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m, High School Spotlight: I)i "a 1(,oi! ast ere  IE 3e  tO: rOP; pyJ Richie learns from his dad By REBECCA WELLS Television - especially the show "CSI" - has influenced Richie Mc- Causland's career choices. 'I think it's a pretty dang-good show," he says of the hit program, which features crime-scene inves- tigations. "I'm sure the real thing isn't as dramatic as theirs is; still, I think working in ballistics or law and science would be pretty cool." Besides calculating ballistics and determining angles of bul- lets, law also intrigues Richie, whose grandfather was a lawyer. I love to argue with people," he explains. But solving gruesome criminal cases isn't the only thing pulling him to the tube. "I'm a big history buff; I love watching the History Channel," he says. STILL, AS FUN as forensic sci- ence or law sounds at this point, Richie hasn't officially made a decision about exactly which pro- fession he plans to pursue after he graduates from Shelton High School later this year. He is applying to the Universi- ty of Puget Sound and Pacific Lu- theran University, while he's also considering Washington State University, Whitman College in Walla Walla and Central Washing- ton University in Ellensburg. If he does decide to go into pre-law, he might also want to attend Gonzaga University for his graduate degree. "I think I might like to go to kind of a smaller school because I'm a small-town kid, but I think maybe going to a large university might be a good experience for me, too," he contemplates. For the time being, Richie is working as a lifeguard and swim Instructor for the SHS pool and he apPreciates the flexible hours the job offers• "YOu SIGN UP for what you Want to work at and it's great be- cause they close at 8, so you don't have to stay around to 11 o'clock kitchen m' cleanl?g the he ex- plains This allows h to juggle his schedule in such a way that he still has time to keep school work a Priority, he explains. Since Richie likes to challenge himself academically, he's dealing ¢.lculu00, 00one00:00level lish and honors phymc This is Richie's fourth year com- peting on the Highclimbers' swim team but only his third full year since he turned out for the swim team late in the season during his freshman year. Last year he earned a varsity letter and quali- fied for the district championships m the butterfly stroke. "T " ,, , his year we're pretty strong. v:s:e got some good newcomers," • ays. His younger brother Nick IS on the team with him, but Rich- ie admits many of their stronger SWimmers graduated last year. Next year might also be hard for the team, since many of their top swimmers are seniors this year, he contemplated• • FORMER SWIM-team state champion Pat Penoyar mltlaRllyn e troduced him to swlmmm.g, l and had formerly been a footbal Wrestling athlete, but a broken hand prevented him from compet- Ing in the hand-to-hand sport of Wrestling. Boys' swimming hap- Peas to take place during wres- tling season• "I thought, 'It's swimming; it can't I w be that hard of a sport,' but as awakened very quickly. It's quite different from any other sport I've done," Richie remem- bers. Despite the surprising chal- RICHIE McCAUSLAND, a Shelton High School senior, has lettered in two sports, while participating in student lead- ership, campus clubs and working as a lifeguard and swim instructor, among other accomplishments. lenge the sport has presented, he's enjoyed competing on the team. Right now he's racing in the 4xl00- yard relay, 200-yard freestyle and 100-yard butterfly. Out of these three events, Richie says he likes the butterfly a lot and has swum the stroke for a long time now. "It's diffbrent than the other strokes. You have to use your head when you swim too because if you just go all power you'll be dead before you even finish the race," he explains. This, along with the breaststroke, requires the most strategy in swimming, he says. TWO YEARS AGO, Richie's friends also convinced him and his younger brother to join the high school's tennis team. This year Richie also scored a varsity let- ter in tennis. "I had fun with it. I wouldn't say that I was nearly one of the best on the team but I always enjoyed just playing it," he recalls modestly. Besides tackling the water, he and his teammates also started having fun rock climbing. This led them to start a new club on cam- pus last year: the Outdoors Club, advised by assistant swim coach Chad Youngquist. "It's not just a 'swim' thing," Richie explains. Since the club's inception the group has stuck just to rock-climbing adventures but they hope to branch out to include kayaking and skiing. Long before he started rock climbing, Richie can remember hearing his dad talking about his