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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 20, 1982)
V. 3-SHELP UNIT $294 (UNASSEMBLED) 14” DEEP 48” HIGH 48” LONG WORK BENCH *644 (UNASSEMBLED) 35” HIGH 30” WIDE 72” LONG REQUIRES ONLY 2 CUTS SERVE N’ SAVE AT BELTLINE & 99 NORTH MONDAY-SATURDAY 8 to 6 SUNDAY 9 to 4 ( , Dunes Continued from page 17 does everything have to be Dunes?’ ” Everything is dunes for the Ducks as they pull into the parking lot of the state park Through the tall fir trees to the right, the massive tips of the dunes peak through. The women quietly pack in water and ice as well as equip ment, past a small inlet of water to a dune that rises farthest into the slowly blueing sky The wind sends sand swirling past bare ankles and shins as the players drop equipment on a sandy ridge As the team stretches with the trainer, Gerri Mattia, the three coaches hold an im promptu staff meeting Voelz runs through the time charts the assistant coaches will keep and then once through pulse charts The Ducks do their training interval style Voelz explains it via pulse rates and the pulse charts. A drill will raise the pulse to its peak, Voelz says and then an exercise, or some "game” follows, after the pulse rate drops The exercises are de signed, at intervals, to break the tedium of the drills and to keep the rise and fall of the pulse on target Sporadically during the day Voelz yells 'pulse'' and the team automatically responds with a few fingers on the appro priate artery As the team finishes stretching, Voelz instructs them in a game of follow the leader on the run Single file, the team runs about the dunes while the woman in the back sprints to the front At the sound of Lopez' Laurelwood Golf Course Students with current fee card *3” for 9 holes ‘700 for 18 hole: 2700 Columbia 687-5321 SY’S PIZZA FREE DELIVERY —fiftR-Q^QQ- 6 PM.— MIDNIGHT OOO yoyo every night (Limited Area) ALSO SERVING N.Y PIZZA SLICES 11:30—MIDNIGHT....7 DAYS A WEEK 1211 Alder across from Sacred Heart Hospital On CdlTipilS ; FREE SODA WITH THIS COUPON i i L. __ WHEN YOU BUY A SLICE AT SYfS PIZZA “i i i i i j duck call, the team either sprints, jogs or walks. The morning session, judg ing by the expression on most of the faces, is nothing less than a killer Towards the end of one grueling session, broad jumps up a steep and sandy slope, tears mix with grit on Sue Har bour’s face Some encour Coach Chris Voelz has a heart to-heart talk with freshman Sue Harbour. agement from teammates brings a quick semi-smile, but Voelz crow-hops down the hill to talk with Harbour as the rest of the team finishs. After Harbour and Voelz’ heart-to-heart, the rookie so phomore smiles and attacks the next drill with 110 percent effort So it goes with the Ducks and "PMA," an acronym for po sitive mental attitude It’s the basis for the Voelz program at the University It is evident even in the strenuous wokouts and the heart-to hearts, such as Harbour and Voelz’ exchange The morning is peppered by breaks in the workouts that illustrate one facet of PMA The team huddles, talks quietly and breaks with a loud chant of "We enjoy and look forward to chal lenges," or 'Ducks; quack - quack." It's what Voelz calls an affirmation, making vocal and reinforcing what is in the Duck's mind, or at least what should be there Right before a break for lunch, the diving Ducks find out how quick on their feet they really are Voelz takes the end of a tether-ball rope, swinging it in a circle over her head The players dive over the ball, scramble to their feet and on the next pass try to jump over the ball Several Ducks make it. several end up tangled in the rope The exercise, tough by itself, is just a break from the tedium and exhaustion of the hill jump ing and sprints that have passed most of the morning. As the players start the trek up the hill for lunch, they pass McFarlane with a number from 1 to 10, rating the physical dif ficulty of the work out. They must also give two percentage numbers, one is how much they put out that morning, the other is how much they have left. Tambe, the die-hard fresh man on the ride over, reports the work out as an eight, her effort: 90 percent Tambe also tells McFarlane she has only 50 percent left for the afternoon At the top of the dune, the players stretch again and grab a sack lunch, most slide to half way down the dune trying to find shelter from a steady gust of wind that has crept up. The sand blows down the hill and across the backs of players gulping down juice and a few bights of mostly gritty sand wiches. The rest of lunch is spent lying on their backs One group of three, the only three willing to hike the half-mile, head back to the parking lot to refill the empty water bottles which were drained half-way through the morning. After lunch, another warm up and another run, the group returns to workouts. Sprints, line drills and a circuit course fill the afternoon Between drills, Voelz sets up an informal wrist wrestling tourney, Hill, whose legs are weak with injury, proves her arm isn’t hurting at all No one on the team can beat her After wrist wrestling is an agressiveness drill. Lines are dug in the sand, about 20 feet square An old sweatshirt is tossed into the center Players, according to numbers Voelz calls, lunge for the sweatshirt from one of two sidelines The first to drag the sweatshirt across the end lines “wins." The final contest is a pile up of the whole team battling for the sweatshirt while falling down laughing The wind picks up and the team starts into a circuit drill There is no protection from the wind that whips across the dunes Tiny grains of sand pelt any unprotected skin The sand blows directly into the playeis face during the drill. The circuit is a sprint to a figure eight obstacle, a sprint to a Chinese jump-rope, which the players dive under and over, a sprint to four pylons, which the players jump over — on one leg and a sprint to the finish line The women are given a plus or a minus for technique over the pylons After several times through the drill, Voelz rounds her players up Another affirmation Continued on page 20 For good coverage at reasonable rates, ASLIO Health Insurance is available for purchase during the registration period. For further information contact Metzker & Associates 870 E. I3th Ave. Eugene, Oregon 97401 342-4868
