Special Olympics Highlighted in CCC Podcast
PORTLAND, Ore. – The Cascade Collegiate Conference’s growing partnership with Special Olympics, which will be featured at the CCC Track and Field Championships next week, highlights the latest episode of Cascade Connections, the weekly podcast of the CCC.
You can access this week’s episode (#15), along with previous episodes, by clicking this link.
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Stories in this week’s episode of Cascade Connections:
-- Head coaches in this week’s CCC Softball Tournament in Klamath Falls talk about their teams as they set their sights on earning an automatic bid to the NAIA Championships.
-- Northwest University women’s soccer coach Erin Redwine talks about earning her ‘A’ coaching license from the U.S. Soccer Federation.
-- Oregon Tech is seeking to replace an aging floor at Danny Miles Court with one used during NCAA Division I March Madness. OIT athletic development director Russ McMahon talks about the fund-raising project.
-- Concordia women’s golf team hopes to hear its name called when at-large berths to the national championships are announced later this week.
-- Mark Hanken, senior vice-president of sports at Special Olympics Oregon, talks about his organization’s relationship with the CCC. The partnership will be on display Saturday, May 14 at the CCC Track and Field Championships, as more than 40 Special Olympians from around the state of Oregon will compete in a variety of exhibition races during the conference meet. The CCC’s relationship with Special Olympics is part of the conference’s commitment to the NAIA’s Champions of Character initiative.
-- Nearly 200 CCC student-athletes in the spring sports of golf, softball, baseball, and track and field are honored for achieving Academic All-CCC honors.