Cascade Connections: Weekly Podcast Released
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Student-athletes from Oregon Tech, College of Idaho and Eastern Oregon are highlighted in this week’s edition of Cascade Connections, the weekly podcast of the Cascade Collegiate Conference.
All three athletes – softball player Bree Larson of Oregon Tech, baseball player Izaac Garsez of College of Idaho, and track and field standout Alma Garcilazo of Eastern Oregon – talk about their respective teams and seasons to date.
Also, former Olympic decathlete Dave Johnson, now the director of athletics at Corban University (Ore.), talks about his recent trip to Alaska to participate in Fellowship of Christian Athletes activities at the Big C Relays in Anchorage.
You can access Episode #14, along with previous episodes, by clicking this link.
Or, you can subscribe and listen to Cascade Connections via this link on iTunes.
Stories in this week’s episode:
-- College of Idaho baseball player Izaac Garsez, the NAIA West leader in total bases and stolen bases, talks about the Yotes, who are headed to the NAIA West postseason tournament at Menlo College next week
-- Oregon Tech softball player Bree Larson is one of the veteran leaders of the nationally ranked OIT softball team, which secured the CCC regular season crown last weekend
-- Eastern Oregon’s track standout Alma Garcilazo posted the CCC’s best time (and third best time in the NAIA) in her 800-meter performance at the Oregon Relays in Eugene last weekend
-- Corban athletic director Dave Johnson recently attended the Big C Relays in Anchorage, Alaska, where he helped organizers with their fourth annual indoor track and field competition for hundreds of young Alaskans. The event was sponsored in part by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.