Former athlete excels with PSN
■ CAREER Oregon stand
out Peg Rees explored
playing, coaching and
broadcasting sports
By Ryan Frank
**se*srx*e Snow *Uyx*si*'
P«* Rm» recalls a post game
meal following on® of her city
league basketball game* when
*he was approached by the son
of a teammate The kid asked il
she was "the TV lady" and why
she knew so much about sports
Kees explained with a smile that
she had played basketball, soft
bat! and volleyball (or the Uni
versity ol Oregon The youngster
asked which was bar favorite
sport This is the question that
Rees has been trying to answer
for sometime now
In four yaars at Oregon. Rees
earned 10 varsity letters tn three
sports and made four trips to
national tournaments in two dif
ferent sports From ltMH to 1093
she coached women’s volleyball
at Oregon and led them to three
natiunal tournaments In 1993.
Rees became a color comments
tor for women's basketball and
softball for Prime Sports North
west (PSN).
Currently Raw* is in her first
year as a half lime administrator
and a half-time teacher with
Physical Activity and Recreation
Services She teaches basketball
and volleyball along with ten
nis. bowling and golf
Re*** lettered in basketball four
times and three times in softball
and volleyball at Oregon She
went to nationals in both softball
and volleyball and helped turn
the women's basketball program
from the worst athletic program
on campus into a winning team
her senior season And if it was
n't for time constraints, she said
she would have liked to try out
for the golf team
When Rues began her career at
Oregon in I97J. sports were
quite different from the way
thev are now There were no six
digit shoe contracts for coaches
and no one had heard of free
agency Rees wore the same uni
form fur all three sports, worked
a summer job because there
were no scholarships for women
and played basketball games
where she now teaches it — in
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tt«w» raid "The upon* would
overlap « little Basketball
would start pm n< mg wh*n vn)
levball wm finishing up W»
went to nationals three limn in
volleyball *0 ! had to |oin the
team a little hit Lute, hut I would
rail* miu three or four week* of
prank* end m*rb» the ft ret pro
season tournament
“When I f)ni*hed volleyball I
would siart up with basketball
the mm! Monday '
When flee* made her trip to
the national championship tour
nament a* an athlete in volley*
hall and to the Women * (College
World Serin* in *oftbail. there
were 24 team* in one plate,
ready to play until a national
champion wm decided
“All 24 team* were on sita It
wm great." Keen said "You *aw
such peat play and met «o many
(ample You were there for four
or five day* fust playing and
playing and playing and they
whittled it down until they had
a winner."
But with all the time thet Resw
devoted to athletic:*. *he made
»ure that *he kept up with her
simile*
I was a good student," the
•aid, “It mattered to me There
wm only a short amount of time
to *tudy to I had to focus when I
did study Thera wm no choice
You had to learn to study cm the
road and in the hut ”
Shortly after Rees finished her
academic? career at Oregon, the
was hired a* the volleyball c oach
at her alma mater She spent nine
year* in thru position, and during
her Iasi year c oaching the Duck*
she began working with PSN a* a
c olor commentator But coaching
wm h«» fir*! love.
“Thera are few thing* that
afford you the opportunity to get
to know people at their best and
at their worst and be stuck in a
situation where you have to
meet goal* together,' she said
It is really rewarding “
Before Rees began c oac hing at
Oregon, she spent two year* at
St Mary's High School, a pri
vate school in Lm Angeles, and
nine year* at Lebanon High
School in Inbantm Ora . c oach
ing the same three sports at the
high sc hool level that she played
at the college level
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There are fir* thing i rhui
afford nm the opportunity to
Jftt to knot* people at their
he it and at their wont
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Whtl« at Liiwwn, «h* look
the ««ftb*ll team to a third place
finuh in the ttate tournament
Although the only coached vol.
ley-bail at the college level, toft
ball eras har favorite tpofl to
coach.
"In to ft bail you could affect
the outcome ttrttegn ally and
you had to able to react at the
moment," the Mid "In banket'
ball and volleyball you do all
your coaching in practice *
But Reas didn't love every*
thing about coaching
"I don't mita the paper work. I
don't mist the travel and I don't
mu* recruiting." the Mid
"Rarruiltng era* the wont “
Dec pile thote feeling*. Reet
Mid the it thinking about
returning to ow lung although
not at Oragon or even el the col
lege level She Mid the it teri
outly considering coaching for
KidSporlt. an organisation that
run* tport* program* for eie
mentary u hool children
"I would like to coach Kid'
Sport* hecaute I love kid* and I
think that it it important fm kid*
to get good in turn lion at a
young age." the Mid
When the finished coaching
a! Oregon, Rea* alto became a
color commanialor for volley
ball f emale tporttcaiter* are
something that Re«» would Ilka
to tee more often
“I think it it evtremely impor
tant that I am doing lelevition
(for PSN| hither there aren't
enough women who are quail
lied to talk about tport* — but I
don't think that it the cate. I
think people don't know how to
find them — or women don't
know that the opportunitkw
anial." Rees tald "But l think it
it really important for young
female player* to hear a woman
talk knowledgeably about tport*
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