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• McNamara qualifies for USA track meet -The Eugene Register Guard: June 10, 2007
  Lane Community College's Jordan McNamara won his section of the 1,500-meter run Saturday at Hayward Field and qualified for the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in the process. The University of Oregon recruit finished in 3 minutes, 41.13 seconds, just ahead of the USATF automatic qualifying standard of 3:41.20 to qualify for the June 20-24 meet in Indianapolis.
• Lane honors four track athletes -The Eugene Register Guard: June 9, 2007
  Oregon recruit Jordan McNamara, who set four school distance records this season, was named the outstanding men's track and field athlete for Lane Community College. The redshirt freshman set marks in the mile, 1,500 meters, 5,000 and 10,000. The outstanding women's athlete was another Titan record-setter - sophomore pole vaulter Erika Stratton from Bend, who had a mark of 11 feet, 11 1/4 inches. Collin Cram, who has signed with Long Beach State, was named the Titans' most valuable male track and field athlete. The redshirt sophomore from Florence scored 70 points in two NWAACC championship meets. Danica Bates, a redshirt freshman from Pleasant Hill, scored 17 1/4 points at the conference championships this spring and was named the most valuable female athlete for the Titans.
• Ex-Titan heads home after pole vaulting accident -The Eugene Register Guard: June 2, 2007
  Keegan Burnett, a former University of Oregon and Lane Community College track and field athlete who was critically injured in a pole vaulting accident on May 2, is headed home. Burnett, who now competes at Idaho State, was discharged from McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden, Utah, on Friday. He spent the past month recovering from head injuries suffered while vaulting during a meet at Weber State. The 23-year-old Burnett flipped backward off the landing mat, striking his head on a portion of exposed concrete on the perimeter of the pole vault pit. Burnett cleared 16 feet, 5 1/4 inches to set the LCC pole vault record in 2005. He placed second at the Oregon Twilight Meet at Hayward Field last year in his only outdoor appearance for the Ducks.
• Fourth LCC record goes McNamara's way -The Eugene Register Guard: May 30, 2007
  Jordan McNamara added a fourth school record to his legacy at Lane Community College last Sunday. McNamara finished seventh in the 1,500 at the Road to Eugene meet at Hayward Field with a time of 3:43.03, breaking the LCC mark of 3:45.14 set in 1986 by Jose Luis Barbosa. It was a good way to end a busy week for the UO recruit. McNamara won the 10,000 at the Northwest Athletic Association of Community College championships at Mount Hood Community College on Thursday, and then swept the 1,500 and 5,000 on Friday. advertisement He didn't know he had a spot in the Road to Eugene meet until late Saturday night when he received a phone call from Titan assistant track coach Ross Krempley. "He asked me, `Did you run today?' and I said, `No way, man, I took the day off, I just raced 10 miles,' " said McNamara. "And he told me, `Well, go run 15 minutes because you're running in the `A' section of the 1,500 (Sunday).' He said, `Go run, take an ice bath and go to sleep.' "I was pretty pleased with it. I wasn't sure how I'd feel after just one day's rest. It was good to mix it up with some guys. You have to get used to that sort of thing." McNamara also set school records in the mile (4:03.36), 5,000 (14:09.01) and 10,000 (29:36.33) this season.
• McNamara wins two titles for Lane -The Eugene Register Guard: May 26, 2007
  GRESHAM - Jordan McNamara was named men's outstanding track athlete after winning the 1,500 and 5,000 meters and leading Lane Community College to a second-place finish at the NWAACC Track and Field Championships on Friday at Mount Hood Community College. McNamara won the 1,500 in 3 minutes, 53.85 seconds, beating second-place Jake Roberts of Spokane by nearly five seconds. He won the 5,000 by even more, finishing in 15:00.09, more than 17 seconds ahead of Mark Moeller of Spokane. Spokane won the team title with 228 points, and Lane was second with 202. Clackamas was third at 149. Lane's Collin Cram was named outstanding field athlete of the meet after finishing second in the 110 hurdles, third in the pole vault and second in the long jump. Travis Thompson also won the 400 in 48.37. Lane's Grady O'Conner was named men's coach of the year. In the women's meet, Crystal Bradford won the 100 hurdles in 15.54 to lead the Lane women to second place with 149 1/2 points. Mount Hood won the meet with 174 1/2 , and Clackamas was third at 107.