rock-climbing experiences. Plus, since he didn't like lifting weights in a gym, his dad appreciated the alternative athletic workout scal- ing cliffs and tall boulders pro- vides. "IT'S DEFINITELY a full- body sport. You'll work just about everything if you do it just right," Richie says of rock climbing. He 1350 Shelton Springs Rd Mon.Fri 5am-Spin • Sat 7am-Spin Sun 7am-3pm • 432-1811 also appreciates the sport's chal- lenging aspects• Richie's dad is Roger McCaus- land, a wood shop teacher at his high school. The very first class Richie had on his first day of school in his freshman year at SHS was wood shop, taught by his own fa- ther. "That was kind of cool," he remembers. His mother, Susan McCaus- land, is a member of the Shelton School Board who represents Dis- trict 1. Richie has been involved in leadership by serving as the Asso- ciated Student Body representa- tive for Students Against Destruc- tive Decisions - or SADD - dur- ing his freshman and sophomore years. As a senior he is still in SADD but serves on ASB as ser- geant at arms. LAST SUMMER Richie and his brother were able to put their wood shop skills to work by vol- unteering on a mission trip to Ensenada, Mexico. Organized through Mountain View Alliance Church, which his family attends, the group included youths and vol- unteers from a few other partici- pating churches in Shelton. They set off right after school closed for summer vacation, driv- ing down to the border after spend- ing the night at a sister church near Bakersfield, California, on the way. This was the first year he was able to go on the trip, since his lifeguarding responsibilities had always conflicted with the mission in the past. On their arrival in Mexico, they stayed with a Mexican pastor and at the home of an associate pastor. Each morning, everyone dressed up in their "Sunday best" and at- tended a church service before splitting up into teams: one to lead vacation Bible school for the local children and the other to work at a construction site. Since the participating church was working on expanding a mis- sion, Richie and his brother helped build tables and bathrooms and worked on designing a slightly slanted roof for the project• RICItIE WAS impressed with the masonry of Mexican men who built walls out of several hundred cinder blocks. Not all of the other participating American youth were as familiar with tools, but Richie and his brother had virtu- ally grown up building things with their dad. This being the case, one of the assistant leaders who works in the construction business ap- preciated their abilities during the trip. "It was kind of second-nature to me," Richie recalls. They spent about four days working in Mexico before driving back up. On their last night, their host church served them a "huge" feast featuring authentic Mexican dishes• "They were all very good and they were very hospitable," Richie said of the dishes and the people respectively. On their way home, one of the leaders decided to take an alter- nate route across the border, but ended up getting lost in Tijuana. One of the vehicles was stopped by the Mexican police, but the police not only gave them directions back to the border, they also provided them with a full escort• This was much to the group's excitement and relief. BEFORE THEY left, Richie did notice a cultural contrast in the way people dressed for church services in Mexico. "It was different, because I go to kind of a casual church," he de- scribes. "It's not as formal as some of the other churches, like a Cath- olic church. So that was kind of a change for me and my brother, to get all dressed up in my slacks and my dress shirts and get dressed up every morning." Keep the home fires burning with a gas or woodstove or insert by wg-iD & Managementz Shannon Miklethun, Owner; £asey Martin, Manager; Terry Miller, Owner FIREPLACE PRODUCTS Even with the power out... you stay warm! Don't let the next bout of bad weather catch you without heat! 90 Days Same As Cash Capital City Stove & Fan Center 2118 Pacific Ave., Olympia - 943-5587 Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m., 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. LOOSE DENTURES SCARING YOUR FRIENDS? Do they watch you struggle chewing meat? Do even sandwiches yank your teeth around? We have the answer! • Easy • Affordable • Fast Bring or mention this ad for $1.00 OFF ANY DRINK. I We WILL honor old punch cards! Try our Daily Drink Special! Call today for a complimentary consult William J. Busacca, DDS, PS 006o1 426-9711 1525 Olympic Hwy. North, Shclton,WA 98584 O0C American Dental Association Academy of General Dentistry T h e S m i I e E x p r e s s American Acadernv of Cosmetic Dentistry Thursday, January 11, 2007 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 15 m, High School Spotlight: I)i "a 1(,oi! ast ere  IE 3e  tO: rOP; pyJ Richie learns from his dad By REBECCA WELLS Television - especially the show "CSI" - has influenced Richie Mc- Causland's career choices. 