Spring
SUPPLEMENT
.. | INTT'S!
Wednesday. March 13, 1985____Oregon Daily Emerald
Photo by Steven Walt
Men’s I
Tennis
and Track .
takes off
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They earn credit
coaching youth
By Adam Worcester
Of (he Kmerald
With only a few seconds remaining in the basketball game, the
team is ahead by one point. On the sideline, the coaches kneel in front
of their players, pointing to certain ones, exhorting them, setting up a
defense for the last shot. They talk quickly and intensely. With a final
cry of "Let’s go," they send the team back onto the court.
As the ball is inbounded, the coaches crouch side-by-side on the
edge of their seats. An opposing guard takes the ball and drives for
the basket. The defense moves to cut him off. He throws up a shot
that misses badly and, as players scramble for the rebound, the
buzzer sounds. Pandemonium ensues! As the fans go crazy, the
coaches leap off the bench and exchange high-fives. This is it: Their
team has just won the championship.
A future Duck game scenario? Possibly, but for sophomores
Mike Cavalli and Tony Motschcnbacher, it is a present-day reality.
They recently coached their fifth-grade boys team to the Eugene
Sports Program’s "Kids Klassic” title.
Cavalli and Motschenbacher represent a growing number of
University students who receive credit for volunteering their services
to ESP. Last winter the ESCAPE program began offering credit to
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