Ducks enter ‘toughest’tourney of year
By MIKE RIPLINGER
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The Oregon volleyball team
heads for the UCLA Invitational
this weekend, the toughest
tournament of the year this side
of the national championships
"Without a doubt, this is the
most prestigious tournament of
the year,” says Oregon coach
Chris voeiz, whose team will be
making its first appearance ever
at the tourney “Everyone wants
to play, and it’s an honor to be
UCLA Invitational features nation’s best squads
The Ducks will be taking a
14-22-2 record to California to
face the top teams in the nation
There will be 24 teams involved,
with teams divided into pools of
six each Round-robin compe
tition will determine each pool
winner, who will then advance
into the championship round
advance into the championship
Oregon faces stiff
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host UCLA ranked 2nd in the
nation leading the way It
doesn 't get much easier with 4th
ranked San Luis Obispo. 9th
ranked Stanford, California
State-Fullerton and the
University of Kentucky rounding
out the field
Voelz is realistic about her
team's chances against what
some feel is even a more
difficult tournament than
nationals
Because of the new format
that will be used to qualify for
the national tournament, many
top teams will be left out
because of the high quality of
play in their region Many highly
ranked teams in California — the
undisputed hot spot for
volleyball — will never make it to
nationals and this could be their
last big tournament tor the year
' We re not of the depth and
skill level needed to beat some
of the top teams, but we feel if
they aren't performing too well,
we have the ability to nip them If
they are awesome though, well
it will be hard to upset them,"
says Voelz
Oregon s goal, according to
Voelz, will be to beat Kentucky
and Cal-State Fullerton — the
winner of the Oregon
Inivitational last weekend
"If we can beat those two
teams and play well against the
others. I will consider the
tournament a success." says
Voelz
"We want to continue at the
same high intensity level that
we've reached the last few
weeks We feel that if we do well
down in California, then we can
come back to our region against
teams like Washington State
and Montana State, and cement
what we've learned We feel
after this competion, we should
really do well in our area '
Oregon has shown much
improvement in the last month,
but the competition in the UCLA
tournament may be a bit much
for them Almost like Daniel
entering the den of lions, the
Ducks won't be trying to beat
them all, but rather just trying to
survive
Regardless of how they do,
though, Oregon is in a good
better-best situation according
to Voelz
"It's good for our program
just to be invited, it'll be even
better if we perform well, and it'll
be best if we win a few We really
can't lose "
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“What Rosa does best is
force the pace in the third
quarter of the race, which is the
hardest part,'' analyzes
Heinonen of Gutierrez, who'll
run the 1,500 (4 33 7). 3,000
(9 41 6) and 5,000 meters
"She's capable of pushing
herself hardest when everybody
else is starting to hurl That one
attribute is any distance run
ner’s greatest asset." adds
Heinonen
"I usually go out pretty hard
and stay up with the leaders,"
says Gutierrez who turned down
a place with Oregon State "I
have an average kick so I try to
shoot for runners passing one
then shooting for the next one in
sight as my main strategy during
a race "
Kathy Hayes, who like
Groenendaal turned down a
Stanford scholarship, won two
state cross country titles at
Newberg High School and is
finding success at the collegiate
level as well
"She has the perfect
distance runner's body,' says
Heinonen of the 5-5 and 105
pound athlete "She's lean and
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strong and her running style is
as efficient as anybody's I've
seen
"Her strength is the final
quarter" he adds "She runs
very good over the last halt
mile "
Hayes, like Gutierrez, will
concentrate in the spring on the
1,500 (4:24 54), 3,000 (9 44 59)
and 5,000 meter events, mixing
in an occasional 10,000
A big relief for Heinonen
and the Oregon program this
season has been the successful
adjustment the freshmen have
made to the college scene
"They're having a great
time and that surprises me."
says Heinonen Most people
have problems when they go
away to school for the first
time"
“It went really smoothly,”
says Groenendaal hinting that
the adjustment period for her
has expired "I'm having a lot of
fun "
Now that the three
freshmen are safe and sound in
Oregon s running program
Heinonen sometimes finds
himself peeking toward the
bright future of his newcomers
A vision of the situation
next season sticks out in his
mind The inexperienced
freshmen of this year will be
veteran sophomores while
superstars Leann Warren and
Eryn Forbes will be seniors
"If we re ever going to be a
dynamite team, that's when
we re going to have to do it,"
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“The freshmen will be the
backbone of that squad "
But that's In the future At
present, the Ducks have a test
to pass in sunny Palo Alto.
California on Monday. Nov 9 in
the NCAA Region 8
championships
Also competing will be
Arizona State (2nd ranked),
Stanford (3rd ranked), and San
Diego State (8th ranked) — each
scrambling to capture one of
the meet's three automatic
berths in the national meet
"I'm planning on all three of
them (the freshman), to run well
and it's going to be vital they
do.” says Heinonen of the trio's
first pressure test "I'm not
worried though They're all big
meet runners and they perform
best when it's most important
"I'm a little bit nervous,”
says Hayes But I just want to
feel like I've given it everything
"I haven't thought about it
much " adds Gutierrez "We re
in a tough league and there s
some pressure for everybody on
the team, but I just want to run
really well and make it to
nationals as a team
As for the individual battle,
Oregon's Warren is among the
top contenders "She looks
great, and could win it all,” says
Heinonen of the junior who has
defeated some outstanding
runners in her only two cross
country races this fall
Other favorites include
Stanford's Ceci Hoppe, a
freshman, and Arizona's Joan
Hansen who is undefeated this
season
As for the rest of the team
says Heinonen, "Eryn has a
nagging foot injury, but
everyone else is healthy We
look ready for our best
performance of the season
And if Oregon's three
"special” freshman continue to
do things tommorow like they've
done so far this season, the
Duck's will very likely pass their
test
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