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High School Spotlight:
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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