Heinonen ‘sketches’ AIA W chances
With one week to go before
the AIAW nationals in Austin,
Texas, Oregon track coach Tom
Heinonen is as sketchy about
his team's chances as he will be
the day before the meet.
"We have a chance to finish
higher than 10th, but that’s only
if a lot of things go right. I don’t
like to go into a meet and say,
We will score 28 points.’ I’d
rather say, ‘We’ll score 20 to 30
points.’ ”
Heinonen knows that every
thing can happen, and very
often does, at a major event.
There are just too many in
dividuals, teams and event
heats to reckon with.
"We find it's a pretty good
idea to be conservative in the
estimation of point totals,” he
says.
But even the lowest end of
Heinonen’s broad prediction
seems to indicate that the
Ducks have made progress over
last year, when they scored 19
points and tied for tenth.
The team title race seems to
be led by powerhouse UCLA,
with North Carolina State, Ten
nessee and Florida State in
pursuit. Cal State-Northridge,
last year’s champ in Eugene,
dropped to Division II this year
but will be represented in spirit
by UCLA, which absorbed most
of CSN’s top sprinters.
The big question mark this
year is how the weather and
field conditions in Austin will
affect the competition. Every
one expects a hot, muggy
meet, and there isn’t a single
blade of grass in the University
of Texas facility.
Heinonen sees two basic
questions formed by the Austin
weather. “How will the distance
runners react to the conditions
and how much do we ask our
multi-event people to do?”
Those questions will be ap
plied to the 11 Ducks who
qualified for the meet plus the
mile relay, which will add a 12th
athlete to the Oregon contin
gent.
Oregon’s most potent scoring
weapon is Leann Warren. She
has the nation’s best 800 this
year (2:01.3) and set the
collegiate record in the mile at
4:30.36, which converts to
about a 4:10 1,500.
But if Warren attempts a
800/1,500 double, she will have
to survive the qualifying to get to
finals.
“She’s entertaining the
thought of going for both of
them," Heinonen says. ‘If any
one can do it, she can.’’
The easiest double for War
ren would be the 1,500 and mile
relay, Heinonen says. The har
dest would be the 800/1,500.
His main concern now is for
Warren to have a good week of
practice and avoid the minor leg
problems that have bothered
her the last two weeks
Lexie Miller is Oregon’s other
double threat. Her 58 41 in the
400 hurdles, set last Sunday in
Berkeley, and 13.67 in the 100
hurdles put her in legitimate
scoring position in each event.
‘‘Lexie will more than likely
run both hurdle races,” Hein
onen says. “That means six
races if she makes the finals in
both. That would probably
eliminate her from the mile
relay.
"Her 100 hurdle race is com
ing back together now and if
she’s technically as sharp as
she was in mid-April, she could
score.”
The distance events present a
big question mark because of
the Austin heat, but Oregon has
a hotshot in Lisa O'Dea. The
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