Emily Austin is a junior at Oregon City High School and has been competing in the Special Olympics for the past 4 years. Emily competes in swimming, softball, and skiing. She has won 12 gold medals for swimming and a silver and bronze medal for softball. On Emily's co-ed softball team she is 1 of just 3 girls, and the youngest athlete on the entire team.

This year was Emily's first year competing in skiing. At the Regional Special Olympics held at Mt. Bachelor on February 26th and 27th she competed against Clackamas, Washington and Multnomah county athletes. Emily earned her first gold medal for the Intermediate Slalom Race. Her favorite courses are the “black diamond” runs. Skiing is now at the top of her list of sports she loves. Emily would ski everyday if it were possible. Great job Emily, OCHS is proud of you!

Congratulations Brittany !
KOIN TV Player of the week on January 22, 2010.
Oregon City's Brittany Knighton is this weeks athlete of the week. She plays basketball for the Pioneers.
See her KOIN TV Video which was aired on Thursday, January 21st on TV.
 

Oregon City High School DECA students, Katie LaRue, Alexis Damm, and Theodore Vixay are working hard on a project called “H1N1- Not in our Neighborhood”.  DECA is an association of marketing students, and these students chose getting information out about H1N1 as their Public Relations Project this year.  They are informing the school district and community about preventing the H1N1 virus. 

 
The team has created three main points.  They are:
 

• Wash your hands for 20 seconds after going to the restroom, before eating or handling food, and after sneezing or coughing
• Cover your coughs and sneezes into your elbow or fabric to keep them from spreading to others
• Stay home when you are sick to maximize recovery speed and minimize your exposure to others
   

Some activities the DECA team has participated in include visiting Mt. Pleasant to present at an assembly, hanging posters in bathrooms at many elementary schools and the high school, visiting the farmers market and handing out brochures, creating video announcements for OCHS students, as well as other activities.

These are your 2010 Winter Formal Princesses.
Voting for Winter Formal Queen will take place during advisory on January 20th.
 
 
Seniors
Dani Wagner
Maddy Salz
Stephany Starr
 
Juniors
Lindsay Goff
Taylor Mills
Samantha Damon
 
Sophomores
Holly Cline
Kelsey Fryett
Lindsay Lopez
 

Freshmen
Danielle Kirby
Jamie Goff
Nicole Simons
 
 

Video by Tim Brown, OregonLive.com

Senior Joey Wimsett, 17, has been racing Go-carts for five years, and now he is being honored with an invitation to race in the Rotax world championships in Cairo, Egypt. To qualify for this, Wimsett competed against hundreds of people. Of those hundreds it was narrowed to the qualifying 38.  Eventually the top three were named team USA, and Wimsett is proud to be on that team.

Wimsett said, “My goal is to become a professional racecar driver, and some day have fun doing for a living what I love to do: and that is racing”.