Blewitt set to compete in Olympic trials this week

BY JOHN KOVACH

VINDICATOR SPORTS STAFF

BOARDMAN — Most Olympic contenders, especially the outstanding athletes who have a good chance of making the U.S. team, have attracted corporate sponsors.

But in shot-putter Adriane Blewitt’s case, although she has a partial nationally-known sponsor in Nike, the Boardman native’s main sponsors have come from hundreds of people in the Valley.

The community has donated $28,000 plus numerous in-kind services to the Adriane Blewitt Olympic Fund during a fund-raising campaign conducted over the past year, so that she could compete for a berth on the U.S. team.

Thanks to all of this financial support and Blewitt’s training, perseverance and comeback after beating cancer in 2003, the Boardman High and Ashland University graduate will carry the Valley’s banner this week in the track and field Olympic Trials at the University of Oregon.

She will compete in the shot put starting Thursday.

Read more in Monday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com.