Volleyball team looks
forward to next year
By Scott Simonson
Qr&ffOn C\H‘ty
Oregon volleyball bond coach
Gerry Gregory maintained all
season that his team has a
promising future The Oregon
athletic department has given
him a chance to prove it
Gregory had his contract
renewed through the 1904 05
season. The one-year contract is
a typical arrangement for most
coaches within the athletic
department. The one-year con
tract gives Gregory at least one
more chance to reverse the for
tunes of a struggling program.
Oregon finished 2-16 in the
Pacific-10 Conference this year
and 5-21 overall. It was Oregon’s
fourth consecutive sub-.500 sea
son, its worst conference finish
since 1988 and its lowest win
total in school history.
That ’s only the short list of the
bad news from 1993 What’s the
good news?
For starters, Oregon's starters.
Oregon returned only two
starters this year but will have
all six back next season. The
Ducks lost only one player,
swing hitter Nicolle Hedberg, to
graduation this season.
Oregon also hopes to get help
from its incoming recruiting
class. Oregon has four open
scholarship slots for next year,
and although Gregory currently
is prevented from naming play •
ers who may play for the Ducks
next season, he is quietly opti
mistic and said three players
have made verbal commitments
to attend Oregon.
Gregory hopes that bringing in
four new players, combined
with the maturation of this
year's six freshman, will solve
one of Oregon's most glaring
weaknesses lack of depth
"A lock of depth at middle
blocker and also at swing hitter
really hurt us At the start of the
year. 1 thought three swing hit
ters was enough to go with. But
when Kristen Ruschiensky was
injured, that really hurt us."
Gregory wnd.
"The right side outside hitter
spot was lacking in depth, also.
Knlie Kerr did a good job, but at
the start of the yeor that wasn't
even her position."
Gregory hopes that shifting
quick hitter Angee Henderson to
the right side outside hitter slot,
along with contributions from a
healthy Ruschiensky and quick
hitter Dani Cordova, a redshirt
freshman this year, will help
provide depth.
Junior swing hitter LaReina
Woods, who in the past has
divided her time between vol
leyball in the winter and track in
the spring, will skip track season
this year to devote more time to
volleyball. Gregory said.
Three promoted within athletic department
The Oregon athlete department lias promot
ed three staff members within the Duck Ath
letic Fund, athletic director Rich Brooks
announced.
Herb Yamanaka, senior assistant director, has
been elevated to associate athletii s director for
external affairs and will oversee all of the depart
ment's fund-raising efforts. Yamanaka has bwn
associated with the athletic department in some
capacity for the past 40 years since his days as
a student.
To assist Yamanaka with tin1 organization of
the annual fund drive and other activities among
the Uui ks' booster groups. |tm Bnrtko will
assume the duties of assistant athletic director
for annual giving and lie based in fugene He has
worked in both The Dm k Athletii Fund's Fort
land and Medford offii es for the past five years
Dave Whittle, regional DAF director in South
ern Oregon and Northern California for the last
two years, will move to the Portland office in the
same capacity Brooks said a search would be
conducted shortly to Till the vacancy in South
ern Oregon
"We believe we are having success in work
ing toward endowments to ensure the future of
University of Oregon athletics, and Herb has been
instrumental in those efforts." Brooks said ''Jim
and Dave have done excellent jobs in their
respective areas, and we feel that will contin
ue in their expended duties
The Oregon women's basketball team split a
pair of games over the weekend, losing to Mid
dle Tennessee State and defeating South Flori
da at the Marriott Classic in Arlington. Texas.
Oregon shot 55.6 percent from the Held and
outbounded Middle Tennessee State 48-20 but
committed 26 turnovers and lost 70-74 on Fri
day.
Guard Missy Croshnw was Oregon's leading
scorer with l<> points Forward Debbie Sporei
i h hod in points and 12 reoouiuis, and center
Sara Wilson added 12 points and 14 rebounds.
Oregon won the consolation game of the tour
nament (1.1-50 against South Florida on Satur
day.
Thu Ducks wore led bv Croshaw. J4 points;
and Wilson. 12 points.
TUCSON. Art/ (AIM — Arizona President
Manual Pacheco spent Friday consulting van
ous groups with a stake in a do ision he’s expect
ed to announce this week, the si hoot's new ath
letic director.
Po< heco spoke privately with members of the
athletic department and i onsultod others after
having met Wednesday and Thursday with lus
two candidates, athletic direi tors Hob Hockrath
of Texas Tec h and |im l.ivengood of Washing
ton State.
Pacheco did not return a phone cull to Ins
office Immediately
The chairman and a member of the search
committee who recommended l.ivengood and
Bock ruth tie interviewed said its members briefed
Pacheco Thursday night but didn’t recommend
a spec ific candidate to replace Cedric Dempsey,
who last month was named NCAA executive
director
"The committee did not make a recommen
dation." said its chairman. Dudley Woodard
"We had forwarded the names to the president...
We then provided him (Pacheco) feedback based
on their visits " Woodard said from that point
on, it would be "a presidential decision."
Bockrath. 52. has had a two-decade ussik in
tion with Arizona He joined the Arizona foot
(toll staff in 1<»7:» and was an assistant coach until
1976 He returned from Purdue in I960 as an
associate athletic director and in 1988 became
the senior assrx into under Cedrii Dempsey Ho k
rath left in 1991 to become athletic director at
California
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