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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
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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
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