Rouse rises in javelin ranks
By Steve Turcotte
Of the Emerald
Oregon women’s assistant
track coach Scott Irving is
working miracles with the
Duck throwers.
If it’s not Quenna Beasley
rewriting the Oregon record
book in the shot put or the
discus, it’s javelin throwers
Lynda Hughes Sutfin and Sally
Harmon etching their names
onto the all-time lists.
And all this under the
tutelage of Irving, a six-year
veteran throwing coach at
Oregon.
But now, another name is
surfacing on the javelin scene
— the name of Roz Rouse.
Rouse, who transferred to
Oregon two years ago from
Brigham Young University, is
inching upward on the Duck
all-time javelin list —
something that has proven dif
ficult since the top mark is
202-3.
Rouse has tossed the spear
179-2 this season, thanks in
part to Irving, to move her into
fourth place on the Oregon
women’s all-time javelin list.
Her throw ranks her behind,
you guessed it, Sutfin, Har
mon and also Patty Kearney.
And with the announcement
that Sutfin is leaving school
and probably forgoing her last
two years of collegiate
eligibility because of elbow
trouble, Rouse’s emergence
as a power is even more
important.
But Rouse may not have
been throwing the javelin this
season with such authority if
not for a few words of advice
from her mentor.
"I started out the season
with intentions of changing
my technique," says Rouse. “I
wanted to change it so it
wouldn’t hurt my back. So
Scott and I talked it over
before the season began and I
worked on some changes."
Rouse has suffered from an
injured back the past couple
of seasons which has put a
damper on her progress in the
javelin. The injury came about
indirectly from a mishap three
years ago when she broke her
tailbone and had to have it
removed.
“I was sitting on my
brother’s tailgate of his pickup
just fooling around and I fell
off," Rouse says. "It shattered
my tailbone to pieces.”
But now, with a new tech
nique, Rouse’s back problems
appear tc have disappeared
when she throws.
Against Cal Poly-SLO two
weeks ago at Hayward Field,
Rouse uncorked three throws
which were all better than 175
feet. And the capper came on
her final attempt when she
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Roz Rouse is focusing in on improvement as she moves up on
the Oregon all-time javelin list.
tossed a throw of 179-1 to set a
personal best.
“That meet was one of the
best feelings I have ever had,”
says Rouse.
Rouse's 179-1 throw earned
her a ticket to this weekend's
UCLA-Pepsi Track and Field
Invitational — one of the
finest meets on the West
Coast this season.
"I know that I am going to
get really psyched for the
meet," says Rouse. "I always
get psyched for that kind of
competition."
One aspect of Rouse that is
now becoming quite apparent
is her attitude about competi
tion. Where most athletes may
be a bit timid when showing
an attitude about competition,
Rouse's attitude is a stark con
trast to that.
"I think I am now just
discovering how competitive I
can be,” Rouse says. "I am
determined to go out and
finish strong this season. I
want to be competitive every
time I go out and throw."
Rouse has had a limited
schedule this season having
competed in just three out of
the six meets the Ducks have
entered. But that doesn’t
necessarily bother her con
sidering she has to be
cautious of doing further
damage to her back.
“We have had her compete
just about every other week,”
says Irving. “Rather than have
her hammer away at her back
every week we are giving her a
rest. I think that has worked
this season because every
time up she has gotten a PR. It
is also giving her back a good
deal of time to heal.”
Little did Rouse know that
when she slipped into a Duck
track uniform a year ago, that
she would be part of the
Ducks’ “javelin factory.”
“It’s really exciting to be
throwing with so many good
javelin throwers,” Rouse says.
“It’s really a plus to have so
many good throwers on one
team.
“I have never experienced
anything like this before. Be
ing in Utah is like being in
Antartica — you are in the
middle of nowhere. Then I
came here and everything is
so exciting and alive.”
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