Track and Field
The track and field program has a competitive history. The men's and women's teams have finished in the top three on 14 occasions in the past 18 years. Clackamas athletes do well at CCC and beyond. Clackamas has strong academic programs. There are more than 140 majors. We also have an athletic academic advisor to help student-athletes stay on track with their academic plans.
Clackamas track has had three valedictorians in the last three years as well as many athletes who graduated high school with 3.8 GPA and above. We have a strong medical staff with an athletic trainer and team doctor to keep the athletes healthy. We compete against four-year programs on a regular basis. The coaching staff believes that every action is circular. Positive behaviors create other positive behaviors, which leads to strong performances.
If you're interested in joining track and field, contact Coach Keoni McHone at 503-594-3273 or keonim@clackamas.edu.
Track and Field Coaching Staff
Keoni McHone
503-594-3273 | keonim@clackamas.edu
Coach McHone is in his fourteenth season as the Head Track and Field Coach/Director of Cross Country at Clackamas. He spent six years as the Head Cross Country Coach and seven years as an assistant track and field coach before becoming the head track and field coach. Since McHone took over as the head track and field coach, he has built the team into a program that finishes in the top three at the NWAC Championships each year.
Track and Field Success at Clackamas:
Coach McHone has had 228 NWAC All-American performances while the head track and field coach. He personally coached or was the head coach for 197 of the current outdoor top ten all-time performances and 53 of the indoor top five all-time performances. He personally coached or was the head coach for 14 of the current outdoor school records and 14 of the indoor school records. Sixty-two NWAC Champions have competed for Clackamas since he has been the head coach. He personally coached the NWAC Championship meet record holders in the women’s 200 and men’s hammer as well as the second best men’s discus thrower and heptathlete to come out of the NWAC. McHone has coached the NWAC Women’s High Point Scorer the last three years showing he can produce the top athletes in the conference. He has had twenty-seven athletes compete at a collegiate national championship or NCAA Division I regional championship. He has also produced some of the top heptathletes to come out of the NWAC recently, where one went on to win the Big Sky Conference three years ago.
Success in Cross Country:
Coach McHone coached two women’s NWAACC Championship teams during the six years he was the Head Cross Country Coach. His 2004 program earned the Co-ed Combined Team title at the NWAACC Championships. His men’s teams finished second or third at the NWAACC Championships for five straight years. There were three individual NWAACC Champions and eighteen All-American performances by his athletes. He personally coached nine athletes onto the Clackamas Cross Country Top 20 list which includes both current record holders. McHone was voted NWAACC Women’s Coach of the Year in 2001 and 2004 as well as a six-time Southern Region Cross Country Coach of the Year.
Success Before Clackamas:
McHone got his start in coaching as a graduate assistant sprints/relays coach at Western Oregon University from 1999-1997. He coached the school record team that ran 40.90 in the 4 x 100 relay which placed fourth at the NAIA National Championships. He also coached the women’s 4 x 100 relay that ran 47.72 for a fourth place finish at the NAIA National Championships which was a school record at the time.
Personal Success:
Coach McHone was a sprinter at Western Oregon State College (now Western Oregon University) where he was an All-American in the 4 x 100 relay. He was a four-time conference champion in the 4 x 100 relay and won both relays, 100 and 200 at the Cascade Conference Championships his junior year. Coach McHone ran 11.51 in the 100 and 23.50 in the 200 at age 35. He is currently a class II short track mountain bike racer. He earned his Masters degree at age twenty-three where he did his thesis on Unilateral Versus Bilateral Squat Training Effects on Squat Strength, Counter-movement Jumps and Sprinting.
Danny Barley
Coach Barley is entering his 13th year at Clackamas with eighteen years of collegiate coaching experience. He is a USATF Level One, USTFCCCA Technical, and NWAC certified coach. Coaching highlights include his men’s hammer throwers sweeping 1-2 at the NWAC Championship meet two years in row in the 2015 and 2016 seasons. Last year, alumni Easton Christensen became Concordia University’s first ever NCAA Division II National Championship scorer, with a 6th place finish in the javelin. Over his coaching career, his athletes have earned 49 NWAC All-American titles and broken 7 school records.
Prior to coaching a Clackamas, Coach Barley coached at Chemeketa Community College and Linn-Benton Community College. In two years at Chemeketa, he coached the schools #1 and #2 best women’s discus throwers of all time, and just missed having an athlete break the school record in the men’s discus as well. In four years at Linn-Benton, his athletes broke the school records in the women’s javelin and hammer. The hammer mark being the farthest throw in conference history at the time.
On a personal competition level, Coach Barley is the school record holder in the hammer throw at Linn-Benton Community College and was an NAIA All-American in the hammer and weight throws while at Western Oregon University. He has a personal best of 204’ 0” in the hammer.
Coach Barley is currently a math instructor at Chemeketa Community College and has taught classes at Clackamas as well.
