Sometimes, Matt Petz will grab the pole and simply show his Bend High pole vaulters a certain movement or technique that he has been trying to teach them. “He’ll try something that we’ve been working on for years and he’ll do it and say, ‘It’s that easy,’ ” says Matt’s son,…
Nine Central Oregon athletes are qualified for this month’s national championships Five months ago, Bend’s Alicia Welker was a track and field novice who came to a Pilot Butte Middle School track practice mostly because she had always shown a lot of speed on the soccer pitch. Now, the 12-year-old…
