Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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McKenzie Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Middle School Volleyball team travels to Mapleton on Wednesday, October 20. Match time is set for 4:30 pm. The Eagle team hosts Triangle Lake on Monday, October 25, and that match starts at 4:30 pm. McKenzie Middle School Cross Country Results The Eagle Middle School Cross Country teams traveled last Thursday, October 14, to sunny Corvallis to participate in the NW Middle School XC Showdown, held at Avery Park. Eagle sixth grade runner, Claire Weiss, finished 20th out of 157 runners in the Girls...
McKenzie Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Middle School Volleyball team hosts Siletz on Wednesday, October 13, with match time set for 4:30 pm. The Eagle's Middle School Football team follows on the same day, kicking off against Siletz at 5:00 pm. The McKenzie Middle School teams travel to Avery Park in Corvallis on Thursday, October 14, to participate in the Northwest Middle School XC Showdown. The MS Girls 3,000 meter race starts at 3:30 pm and the MS Boys 3,000 m. event follows with a...
Monday night, September 6, the McKenzie Community came together, impressively, to commemorate the Holiday Farm Fire which burned and overturned our beautiful River Valley and lives. The procession of around 50 emergency and personal vehicles and over one hundred residents, staged at the old Rustic Skillet and Harbick's Country Inn parking lots, just East of where the Fire allegedly first ignited. At 8:30 p.m., around the time last year's Fire started down our Valley, the procession headed west,...
McKenzie Athletic Director Fred Heins announced the cancellation of the Eagle’s Varsity Volleyball season this week and the probability that Varsity Football will also not occur. Lack of student/athletes showing up for opening practices and no coaches applying for the Varsity and Middle School Volleyball Coaching positions were the primary reasons for the cancellation of the Volleyball season. Thus far, just four students have turned out for volleyball and Heins stated a minimum of eight would be required to participate in the Mountain West L...
Ten McKenzie High School students recently completed a Restoration Class in which they had the opportunity to help their local community recover from the Holiday Farm Fire. The grant funded program featured completion of local service projects and watershed education provided by the McKenzie Watershed Council, in partnership with McKenzie High School in sponsoring the class. The McKenzie River Ranger District also supported the program by allowing the student team the opportunity to work on District property near the School. Justin Demeter,...
The McKenzie River Valley is world-renowned for its cold, clear water, uniquely emerging from volcanic lava beds, which provide natural filtering and a relatively constant flow and temperature. Past US Presidents and other notable dignitaries have vacationed and fished on the McKenzie for its prized Rainbow Trout, guided by iconic local guide families rowing the no less iconic McKenzie River Boat. This is also Big Timber country and the drive up the McKenzie Highway has always held as one of the most beautiful trips through both remnant...
Valor Family Farm and Cascade Relief Team are hosting a tree planting event this weekend, June 4 to June 6. Valor Family Farm owners Wes Ross and Jenny Stewart have over 10,000 conifer seedlings (and possibly several thousand more) that need to be planted immediately to survive. The seedlings were overstock from a nursery in Jefferson and were headed for landfill disposal until Ross decided to plant and hold them over on his farm. The seedlings will be later given to Wildfire Survivors. Ross...
Levi Lockart and Trent Peek Grab Third Place Finishes At Outback Invitational McKenzie Track and Field athletes Levi Lockart and Trent Peek each brought home third place finishes earned Friday, May 14, at the Outback Invitational Track Meet, sponsored by North Lake High School. Lockart set a personal record in the Shot Put, tossing the iron ball 33-04.00 ft., earning a third place finish behind LaPine's Stephen Machin, who had the winning throw of 47-02.00 ft. Eagle teammate Cody Moralas...
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week The McKenzie Varsity Boys and Girls Track and Field Teams travel to Mapleton on Wednesday, May 5, to participate in the Mapleton May Meet. Field events at the Mapleton Track will start at 4:00 pm and track events start at 4:30 pm. Teams scheduled for the Meet are Crow, Elkton, Mapleton, Mohawk, Riddle, Siletz Valley, Triangle Lake and McKenzie. Eagle Boys Finish Second, Girls Third At Sisters Track Meet The McKenzie Boys Track and Field team finished second to host Sisters last Friday, April 30, and th...
It has been far too long! The Virus and the Holiday Farm Fire 2020 coupled to box up and shelve McKenzie student/athletes and their opportunities to compete since last Spring (2020). Restrictions enacted in response to the Virus pandemic by Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA), the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) and mandated by Oregon Governor Kate Brown canceled, then reorganized high school athletics into shortened, displaced seasons this Spring. The student/athletes of McKen-zie...
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight. It’s the size of the fight in the dog.” Mark Twain. Twain’s insightful adage well describes the team first year McKenzie Head Coach Mike Wiley inherited in 2000-01. Long time (22 seasons at that time) Eagle Head Coach Galen Scrivner decided to hand the reins of the McKenzie Boys Basketball team over to one of his past players. Indeed, Coach Wiley had played for ‘Coach Scriv’ back in the late 70’s, graduating in 1980. Scrivner didn’t step aside and leave an empty cupboard for his protég&eac...