Bridgette Rusnac
Bridgette Rusnac is going into her sixth year coaching and fourth year at Clackamas. Although, she is primarily a hurdles coach, she assists with conditioning of sprints, jumps and multi-event athletes and academic performance of athletes.
For her first year at Clackamas, she had six athletes make it to the NWAC Championships for hurdles. That year, Emerson Liburd placed second in the 400m hurdles and third in the 110m hurdles, which put him on the Clackamas top ten in both hurdles. In 2018, She coached Essence Foster to a school record in the 400m hurdles and Jordan Gloden placed second in the 110m hurdles and fourth in the 400m hurdles. Also, in the 2018 season, she coached first time hurdler, Ethan Ferte, to place 5th in the 400m hurdles and placing again in 2019, seventh in the 400m hurdles and fifth in the 110m hurdles. In 2019, for their sophomore season, Essence Foster took the NWAC title in the 400m hurdles (for the second year in a row) and the Hepathalon and Jordan Gloden took the title for the 110m hurdles (ranking him 4th all-time for Clackamas) and 2nd in the 400m hurdles.
Coach Rusnac previously coached St. Mary’s Academy in Portland, where she was an assistant for two years. Her first year as a coach, she was able to take four athletes to state and bring home three medals. In her second year, she took six athletes to state and returned with six medals.
She finished her high school career breaking several personal records which inspired her to continue in college. She joined the Clackamas team, eventually making it to the NWAC Championships at the end of her freshman season. In her second year at Clackamas, she was a team captain and won the team’s award for most inspirational. In that year, she improved her 400m hurdles time by 4.3 seconds and placed 8th at NWAC’s.
Tiana Setser
Coach Setser is in her eighth year coaching at Clackamas.
Last year was highlighted with Dillon Zheol’s 50’9 ½” triple jump school record and Essence Foster’s 18’9” long jump. Two years ago was highlighted by Lydia Pavlenko where she went 18’2” in the long jump, 5’5” in the high jump and 39’4” in the triple jump. Two years ago she had great performances in the men’s triple jump with men going 47’6”, 46’3” and 45’10”. The 2017 season was a great success with Chelsea Bone leading the conference going into the NWAC Championships in the long jump and high jump with marks of 18’4” and 5’5”. Pavlenko followed that up improving greatly from high school where she went from 36’0” to 38’4” in the triple jump and 15’9” to 17’8” in the long jump. Dillon Zheol triple jumped 46’0” and long jumped 22’6”. In 2014, Setser coached arguably the best women’s junior college long jump/triple jump/high jump crew in the country with five women triple jumping between 38’4” – 35’4” and long jumping 19’4” – 16’4”. Her top high jumper went 5’7 ¼” who went on to compete in the NCAA Division I West Regional Championship after jumping 5’9” during the 2017 season. These were all significant improvements from their high school marks. Her jumpers set four new school records indoor and outdoor in the 2014 season. In her first year with the Cougars, she led the men’s triple jump crew to a 1-2-3 sweep at the NWAACC Championship. Her jumpers each improved by more than two feet from their previous bests to marks of 47’ 8”, 47’ 2”, and 45’ 10”. She also had five women jump over 37’ in the triple jump and five women that have gone over 18’ or more in the long jump.
Coach Setser has coached four NWAC champions and seventeen NWAC All-Americans. Previously, Tiana coached high school for eight years most recently at Parkrose High School.
She competed for the University of Oregon after starting her career at Clackamas CC where she was the school record holder in the triple jump until she coached Jordyn Searle to 38’4”. Coach Setser has a strong background in the jumps as a coach and has passion for the sport. She was highly successful as an athlete being highly competitive in high jump, long jump, pole vault, and triple jump.
Michelle Rose
Coach Rose is in her third year as the distance coach for Clackamas. She recently coached the men’s cross country team to third place at the 2019 NWAC Championships led by Abdi Ibrahim who placed second. Two of her athletes have been voted NWAC Cross Country Athlete of the Week. Her first year was highlighted by Devin Sellers winning the NWAC Championship in the steeplechase. She also had nine conference scoring performances in the distance events during the track and field seasons. Her women’s team placed fifth at the 2018 NWAC Cross Country Championship moving them up three spots from where they finished the year before.
Rose has spent her life being an avid runner. She began competing at 10 years old and never looked back. She attended Linfield College and participated in both the cross country and track & field programs.
Rose graduated in 2009 with a BA in Exercise Science and a focus in coaching. She began her career in the health and wellness industry upon graduation. In 2009, she was the assistant coach at Sunset High School and obtained her personal training certification as an Exercise Physiologist. In 2015, Rose became a certified Nutrition Coach.
Rose spent 5 years training at RiverPlace Athletic Club before starting her own personal training business which she still owns today. She focuses on instilling the passion of fitness in all those she works with.
Michelle continues to compete in various races ranging from the 1500m to 1/2 marathon. Her and her husband, Tyler, reside in Oregon City with their daughters, Sophie and Jadyn