I’m happy for Dan, but sad to see him go as“Central Catholic Announces Dan Munson as New Boys’ Varsity Basketball Head Coach.” Dan was athletic director and boys basketball coach @ Summit for the past four years.

Munson takes over a very good CC team! They went 24-4 last year and took 3rd in Class 6A. They graduated two all state players.

Central Catholic will be looking to become the first school to repeat as the big-school state volleyball champion in Oregon since Gresham did back in 2001-2002. Central Catholic won the 2009 Class 6A title, their first since they had won the then 4A title in 2000.

Since Oregon moved to six classifications in 2006, Crook County has won all four Class 5A state volleyball titles. The good news for the rest of 5A is that in 2010 Crook County is moving to Class 4A. This move means a lot for Central Oregon schools. Sisters is the reigning 4A champions and will have to now deal with the Cowgirls. The Crook County move is good news for the Bend schools. Crook County beat Summit in the state finals in 2009 and 2007. Crook County beat Mountain View in the finals in 2008 and 2006.

2009 State champions:
6A – Central Catholic
5A – Crook County
4A – Sisters
3A – Santiam Christian
2A – Blanchet Catholic
1A – Imbler

Several Interesting story lines for the 2010 Oregon prep XC season:

Jesuit girls are the overwhelming favorites to win the 6A state title, which would be their 9th in a row.

The Summit girls should be favored to win another state title in 5A.

Crater joins Jesuit and Central Catholic a top the 6A boys competition. Private schools Jesuit and CC have dominated the 6A boys ranks for years but 5A state champion Crater should be right in the mix after moving up a classification.

Franklin moves from 6A to 5A and should join the Summit boys atop the 5A ranks.

Reigning/returning State Champions
Girls
6A Jesuit
5A Summit
4A Marist (moved to 5A)
3A-2A-1A St. Mary’s

Annamarie Maag 12 Jesuit (2-time 6A champion)
Megan Fristoe 11 Summit (5A champion)
Kellie Foley 12 Crook County (2008 5A champion, now running in 4A)

Boys
6A Central Catholic
5A Crater (moved to 6A)
4A Henley
3A-2A-1A Nyssa

One thing is for sure, there will be four new individual state champions in Oregon high school boys cross country in 2010. All four champions were seniors last year.

FOOTBALL
• Central Oregon team review – The Bulletin
• Sheldon wins 6A title going 14-0.
• Hillsboro wins 5A title (13-1)
• Marist wins 4A title (14-0)
• Amity wins 3A title (13-0)
• Scio wins 2A title (14-0)
• St. Paul wins 1A title (14-0)

CROSS COUNTY
• Jesuit girls win their 8th-straight State title.
• Drew Jordan of North Medford repeats as 6A individual champion.
• Annamarie Maag of Jesuit repeats as 6A individual champion.
• Summit year in review.
• Girls XC power is spread out in Bend once again. Summit is dominating at the top, but Bend and Mountain View moved back ahead of Hermiston and Pendleton this year. Both the Lava Bears and Cougars have some excellent young talent.
• 6A – Central Catholic Boys, Jesuit Girls
• 5A – Crater Boys, Summit Girls
• 4A – Henley Boys, Marist Girls
• 3A/2A/1A – Nyssa Boys, St. Mary’s Girls
SOCCER
• Bend girls win their 2nd State title in a row, 3rd in 4 years.
• 6A – South Salem Boys (15-0-2), Jesuit Girls (17-1)
• 5A – Corvallis Boys (15-3), Bend Girls (16-0-2)
• 4A/3A/2A/1A – Gladstone Girls (17-0-1)
• 4A – La Salle Boys (14-3-2)
• 3A/2A/1A – Oregon Episcopal (16-2)

VOLLEYBALL
• Crook County 4-peats as Class 5A State Champion.
• All private-school final as Central Catholic beats Jesuit for 6A title.
• 6A – Central Catholic
• 5A – Crook County
• 4A – Sisters
• 3A – Santiam Christian
• 2A – Blanchet Catholic
• 1A – Imbler

TEAMS
• An incredible Fall by the 6A Jesuit girls: 1st in Cross County, 1st in Soccer, 2nd in Volleyball. Jesuit didn’t do so bad on the boys side either; 2nd in Cross Country, 2nd in football and semifinals in soccer.
• The 5A Summit girls also had a solid Fall: 1st Cross County, 2nd in Volleyball, Quarterfinals in Soccer.
• Central Catholic gets a state title by each gender. Girls win 6A volleyball, boys win 6A cross country.

This is a series that will appear everyday until January 1st, looking at the best of this past decade.

OREGON INDIVIDUALS
• Galen Rupp, Central Catholic – No doubt about this one! Rupp is among the greatest to ever run XC in Oregon. The two-time state champion went sub 15 both times he won the state meet.
• Lauren Jesperson, Klamath Union – The 2001 state champion was second in 2002, despite running 14:57… are you kidding me!?
• Kenny Klotz, Central Catholic – Back-to-back state titles.
• Drew Jordan, North Medford – Back-to-back state titles.
• Kenyon Neuman, Summit – No state title, 2nd as a senior (15:46), 8th as a junior (15:39), 16th as a sophomore (16:06).
• Josh Elliott, Crater – Back-to-back 5A state titles and member of 4 state championship teams.
• Elliott Jantzer, Phoenix – 2 4A state titles and a 3rd place finish. Won in 15:35 in 2007.