'I think it's a pretty dang-good show," he says of the hit program, which features crime-scene inves- tigations. "I'm sure the real thing isn't as dramatic as theirs is; still, I think working in ballistics or law and science would be pretty cool." Besides calculating ballistics and determining angles of bul- lets, law also intrigues Richie, whose grandfather was a lawyer. I love to argue with people," he explains. But solving gruesome criminal cases isn't the only thing pulling him to the tube. "I'm a big history buff; I love watching the History Channel," he says. STILL, AS FUN as forensic sci- ence or law sounds at this point, Richie hasn't officially made a decision about exactly which pro- fession he plans to pursue after he graduates from Shelton High School later this year. He is applying to the Universi- ty of Puget Sound and Pacific Lu- theran University, while he's also considering Washington State University, Whitman College in Walla Walla and Central Washing- ton University in Ellensburg. If he does decide to go into pre-law, he might also want to attend Gonzaga University for his graduate degree. "I think I might like to go to kind of a smaller school because I'm a small-town kid, but I think maybe going to a large university might be a good experience for me, too," he contemplates. For the time being, Richie is working as a lifeguard and swim Instructor for the SHS pool and he apPreciates the flexible hours the job offers• "YOu SIGN UP for what you Want to work at and it's great be- cause they close at 8, so you don't have to stay around to 11 o'clock kitchen m' cleanl?g the he ex- plains This allows h to juggle his schedule in such a way that he still has time to keep school work a Priority, he explains. Since Richie likes to challenge himself academically, he's dealing ¢.lculu00, 00one00:00level lish and honors phymc This is Richie's fourth year com- peting on the Highclimbers' swim team but only his third full year since he turned out for the swim team late in the season during his freshman year. Last year he earned a varsity letter and quali- fied for the district championships m the butterfly stroke. "T " ,, , his year we're pretty strong. v:s:e got some good newcomers," • ays. His younger brother Nick IS on the team with him, but Rich- ie admits many of their stronger SWimmers graduated last year. Next year might also be hard for the team, since many of their top swimmers are seniors this year, he contemplated• • FORMER SWIM-team state champion Pat Penoyar mltlaRllyn e troduced him to swlmmm.g, l and had formerly been a footbal Wrestling athlete, but a broken hand prevented him from compet- Ing in the hand-to-hand sport of Wrestling. Boys' swimming hap- Peas to take place during wres- tling season• "I thought, 'It's swimming; it can't I w be that hard of a sport,' but as awakened very quickly. It's quite different from any other sport I've done," Richie remem- bers. Despite the surprising chal- RICHIE McCAUSLAND, a Shelton High School senior, has lettered in two sports, while participating in student lead- ership, campus clubs and working as a lifeguard and swim instructor, among other accomplishments. lenge the sport has presented, he's enjoyed competing on the team. Right now he's racing in the 4xl00- yard relay, 200-yard freestyle and 100-yard butterfly. Out of these three events, Richie says he likes the butterfly a lot and has swum the stroke for a long time now. "It's diffbrent than the other strokes. You have to use your head when you swim too because if you just go all power you'll be dead before you even finish the race," he explains. This, along with the breaststroke, requires the most strategy in swimming, he says. TWO YEARS AGO, Richie's friends also convinced him and his younger brother to join the high school's tennis team. This year Richie also scored a varsity let- ter in tennis. "I had fun with it. I wouldn't say that I was nearly one of the best on the team but I always enjoyed just playing it," he recalls modestly. Besides tackling the water, he and his teammates also started having fun rock climbing. This led them to start a new club on cam- pus last year: the Outdoors Club, advised by assistant swim coach Chad Youngquist. "It's not just a 'swim' thing," Richie explains. Since the club's inception the group has stuck just to rock-climbing adventures but they hope to branch out to include kayaking and skiing. Long before he started rock climbing, Richie can remember hearing his dad talking about his rock-climbing experiences. Plus, since