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.S By EMILY HANSON a 10-day road trip. The first part of the emily@masoncou~O,.com trip is for a seven game tournament in Moscow, Idaho. From there, the girls will travel to Spokane from July 16-20 The Shelton girls' basketball sum- for the team camp. mer program is raising money for camp. "We have practices right now and "Right now, each girl has a pledge we're playing in the Tumwater Sum- packet and the goal is for each girl to mer League," Leth said. "We have four bring in $40," SHS head girls' basket- teams and a 40-game schedule." ball coach Aaron Leth said. "Each girl is Finally, the program is hosting a Lit- shooting 100 free throws. Pledgers can tle Climbers basketball camp from 9 a.m. donate a specific amount per free throw to noon June 28-30 in the Mini Dome. made or a one-time flat donation." "The camp is put on by the coaches The girls' summer program will host and the varsity and junior varsity play- its fundraiser from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on ers," Leth said. "Sign-up is done through Saturday in the Shelton Mini Dome. Shelton Parks and Recreation." "The money is for future camps for To pledge money for the fundraiser the younger girls and for the older girls or for more information, contact Leth by it's for the varsity team camp in Spo- email at aleth@psd402.org. kane," Leth said. "We appreciate the community giv- In July, the varsity team is taking ing back to us," Leth said. soccer By EMILY HANSON em.ily@masoncounty.com The summer youth soccer program through South Mason Youth Soccer Club (SMYSC) begins practicing next week. "Summer soccer starts June 18 with a practice week and the week after we go right into games," SMYSC registrar Sue LeDoux said. Children ages 3-17 play on the SMYSC teams. So far there are 60 teams with roughly 500 children playing on them, but LeDoux expects around 700 children to play this summer. "Last year, we had 758 kids," she said. "So we're expecting a couple hundred more." Every week at 6 p.m., 6:15 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., the teams play Monday through Thursday at the South Mason Soccer Park. The games will continue until the week of July 23 with the last games held on July 26. "It's really a great thing for families and kids to do," LeDoux said. "It's to- tal recreation, there's no championship game or anything. It's also just a great place for people to go and see others be- cause a lot of people go there, I also think it's really affordable for a lot of families." The cost to play is $40 for one child and there are different family discount rates depending on how many children a family has. "1 don't think i've ever turned a child away because they couldn't pay." "The registration fees help cover the insurance, buys each child a team shirt, helps with the park maintenance and helps to sponsor children who can't af- ford to play," LeDoux said. "Every team also has a sponsor. It's $250 to sponsor a team and that money helps offset the cost of playing." LeDoux said she's down to six teams that don't have sponsors. "People can also sponsor the scholar- ship program or the equipment fund," she said. "We're always looking for peo- ple who would like to donate." LeDoux said the scholarship program is available for families that want their children to play but can't afford the reg- istration fee. "I don't think I've ever turn~ child away because they couldn't p~[~," she said. For more information about the SMYSC, visit smysc.org or email LeDoux at ledouxzoo@Comcast.net. Paces Ford is on a team com- which has gained about 30 prised of runners largely pounds -- enough, says the Continued from page C-2 from the Port Orchard common runner, to make area. She and each of her her look like the rest of us. Ford was inducted into 11 team members will runEnough for her to worry the University of North three times beginning atabout things like chafing Florida Hall of Fame on Oct. 10 a.m. on July 20 until the anc~ other things often on the 23, 2010. team reaches the finish line mind of midpack runners. She was slim -- I'd bet around 11 a.m. on July 21. Her goal for our run on she weighed less than 110 Ford's three sections total June 6, which was slightly pounds -- strong and fast. 18 miles. Her goal is not to less than five miles, was to So why, I wondered, was run each mile at a sub-six, average nine minutes per she worried about a hill? minute pace. mile. The Jennifer Ford I met It is, as she said, "to finish As we headed towards the on June 6 is a very different without walking." end of our run, I asked if she person than who I knew in This is how Ford, who has wanted to go to 5.0 instead if 1998. allowed her athletic talent to finishing slightly short of a She's now a Navy veteran take her to prestigious com- round number. who is close to finishing her petitions across the country, Ford didn't hesitate. second master's degree. A connects to the common "I'm headed to the car," year from now, she expects man, woman or child lacing she said. to be a middle school science up their running shoes for Over the last half-mile, teacher, the first time. though, Ford must have She's also in training for Ford is nervous. She is started to feel pretty good. the Ragnar Relay Northwest not the odds-on favorite to She picked up the pace and, Passage. In July, Ford will win. In fact, the Ragnaraccording to my Garmin be one of more than 1,000 Relay is not a competition GPS watch, hit a pace as runners to join relay teams so much as it is an event of fast as 7:15 over the last and run from Blaine, near camaraderie, half-mile stretch. the Canadian border, to Ford is trying out new Ford won't win another Whidbey Island. shoes to fit her new body, national title anytime soon. Coach Continued from page C-1 The C-team coach for the boys' basketball program will still be Tom Tony next season but Sandberg said he'd currently interviewing for his assistant coach. The junior varsity coach has not been chosen. Sandberg said he expects coaching the Highclimbers to be challenging next season. with Shelton moving down to the 3A Narrows League. "That's going to be tough- er than the 4A league they were in before," he said. During the remainder of the spring and into the summer, Sandberg is coach- ing the Highclimbers in the Tumwater Summer League. Locallyl Family-Run Meat She Now Accepting EBT PRICES EFFECTIVE 6.13 to 6-19 Grain Fed Ribeye Steak Grain Roast Fed Ribeye California Skirt Steak Fresh Meaty Pork "We're allowed to do this carne Asada Baby Back until Aug. 1," he said.team"I A_~~~ wanted to meet the to 1 Lb. " ..... . %;!? and show them my philoso- phy and coaching style to get ready for next year. Sandberg said the team will play man-to-man de- fense and motion offense next season. "What I've seen so far. the players coming back are understanding what they're supposed to be doing and they want to learn." he said. "We have to get stronger so we'll need to lift weights over the summer and fall." Despite the lack of strength on the team, Sand- berg said the boys have some height five of them are 6'2" or 6'3" and he thinks working out and building muscle will make the differ- ence for the team. Sandberg applied for the head coaching position at SHS after former coach Mark Jensen resigned this spring. Sandberg said there were head coaching jobs open' at Black Hills High School and at Timberline High School. but he decided he wanted the Shelton job and did not apply for the other two. "I've known Mark Jensen for a' long time," Sandberg said. "Before the job opened up, we talked about the pro- gram and the players coming back." After his conversation with Jensen, Sandberg said he chose to apply at Shelton, stating he'd looking forward to the challenge next season will bring. After her last national title in 2002, she continued to run and made her marathon debut in 2003. For the nex~ eight years, Ford didn't run at all. Her goal, after Ragnar, is to be able to complete a 10-mile run at a quite ordi- nary pace of eight minutes per mile. Sometime in the next 12 months, she said she wants to run a marathon. Those seem like pretty good goals. Maybe those goals are similar to yours. And that's pretty neat. How often do you have something in common with a Hall of Famer? 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