Moos in hunt for athletic director post
Kris Henry
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It's now two down and two to go m tho
search for Oregon's now athletic, director
Dili Moos, current athletic s dim tor at the
University of Montana, toured the Oregon
campus on Wednesday and became the sis
ond of four finalists fur the job to meet with
Oregon'* search committee
l)r Eve Atkinson, athletic director at
lafavette College, was courted by Oncgon on
Monday while the remaining twoi andidates.
Fresno State athletic s director Gory Cun
ningham and Arizona State associate athlet
ics dins tor Uennnn Frazier, have yet to con
firm when they will interview at Oregon.
The Ducks have been without a full-tcme
athletic director for the past tl months
stmt! Bill Bymit left for Nehrask.i
Moos. 4 i Iwy.nt his nthietii s career in
MOOS
!0t)2 iis uaistant nthlw
it s director at
Washington State, and
served as the school's
associate director from
1988-1‘»<K)
Hu has been at
Montana since I'mo.
but it is Moos desire to
return to the confereni u
that saw him earn Ail
Confereni e offensive
tackle honors as a three
vt-itr lutterman at Washington St.ito
'I think thwro arw may bo two to four
things that qualify nit* for this position,"
Moos said I'm from the Northwest ami I
appn* talc what we hast' in the Northwest
Secondly. I competed in this conference as
a student athlete so I know what it takes as
a student athlete to compete tn the Pm JO
Conference
In addition, he has experience as an
administrator in the f\u 10 with first hand
know led JO’ of gander equity issues, tost
containment and compliance in the I’m to
“This program !at Oregon) is very similar,
as far as the success of the various pro
grams to the one I inherited at Montana.
Moos said, “and vet we found a w n to take
it just a little tut further and before it was all
over we had It cnnferem »• championships
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MAH* ML J <«* t '•«**]
Oregon catcher Rlssa Perryman stopped the Beavers' Angela Coop
er from scoring a possible game-winning run In the seventh Inning
Oregon takes two
in Civil War softball
Mark Me Tyre
Offfon Oa*y t met mi
Great plays. bad tails, lower’
ing hits and ground halls
Wednesday's softball Civil War
at Howe Field had it all, as the
Ducks swept a doubleheader
from the visiting Oregon State
Heavers
As a fan, you i ouldri t have
asked for any inure excitement
than what unfolded between
the intrastate rivals
Under cloudy skies, the open
er saw 21 combined hits from
the two foes, an Oregon State
baserunner gunned at home
plate. had calls being argued by
Oregon head coat h Tami Brown
and on top of all of that the
game s outt.ome was dm idod in
extra innings
Through the first four innings
of the contest, neither team was
able to get a runner across
homeplate as Oregon piti her
him hampfer and the Heavers'
I leather Reynolds relatively had
no problem with the batters
they had faced However, in the
bottom of the fifth the Ducks
utilized a leadoff single by
Kathy Stahl and sn< rifi< •• hits
hy Angie I.eKov ami l.isa
Preston to post a 2-ti lead
I hi) Beavers rotumoil the
favor in the top of the sixth
when Andrea Talcutt hit a two
run double over Oregon right
fielder Mi«i Koke bringing m
leadoff hitters Shelley
Boringhele and Amy Werner
During the bottom of the sev
enth inning with the si ore •still
tied at two apiei e fireworks
erupted at second base between
Brown and field umpire Karen
Meats after Stahl was called out
trving to steal the base
Kathy Stahl was totally safe
at second base and she called
her out." Brmvn said "I know
that I've got to stay more calm
hut fro getting really tired of it
For the way I felt, 1 felt like an
erupting volcano so I stayed
more cairn than what I was "
Unable to get a run across hi
the seventh, the two teams went
into extra innings.
