Podcasts about parkrose high school

Sophie Ohle is a 16-year-old junior at Parkrose High School in Portland, Oregon. She has been playing the oboe for 4 years and currently studies with Karen Wagner. She is the Assistant Principal oboist of the Metropolitan Youth Symphony and also plays oboe in the Pacific Rose Ensemble, a student founded and student led chamber group. At Parkrose, she inspires her peers as the Drum Major of her marching band and the Vice President of the Tri-M Music Honor Society. In her free time, she loves to play tennis, snowboard, and do her and her friend's nails!

18-year old oboist Mia Hale started off playing music with the violin and piano, but has made the switch to the double reed family! In this interview with Lisa Lipton, we dive deeper into finding what inspires her in music. Mia is a recent graduate of Parkrose High School and will be attending the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance this fall as an oboe performance major. Mia's current teacher is Oregon Symphony Assistant Principal Oboe, Karen Wagner. As a recent winner of the Metropolitan Youth Symphony annual concerto competition, Mia details what she enjoys most about playing the oboe.

E342– Inner Voice – A Heartfelt Chat with Dr. Foojan. In this episode, Dr. Foojan Zeine chats with Victor Trillo and Tyler Stonebraker. Victor is a founding team member of The PATHfinder Club and works as a youth mentor, employing his deep understanding of the impact of incarceration on individuals, first as the son of a man in prison throughout Victor's childhood and later as a prisoner himself. At the age of 19, Victor received a Life sentence that was reversed after he had been incarcerated for 21 years. He is a powerful advocate for children of the incarcerated and, in June 2023, became the Program Coordinator for The PATHfinder Club and POPS the Club. Tyler is a 17-year-old high school senior from Parkrose High School in Portland who has been struggling with poverty all his life. He has nobody to look up to but is trying to turn his life around at The PATHfinder Club. We shared about the environmental factors that lead to teen incarceration and the path, hope, and the process of healing and health through expression and art. Check out the book “Advice to 9th Graders – stories, poetry, Art & Other Wisdom” and more information about this fantastic program at www.thepathfindernetwork.org.     Check out my website: www.FoojanZeine.com, www.AwarenessIntegration.com, www.Foojan.com Remember to Subscribe, Listen, Review, and Share! Find me on these sites: *iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/i...) *Google Play (https://play.google.com/music/m/Inpl5...) *Stitcher (https://www.stitcher.com/) *YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/DrFoojan)

Richard Powers' last novel, “The Overstory,” was a 600-page deep-dive into the science of forests, and the relationships between trees and human beings. His newest, “Bewilderment,” is less than half that length, but both more vast and more intimate in scope. It is the story of an astrobiologist who looks for life on other planets, while he navigates a complex relationship with his young son. Powers joins us in front of an audience at Parkrose High School.

BEN ANDREWS was born in to a modest hard-working middle-class family. A rising star and one of the top milers in the United States, Ben was set to join the storied University of Oregon Track and Field team. But as quickly as Ben's star began to rise, its brilliance quickly faded.After graduating from Portland's Parkrose High School in 1992, Ben was one of the top high school milers in the United States and was set to embark on a collegiate career with the Oregon Ducks. Ben had to return for a dreaded 5th year of high school after a transcript debacle stopped him dead in his tracks. As the University of Oregon Track and Field program awaited Ben's arrival, Ben faced allegations, arrest and was facing a 5-15 year sentence inside the cold concrete walls inside the Oregon State Penitentiary.   You'll want to hear the entire episode

John Canzano talks to Terry Kneisler of the Oregon Sports Collectors Association as he educates about the world of sports cards and previews an upcoming event at Parkrose High School. Subscribe NOW to this podcast for more great content. And tune in to the BFT with John Canzano live every weekday from 3-6 p.m. on 750 The Game! Follow @JohnCanzanoBFT on Twitter

"Sports honestly saved my life," Gary Muzzy says in this conversation without any hesitation. For many years he has coached swimming and water polo at the youth and high school levels for both his organization Blue Crush and for Parkrose High School. As a swimmer herself, Gary's mother got him and his twin brother Larry in the pool at a young age. The pair excelled, but his brother went to jail at 17. Gary says he "gave up" around that time, but with the support of his mom, coaches, and mentors at after-school programs, he persevered and graduated high school. Melissa believed in him and supported his goals as a young adult as well. Gary had a desire to give back to youth in a similar way, and the Parkrose water polo coach and superintendent Dr. Karen Gray both approached Gary to ask him to coach summer water polo and swimming, which led to the launch of Blue Crush Aquatic Club. Since then, Melissa and Gary have impacted countless youth, both boys and girls, and some of them received swimming scholarships. We also talk about the racial climate of swimming and water polo, the current climate of youth club sports, and their hopes and goals for youth sports in Parkrose. Crush Athletics offers swimming lessons (year-round is their goal), swim team, water polo, and they are adding other sports like volleyball, basketball, and futsal too. Check out parkrosepool.com for the hours and opportunities at the pool too. If you want to contact Melissa or Gary, you can email crushathleticspdx@gmail.com. You can check out more community stories and get real estate insights at parkroselife.com, and please share this podcast with a neighbor!

