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The Beaverton Hoop is famous for always hosting exceptional aau basketball tournaments on Fridays, and weekend days. College basketball coaches from all over come to this tournament, and look to find players that they feel have a great chance to play at the next level. Team ABA is a basketball team from Vancouver Washington, and they are a team of all unsigned seniors from the class of 2019. Many players on the team already have offers from colleges, however, some players are looking to seek more offers after the tournament is over. Two standout guards that are on college coaches radars that are on Team ABA are James Husband, and Alex Schumacher. Team ABA was playing against the Salem Hoop team on Friday May 17. The Salem Hoop have a standout guard Drayton Caoile who was the class of 2019 but he is reclassifying to the class of 2020. College coaches were swarming to come watch the matches between these two top teams in the tournament. Salem Hoop ended coming up victories this game, a...

Vancouver Washington is my hometown. Vancouver Washington is right across the bridge from Portland Oregon, and downtown Portland is where many people go to on the weekends if you live in Vancouver. Downtown Vancouver isn't that popular of an area, and not that many people visit downtown Vancouver like they do Portland. However Downtown Vancouver has many beautiful building, statues, and a great scenery that many people don't know about. Downtown Vancouver also has some great food spots. Probably the most famous event that happens in downtown Vancouver is the Saturday market. It is always located at Esther Short Park. Esther Short Park is one of the most famous parks in Vancouver. This section at Esther Short Park is a small waterfall area that a ton of younger children enjoy playing in. Also, People will often toss coins in the water. Even though the people that live in Vancouver have probably seen this statue of Caption George over 100 times, they still stop t...

Abraham Elshenawy  Abraham Elshenawy aka Abe is a 20 year old freshman who graduated from Crescent Valley high in Corvallis. Abe is majoring in pre-medicine and is looking to receive his associates of science degree. He says "I decided to come to LBCC because I wanted to get a higher education, and I figured this would be a good place to start."For many college students homework is a challenge, and it is difficult finding time to work on it. Abe is no different, but this is how he manages to do his. " I knew coming into college that doing homework was probably going to be hard, so the way I register my schedule is, I give myself breaks after every class so I have time to work on my homework in between. I also try to do some at night." There are many other things Abe would rather do then be doing homework all day long, one of the things is playing video games, he loves playing video games. "In my free time I like to play video games like Fortnite, Mad...

If you enjoy playing volleyball or interested in getting better at playing the sport, You should sign up for the LBCC volleyball class. The class is taught by Jayme Frazier, the LBCC head volleyball coach. The class is on Monday's, Wednesday's, and Friday's at 12-12:50pm. The class is outside in the sand volleyball pits, and they are located right outside the athletic center. The class teaches the volleyball basics, and allows you to practice and understand some of the rules better. There are also a few warm up drills you do in the class. Tossing the ball back and forth to your partner, and doing this drill that Jayme Frazier likes to call "pepper." In the drill you are practicing hitting the ball over the net, making sure that it stays in bounds. The class is a 1 credit class, if you're looking for just one more credit for a class, try to give this one a try.