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The biggest question confronting Heinonen lies
with Fairchild After coming to Oregon in 1991 as
one of the top high school runners in the world,
injuries held her l>ack. and she elected to drop out
of school for a year. Heinonen wasn't even sure if
Fairchild would ever return to the Due ks at this
time last season
But Fairchild has returned, and Heinonen is
anticipating the possibilities She's two inches
taller, about 20 pounds heavier and has matured
greatly since her last stint with Oregon She has
only competed once since May 1991, so all
Heinonen can do is hope.
"Melody has astounding credentials, but those
an- two years old,'' he said. “She's not as tiny as
she was. she's matured as runner, and she's
healthy, which she wasn't the last time she was
here l/ she returns even close to the form she was
in three years ago. that will help us a great deal
Oregon's main competition in the conference
will be. as usual. Arizona and Washington. But
this year, Stanford has jumped into the picture
with a c ast of newcomers.
Heinonen is not ruling out anything this season
The conference championship, distric t champi
onship. and even a top-five national ranking an' all
within reac h of the Ducks in his eyes
"We will be competitive on all levels," he said.
"A top-five finish would require all of our
strongest runners running in top form and injury
free at the end of the season. We can dream the
dream, but there are a lot of ifs."
Oregon will compete this weekend at the Moun
tain West (.lassie in Missoula. Mont
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than lust year ”
No doubt the vuar of expert -
enc.e will help the youngest, and
most suc cessful. of last year's
hunch sophomores Karl Keska
and Tracy Hollister
hast season. Keska and Hollis
ter led the Duc k c harge at the
Pnc-10 meet finishing fourth
and eighth, respectively Keska
followed up his l’ac-10 perfor
mance* bv plac mg 13th at dis
trie t and 43rd at the NCAA
meet
Hollister fell off after the con
ference* meet, placing 49th at
distric t and failing to do much
al nationals
Dellinger is hoping Keska will
pic k up where lie left off last
season and Hollister returns to
Ins Pac -10 form
The other top returnees am
seniors |nson Humble and |ohn
Dimoff Humble ran solidly for
the Ducks Iasi fall, placing 13th
nt Pac-lOs and 14th nt district,
but ideally. Dellinger would like
to see Humble jump in ns a top
10 finisher eventually
Dimoff also finished last sea
son strongly, taking 12th at Pac
10s and l(>th at district Dimoff
also had bis Itesl track season in
the spring, finishing 12th at the
Pa* -10 meet
After that, the Ducks will he
reiving on a largely untested
i rew to round out the team
Sophomore Si ott Nicholas
had an impressive spring on the
trnik. finishing fourth nt the
Pac-tOs in the 1,500 meters If
Nicholas is able to translate his
performant e on the trm k to
cross country it could go a long
wav toward helping the Dm ks
defend their Pai -10 title
Redshirt freshman Kick
(Umtvs ell is also a strong candi
date to fill the void left by Kick
Mestler, Tim Julian and Golden
Baxter, who all graduated in the
spring Cantwell has a strong
distance bac kground and could
bring in valuable points as the
Ducks' fourth or fifth finisher.
The rest of the team c onsists
of a number of trac k athletes
who will be making the transi
tion to cross country.
Senior Chad Schacht. junior
Mike Mahoney, senior Gordon
Johnson, transfer Goss l.indsey
and redshirt freshman Mi< hael
Katri are all better known for
their track exploits, but if one or
two of them could make a
smooth transition to the trails, it
could help the Duc ks immense
ly.
The Ducks opened the season
last weekend with a warm-up
meet at the- Pier Park Invitation
al in Portland and will run in
the Mountain West Classic in
Missoula, Mont . Saturday.
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