The Blindside meets Friday Night Lights in Keanon Lowe's Hometown Victory when an NFL coach returns home after losing a friend to coach a team of struggling high school kids on a 23-game losing streak. Keanon Lowe was working as an offensive analyst for the San Francisco 49ers when his childhood friend and former high school teammate suddenly died from an opioid overdose. Keanon dropped everything––including the plum NFL job he had been working towards since childhood––leading him to a position as football coach at a struggling high school back in his hometown. At the time, Parkrose High School was in the middle of a 23-game losing streak--they were the ultimate underdogs. In many ways, the road to Parkrose was paved by Keanon's life-defining experiences––from a childhood spent dodging racist bullies and finding the support and mentorship he craved on the football team, to an NFL season where he worked closely with Colin Kaepernick as he evolved his sideline protest. Keanon was drawn to the young men on the Parkrose team, and to the school itself. After two years, he pushed them to become conference champions, mentoring countless players along the way. But still, there was that nagging sense that his calling wasn't meant to stop there. He was at that school for a reason. In May 2019, he got his answer when a 19-year-old student entered a Parkrose classroom with a trench coat and shotgun. Keanon disarmed him and pulled the boy into a hug, telling him he cared. In the boy, Keanon saw himself, and the young men he grew up with or mentored along the way––and weren't so many of them just looking for acceptance, for comfort, for love? With the heart of favorite football classics––The Blindside, Friday Night Lights, Remember the Titans––Keanon's journey at Parkrose is the true account of a life spent striving forward, even when faced with the unimaginable. Hometown Victory is a story about gratitude, service, and most of all, hope.

The Blindside meets Friday Night Lights in Keanon Lowe's Hometown Victory when an NFL coach returns home after losing a friend to coach a team of struggling high school kids on a 23-game losing streak. Keanon Lowe was working as an offensive analyst for the San Francisco 49ers when his childhood friend and former high school teammate suddenly died from an opioid overdose. Keanon dropped everything––including the plum NFL job he had been working towards since childhood––leading him to a position as football coach at a struggling high school back in his hometown. At the time, Parkrose High School was in the middle of a 23-game losing streak--they were the ultimate underdogs. In many ways, the road to Parkrose was paved by Keanon's life-defining experiences––from a childhood spent dodging racist bullies and finding the support and mentorship he craved on the football team, to an NFL season where he worked closely with Colin Kaepernick as he evolved his sideline protest. Keanon was drawn to the young men on the Parkrose team, and to the school itself. After two years, he pushed them to become conference champions, mentoring countless players along the way. But still, there was that nagging sense that his calling wasn't meant to stop there. He was at that school for a reason. In May 2019, he got his answer when a 19-year-old student entered a Parkrose classroom with a trench coat and shotgun. Keanon disarmed him and pulled the boy into a hug, telling him he cared. In the boy, Keanon saw himself, and the young men he grew up with or mentored along the way––and weren't so many of them just looking for acceptance, for comfort, for love? With the heart of favorite football classics––The Blindside, Friday Night Lights, Remember the Titans––Keanon's journey at Parkrose is the true account of a life spent striving forward, even when faced with the unimaginable. Hometown Victory is a story about gratitude, service, and most of all, hope. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Portland Mayor Bud Clark is being honored with a memorial service on Sunday. Climate and environmental experts at Oregon State University update the drought and wildfire status in the state. Former University of Oregon football player Keanon Lowe has written a book that details how he stopped a student armed with a gun at Parkrose High School in 2019.

Keanan Lowe on his journey as a football player and coach including his moment of taking down a student with a gun at Parkrose High School; KXL callers on their 1st concert; Dr. Peter Zisa with CDZ Collegium Musica on how they're using music to educate and break down cultural barriers 

Keanon Lowe played Division One football at the University of Oregon and went on to coach Colin Kaepernick while he was going through his national anthem controversy with the San Francisco 49ers, and Lowe shares his impactful experience disarming a school shooter at Parkrose High School in Portland on the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Keanon Lowe played Division One football at the University of Oregon and went on to coach Colin Kaepernick while he was going through his national anthem controversy with the San Francisco 49ers, and Lowe shares his impactful experience disarming a school shooter at Parkrose High School in Portland on the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Wednesday, Keanon Lowe joined The Pat & Aaron Show to discuss his upcoming memoir: HOMETOWN VICTORY: A Coach's Story of Football, Fate, and Coming Home. Lowe became nationally celebrated for disarming a would-be school shooter while on the campus of Parkrose High School in Portland, Oregon. Click play for more!

