In a time where the prospect of live sports looks quite uncertain — for the immediate future, anyway — the Canby Cougars are still finding ways to stand out from the competition.
Despite the spring season that wasn’t this year, Canby High School sent more student-athletes to continue their competitive careers at the college level than almost any other school in Oregon.
The Oregonian compiled a list of the high schools with the most Class of 2020 graduates committed to college athletics, and Canby cracked the top 25, with 13.
The newspaper’s list is not comprehensive. It’s missing, for example, Mairen Chard, Canby’s top-ranked swimmer who committed to the Division I Idaho in November.
But it does include Canby goaltender Zach Heidema, Cornell College (Iowa); and track standouts Izabela Kacalek, Corban, and Matthew Powell, Grand Canyon; whose spring signings were done virtually this year thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.
Here are the other Canby athletes who plan to compete at the college level in the 2020-21 school year — or whenever athletics begin again.
Halle Adair
Oregon Tech, soccer
Cayden Delozier
Linn-Benton Community College, baseball
Arika Evans
Linn-Benton Community College, volleyball
Ruby Kayser
Colorado State, volleyball
Nicole Mickelson
Warner Pacific, basketball
Katie Mull
Oregon Tech, track and field/cross country
Josh Oakley
Linfield, baseball
Ally Odell
Oregon Tech, track and field/cross country
Bryant Raeburn
Chemeketa CC, baseball
Kahleia Rose
George Fox, track and field/cross country
Photo of Halle Adair by Derek Wiley, formerly of the Canby Herald, Wilsonville Spokesman and Molalla Pioneer.
