GRID PROFILE
Boatright fights to stay focused
Oregon’s senior center juggles school, football, fatherhood
By Paul Morgan
Emerald Contributor
To say Oregon senior center
Scot Boatright has been very
busy tile last couple of weeks
would bo an understatement.
The li-foot-2. 254-pound
Boatright has spent a large part
of the week preparing to face
Oregon State and Ksera I uaolo.
the Beavers' outstanding nose
tackle in Saturday's Civil War
clash.
With only the Oregon Stale
and Freedom Bowl games left.
Boatright is nearing the end of
a four-year career at Oregon
that has been marked by suc -
cess but marred by injuries
knee and ankle injuries kept
Boatright out of six games last
year and a pinched nerve in his
neck forced him to miss this
year's l'Cl.A game, his final
home game as a Duck.
After playing last Saturday in
Oregon's 28-:t loss to Califor
nia. Boatright is healthy, but
busy, heading into his final
regular season game as a Dm k
On Wednesday alone, he
completed four interviews,
three of which dealt with foot
ball while the fourth was his
first job interview for a career
in salt's and marketing
It may seem like .1 busy time
but to Boatright it’s just another
average week. However, there
is something new in Boatright's
life that is far from average
The new. big change in Boat
right's life is that lie's now a fa
Scot Boatright
ther On Nov -l. one night after
the Ducks' come-from-behind
victory over UCLA. Boatright's
wife Mani gave birth to the
couple's first child, daughter
Megan Anne
"It lias to lie the single, best
experience 1 have ever been
through." Boatright said of see
ing his daughter born "It is the
best thing one person can wit
ness It's been the highlight of
my life."
Boatright can now add the re
sponsihilities of being a father
to his already long list of ac ti\ i
ties.
"From the moment she came
out everything in our life lias
( hanged," Boatright said "I
am going to work to (reate the
best life 1 can for her
For now that means Boatright
will be checking out the job
market He is hoping to land
more job interviews «is bis
spring graduation appro.it lies
With so many new tilings
happening in his life now.
Boatright fates a difficult task
to stay focused on the field, but
don't expect tile anchor in the
Ducks' offensive front to have a
la< k of focus Saturday after
noon in Corvallis Ills mind is
set tin keeping Tuaolo out of
tile (Jregon bat kfieltl
"This is definitely my tough
est week." Boatright said "I
have a very tough match-up lie
cause Tuaolo is the iiest defen
sive linemen in the Pat 10. if
not the nation Tht* coaches ex
pect me to handle him. but no
other center in the conferenie
has
"He ( an make me look bad.
but I .1111 going to try to contain
him." lie said
l ocus is something Boatright
has been trying to hang oil to
since Megan was born, and it
hasn't been easy lor the I
year-old business major
"It is bard to keep focused."
Boatright said "When I'm on
the field I try to think about
football w hen I'm ill ( lass I try
to think about < lass, and when
I'm at home I think about Maui
and Megan But sometimes
things do get intertwined, and
it's bard not to think about the
other things
At the end of last summer,
assistant head conch Neal
Zoumbuukos talked with Boat
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