Jordan Bishop Leads Six Oregon State Competitors at Husky Classic

by Jake Bertalotto on Feb 13, 2010 9:01 PM PST in Oregon State Football Comment 1 comment

From Oregon State Sports Information:

Seattle, Wash. - Sophomore Jordan Bishop (West Salem, Ore.) and freshman Obum Gwacham (Chino Hills, Calif.) took the top two spots in their flight at the indoor high jump on Saturday afternoon at the Husky Classic, competing with three other Oregon State football players for the first time since 1988.

Bishop cleared 7-0, taking the title for the day, while Gwacham was able to hit 6-10.75 to take the runner-up spot in Dempsey Indoor. Bishop barely missed his first attempt at 7-2, while Gwacham narrowly missed 7-0 on all three of his tries. Bishop becomes the eighth high jumper in school history to clear seven feet.

"Overall today was a very special day," head women's track coach Kelly Sullivan said. "Sprinter James Rodegers officially represented the first male athletes to compete for track, finishing second in his heat after not competing for nearly three years. And our two jumpers had incredible performances, considering they had never jumped indoors before."

Senior James Rodgers (Richmond, Texas) and sophomore Keynan Parker (New Westminster, British Columbia) both posted top 20 finishes with identical 7.03 times in the 60 meters, while redshirt freshman Rashaad Reynolds (Los Angeles, Calif.) finished in 45th in a time of 7.31.

Rodgers finished second in the second heat, just behind Greg Hornsby of Washington State, while Keynan Parker finished third in the 11th heat of the preliminaries.

During the meet, the Oregon State competitors were announced and brought to the middle of the field to be recognized.

For more on Oregon State's men's track team, see AndyPanda's post from earlier in the week.

--Jake | (jake.buildingthedam@gmail.com)

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Jordan placed third in the finals,

and Obum fifth. Jesse Williams, the 2008 U.S. High Jump Champion, and a Beijing Olympian, as well as being on team Nike (the job he gets up and goes to everyday if practicing and refining his high jump technique), won, with a 7’7" leap on his first attempt in the finals, the seventh best in the world.

Complete results here.

Third and fifth is still pretty good for some football players going up against a bunch of track specialists. Jordan was facing quite an upgrade in competition from the Oregon 6A meet two years ago, his last meet.

James Rodgers finished second in his preliminary, eliminating him from the finals, but his time placed him in a tie for 19th. in his first meet in three years. Keynan Parker finished third in his heat, but posted the same time as Rodgers, 7.03. Their 19th. place finishes were in a field of 57.

Also of note, Oregon RB LaMichael James won his preliminary, and finished third overall. James beat Washington WR Jordan Polk, who is out of Lincoln High in Portland, in advancing. Polk placed 18th. overall.

That’s four top 20 placings for Pac-10 football players from the northwest schools basically racing for the fun of it in the course of their off-season training, against mostly track specialists, some of them professionals.

Andy Wooldridge, andy_wooldridge@yahoo.com
Go Beavs!

by AndyPanda on Feb 14, 2010 11:14 AM PST reply actions