he didn't like lifting weights in a gym, his dad appreciated the alternative athletic workout scal- ing cliffs and tall boulders pro- vides. "IT'S DEFINITELY a full- body sport. You'll work just about everything if you do it just right," Richie says of rock climbing. He 1350 Shelton Springs Rd Mon.Fri 5am-Spin • Sat 7am-Spin Sun 7am-3pm • 432-1811 also appreciates the sport's chal- lenging aspects• Richie's dad is Roger McCaus- land, a wood shop teacher at his high school. The very first class Richie had on his first day of school in his freshman year at SHS was wood shop, taught by his own fa- ther. "That was kind of cool," he remembers. His mother, Susan McCaus- land, is a member of the Shelton School Board who represents Dis- trict 1. Richie has been involved in leadership by serving as the Asso- ciated Student Body representa- tive for Students Against Destruc- tive Decisions - or SADD - dur- ing his freshman and sophomore years. As a senior he is still in SADD but serves on ASB as ser- geant at arms. LAST SUMMER Richie and his brother were able to put their wood shop skills to work by vol- unteering on a mission trip to Ensenada, Mexico. Organized through Mountain View Alliance Church, which his family attends, the group included youths and vol- unteers from a few other partici- pating churches in Shelton. They set off right after school closed for summer vacation, driv- ing down to the border after spend- ing the night at a sister church near Bakersfield, California, on the way. This was the first year he was able to go on the trip, since his lifeguarding responsibilities had always conflicted with the mission in the past. On their arrival in Mexico, they stayed with a Mexican pastor and at the home of an associate pastor. Each morning, everyone dressed up in their "Sunday best" and at- tended a church service before splitting up into teams: one to lead vacation Bible school for the local children and the other to work at a construction site. Since the participating church was working on expanding a mis- sion, Richie and his brother helped build tables and bathrooms and worked on designing a slightly slanted roof for the project• RICItIE WAS impressed with the masonry of Mexican men who built walls out of several hundred cinder blocks. Not all of the other participating American youth were as familiar with tools, but Richie and his brother had virtu- ally grown up building things with their dad. This being the case, one of the assistant leaders who works in the construction business ap- preciated their abilities during the trip. "It was kind of second-nature to me," Richie recalls. They spent about four days working in Mexico before driving back up. On their last night, their host church served them a "huge" feast featuring authentic Mexican dishes• "They were all very good and they were very hospitable," Richie said of the dishes and the people respectively. On their way home, one of the leaders decided to take an alter- nate route across the border, but ended up getting lost in Tijuana. One of the vehicles was stopped by the Mexican police, but the police not only gave them directions back to the border, they also provided them with a full escort• This was much to the group's excitement and relief. BEFORE THEY left, Richie did notice a cultural contrast in the way people dressed for church services in Mexico. "It was different, because I go to kind of a casual church," he de- scribes. "It's not as formal as some of the other churches, like a Cath- olic church. So that was kind of a change for me and my brother, to get all dressed up in my slacks and my dress shirts and get dressed up every morning." Keep the home fires burning with a gas or woodstove or insert by wg-iD & Managementz Shannon Miklethun, Owner; £asey Martin, Manager; Terry Miller, Owner FIREPLACE PRODUCTS Even with the power out... you stay warm! Don't let the next bout of bad weather catch you without heat! 90 Days Same As Cash Capital City Stove & Fan Center 2118 Pacific Ave., Olympia - 943-5587 Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m., 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. LOOSE DENTURES SCARING YOUR FRIENDS? Do they watch you struggle chewing meat? Do even sandwiches yank your teeth around? We have the answer! • Easy • Affordable • Fast Bring or mention this ad for $1.00 OFF ANY DRINK. I We WILL honor old punch cards! Try our Daily Drink Special! Call today for a complimentary consult William J. Busacca, DDS, PS 006o1 426-9711 1525 Olympic Hwy. North, Shclton,WA 98584 O0C American Dental Association Academy of General Dentistry T h e S m i I e E x p r e s s American Acadernv of Cosmetic Dentistry Thursday, January 11, 2007 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 15