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FRIDAY
January 14, 2022
Winter Sports
SeasideSignal.com
Seaside’s Toyas wins northwest
bodybuilding championship
The Astorian
“Winning an overall
championship is seen as the
golden standard in amateur
bodybuilding, and a life-
time goal for many physique
competitors,” said Seaside’s
Jayme Toyas.
A competition body-
builder and local trainer,
Toyas recently accom-
plished that goal by winning
the Northwest Bodybuilding
Championships in Shelton,
Washington.
The show was a national
qualifying show, so division
winners can now compete
in a national competition to
earn an International Feder-
ation of Bodybuilding pro
card.
Toyas is coached by Asto-
ria graduate Alex Whita-
ker, who currently resides
in Salem. Whitaker has
coached multiple national
level competitors, and owns
West Coast Strength in
Salem.
Toyas’s competition sea-
son started with a close sec-
ond place fi nish in Spokane,
Washington, on Oct. 22 at
the NPC Night of Cham-
pions, which served as a
warmup for the Northwest
Championships.
With three weeks of diet-
ing and prep left before the
show on Nov. 13, Toyas
dialed in all the necessary
factors and brought home
the coveted overall trophy.
Along with the over-
all open trophy, Toyas also
won classic bodybuilding
open class B (weight, height
class) and masters classic
body building over 35.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Gladstone outlasts Seaside, 52-21
The Astorian
Seaside trimmed an early
16-point defi cit down to six,
but Gladstone answered with
a big second half run to score
a 52-21 win over the Gulls in
a nonleague girls basketball
game Monday at Seaside.
Playing without starter
Abby Nofi eld, Seaside
trailed 18-2 midway through
the second quarter, high-
lighted by seven fi rst half
points from Gladstone junior
Hanne Hopkins.
But Hopkins got into foul
trouble, and the Gulls took
advantage with a 10-0 run,
featuring eight points from
Lilli Taylor.
Ranked fourth in the lat-
est 4A coaches poll, the
Gladiators regained the
momentum in the second
half, as Sam Jedrykowski
and teammate Hailey Monte
both hit two 3-pointers in the
third period.
Jedrykowski and Taylor
led their respective teams
with 10 points each, while
Macie Latcu and Hop-
kins scored nine apiece for
Gladstone.
Pickleball: Provides
social, emotional and
physical benefi ts
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The game has skyrock-
eted in popularity since
then.
“During the time period
of March 2021 and to Octo-
ber 2021 we have seen a
considerable uptick in the
amount of people that are
playing pickleball on the
Gearhart courts,” Hamer
said. “Yes, some of those
are people vacationing in
Gearhart and are looking
for a place to play. Most
of the people that play are
from this community and
the surrounding communi-
ties, such as Astoria, Can-
non Beach and Seaside. We
are in need of adding two
more courts so people get a
chance to play.”
Some days over the sum-
mer, there were as many
as 40 people at the courts,
Hamer said. “We only have
two courts and since only
eight people at a time can
play we had 32 people sit-
ting out.”
Hamer asked the city to
add two more courts to the
Gearhart courts. “We fi g-
ured out how we could
get four courts on the west
side of the tennis courts,”
he said. “We would not
be eliminating any tennis
as tennis on the east side
would continue.”
He said pickleball and
tennis provide social, emo-
tional and physical benefi ts.
New nets are needed,
as the existing pickleball
net system has fallen apart,
Hamer said. “I know money
can be tight and I know the
city has other priorities but
there is a real need for this
type of exercise and there
are a lot of people who play.
We want to work in har-
mony with the city of Gear-
hart in the coming months
to see if we can fi gure out a
way to make this happen.”
Councilors said plans
for more pickleball courts
should wait until comple-
tion of the parks master
plan.
The plan, designed
to look 20 years into the
future, was developed after
the state awarded the city
$15,000 grant funds for the
project, part of the 2019
local government grant pro-
gram from the Oregon Parks
and Recreation Department.
Council members sug-
gested a regional approach
to future pickleball play.
Indoor pickleball is avail-
able in Seaside through
the Sunset Empire Park
and Recreation District
year-round on Mondays
and Thursdays from 9 to
11 a.m. There are addi-
tional courts at Camp Rilea,
Nehalem and Long Beach,
Washington.
Councilor Kerry Smith
said land owned by the
Seaside School District on
North Holladay designated
for recreation could pro-
vide an option. “I wonder
if there is any way they can
contact the school district,
because I know they’re
keeping the second fi eld for
their athletes,” Smith said.
“Why can’t they approach
them and say about turn-
ing those tennis courts that
are really in need of some
work but very well give
them eight courts — which
would be 64 people playing
pickleball.”
Council members tabled
the motion until after the
parks master plan is com-
plete, likely in a “couple
of months,” Cockrum said.
“I think that makes a lot of
sense.”
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In July, Randy Anderson pointed to discrepancies between Broadway Park playing facilities.
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The engineering team is
reviewing a number of potential
locations for the upgraded facil-
ity and trying to determine which
one will best meet the require-
ments of the agreement, which
is meant to remedy disparities
between the practice and playing
fi elds of the female athletes com-
pared to their male counterparts.
The noticeable diff erences
between the baseball and softball
diamonds at Broadway Field cre-
ate potential violations of Title
IX, the federal law meant to pro-
tect against discrimination in
education.
In 2012, Seaside parents
Randy Anderson and John
Nicolazzi fi led a lawsuit in fed-
eral court alleging the school dis-
trict failed to permit girls from
participating equally with boys.
The lawsuit claimed that
female students didn’t have com-
parable athletic facilities as the
boys, that they were unable to
participate in team sports and
that they had been excluded from
the high school’s athletic pro-
gram. That case was dismissed
after a settlement in 2014. Terms
of the settlement were never pub-
licly released, but the school dis-
trict responded by adding lights
and building a softball diamond
at Broadway Field.
Dissatisfi ed with conditions at
the softball fi eld, Anderson fi led
a civil rights complaint in March
2019. The Offi ce for Civil Rights
followed up, concluding that the
softball fi eld, as compared to the
baseball fi eld, could result in the
denial of equal opportunity to
female athletes.
At the January school board
meeting, Penrod said, the team
will bring a recommendation
regarding the preferred site for
the board to approve. They’ll
also present an outline for the
other phases in the three-phase
project. From there, they can start
the design process.
“I’m extremely happy for
the Seaside High School female
softball players, fi nally getting
the proper playing facility and
the recognition as valued stu-
dent-athletes of the district,
something they have been
denied by the district adminis-
tration for many years,” Ander-
son said. “It’s too bad that it took
an OCR complaint, which vali-
dated the inequality, for the dis-
trict to fi nally see their discrim-
inating ways. I will be following
this closely.”
Penrod said she would like
to see the facility fi nished by the
beginning of the softball season
in 2023 if possible.
“I have said, ‘If there is any
way you can have it done by Feb-
ruary or March, so they could
have the new fi eld to play on, that
would be wonderful,’” she said.
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facilities to be upgraded
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