You can’t get much more landlocked than Paisley, Ore., population 240, a wide spot in the road along Route 31 in rural Lake County.
And you can’t get much smaller than Paisley High, a 1A school that competes in the far-flung Mountain Valley League against Gilchrist, Prospect, Butte Falls and Surprise Valley, other dots on the map.
Yet those apparent obstacles haven’t stopped Oregon State junior Theresa “Tess” O’Leary from flourishing athletically and academically for the Beavers in rowing, a sport she knew next-to-nothing about when she arrived in Corvallis in Sept., 2014.
And in many ways O’Leary is the prototype athlete OSU coach Emily Ford and her staff are seeking via their e-mail solicitations.