will change pub-
lic perception.”
R.J. MARX
EVE MARX
Taylor Ballard after being
selected as the 2018 Miss
Oregon.
Miss Oregon Princesses march in Seaside last Saturday
afternoon.
Ballard sits at the inter-
section of these two per-
spectives. Like her own
journey suggests, it comes
down to finding what gives
you confidence.
“I’ve seen the upsides
and the downsides of swim-
suit,” she said. “I’ve never
been more confident in my
own skin than on this stage.
But I see the direction of
the program and why it’s
moving that way to be more
inclusive. It’s a scholarship
program, and ultimately,
it’s about empowering other
women.”