Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Details on OSU women’s basketball coach Hoyt’s contract extension
Ben Hutchens Staff Reporter
where the Cowgirls finished 21-12 overall, 10-8 in the Big 12 and reached the NCAA Tournament, OSU women’s basketball coach Hoyt is receiving an extension. The total contract is now worth $3.25 million over the next five years. Here are the details of the contract extension obtained by The O’Colly on Monday.
After one season at the helm, Jacie Hoyt’s contract is being amended. After a successful 2022-23 season See Contract on 3
Davis Cordova OSU women’s basketball coach Jacie Hoyt took over in March and instantly made an impact with her intense, relationship-oriented coaching style.
Toxins all around us Logan Engles O’Colly Contributor
OSU Athletics The Texas Tech series was the first time Claire Timm was in the starting lineup this season.
Freshman Timm showing promise at the plate Parker Gerl Staff Reporter
good.’ Then she came up and had a big at-bat in her first at-bat.” Timm started all three contests against Texas Tech, giving the Cowgirls Claire Timm had yet to start a three hits, two of which had runners in game in her college career. scoring position – something the team Opting to make lineup changes couldn’t generate in prior weeks. to increase offensive production, OSU Timm went 3-for-8 at the plate coach Kenny Gajewski gave the fresh- (.375 average), with a run and three man Cowgirl infielder the nod. RBI, with her two notable hits came in “We were taking (batting practhe fourth inning of each game. The tice) for the game, and I said, ‘Hey, first was an RBI single that scored you’re starting,’” Gajewski said. “And Kiley Naomi, and the next, a two-run she goes, ‘OK.’ I was like, ‘I don’t double she drove to deep left-center know what that means, but I hope that’s field.
”We just hadn’t been scoring runs, so I was just trying to get offense,” Gajewski said. “And she gave us that. So, I’m just proud of her, the way she’s done her work, she’s never complained. She’s like a steady eddy in the batters box, she just looks like a kid who’s been here for four years.” The double from Timm, which gave the Cowgirls a 4-0 lead, awarded the infielder a career-high two RBI. And after the successful threegame hitting output, she boosted her average from .250 to .292. See Promise on 4
Corporations across the State of Oklahoma have a historic problem with pollution. Locations such as the infamous Tar Creek Superfund Site display the apathy for public and environmental safety that these corporations demonstrate into the present day. Every year, hundreds of different corporations release chemicals into the air, landfills, as well as ponds and streams across the state. Due to this pollution, Congress passed the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act in 1987. This act created the Toxic Release Inventory, which acts as a repository of information about releases across the United States, from locations of emissions to the corporation responsible for the pollution. This inventory of data is maintained by the Environmental Protection Agency and is accessible online. Emissions such as those previously listed have long been known to cause diseases such as cancer, but lead can have more damaging effects, especially on children as lead exposure can slow growth and development according to the Centers for Disease Control. The TRI report also revealed that over half of all carcinogenic releases occurred within only seven counties: Carter, Creek, Kay, Muskogee, Oklahoma, Rogers and Tulsa counties. This finding, coupled with data from
the Oklahoma Department of Health’s online health statistics database, OK2SHARE, revealed that multiple of those seven counties have respiratory cancer rates far above the state average. Data Analysis and Findings: The TRI revealed 6,804 total emission releases between 2017 and 2021. After sorting these releases by carcinogen detection, the data was then sorted by carcinogen type, revealing the carcinogens most often released within the state. Of the over 700 chemicals that are monitored for release by the TRI, the vast majority of releases in Oklahoma were heavy metals including lead, chromium, nickel and zinc, each of which are known to cause respiratory cancer. Other major respiratory carcinogens were also detected such polycyclic aromatic compounds, which are also major environmental contaminants according to the National Institutes of Health, as well as the EPA and CDC. After identifying the main carcinogens, the data was subsequently sorted and analyzed by county to reveal the previously listed hot spot counties of Carter, Creek, Kay, Muskogee, Oklahoma, Rogers and Tulsa counties.
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