Southern Region
Saturday’s Southern Region Championships held at Mt. Hood was chock-full of record-breaking performances and some bad luck. One of Mt. Hood’s female athletes was hit in the head with an eight-pound shot put and rushed to the hospital. She suffered a slight concussion, and coach Matt Hart said she is “doing great.” According to Hart, she went out into the sector to retrieve her shot put and she checked the ring to make sure no one was there, but one of the other women athletes who was practicing, didn’t check the ring to make sure it was clear. Hart said it’s the responsibility of the person in the ring to make sure the sector is clear. The men’s team placed second in the meet featuring a performance by Bryce Johnson placing second in the javelin and set a personal record (PR) with 183-03. “He’s getting more comfortable with the form and the technique. But also the body is healing up a little, and snappier. I hope that’s true of all our athletes,” said Hart. Short-distance runners Levi Pienovi and Franky Preciado both set PRs. Pienovi ran 23.75 in the 200 meters and Preciado ran at 11.82 in the 100 meters. Isaac McNutt marked a PR in the 3000-meter steeplechase at 10:08.40. Rachel Marchant threw 91 feet in the discus, setting a PR. The NWAACC Championships for track and field will be two full days of events starting Monday at Spokane Falls in Spokane, Wash. “We are healing up and kind of fine tuning some things, and getting ready to compete,” said Hart. Hart is only concerned about his athletes doing their very best. “People are so concerned about product, which is the times or the marks. I think we need to have more of a focus on the effort or the process. If we focus less on our product and focus more on what we are going to do to get there, I think the marks will come there with it,”
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