By René Ferrán | Photo by Taylor Balkom A look at some of the top returning runners and teams to watch entering the 2022 Oregon high school boys cross country
Columbia River’s Daniel Barna placed fourth in the top division varsity race at the Curtis Invitational cross country event on Saturday at Chambers Bay in University Place.
Charlie Robertson, Sr., Franklin
Robertson improved from seventh at state as a sophomore to finish second last season behind teammate Aidan Palmer (now at Boise State). The Colorado signee and 2019 3,000-meter champion on the track won the final Elite 5K race at Hydrangea Ranch in Tillamook in November, beating Wyoming 3A state champion Peter Visser of Star Valley by eight seconds.
Ryan Schumacher, Sr., Jesuit
Schumacher, who signed with Notre Dame in the fall, moved up 25 spots between his sophomore and junior years to place fourth at the state cross country championships last season. He traveled to Indiana in November and placed 12th at the XC Town USA Meet of Champions.
Competition winners get turns in Vancouver Symphony spotlight
Concert to feature 3 soloists from Young Artists Competition By James Bash, for The Columbian
Published: January 14, 2021, 9:43am
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The winners of last year’s Young Artist Competition, violinist Hanami Froom, pianist Jacob Nenow and oboist Ben Price, are finally getting their due. Because of the pandemic, their scheduled appearance as soloists with the Vancouver Symphony was delayed until this weekend.
The concert will be livestreamed from Skyview Concert Hall. Sarah Ioannides, music director of Symphony Tacoma, will conduct the orchestra, which has been reduced to a strings-only ensemble.
Hanami Froom, winner of the string competition, is a freshman at the K12 International Academy. She began violin lessons with the Suzuki method when she was only 2 years old.