dan.trujillo@camaspostrecord.com
June 9, 2015
Star studded finale
High school baseball and softball seniors from Southwest Washington gathered to celebrate their love for the game Wednesday.
High school baseball and softball seniors from Southwest Washington gathered to celebrate their love for the game Wednesday.
National pickleball champions Christine Barksdale and Wesley Gabrielsen felt right at home on the Hathaway Park courts.
After a final review, the WIAA Executive Board ruled that the Camas High School athetic program be put on probabtion for one year. Head football coach Jon Eagle and defensive coordinator Dan Kielty will not be suspended for any games. All of the CHS athletic coaches will receive mandatory training on WIAA rules and regulations. WIAA Executive Director Mike Colbrese said although there was no intent by Eagle to recruit, meeting with an athlete who wanted to transfer from another school instead of telling him to speak to the athletic director was a violation in protocol. "These are very difficult decisions that are made based on consistency and knowing all the facts," Colbrese said. "Everybody feels they got a chance to express their concerns, the board took a lot of time to go over all the facts and came up with something that feels like the appropriate way to go."
The day after their recruiting suspensions had been lifted; Jon Eagle and Dan Kielty couldn't wait to get back to work. More than 170 Camas High School students, and incoming freshmen, gathered for spring practice at Cardon Field. For the first time a month, Eagle and Kielty could finally concentrate on football. "I appreciate even more now the support from the Camas community and the Camas School District," Eagle said. "We just want to get back to playing football."
Each Papermaker on the softball diamond played for the team name on their jerseys and brought home a fourth-place trophy from the state tournament, in Spokane.
Thursday's appeal hearing in Chehalis revealed more into a recruiting investigation on Camas High School head football coach Jon Eagle and defensive coordinator Dan Kielty.
How did the Papermakers muster the leg power and endurance to run around the track so many times?