MAYBE – Taylor Morgan, Central Catholic; Elliot Jantzer, Phoenix; Brad Taylor, Oakridge; Jakob Keyser, Crater; Bryce Burgess, Franklin; Isaac Stoutenburgh, Crater; Michael Maag, Jesuit; Zuber Ahmed, Benson; Ryan Vail, Centennial; Stuart Eagon, Beaverton, Stephen Oliver, Central Catholic, Scott Wall, Central Catholic; Alex Wall, Grant; Patrick Werhane, Southridge; Joaquin Chapa, Grant; Devin McDaniel, Sandy.

OREGON TEAMS
Central Catholic 2003 – The 46 points they scored at state isn’t even close to being a record, but that was one fast year all around and CC was LOADED! Galen Rupp won the state meet with a 14:55. The rest of the team; Stephen Oliver (15:31), Scott Wall (15:33), Kenny Klotz (15:55), Luke Wiltshire (16:19), Ricky Chapman (16:38) and Sam Torrey (17:04). That’s fast.
Central Catholic 2005 – Not as fast as 2003, but they scored an amazing 23 points.

Annamarie Maag – Fastest female in the state. Two-time 6A champion, going for a third next year.
Baldovino, Ashley – 3-time small school state champion.
Central Catholic – 6A boys’ champions.
Drew Jordan – 2-time 6A individual state champion.
Elliott, Josh – 2-time 5A individual state champion. Member of 4 state championship teams!
Franklin – Home of junior Ian Burgess, who took 3rd @ 6A state and should content for the individual title next year.
Girls – In Oregon XC, girls run the same courses as the boys and get the same deserved attention… the way it should be.
Henley – 4A boys state champions
Intermountain Conference – With the realignment slated for next year, teams from the IMC well now be in a hybrid league. The IMC was dominant @ 5A girls state, claiming the top 7 spots individually.
Jesuit – Have won a record 8-straight state-girls titles.
Kevin Kavanaugh – From Beaverton, one of the faster freshmen in recent Oregon history.
Linn – West Linn that is, was the top public school in the Class 6A boys meet. With Cullen Wannarka and Taylor West back they should be among the best next year.
Megan Fristoe – 5A state champion as a sophomore for Summit.
Nike – Borderclash and NXN… it’s good to live in Oregon!
O’Neill, Kelly – Freshmen from Lakeridge, 5th @ State (18:54) fastest freshman girl in 6A.
Payton Schutte – Second only to her Jesuit teammate Maag as the fastest girl in Oregon.
Quick – Summit’s Kellie Schueler was 4th @ 5A state XC, not bad for one of Oregon’s most accomplished sprinters of all time!
Raelyn Robinson – 4A girls champion from Siuslaw.
Summit – Back-to-back 5A girls titles.
Tolbert, Jed – 4A state champion from Henley.
Union – After winning the small school state title in 2008, they finished second in 2009 to Nyssa.
Valley Catholic – Austin Lundin of VC was the top underclassman in the small school girls race.
Watson, Cole – Small school state champion
XC – 2 letters, sums it all up ☺
Young – Oregon has lots of young talent right now. One “young” team was 4A girls champion Marist. Among their 7 runners @ state were three freshmen and a sophomore.
Zuber Ahmed – The Benson star may have graduated a while ago, but his younger brothers Musa and Wasil were a part of this year’s Central Catholic’s state championship squad.

• Central Catholic 6A volleyball champion
• Crook County 5A volleyball champion – Oregonian. Here’s the Crook County vs Summit – Bulletin article
• Sisters 4A volleyball champion – Bulletin article
• No. 13 Ducks 44, Arizona State 21
• No. 23 Beavers 48, Washington 21
• Trailblazers 80, Bobcats 74
• Bend 3, Ashland 1 boys soccer quarterfinal
• Mountain View 3, The Dalles-Wahtonka 0 boys soccer quarterfinal
• Bend 1, West Albany 0 girls soccer quarterfinal
• Sherwood 1, Summit 0 girls soccer quarterfinal
• Summit girls don’t qualify for National XC meet

CROOK COUNTY (28-5-2) vs. SUMMIT (24-5)
• Class 5A state championship match.
• Game time is 6pm @ Liberty High School in Hillsboro, Oregon.
• Summit is ranked 1st in the state, while the reigning state champions Crook County are ranked 2nd in the coaches poll.
• The two teams split their matches against each other this season, both teams won @ home.
• Neither team has given up a game in the playoffs.
• Crook County coach Rosie Honl is going for her fourth state title in a row.
• Summit coach Jill Waskom is going for her first state title in this her third final, her second as coach of Summit, with her first coming as the coach of Mountain View.
• Of the 10 teams in finals from 6A-2A, only three are public schools. Crook County, Summit and Sisters (all from Central Oregon).
• The finals are 6A – Jesuit vs. Central Catholic. 5A – Crook County vs. Summit. 4A – Sisters vs. Marist. 3A – Cascade Christian vs. Santiam Christian. 2A – Blanchet Catholic vs. Salem Academy. 1A – Imbler vs. Griswold.