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Lewis & Clark College

2024-25 Track and Field Roster

Mackenzie Olver

  • Height 5-7
  • Year Sophomore
  • Hometown Juneau, Alaska
  • High School Thunder Mountain
  • Events Distance
  • Major Sociology and Anthropology

Biography

TFRRS BIO PAGE: https://www.tfrrs.org/athletes/9017535/Lewis__Clark/Mackenzie_Olver.html

2024-25 Awards 
 
2025 Northwest Conference Scholar-Athlete 

2025 Outdoor Season Best Marks
 
800M: 2:31.76 – Linfield Jenn Boyman Memorial Invitational, April 5 
1,500M: 5:31.68 – Portland Twilight, May 10 
5,000M: 20:32.95 – John Knight Invite, April 11 

2025 Indoor Season Best Marks
 
600M: 1:52.91 – Portland Indoor #1, January 26 – 1st in program history  
800M: 2:40.43 – Portland Indoor #2, February 9 – 10th in program history  

NOTABLES 
  • Competed in 10 meets during her first collegiate track & field season 
  • Made her collegiate track debut on January 26 at the Portland Indoor #1 Meet when she set the program record in the 600M (1:52.91) to finish 10th overall 
  • Placed ninth in the 800M (2:39.61) and 12th in the 1,500M (5:35.56) at the Lane Community College Open 
  • Closed out her season by setting a PR in the 1,500M (5:31.68) and helping the 4x400M Relay Team finish first overall (4:43.36) at the Portland Twilight Meet on May 10 
At Lewis & Clark: Minoring in English…Member of the orchestra ... Member of the track & field team. 

Prior to the Pios: Attended Thunder Mountain High School…Played club soccer for Alaska Rush and Juneau Soccer Club...Competed on her high school's soccer and cross country teams…Named team captain for her high school soccer team in 2023…Selected to the ADP team in 2022 and 2019…Was team captain for her high school cross country team in 2022…Qualified for State Cross Country race in 2022…Won the All-Academic Award for cross country in 2022…Won the Cross Country Sportsman Award in 2022 and 2019…Was a four-year member of her high school Student Government…Member of the National Honor Society…Graduated as class Valedictorian with a 4.0 GPA…Father Barry Olver was a member of the sailing team and ran cross country at Maine Maritime Academy…Uncle Darren Sawatzky played soccer for the University of Portland (1991-1994), USISL Oregon Surge (1995), New England Revolution (1996-1997), Dallas Burn/Charleston Battery (1998), Colorado Rapids (1999), Seattle Sounders (2000), Portland Timbers (2001), Kansas City Comets (2001-02, indoor),  and Seattle Sounders (2002-04)…Darren is the current head coach for the USL League 1 Richmond Kickers (2019-present)…Cousin Jordyn Matthews played soccer for Bellevue College (2017-2018), Sounders Women (2018), Mount Saint Mary's University (2019-2022, Female Athlete of the Year and Newcomer of the Year in 2019)…Jordyn is a member of the Guam National Team (2018-present)…Cousin Kayla Mehring played soccer at Trinity Lutheran College…Kayla is the current head coach of the F08/09 Valencia CF Academy Seattle and the F09/10 Eagleclaw FC Teams.

Why Lewis & Clark?: I was looking for colleges with good sociology programs on the west coast and Lewis and Clark came up in my search. In taking a tour of the campus, I was struck by its beauty and it just really felt like a place where I would fit in. It was also additionally enticing that I could continue playing soccer there!