Track and Field
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- Volunteer Coach
Christina Scherwin, a two-time Olympian and seven-time Danish national javelin champion, begins her fourth season assisting with Oregon’s javelin throwers.
In 2009, Scherwin helped guide Rachel Yurkovich to her second straight NCAA javelin championship and fourth consecutive NCAA West Regional and Pac-10 title. Yurkovich and Cyrus Hostetler also set school and Pac-10 records in the javelin, while three Ducks earned All-America honors in the event (Yurkovich, Hostetler and Alex Wolff). Hostetler won his second straight Pac-10 title in 2010 and went on to earn All-America status at the NCAA Championships, while Wolff set a javelin PR for the third straight season.
The current Danish record-holder at 212-8 (64.83 meters), Scherwin competed in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics for Denmark and has a history of performing well on the big stage. She finished fourth at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland, fifth at the 2006 European Championships and third at the 2006 World Athletics Final, where she set the Danish record.
The Danish national javelin champion in 2000, ’02, ’03, ’04, ’05, ’06 and ’08 was a two-time NCAA Division III national javelin champion for Moravian College in 2002 and ’03 and still holds the NCAA Division III javelin record.
She also holds Denmark’s national record in the shot put at 50-1.75 (15.28 meters) and was her country’s national shot put champion in 2003, ’05, ’06 and ’08.
