Registration for the Keizer Soccer Club fall season, closes on Sunday, Aug. 7. Teams are filling up now so interested players and their parents should visit kscsoccer.org for more information. The deadline also applies to KSC’s Preseason Camp, running 8/22 through 8/25, and the  Kinderkick program. Games begin the weekend after Labor Day and will [...]

Keizer athletes Steven Jones and Andrew Russell competed in the Special Olympics track and field state meet over the weekend and one returned home with three bronze medals. Russell took third in the 200-meter, 400-meter and as part of the 4×100 relay. “It’s a really fun experience,” said Russell, 21. “I like to win, but [...]

McNary High School sophomore Daniel Brattain recently took first place in the 110-meter hurdles at the regional Junior Olympics in Spokane, Wash. He achieved a new personal record of 14.91 with the race. The regional meet was held July 7-11. Brattain also qualified for the national meet in the decathlon with a score of 5333, [...]

The Keizer Tennis Association wants to see a court in every driveway and an upcoming workshop for youth 10 and under is intended to get it started. KTA and Courthouse Athletic Club is hosting a United States Tennis Association QuickStart Tennis training workshop on Saturday, June 11, from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm at the [...]

Mark Plaza’s Senior National JBO team opened their season on Tuesday, May 17 against Dallas at home at the KYSA fields. Isaiah Pack earned the win throwing three perfect innings, striking out seven, Evan Alger followed with two shut-out innings in their 10-0 win over Dallas. Keizer only allowed one hit all evening while Tyler [...]

By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes At age 11, Isaiah Putnam is competing at a level of Japanese karate that his sensei has rarely witnessed. “I have given him as tough a workout as I ever have any child his age. When he came back for the state tournament, I was given his assessment [...]

Runners from throughout the area will make Keizer their destination of choice this weekend The 5K and KIDZ 3K are Saturday, May 21. Registration begins at 7:45 a.m. at the tent in the Safeway parking lot. Runs begin at 9:15 a.m. The festival’s two longer runs – the 10K and half marathon – are Sunday, [...]

By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes Jeff DeLeon was an aviation technician in the U.S. Navy when he was involved in a single-car accident that left him without use of his legs. Not one to sit around licking his wounds, DeLeon, a Keizer resident, found renewed purpose in athletics and as a board member [...]

The first time Yvette Massinger, in her Roller Derby alter ego Va Voom Va Vet, knocked down another competitor on the track she said she was sorry. “It took me a little while to really become aggressive. Now, I’m always looking for that great hit,” Massinger said. For Massinger and the other Keizer women who [...]

Five McNary wrestlers traveled to Battleground, Wash., the last weekend of March to compete in a regional Freestyle/Greco Tournament and two came back as placers. Mason Ross placed third in the Cadet Greco Tournament (215 lbs) for anyone born in 1995 or 1996. Devin Reynolds also placed third in the Greco Tournament at the Junior [...]