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The Chronicle’s Pierre Weil recaps the biggest high school sports stories in the southern Willamette Valley through 2023: Springfield girlsget their revenge тЦа The Springfield Millers girls basketball team took…
The Chronicle’s Pierre Weil recaps the biggest high school sports stories in the southern Willamette Valley through 2023: Springfield girlsget their revenge тЦа The Springfield Millers girls basketball team took…
Multiple area athletes who graduated in 2023 are competing, or preparing to compete, collegiately. Here are a few athletes who competed this year who are first-year college athletes. COTTAGE GROVE…
Multiple area athletes who graduated in 2023 are competing, or preparing to compete, collegiately. Here are a few athletes who competed this year who are first-year college athletes. COTTAGE GROVE…
BASKETBALL PREVIEWS BOYS BASKETBALL #17 Cottage Grove (5-4) тЦа Tipping off: The Lions return from the holiday break and travel to the Stayton HS tournament Wednesday-Friday. Cottage Grove has benefited…
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McClain bringing youth, energy to Billies athletics
BOB WILLIAMS / THE CHRONICLE. Pleasant Hill Athletic Director Kyle McClain is in his second year at the helm. The former wrestling coach is building his team and culture with big goals in mind.
PLEASANT HILL – You might say that athletics is in Kyle McClain’s blood. McClain, the athletic director at Pleasant Hill High School since the beginning of the 2022 school year, is the grandson of Dick McClain.
Grandpa McClain was the founding athletic director at Linn-Benton Community College, was the head coach for the American Legion team the Corvallis Marketmen, and was executive director of the Northwest Athletic Conference. In 1969, he became the only Oregon coach to win an American Legion World Championship and was named National American Legion Coach of the Year. The 1969 Legion team was later inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame.
Growing up around his grandfather influenced young Kyle’s career aspirations, he said.
“A big reason was my grandpa. Just because I grew up going to all these hall of fame dinners, these functions and events that were centered around the work that my grandpa did,” McClain said. “There’s these keynote speakers that are talking about how he impacted their lives, and so that really inspired me to pursue that career.”
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