Athletes share time, friendship with youths
By Paul Danzer
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It has been a long day.
Classes dragged on for hours,
and volleyball practice was a
series of bad bounces. Shauna
Koenig can’t wait to get home
and make that call.
The freshman from Tor
ranee, Calif., left a little sister
at home when she came to
Oregon to kick off her college
career last summer. But this
call is to a sister right here in
Eugene, one she has only
known for about a month.
Koenig is one of a number
of Oregon athletes par
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Volunteers for Youth program.
The big brother, big sister pro
gram matches athletes with
children in the community
who they can help by being a
friend.
“The biggest kick I get is
just calling her on the phone,”
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says Koenig. “I’ll say ‘Hi, this
is Shaunna,’ and her voice will
rise like she's really happy to
hear from me. Just that excite
ment in her voice gets excite
ment in me, and that really
makes me happy.
“It's not a job, it's a friend.
It’s filled something that I
need inside myself, I can’t
even tell what it is."
The program is set up in a
do-it-yourself manner. Once
the coordinators have match
ed an athlete with a little sister
or brother, it is up to the
athlete to keep in touch with
their sister and to determine
activities for them to share.
“My little sister’s a kick,"
says Koenig, who was in
troduced to the 15-year-old
high school student following
spring vacation. "They match
ed us up real well. I think I was
real lucky.”
“She’s a great little student
and she is really involved in
her studies,” says Koenig of
her sister. “It’s funny because
I’ll ask her to do something
and she’ll say she can’t
because she has to study. And
here I am in college just dying
to do something. I feel guilty
when I talk to her. Maybe I can
Baseball team
to host PSU
The Oregon baseball team
will host Portland State, cur
rently in third place in the
Pac-10 Northern Division, in a
3 p.m. contest at Howe Field
today.
The game marks the end of
the season for the Ducks, who
returned to the baseball scene
as a Club Sport this year after
being cut as a varsity sport at
the end of the 1981 season.
learn something from her that
way, pick up some of her study
habits.”
The pair talks weekly by
phone, and tries to get
together as often as school,
studies and sports will allow.
“It could help so many kids
that are lacking the friendship,
it’s just so much for both peo
ple. I just wish more athletes
would come out and see,
because I think it’s really
neat.”
Koenig's teammate Liz
Eakin doesn’t have any
younger brothers or sisters at
home in California, but she
has a little sister here because
she thought it would be neat
to have a younger friend to
help out.
“It’s just nice to know that
you can help someone,” says
Eakin, who has a 13-year-old
little sister. “What I really want
to do is to be able to show her
a better life than what it
sounds like she’s seen so far.”
So far she has had her sister
over to dinner several times,
played video games with her,
and taken her for ice cream.
Koenig’s most memorable
outing to date was a bowling
match which she lost to her
sister.
“You don’t have to plan
anything, just do what you nor
mally do and get them involv
ed," Eakin says. “It’s very
satisfying. Two or three hours
a week seems like such a
small amount of time to spend
to help someone. For me it’s
just worth it."
Koenig agrees.
“I have a little sister at home
in California. I kind of miss
her. This girl is around the
same age and I like to feel that
I can help somebody, and I
have a good time too.”
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basketball.
"Those happen so damn
quick." he says, "you just have
to go on common sense and
judgement."
That's not always enough.
There are times when the
referees will get the heat for a
call. Alderton says the
ultimate compliment a ref can
receive is anonymity.
“The best comment a
referee c^n receive is when
the coach asks, Who worked
that game?’ That’s when you
know you've done a good job.”
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