GET TO KNOW YOUR SAINTS: TRACK AND FIELD

Andre Dorn

Andre Dorn is a sophomore pursuing a career in sports medicine. He’s been running track for seven years. He took a season off last year to focus more on school. Coming back with a different motivation this season, he’s been exceeding his best performances in all his events. The hardest part of this season for him is staying motivated and keeping up with schoolwork. In 10 years, he is wanting to be in the Olympics, and doing sports medicine.

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Grace Buchanan

Grace Buchanan is a sophomore athlete in MHCC. She is pursuing a career in psychology and looking forward to attending Warner Pacific University next year to play volleyball and throw the javelin. She works as a water aerobics instructor in a community center while balancing school and track this season. Her role in the team is to lead as an example and make everyone feel included. In 10 years, she’s looking to go back to her high school as a school psychologist, since her family graduated from there and they have a very tight community.

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Alex Moore

Alex Moore is a sophomore at MHCC planning to be a pediatric nurse. He will stay at Mt. Hood after this season to focus more on his academics, to be able to get into Concordia or Portland State. The hardest part this season for him is having mental blocks: it’s hard to be motivated to go to practices every day and find time to fit everything in. But he stayed motivated so that throughout the season his times were dropping to the point that it got him to this place in his track career. In 10 years, he’s looking to be a pediatric nurse, and if he’s given an opportunity he would go back to Estacada High School to coach track.

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Ujunwa Nwokoma

Ujunwa Nwokoma is a first-year student ready to enter the dental hygiene program and also looking to study accounting later at MHCC. It’s her fifth season running track, and she’s looking forward to carrying her progress to next year. The hardest thing for her this season is keeping up with her schoolwork and she’s not a fan of her sprint workouts, but everything else is just her having fun and enjoying this journey. Her role has been to support her teammates. In 10 years, she’s looking forward to living in a rural area and just having peace and quiet.