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Donna On the Side - Race Eve - Nike BorderClash 3
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Nov 12th 2001, 12:21am
by Donna Dye
With Oregon in blue and Washington in Green, the BorderClash is an event to show who is the better running state--Oregon or Washington. Held on the elegant Nike campus, the event brings out the 40 best boys and girls from the two states to duel it out. It's a 4.2k course on rolling bark dust trails within a gorgeous setting. Oregon and Washington have each swept one meet in the first 2 years of BorderClash. Who will come out on top this year?
Saturday - eve of the meet
The Campus, Registration, Celebrities and some Workerbees
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Prefontaine lives
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BorderClash state trophy,
Nike, goddess of victory
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| The BorderClash has it's origins 3 decades ago in the rivalry between Steve Prefontaine from Oregon and Gerry Lindgren from Washingon--a terrific era in distance running. To honor that era, the Nike Campus houses a wonderful tribute to Steve Prefontaine and Coach Bill Bowerman in the Prefontaine Hall. |
A tribute to Pre!
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Pre's Goals for his
HS senior year
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The Bowerman Story: Today's Running Shoe
Coach Bill Bowerman
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The waffle iron he used. |
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Registration at Prefontaine Hall
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Celebrities
Geoff Hollister of Nike ( right) welcomes Mike Byrnes ( left) and A.J. Holzherr ( center) of the National Scholastic Sports Foundation  |
Workerbees
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Deb Murray (center), Nike Running Staff and BorderClash Worker, with Lisa (left) and Maria, Nike employees who volunteer to work the BorderClash.
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Go Girl Go! say Nike staffers Ry Benevides and Michelle Oakley with the BorderClash state champion trophy
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