Don Hunt

Previous Columns

• Shady Cove's Lenz excels at out-of-town tracks - 8/10/2007
  

  Scott Lenz hasn't been able to match the success he had in 2004 when he won the California modified state championship, but the Shady Cove...

• St. Mary's sprinter sacrifices district for trip abroad - 5/15/2007
  

  Nikki Steinsiek was excited to join her father on a medical mission to Guatemala last week, even though the trip cost the St.

• Web site is a gold mine for track fans and coaches - 5/8/2007
  

  Four years ago, David Bowdoin set up an intricate computer program to record the times and marks of his track and field athletes at New Hope...

• Let's not go too far with mercy rule - 5/1/2007
  

  Are we becoming so thin-skinned that a lopsided loss in a sporting event is enough to give us long lasting psychological harm?

• Burchfiel loosens up, hurls big throw in discus - 4/24/2007
  

  Jordan Burchfiel took second in the discus at the Class 2A state track meet last season with a then-personal record throw of 145 feet, 7 inches.

• Under Cole, Panther girls are on the prowl - 4/17/2007
  

  For a group of girls that went winless last season, the South Medford High girls are faring quite nicely in spring league basketball.

• Youngster Elliot is ready to go distance for the Comets - 4/3/2007
  

  Standing a little over 5 feet tall and barely weighing 100 pounds, Josh Elliot could easily pass for someone much younger.

• Just name it what it's called - 3/27/2007
  

  When the North Medford High baseball field was built two years ago, a sign with the words "Jim McAbee Field" was attached to the scoreboard in left...

• Maurer beats odds, suits up for Tornado in baseball - 3/20/2007
  

  When Matt Maurer suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during a football game last September, doctors and sports trainers told...

• Panthers had to persevere - 3/13/2007
  

  Some observations from the Class 6A boys state basketball tournament:

• At all ages, winning really is the only thing - 2/27/2007
  

  Frowns, teary eyes and bowed heads suggested that something terrible had happened to the group of 11- and 12-year-old boys as they sat in a corner of...