In the eighth inning. Kampfer
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Many surprises, a lot of work for Williams in 1995
It s no se< ret that the 1994
1995 school year a! the
University of Oregon has
been arguably the most exciting
and most eventful of all-time
A major bowl, two NCAA
basketfiall bids and three, count
'em THREl-i major coaching sit
nations in those sports have put
Oregon on the map once again
in the world of intercollegiate
sports — but it hasn't come
without its share of hard work.
While fans of Oregon athlet
ics have lieen able to sit back
and soak in the new-found,
well-rounded success of the
school, those whose job it is to
oversee ail aspects of the athlet
ic program have had a busy year
to say the least
I.liter Dan Williams, vice
president for administration/
interim athletics director’over
all good-luck charm.
When Williams announced
back in August that he would be
taking over as athletics director.
Chris Mm
it seemod logiuil enough
Rushing to fill the position was
not the best answer in the eyes
of the administration, especial
ly with footlmll just around the
c orner at that time
Williams is quick to point out
that, much like the sporting
world itself, filling an adminis
trative position as important as
athletics director also has its
season. And given the tuning of
iirooks' announcement. it
would have been difficult to
attract many quality candidates
during the "off-season ”
“It was very unlikely that we
would b« able to attract the cal
ib»r of candidates that wo
have," Williams said, adding
that he has been impressed so
far with the people up for the
job "It wasn't that we weren't
in a hurry, we )ust had to wait
for the right time “
That right time is now as the
list of four finalists for the posi
tion has been compiled and a
goal of early May has been
established by Williams for [>er
manently placing someone in
the office of the athletics direc
tor. Williams would like to see a
new athletics director at least
by summer so the new person
would have time to get his/her
feet wet.
You can’t call Williams a
short-timer though, because ho
hasn't exactly grown tired of his
added post,
“I’m not anxious to get out of
|the AD job), but I'm anxious to
get an athletic administrator
appointed to take advantage of
the momentum.” Williams said
Perhaps Dan Williams is the
luckiest guy in the world, or
maybe he |iist was in the
proverbial "right plai n at the
right time." but even Williams
himself has to admit that it has
been an unusual year.
“I've been providing over
sights lor the athletics depart
ment for 11 years now,"
Williams said. "I.ven with that
amount of experience, I would
never have guessed this would
happen."
But this iiu redible year threw
a considerable amount of added
work and responsibility his way
maybe a little more than the
friendly Williams was expect
ing.
"To be per let tly candid a 1 hi 111
it. it was harder making it work
with two jobs than I expected,"
Williams confessed, saying that
being away from the office and
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April 20. 190S
Volume Usuc I 'r>
Payne Hires first
assistant coach
CORVAl LIS (AP) New
Oregon State basketball
coach Eddie Payne has hired
St John's assistant Geortje
f niton as the fast member ot
his staff
f niton was head coach a!
South Caroi-na from 1 986 to
1991 and was an assistant at
St John s for the past three
seasons
He gamed a reputation its
an atjyress’.ve recruiter as
top assistant to Bobby
Cromins at t icKi; t 1 is h
Iron 198 1 to 198<> At (ioor
; a let he t . ■ *• ts M r»
Price and John SaMey
f triton had an 87-6? record
at South Carolina and twice
took the Gamecocks to the
NCAA tournament
Payne was hired April 7 to
repfaco J>m Anderson, who
decided to retire when it
became clear that his con*
tract would not tie renewed
after four straight losing sea
Montana says good
bye to Kansas City
. h t - • , , ■ , . i , j, w it V
The Goose hangs
’em up
COLORADO SPRINGS,
Colo (AP) Goose Gos
sage whoso f u Mancfiu
moustache ana 95 mph fast
ball intimidated hitters in the
1970s. has called >t a career,
alter ?? years
Gossage retired at age 43
He said Tuesday he feels like
he could still help some
major league teams but real
izes he may have run out ol
last chances
Last year, he was a setup
relwl pitcher with the Seattle
Mariners Te.jm officials
assured him he would have a
|Ob when stoking players
returned