• Titans seize first-day lead -The Eugene Register Guard: May 25, 2007
  GRESHAM - Lane scored 23 points in the pole vault and won both events on the track Thursday to take the early men's team lead at the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges track and field championships. The Titans had 93 points to defending champion Spokane's 79 after the first day, thanks in large part to Darryl Evans and four teammates dominating the pole vault. Evans' winning vault was 16 feet, 3/4 inches. advertisement Collin Cram, who also took second in the long jump (22-11 3/4 ), was third in the pole vault at 15-5. Sam Helland (fifth), Jayce Giddens (seventh) and Joe Volpi (eighth) also scored in the pole vault for the Titans. Meanwhile, Lane's Jordan McNamara won the 10,000 meters in 31 minutes, 42.99 seconds, and teammate Dustin Moore took the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 9:34.99. For the Titan women, Erika Stratton made it a sweep in the pole vault when she cleared 11-11 3/4 to win that event. Joining Stratton in the pole vault scoring were McKenna Hering (fifth) and Sara deBit (tie, sixth). Lane had 63 1/2 points in the team race that was led by Spokane with 111. DeBit was fifth as part of a 2-5-6 finish in the javelin with Whitney Harris, who was second at 153-3, and Molly Sedlacek. Hering also was fourth in the high jump.
• Out Of The Blocks -The Eugene Register Guard: May 23, 2007
• Cram makes college selection -The Eugene Register Guard: May 16, 2007
  Lane Community College's Collin Cram has signed a letter of intent to compete in track and field at Long Beach State. Cram, a Siuslaw graduate who was The Register-Guard's prep male athlete of the year in 2004, won the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges decathlon title earlier this month. Cram made official visits to Alabama and Kent State before selecting Long Beach.
• LCC men win NWAACC regional track meet -The Eugene Register Guard: May 13, 2007
  GRESHAM - Lane Community College won the men's team title at the NWAACC Southern Region track and field championship meet Saturday at Mount Hood Community College. University of Oregon-bound Jordan McNamara won the 800 in 1:53.31 for the Titans, while Southern Region decathlon champion Collin Cram cleared 15 feet to win the pole vault. Lane picked up wins in four other events as it tallied 210 points, 15 more than second place Mt. Hood. The Titan women came in second behind Mt. Hood. Heather Bishop won the 100, Crystal Bradford won the 100 hurdles and Molly Sedlacek was first in the triple jump for Lane.
• ATHLETE SPOTLIGHT - CHARLENE MOODY -The Torch: May 3, 2007
• Cram, Bolton capture NWAACC titles -The Eugene Register Guard: May 2, 2007
  SPOKANE - Lane Community College's Collin Cram won the decathlon and Spokane Community College's Jennifer Bolton, from Newport High, won the heptathlon at the NWAACC multi-events championship Tuesday. Cram, a Siuslaw High graduate, finished with 6,553 points, with teammate Javin Dimmick second with 5,561. Bolton, a 2002 graduate of Newport, scored 4,040 points, with teammate Leslie Baker second at 3,980.
• Long distance: runaround (Jordan McNamara) -The Eugene Register Guard: May 2, 2007
• Lane's Cram holds decathlon lead -The Eugene Register Guard: May 01, 2007
  SPOKANE - Collin Cram of Lane Community College holds the first-day lead after the first five events of the NWAACC decathlon at Spokane Falls Community College on Monday. Cram led with 3,494 points over Spokane's Curtis Parrish (3,449) and Mount Hood's Josh Larson (3,117). Lane's Javin Dimmick (2,964) and Tony Keller (2,854) were fourth and fifth, respectively. Cram, a sophomore out of Siuslaw High School in Florence, won the long jump (22 feet, 4 1/4 inches) and shot put (38-10 1/4 ). He was second to Parrish in the 100 meters (11.34 seconds) and the 400 (51.46). In the heptathlon, Amber Glunt of Mount Hood scored 2,438 points in Monday's four events to lead three challengers from Spokane. Lane's Danica Bates, a redshirt freshman from Pleasant Hill, was sixth with 2,173 points. advertisement advertisement Other Titans in the heptathlon are Crystal Bradford (ninth, 1,970), Molly Sedlacek (10th, 1,955) and Chelsea Craig (11th, 1,858).
• NWAACC Multi Championships at Spokane April 30-May 1
  For Day 1 Heptathlon Results click here
  For Day 1 Decathlon Results click here
• McNamara breaks LCC mark in 10,000 -The Eugene Register Guard: April 21, 2007
  Lane Community College's Jordan McNamara broke the school's nearly 30-year-old 10,000-meter record on Friday at the Oregon Invitational. McNamara finished in 29 minutes, 36.33 seconds, beating the old mark of 29:40.30 held by Ken Martin since 1978. McNamara also broke Martin's record in the 5,000 meters three weeks ago at the Stanford Invitational.
• Lane men, women hit NWAACC qualifying marks -The Eugene Register Guard: April 15, 2007
  SALEM - Four Lane men and four women hit conference qualifying marks during a seven-team collegiate track meet on Saturday. Jordan McNamara won the 800 in 1 minute, 52.29 seconds to qualify for the NWAACC meet. Jason Mentzer also won the shot put and qualified with a personal best of 46 feet, 10 1/4 inches. Joining them as men's qualifiers were Dustin