Richard Powers' last novel, “The Overstory,” was a 600-page deep-dive into the science of forests, and the relationships between trees and human beings. His newest, “Bewilderment,” is less than half that length, but both more vast and more intimate in scope. It is the story of an astrobiologist who looks for life on other planets, while he navigates a complex relationship with his young son. Powers joins us in front of an audience at Parkrose High School.

As the Life Skills Lead Teacher at Parkrose High School, Jake Dorr helps students with a range of challenges such as autism, Down syndrome, and other learning disabilities. He uniquely designs learning opportunities for his students based on their Individualized Education Plans (IEP). He also works alongside other Parkrose faculty so students with certain challenges can excel in the general education courses and graduate. He works with students in a classroom setting, and at other times he works as a "manager of an airport" since people are always coming and going and he has several responsibilities. He oversees schedules and works with educational assistants to keep everything going while maintaining flexibility with students' needs. He shared several success stories of ways he has helped students and also gives kudos to the teachers and educational assistants and the collaboration and communication among Parkrose schools serving different ages of students and also the Life Education for Adults of Parkrose (LEAP) students. Jake grew up in Philomath, and fun fact, he and I both met our wives while working as counselors at Camp Tadmor in Lebanon, OR. As an artist, Jake incorporates a lot of icons and graphics in his teaching. You can check out his art or contact him at his website jakedorr.com, @whatjakesees on Instagram, and Jake of All Trades on YouTube. You can check out more community stories and get real estate insights at parkroselife.com and please share this podcast with a neighbor!

John Canzano holds the BFT Radio-thon to benefit local kids in the arts and youth sports. Matt Prehm joined the show to talk about Ducks football and the Celtics drafting Payton Pritchard. Then Nick Daschel of the Oregonian previewed the Beavers' upcoming game with Cal. Finally, Parkrose High School principal Molly Ouche talked about how kids benefit from the foundation.

Kap is joined by Keanon Lowe, former Oregon Wide Receiver, who courageously confronted a would-be shooter at Parkrose High School, saving countless lives in doing so.

Keanon Lowe grew up in a family struggling to make ends meet. His father left when he was nine. When money was tight or when things were hard, his mother would try to encourage him by saying that it was alright. “You’re just where you’re supposed to be,” she said. This would be hard to accept over the years. It was hard to accept his college career at Oregon ended when the team lost in the playoffs to Ohio State in 2015. It was hard to accept when the NFL career he dreamed of ended by getting cut from the Arizona Cardinals after four days, with no more than a pair of gym shorts for his trouble. Then his first year as an NFL assistant ended when the coach who hired him got fired, and his second year ended the same way. Shortly thereafter, one of his best friends from his playing days died of an overdose. This is where he was supposed to be? This is how things were supposed to go? These are the kind of twists and turns of fate the Stoics tell us we’re supposed to love? How could that possibly be right?Well, as Greg Bishop (himself a fellow Stoic traveler) writes in his beautiful Sports Illustrated profile of Keanon, it is right. Because it is all leading somewhere, whether we know it or not. After all those losses and setbacks, Keanon ended up taking a job coaching at Parkrose High School...and working as the school security guard to make money on the side. On May 17th, Keanon was sent to Mr. Melzer’s Government class to grab a student who had been requested by a counselor. It just so happens that the very student he was looking for was working his way toward the classroom with a loaded shotgun. In a moment, they met. Keanon was exactly where he was supposed to be. Instead of running away, he ran towards it. He fought the young man and stopped an active shooter from doing god knows what. Keanon’s mother had been right. The Stoics were right. We have no idea what life has in store for us or what it is saving us for—even as it kicks our ass and breaks our hearts. Whatever we are going through, whatever is happening to us, we must know that: we are where we are supposed to be right now. How’s that?Because we can make it be where we are supposed to be. By the actions we take and the choices we make.

Former Oregon Wide Receiver and current Parkrose HS Head Coach Keanon Lowe joins the show. Keanon and I discuss Chip Kelly's call from Alaska, turning around a team that went 0-23 and finding his greater purpose in life.

Digital Designer Elijah Graham shares his journey of Parkrose High School in Portland, to being first in his family to go to college. He played basketball at a California college and then finding his home at George Fox University and excelling in design.

You need to listen to this episode!   Jonathan Boland was a star quarterback at Parkrose High School in Portland, Oregon. His success there led to a full-ride scholarship to Portland State, but a series of concussions forced him to leave football. This began a downward spiral into depression, substance abuse and eventually a series of robberies.    Those are the facts of what happened, but today is about the why.   As he accepts responsibility and holds himself accountable this interview documents a discovery moment. A moment where you find out who you really are, the mistakes and setbacks to overcome and the better person you will become.   This is Jon Boland’s story in his own words… his feeling, his insight, his change.   Everyone needs to listen to this episode! All parents, student-athletes, and coaches will get something out of this.   For more information on how to reach out to Jon visit http://sportsmastery.com/57.

Michelle Burch, Performance teams manager of the Portland Trail Blazers joins the show to discuss this weekend's Blazer Dancer tryouts at Parkrose High School.