Little did I know when I took this job as Athletic Secretary 7 years ago that one job requirement would be predicting the weather in the spring. Oh yes, it's a skill that over the last few years I have learned to master.......well, sort of. It starts at about 9:30am..the softball, baseball, tennis coaches enter the office "Well, what's the doppler looking like? Do you think we will be able to play today? Practice outside? or move inside? What gym would we be in? Why do we always have to be in the wrestling gym?"..then the kids start filing in.."Mrs. C this weather sucks is our game going to be cancelled? When are you going to know? Why can't you tell us now? Are we going to practice inside or outside? Are you going to make an announcement when you find out?"...baaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! So I have gotten to be a weather person with the number of times that between the Athletic Director and myself we pull up the ever changing weather doppler page. First we pull up KGW.com, then we try KATU.com, both local channels but who knows maybe they have different weather predictions, then we try Accuweather.com, then to just make sure we go to whatever the website is that fishermen use to check the weather (our AD is a bigtime fisherman and checks this site regularly). So you would think between all of these sources we could very accurately predict what the weather at approximately 4:30pm game time will be....WELL, it doesn't work that way, the stupid little rain patches that weren't on the doppler earlier..can pop up out of nowhere!..and BAM....we have to cancel the game, cancel the officials, recall the bus, pull the tarp over the infield and re-schedule to the next dry day which may be (most likely won't be) tomorrow because of more stinking rain! Oh...you gotta love spring sports in Oregon!
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